Good Morning Friday 2nd May 2025

Good morning Mick from warm West Berkshire and Happy Birthday 🎈🎂 to you.

Good morning from Malta where a sunny day is forecast with a high of 28°C.

Many happy returns to you Mick. Hope you have a nice birthday and find some of your friends to chat with.🥳🎂🎉

My plans yesterday changed as my friend messaged to ask me to meet for coffee. I never say no because then people stop asking, but I thought I’d quickly clean my front windows first.
Unfortunately, my Karcher decided to die so the result wasn’t as good without it.

However, when I got home, I found a YouTube video which showed me how to fix it so I haven’t had to consign it to the bin! I was so pleased as it has been a godsend.

The boys visited in the late afternoon which was lovely. My son was here so they were very happy to see their uncle.

Back to childcare today after yesterday’s day off,

Hope you all have a good day.☀️

Gosh 77 Mick! I’d imagined you were younger 😉🥂

Another lovely day on the cards here in north 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 - I love the fact that I can leave the garden seat cushions out overnight just like I did in Mi Casa in Spain 🤗

Hope the cardiologist has good news for you Roses- I’m sure the walking you enjoy will have been hugely beneficial x. It’s the reason I trot a few miles most days - our stunning scenery and wildlife being the bonus of course.

Window cleaning today as the sun 🌞 shows every smudge, smear and 🪰 poo 🤮and Mr PG kindly Karchered the exteriors yesterday then pointed out my dereliction of duty…

Have a good day folks x

Happy birthday dear Mick and many happy and healthy returns of your birthday.

Good morning, Michael and all GNs, and a Very Happy Birthday to you, Mick🎂🍺🎈. A cloudy start today in South Yorkshire; not sure if we had rain overnight - I hope so.
I had a very quiet day yesterday to try and shake off whatever had felled me overnight. It was too hot to do much outside but I got a few small jobs done in the garden. When it cooled down about six, I had a short walk in the cool green lanes.
School volunteering this afternoon.
Have the best day you can folks.

Morning all from West Oxfordshire and Happy Birthday to Mick.🎉🥳🎂

It is our granddaughter’s 9th birthday today. We will see them tomorrow when they come for the weekend.

I have food shopping to do today and I may get the hoover out. The ceanothus in the garden is beautiful but is now malting petals everywhere. The cats walk in it and then wander through the house dropping petals everywhere!

OH is playing croquet with the U3A and then visiting his bees again. He is resigned to one of his hives not surviving but the others are doing well.

Have a good day.

Good morning Mick and happy birthday to you!

Childminding today and I’m running late so I’ll just wish everyone a good day.

A very happy birthday to Mick, I wish you a lovely day

Good morning from s somerset, we had rain during the night and today will be pleasantly warm and sunny

Typical pottering for me yesterday, a rest day, I did enjoy the day. especially sitting on my bench with birds singing and water flowing in my pagoda water feature which is nestled among the greenery but clear above for the sun to hit the solar panel.

I have a garden like a magical fairy glen with lots of stepping stones and various beautiful ground cover instead of grass, Full of varying heights with lots of fruit and roses and a tall crabapple in the corner with a shiny green low chair below, from Haiti, made from beaten re-shaped oil drums

I need to put some troughs back in my garage overnight soon, it will be worth the effort, considerably cooler overnight and we aren`t out of the woods yet. I have small begonia tubers in them, just starting to sprout. I regard `work` such as the trough-lifting as muscle exercise

Today I am expecting my organic delivery, luckily it arrives very early and I can wash all the salad veg and fruit before I put it away in the fridge. I will put a salad meal together for lunch and cycle to my plot this morning.

I have one bed to uncover and clear of weeds, they are mostly one type of weed and pop up from tiny bits of root underground. I will be doing this routinely until july, hoping to weaken those weeds enough for me to sow a green cover crop, I need to kneel and dig each one out to remove, they would take over if I took my eye off the ball

Have a good day

Good morning, it’s a sunny hillside in south Glos and it looks like it’s rained as the patio is wet👏
Off shortly for the dog walk with tiddler, Annie has her dog walker this morning. We’ll probably do yesterday’s walk the other way around, about 3 miles.
I have art group this morning but a quiet day otherwise.
Enjoy the sunshine 🌹

Good morning from Cambridgeshire. Happy Birthday Mick 🥳 hope you have a great day.

Yesterday was so warm hitting 28 degrees here. I had a sudden urge to start clearing the loft out and DH took a car full to the local tip. I then went to have my hair cut and coloured and called into M & S on route which had pretty empty food shelves. I did buy two tops for my holiday.

Today Ocado are coming and a chat with a friend on the phone who lives many miles away. No school pick up today as DD2 worked the night shift so will collect them when she wakes later. I’m hoping for another day enjoying my garden.

Happy Friday to all

Good morning all from Polmont where it's currently 5° and sunny. Blue skies above. Mick a very happy birthday to you.
Yesterday I did a couple of hours in the school library. I bumped into both dgss at various times. Dgs1 was really affectionate and gave me cuddles whilst dgs2 wanted to know if I was being messy in the library and having to tidy it up. 😂 Back home, I lay on the bed to read and fell asleep for two hours.
Last night I had a very poor sleep because of the lengthy nap and very painful feet. I eventually got up for painkillers which took a while to work. Today I'm going to the garden centre with dd. She wants to buy plants but doesn't have a clue what to get. We'll have a free coffee while there as I have a loyalty card. Later on, I'll do a bit of gardening. Dinner might be something from the garden centre which has a very nice delicatessen. Have a good day all

Good morning everyone 🙋‍♀️

Happy Birthday Mick 🎂🥂🥳 I hope you enjoy your special day.

The 10yr old has requested bacon and scrambled eggs for breakfast, so that is what I shall be cooking for him 💙

I have to take DH to pick up his car first thing, then back here for 10am gym.

We have The Imp here for dinner later, he has requested chicken wings, so that’s his dinner sorted 💙

(Can you see a pattern, all the GC have us wrapped around their fingers 😹)

Enjoy the lovely weather 🙋‍♀️

Good morning from Shropshire.Another warm day forecast.

Happy Birthday Mick🥳🍻

A quiet morning hopefully then school pick up.The children are coming back here for a sleepover.DD1 will be travelling home from her conference late afternoon.DD2 is travelling to Calais on an aid trip late afternoon.The second time she has done this.I will be relieved when she is home.

Hoping the Gingsters appointment went well yesterday and that Marydoll’s phone consultations gave some hope for treatment.

Wishing everyone a good day🌻🦩

Good morning everyone from a still dark Atlantic Ocean somewhere off the Portuguese coast. It's feeling a bit bouncy, but I have just made a mug of tea without any problems.

Wishing you a very happy birthday Mick, hope you have a great day!🎉🎁🎂🍺

Yesterday in Malaga it started off misty, chilly and damp, but by afternoon we were in 🌞🌞!
I cancelled another excursion as I still didn't feel well enough, so had a quiet day on board; I went to the medical centre and was checked over and it seems to be nothing more than a chesty cough, and came away armed with a bottle of cough medicine. I also demolished a lunch of scamp and chips and 🍷 on the pool deck, followed by an icecream from the serve-yourself ice-cream machine!

We now have three sea days before arriving back in Portsmouth on Monday, so will try to make the most of them. A curry lunch features today and the highlight of the day will surely be the very popular Crew Show, showcasing the talents of the mainly Philippino crew.

A very good show last night from the young Showcast, a group of about eight young singers and dancers, who performed songs from the 'Swing' era, so Sinatra, Bobby Darin etc.

Wishing all (especially Mick!) a very good day.

Good morning from a sunny Torbay.
Happy birthday, Mick! 🎁🎂🎈

Our pre booked taxi from Torquay arrived promptly at Southampton yesterday morning and we were home within three hours. As my mobility and stamina levels aren’t reliable, we opted for travelling by taxi to be on the safe side. For the cruise itself, I hired a transit wheelchair from Mobility at Sea which proved very useful for getting from ship to shore tours and around Keukenhof Gardens. It was delivered and returned to the terminal at Southampton. Luckily, DH is fit enough to push, providing he wears a back brace as a precaution. He is also good at lifting luggage. (and he cooked lunch when we arrived home!)

Wishing everyone a good day, wherever you are in the world! 🦩💐🦩🥰🦩

Good morning from Bristol.
Happy birthday 🎈 *Mick”. 1948 was a good year, was it?🙂
I’ve only just woken up! I was wiped out from the gallivanting in London yesterday. We had a lovely day, the weather was perfect, not too hot until the early evening.
The exhibition was perfect, just the right number of pictures. Even better was a little booklet giving exactly the same information as on the wall, so no one was peering at the small print, blocking the picture. Also, the guards were careful to only let visitors in if someone ha left, so we weren’t packed like sardines, unable to get to the picture.
The exhibition was from a Swiss collector from the early 1900s, all impressionists, a lot of Manet. I’m very fond of him. Very good curation. Just perfect.
We also saw the”Landscape Artist” 2025 winner’s offering. Interesting but a bit weird.
While in London, I received a text to say that everything affecting my phone has been sorted, my old number restored and all is hunky dory, hurrah 🙌
Came home late to find that all the security lights in the staircases had gone, flurry of texts, etc. it has been fixed overnight after one of the affected pulled the emergency cord. Half the estate would have been affected.
I’m not going to Spanish today as I’m just too tired from my gallivanting.
I haven’t read the posts yet, but hope you all have a lovely day, and enjoy the coming long weekend.
Carpe diem 🦩🦩🦩🦩

A Very Happy Birthday to you Mick, long may you continue!

Morning from the sunny south, no rain sadly.
Happy Birthday Mick 🎂🥳🍺
Yesterday was very warm, not too bad at stretch class which I welcomed after a two week break.
The garden had a good soak last night and our water butt with a very slight leak was refilled with the hose.
Tesco delivery later and pub tonight, it’ll be busy.
Enjoy your last few days on board Blue
I hope Mr Gingster is now more comfortable
🦩🦩

I hardly ever post on the Good Morning thread but wanted to wish you a very happy birthday Mick.

Good morning all from a sunny Glasgow, happy birthday Mick!
It is also DIL's fortieth birthday today.

Yesterday was exhausting, Babydoll was so defiant and strong willed. She changes from an angel to a fiend in seconds!
It didn't help that she was confined to the house and garden, due to me awaiting phone calls and a washing machine engineer.

Just before 9am, I received a phone call from a rather nippy RA specialist nurse. She was very sharp at first, until I explained everything that was going on and the lack of support, I was receiving.
The out come, an hour later I received a phone call from the consultant's secretary, offering me an emergency appointment on Thursday morning at the RA clinic.
Unfortunately, it looks like I will probably have to come off the biologics again. This is the third one, I have been on and can only tolerate them for so long.

That worked out really well, for Babydoll will be in Disney land Paris with her parents and we will have enough time to do the school run with Dollie.
The nurse said it was essential that I insisted on a face to face appointment with my GP. I explained that was nigh on impossible!!

Just as I was thinking about phoning the washing machine engineer again, he appeared in the back garden. He had been ringing the bell and banging the door, to no avail.
To my absolute mortification, behind the machine was an area of indertiminable gunk.😚
The good news is that he was able to fix the machine for the princely sum of £44! I was delighted, especially when he told me he was going away for two weeks to his house in the Islands and I wouldn't have been able to get a hold of him.

We waited all day for my GP call, with BabyD becoming more fractious, but determined not to nap.
There was nothing else for it, but to eventually take her home and hope the GP would not ring while DH was driving. Of course he did, in the most awkward place possible, which lots of traffic and speed bumps. I was so anxious about it all. My GP was very chatty until he realised I was not my usual friendly self and my tone very cold and formal.
As a result, I have a 9am face to face appointment this morning. After me informing him of the intervention of my other clinicians, I suspect he has realised that he has let me down.

Today, I am meeting DD in town. She is treating me to afternoon tea, her Mother's Day gift to me. Afterwards, we are are going for cocktails , bcause it is her birthday on Sunday. I have a notion for a strawberry Bellini in Grand Central (Station) , where we can people watch, my favourite pastime.
It has necessitated a change of plan, but I do not want to miss the GP appointment.

DH will drive me to the appointment, then instead of going home, he will, drop me at the nearest railway station and I will go to Glasgow by a circuitous route. I will probably be exhausted by the time I meet DD.
My plan of wandering in JL alone, at my own pace, may not be realised! 😉
DD hates shopping and I was hoping to wander, before I met her. 😁

Hoping that Susan and Mr Ginster's appointments yesterday were positive ones.

I wish you all a pleasant day and will, have the pleasure of reading your posts on the train. Something to look forward to. I need to leave at an ungodly hour, as we will, be right in the middle of rush hour.

Good morning from mid Essex. More cloud this morning but no rain. A sunny warm day is forecast.
My skip arrived yesterday, so far I’ve only put a few ancient flower pots in it, but will put more in today. My back and ankle were very painful yesterday, I don’t think they like the heat. I had a good sleep last night so feeling more positive today.

Happy Birthday * Mick,*I hope you have a good day.

grandmattie your day in London sounds very interesting, if tiring. I hope your phone saga with EE is finally sorted to your satisfaction.
Fingers crossed that gingster’s DH is more comfortable today and that he continues to make progress.

Have the best day possible everyone. Best wishes to those with medical appointments today.

Another lurker wishing Mick a Happy Birthday.🎂

Good morning from a bright N Norfolk where we are just about to get up ready to be gone by 10 o’clock. Everything takes longer now. Lovely last meal yesterday evening at the nearest local pub.
DD1 and SIL arrive in Kent sometime before midnight ready for DIL’s party tomorrow. Just hope we can stay awake.
Happy birthday Mick enjoy your day.
Best wishes

marydoll I hope your gp is able to help you this morning. Enjoy your afternoon tea and cocktails!