Good Morning Thursday 15th May 2025

Good morning Michael and all GNs. Dreary at the moment in South Yorkshire but promises to be better later. I made an appointment yesterday to have my ears cleared of wax, but it can’t be done until next week so I am going to be almost completely deaf until then. It’s quite depressing. I struggled at writers group yesterday and am supposed to be going walking today but with conversation almost impossible I wonder if it’s worth it. Still, folk have bigger problems to deal with.
Have the best day you can folks.

Good morning from Malta where it’s raining with thunder and lightning thrown in! A gloomy looking day with a high of 22°C.

Apologies for missing your birthday Marydoll, I hope you had a splendid day.🥳

DGS2 was on good form yesterday despite being a bit sore. Trying to keep him from jumping, running about and riding his bike or toy cars is proving difficult! He has a week of taking it easy so it’s going to be a challenge.

DGS1 was very happy to have his brother and mum back but still went off to nursery by himself happy as a clam!😄

I’m just off to look after them. No nursery today.

I’ll be meeting a friend when I am free this afternoon so I hope this weather improves.

Thinking of you all, I passed on your good wishes for DGS2 to DD3 and she was very touched by your kindness as am I.☀️

Good, very early morning from the Essex coast where it is grey and cloudy.
I've had a dreadful night and eventually decided to get up and read. I seem to get anxious over every little thing at the moment.
Food shopping this morning and a relaxing afternoon beckons.
I hope you all have a good day with some sunshine xx

Good morning from a bright but breezy Torbay.

DH reached home safely after his unplanned night in Le Mans and we are back into our usual routine of a daily Zoom call in the late afternoon to exchange our day's news.

Yesterday, Wednesday Club was entertained by an interesting talk from a member of Toads about his life as a cinema manager in the SW, back in the 50’s and 60’s. He had some fascinating anecdotes to share.

It’s pleasing to hear of Mr.Gingster's progress especially as it enables Gingster to go out more. I hope we hear from madaleine45 soon and other absent contributors. Good luck with the care of your post operative DGS, Bellasnana!

Well wishes to those who've been unwell or recovering from treatment. 🦩💐🦩🥰🦩

Good morning all. A sunny start today in Glasgow reaching a high of 23deg.

Still feeling under the weather as achy flu symptoms haven’t cleared yet so another day of taking it easy until I feel I’m on the mend. Nothing much I can do but just grin and bear it.
Thank you for your good wishes Blossoming

Belated happy birthday MD and many happy returns of the day🎂🎉

Best wishes for a good day with thoughts for those struggling on through difficult times.

Good morning from a bright Bristol.
bellas, I’m pleased for you all that DGS2 is doing so well and that DGS1 seems content to be without his twin.
I had a very busy day yesterday concluding with a quiz in the evening. My team came a very respectable 5th, only 4 points behind the joint winners.
Not a lot on today.
All the best to the sad, in pain and anxious. Carpe diem 🦩🦩🦩🦩

Good morning all from the Black country.
Early start today DH is fishing because of roadworks he will need to divert to pick his friend up.
I have no plans as yet but will find something to do.
I see spammers are busy again.
Will catch up with everybody's happenings later enjoy your day everyone whatever your plans.
Thoughts with the FGTs ☀️

Greyduster. I eventually bought a syringe kit on Amazon to clear my ears myself. It’s so simple to use and the best buy for me. I agree, is does become depressing being half deaf when trying to talk to others.

Good morning from a lovely sunny spot in south Glos, lots of sunshine today 😊
Tiddler’s trip to the dog field followed by the vet went well, she had an extremely expensive injection for her allergies 😵‍💫, she may only need the one (fingers crossed) but if it keeps her comfortable then that’s what matters most to me. It must be so uncomfortable for her, feeling itchy and sore if not kept on top of it.
DH spent the afternoon setting up the water butt for my Shed, I’m not convinced he’s done it right but we’ll have to wait for rain to find out…… I will be happy to have the water for my pots etc.
Today early dog walks, art group this afternoon, a few bits of housework to do and more time in my Shed.
I hope today goes well for you all 🌹

Good morning from s somerset, dry and sunny today, a pleasant day

Yesterday was quite busy, I decided I should go and put 20 baby plants on the plot after the rain on tuesday, they are home-reared deep rooted perennials for bees and eventually compost. I prefer my own made weed-free green manure, from these perennials.

Weeds are up again, I need to try and get the many perennial weeds off my plot, they are deeply embedded. I blink and they come up time after time from the smallest bit of root. My parsnip seeds and some other plants are not doing well and I have to work on soil health. It was a very neglected plot and it shows. Not much is growing well on my plot right now, goodness knows what was added in the past

Home all day today, I feel like doing a bit of wardrobe sorting and want a new midi skirt which I will make, not full at the hips, those days are over. Anything remotely `frumpy` is going and so are the garment toiles made in cheap fabrics. I will keep the `toast` look a-likes.

Kalu, I wish you a speedy recovery, back to full health

Have a good day

Roses, I remember setting up my water diverter for my two tall water butts. It was pouring with rain and I was not going to miss it. I went out to my down pipe with a saw and tape measure, I still see the evidence of the wonky saw cut and I can see that annoying saw cut every day from my chair. It works and the butts do fill and I have forgotten about being soaked through

I hope you get to test yours soon

PRINCE even

Wrong thread - need to wake up

Good Morning from Durham. A grey, cool and cloudy start, but hope it improves again later.
I have a day to myself, so I really must start to pack for my holiday. We go on Saturday.

Best wishes to all. X

Good morning from Cambridgeshire where a cooler grey day is forecast.

I have my Pilates class this morning and then home to potter. DH has a big birthday looming so a few preparations for that to do and also we go away in a few days. The garden has been my priority and will be until we go. The baby robins are continuing to thrive.

Our neighbour at the bottom of our garden who was issued with a remedial order (by the Council) to cut down his very large leylandi tree has so far ignored it and our local council are progressing to Court action. However it looks like as nesting is in full flow we face another summer without sun in a large part of our garden 🙈 His garden is like sleeping beauty’s castle unbelievably awful much to all the neighbours dismay🤷‍♀️

Hoping everyone has a good Thursday and thinking of all those poorly and struggling 💐

Good morning all from Polmont where it's currently 5° and sunny. Bellasnana I'm so glad your wee chap is on the mend. GrandMattie it sounds like you are taking things more gently.
Yesterday was a very quiet day as per your instructions! I had a delivery of sunglasses which have helped with the brightness. Lots of sitting about. I did go out to speak to my neighbour and we had a nice chat. Dgs1 won the 'jannies cup' for football. The janitor supervises them playing football before school, at break and at lunch time. Dgs1 is the youngest player but gets stuck in and tackles without fear much bigger boys. He was so chuffed to win the cup which he keeps til Friday.
Today will be more of the same. I can't really take advantage of the lovely weather because of the 'no lifting and bending ' rule, so I will have to be patient. Chorizo and pasta bake for dinner courtesy of dd. Dsil dropped it off last night. Have a good day all.

Morning Mick, morning All. Not looked out yet, the forecast is for a sunny day.

Thoroughly enjoyed yesterday. Five hours flew past. The world was thoroughly put to rights interspersed with much laughter. We’re off again today to visit a woodland garden. An annual trip to wander among huge rhododendron and azalea shrubs. It’s a peaceful, restful place if a bit of a journey with an inevitable muddle over the route. We’ve never been the same way twice. We’ll be tired tomorrow but it’s worth it. Appointments and ‘stuff’ needing doing will fill next week leaving little space for wandering.

Good luck keeping the convalescent quiet bellasnana. His idea of quiet and yours could well be different. Mr C says he understands how horrible blocked ears are greyd, very debilitating.

Have the best day you can everyone.

Pleased you’re behaving grandmab .

Good morning from a grey and nippy midlands. Off on holiday today for a few days.
Crocheting en route.
Have the best day that you can have. Hugs.

Good morning, yes it’s grey and cloudy here also Sar53 sorry you had a bad night, if you are anything like me everything seems so much worse in the middle of the night, I start worrying about things which aren’t relevant or even my worries 🤷‍♀️

Off to Chelmsford with DH this morning, we need new suitcases for our holiday. We both agreed that our current ones have a mind of their own and their wheels do exactly the opposite to what we ask, a bit like wonky shopping trolleys!

I will have a mooch round Boots and The White Company (along with any other shops I can sneak in before DH gets bored)

Sorry you are still off colour kalu

Your GS seems to be coming in leaps and bounds 👏👏

(((Hugs))) to all 🙋‍♀️

Good morning all from a sunny Glasgow, but only 2°C.

Belated birthday wishes to creativeness.🥰

Kalu, sending best wishes for a speedy recovery and that Mr Ginster continues to make progress.. GMB, I hope you are behaving!
Bella, you must be relieved to have your wee grandson safely home.

Thank you all for your good wishes yesterday. It was an enjoyable day, once I got the unsettling GP appointment out of the way. One of the questions asked by the hospital was, Is the patient aware they are on the cancer pathway?. Having that vocalised, threw me.
Hopefully, we are worrying about nothing.

The GP was struggling to cope with the new online system for urgent referrals and this normally gentle and calm man was becoming more and more frustrated and annoyed, compounded by me laughingly offering my expertise as a former IT co-ordinator. It was not appreciated! 🤣

Much to annoyance, he kept telling me that I looked so well. I told him that wasn't helping, given how unwell I felt. I needed sympathy and TLC.
He laughingly said that I would be even more annoyed if he called me old and decrepit and asked if I would settle for stylish.
That would be very acceptable, I replied 😉
DH and those in the waiting room were bemused, when the GP I came out laughing loudly.

Also, I was given a prescription for a steroid oral rinse, to try and dampen down the inflammation and pain in my mouth. He warned me not to swallow it, since I already had a dose of steroids on Thursday at the hospital.
Grannygravy, will understand why. 😉
Of course,as usual, the medication was hard to source. I may get it today.🙏

Visits from DD, DIL, Dollie , close friends and extremely thoughtful gifts. completed my joyful day.
DD, in addition to her other gifts made up a hamper of my favourite items, food and drink, including the mini prosecco I love, but couldn't source.
What made me tearful is that, DD, who has dyslexia and is dyspraxic had made a hamper from an old box, decorated with wrapping paper. It would have been so difficult for her. 💕
Apparently DD's husband had misunderstood the family joke that I had always wanted a Rennie Mackintosh rose tattoo on my ankle and was going to arrange this for my birthday. 🤣
Instead he gave me a beautiful R.M rose bracelet.😍

My treat to myself was an afternoon of lying, with the conservatory doors wide open, watching Turkish rubbish. I had no energy for anything else.

Another one here, who needs her ears syringed. I am deaf on one side. I couldn't bring myself to ask the GP for a referral yesterday (we have hubs here, which do it), since I had taken up so much of his time.
I may investigate the Amazon thing, Kalu.

We are expecting Babydoll and plan to visit the nursery at Lugton for DH's begonias. Some of the Glasgow grans are familiar with it.
A visit to the park, then an afternoon, playing in the garden.
Have a pleasant day folks and best wishes to all, who have mountains to climb.💐

Good morning all from a grey North Leicestershire.

We had a great evening with our lovely neighbours yesterday but it did get chilly.

We are off to Warwick today to meet a couple of DH's fellow university friends and their wives. But first, a Sainsbury's delivery.

Have the best day possibly, everyone.

Good morning everyone from mid Essex. It’s grey here at the moment, but the sun may break through later. It’s a mild 11 degrees.
Finally posted my friend’s birthday card yesterday, met my neighbour on the way home and she came in for coffee and a catch up! The skip was taken away and I got the mower out and tidied up the grass where it had been. Pottered about in the garden for the rest of the day, planted dwarf bean seeds and repotted a few things in pots.
Today I’m at DD1s, keeping the dog company and collecting the granddaughters from after school club. I’ll give them dinner and keep them entertained until their parents get home from the office.
bellasnana good that your grandson has bounced back so well from his surgery, but it will be difficult to stop him from jumping around too much.

Thoughts are with all those with problems of any kind and hoping that things improve for you.
Have the best day possible everyone.

Morning all from a dry West Oxfordshire.

I’m having a pedicure at the village salon this morning. I last had one in Sydney in February.

After lunch it is the U3A Art History group which I always look forward to.

Have a good day, especially the FGT2S who I believe have a hospital appointment today.