Good Morning Friday 23rd May 2025

Good morning from Bristol. The early morning temperatures are still below 10C.
I was on my way to DD’s when there was a whole load of fire engines. It turned out that solar panels were on fire in the nearby maternity hospital. There were no casualties.
We had a takeaway- two actually as the girls decided they didn’t want curry, but had “eats pitta” instead.
Today, after Spanish, I’m being taken out to lunch by my neighbour and her friend!
May all be safe and contented today.
“All will be well, all will be well, all manner of things will be well” as the anchorite Julian of Norwich put it.
Carpe diem 🦩🦩🦩🦩

Good morning Mick and GrandMattie from north Wales where it doesn’t seem as fresh as yesterday when it stayed overcast until lunchtime before glorious sunshine for the rest of the day.

A win for my friend at last night’s bingo means I need to do some research into our next jolly - that’s today’s “chore” sorted 😉

Hope all with celebrations or on their travels are having a marvellous time 🥂, those unwell get some respite 💐and may the weatherbarn be generous with everyone 🌞

Good morning from Malta where it is already 19°C rising to 26°C later.

Had a good day with the boys, they are such sweethearts. However, DGS1 did not want to go with his other grandparents to nursery and cried pitifully, holding his arms out to me and saying he wanted to go in my blue car. He broke my heart as I felt I was letting him down.

Had a lovely FaceTime chat with DD2 as she drove to the gym before work. The temperature in Florida is ridiculously high, she hates it!

DGD will break up for summer holidays next week, that’s her first year of high school done and dusted. She’ll be getting a driver’s permit next, I don’t know how I shall cope!😱😂

I’m off to watch the boys and I’ll be taking them to nursery for the next week or so as the other gps are off on holiday to Italy.

Sending best wishes to all for a good day.☀️

Good morning from a dull but dry Torbay.

Yes, I thought of you, grandMattie, when I read of the hospital fire in Bristol on the BBC News site.
It’s good that you have a diagnosis, Marydoll and hope treatment will help.
I hope the FGT’s slept well after their long day.

Yesterday afternoon I had my RSV vaccination at our local surgery. A 75th birthday present!! 😂 The nurse warned of possible flu like reactions but I feel fine so far.

I’m hoping to take the bus into town this morning which will be my first solo trip there in several months. It’s so heartening to find that I am able to enjoy these simple pleasures again which I thought would never happen!

Wishing everyone as good a day as possible. 🦩💐🦩🥰🦩

Good morning from s somerset, cloudy and sun today

The allotment took my time yesterday, it is so nice up there and weeding is `in the moment` with no thinking of anything else. Over 4 hours in the sun but I made sure to wear a sun-proof long sleeved shirt and big hat. I also ate my first big sweet strawberry

I did potter at home during the afternoon and made 4 small gooseberry crumbles for the freezer. My energy only dissipated by 7 and then I had to stop myself napping and ruining my sleep plus I did take some measures to keep the inevitable aches at bay

I am raring to go today, I have one more 3 sqm bed to prep, I want to be sowing some spring -mix green manure in that bed, which I will need to cover with hoops and net, birds will like the seeds. I am hoping for rain tonight. I put phacelia in the two beds I did yesterday

Finishing my skirt is on hold, it is pinned to my mannequin and dropping by the day, bias cut viscose. No chance of me using a powder puffer to get a straight hem on that fabric so I scoured the internet for an old style hem marker on a stand, I found one. They were made in the USA and it is vintage., called orco pin-it. It is hard to do a neat hem on your own, especially on slippery bias- cut fabric

I will be home earlier today, will only be doing necessary housework as I want to do some more reading

Have a good day

Good morning from a bright and sunny day on the Essex coast.
I have a nasty eye infection and will try to get a doctor's appointment for later. It is very sore and red and weeping. I had one in the other eye a few weeks ago and antibiotics cleared that up.
I have a pile of ironing to tackle and then I shall sit and read. I need to choose a new book from my vast tbr collection.
I hope everyone has a lovely Bank Holiday weekend xx

Morning Mick, morning All. Light cloud over our corner of Somerset. Sun in the forecast, a little cooler.

A busy, enjoyable day out and about yesterday once I escaped the dentist. Back next week for the anticipated filling whuch will apparently take a while as it’s complicated. Oh lucky me. Volunteering this morning then with luck and remaining energy some garden bits and bobs this afternoon.

Have the best day you can everyone.

Morning all from West Oxfordshire. I am having a lie in until 8 am.

I am attending a lecture on William de Morgan later. Afterwards I will catch up on things at home. Our cleaner couldn’t come this week so maybe a bit of light dusting. OH will Hoover.

Have a good day everyone.

Good morning all. Sunny dry start to the day in Glasgow with rain due early evening which is quite welcome as the garden needs a thorough soak.

The day is my own to do as I please. Last two geraniums to pot and I couldn’t resist buying two Augustus English lavenders yesterday. The more potted lavenders around the garden the better. I love the smell.
Now that GD1 is driving I had such a lovely surprise when both GDs arrived for a visit late afternoon. I felt quite emotional comparing them to when they were tots, arriving at ours and here they are now, choosing to visit me independently, guaranteed to lift my spirits whenever I see them. Lots of chatter and laughter.

Wishing all a pleasant day and signs of improvement for those with worries and struggles.

Good morning from sunny Shropshire.

I had a lovely afternoon yesterday chatting with my friend.

Today DD and I will visit mum.DH will collect the children and they will come back here for their usual Friday sleepover.

Wishing everyone the best day possible.🌻🦩

Good morning everyone from sunny North of Scotland. Hopefully it will stay that way for the rest of the day as I am off to a lovely Scottish wedding this afternoon. Sadly, 2 of the bridesmaids have injuries! both aged 10) First one has a broken femur due to a car accident so she will be on crutches and the second one fell in school and has scraped the skin off her entire nose The wedding photos will be interesting to say the least! Fingers crossed there will be no more injuries. Have a good day everyone.

Good morning all from a bright but chilly North Leicestershire.

Another early start as DH has volunteer drive and needs to collect his passenger at 8.00.

We have a Sainsbury's delivery at 9.30 then I have to go to waitrose before meeting some old friends for lunch. Dd2 and Co will arrive at about 10pm and stay till Monday.

Good morning from a sunny S E Essex.

The 10 yr old couldn’t decide if he wanted dippy eggs or an egg and bacon sandwich for breakfast, so I await his decision when I wake him at 7pm.

I might go to the gym for some gentle exercise (haven’t felt well enough to go this week) but not sure, will decide closer to the time.

Our builders found a couple of dodgy joists which have played a part in our house troubles, consequently a large part of the hall, lounge, cloakroom and large cupboard floor will all have to come up so joists can be repaired before any other work can start. I am just hoping that it can all be completed before Christmas!

Sar53 I hope you manage to get an appointment and that your eye doesn’t trouble you too much.

(((Hugs))) to all,our poorly and worried morning friends 🌸

Enjoy Arts Society, LLFL. I always look out for you, but never see you. I shall be there too.

Good morning everyone from south Manchester where the sun is shining. Himself and I will be at the Christie hospital at noon as he attends for a CT scan. 🤞 Result in two weeks.

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller

Good morning everyone. Just wanted to say fingers crossed for the fgts today

Good morning from sunny south Glos, happy Friday!
We did a new walk yesterday morning, down a long, winding lane between banks of cow parsley, foxgloves and corn cockles, up through a wood and out and along meadows. It was gorgeous. Then a long descent into the valley bottom and back up into the village where we stopped for coffee.
Returned home to find one kitchen work surface covered in ants 😵‍💫 It took me an hour to eradicate them all - never, ever had ants in the house before and no idea why this time! There was nothing there to attract them, they must have come through the partly opened kitchen window.
An afternoon in the summerhouse crocheting and listening to audiobooks was very pleasant.
Today I have art group this morning, looking forward to seeing everyone again, I will take tiddler out first and have a tidy around before I go.
I have some plants to pot up this afternoon but no other plans.
Have a lovely day 🌹

Good morning from mid Essex, where it’s sunny, dry and cool. The heating came on briefly this morning, so it was obviously a cold night.
My next door neighbour watered some of my front garden yesterday evening, which was kind of him.
Yesterday I did a little weeding when I got home from DD1s. The weeds spring up overnight and don’t seem to need rain!
ash enjoy your bus trip to town today, another achievement!

I must collect my meds this morning, then I have an Ocado delivery. A hair appointment this afternoon completes my day!

sar53 I hope your eye infection improves quickly.
grannygravy I hope the builders can get the problems with the joists fixed quickly and certainly in time for Christmas!

Thinking of all those struggling in any way.

Good morning from a bright but cooler Black Country.

6 mile walk yesterday and a coffee at a Garden Centre cafe. There were a few new faces this week.

Today I am meeting DGD2 (16) at around 1pm after she finishes college. Then we will have lunch in town. Back to my house where I will collect my clothes and drive over to her house. DD and DS are off to The Netherlands till Tuesday so I will be staying with the DGD's.

Then taking eldest at 5pm to her job waiting in a pub. So will take out 14 year old for a bite to eat in the village.

Wishing you all the best day possible.

Good morning from W Kent where the sun is out but the heating has come on. DH is taking the car off for a service this morning so I have no excuse left not to do the ironing.
Yesterday’s art meeting was rather subdued as one of our gentleman has now been diagnosed with dementia, his wife also attends and said it is progressing rapidly. We have all known one another a long time.
Best wishes to all

Crossed posts! Thinking of you both today FGT

Good morning everyone from Inverness where it’s another lovely sunny start to the day, no rain forecast until tomorrow
Hope you get your eye better soon Sar53
It was good to see the DGC yesterday, DGD was chatty as usual, DGS not so much. He seemed happy enough though and had lots to eat. I’m off to the gym this morning for a dance class and then coffee at the botanical gardens with my pal.
Hope the ants are gone for good now Roses, we sometimes get them outside
Thinking of everyone with worries and struggles, hope today is gentle and take care all whatever the day brings 💐

Good morning from a currently sunny N. Bucks.
I have a manicure and pedicure appointment at 9 this morning. A quick visit to buy some picnic items afterwards.
Tomorrow we set off for a family week in Shropshire. 10 of us aged 4 to 93. So, packing this afternoon.

Wishing you all a good day.

Good morning all from a sunny Glasgow, where it is 7°C.

I know what you mean, Ash. Glad you made it out and about.

Today DD and I are off to the Ideal Home show, we have managed to get free tickets. We have made no plans for lunch or what we will do after, just going with the flow, depending how I feel. DH will drive me to the station and two connecting trains will get me there, so not much walking involved!
I have had a stern word with myself, not to come back with useless gadgets. 😉
We plan to celebrate DD's new job. After being made redundant from her job of twenty years and being unemployed since Christmas, she was offered a job in the Civil Service yesterday.

Yesterday was full, on, but BabyD was delightful.
(Well most of the time.)
DS looked worried when her arrived with her. His FIL, who helps with childminding, had a silent heart attack in London the other day.
The day after he got home, he went for an eight mile walk, oblivious to the fact he had suffered a heart attack,
He is now in Coronary Care.
What a lucky man he is!

We had a laugh in the chemist, when the pharmacist warned me not to sunbathe, nor use tanning salons, while using the medication for the lesions.
I never did that in the first place, fat lot of good being careful did me!

When I arrived at the Safeguarding meeting, I saw someone beckoning me. It was my long lost sister in law, whom we haven't seen for ages.
She falls out with people on a regular basis and harbours grudges for years.
Despite having helped look after her late husband on a daily basis, she ditched us when he died.
None of us received a Christmas card last year and neither a birthday nor Christmas gift for Dollie, when she and my BIL previously spoiled her.
We have absolutely no idea, what we have done this time!
The strangest thing was that she behaved as if nothing had happened.

As I entered the meeting, the Bishop and Diocesan Safeguarding Advisor were at the door greeting everyone. The Advisor said to Bishop, I know I should not have favourites, but this is my favourite Diocesan Safeguarding Co-ordintor, and proceeded to give me the warmest embrace.
Another co-ordinator came in and also hugged me, wishing me a happy birthday.
Little gestures like this are just what I need in my present fragile state.
Many of our former parish priests were there and I was shocked at how much they had aged.
Then I remembered, I am also elderly and must have looked old to them!🤣

Best wishes to all and hoping Baubles, your day went well yesterday.
GM, enjoy your lunch!

Have a good day folks, whatever your plans.