Good Morning Thursday 12th June 2025

Hope you’ve enjoyed your birthday Merlotgran 💐

Canadian gran I’m just back from 4 weeks in BC . What a stunning country you live in ! Mountains,lakes and forests .
I visited Vancouver island and drove up to Tofino !

Good morning... afternoon for you!

I've been away visiting my daughter and family just outside of Victoria, BC for the last 10 days so haven't logged on here. Will have a catch up browse later.

Thank you all for the birthday wishes. The rain held off just long enough for a good look round. I’m glad I wore boots!

That's interesting karma, drunk would be a good description of their behaviour. They can't be getting in that state in my garden as my crabs aren't even colouring yet.
Incidentally, I did once have drunken butterflies in a former very large garden. I'd tossed out the very alcoholic remains of a rumtopf (?) jar on to my uncovered compost heap. Some days later I went that way and discovered the drunken butterflies, counting around 40 of them, some stretched wings outspread on the grass and bushes, others literally staggering around in the air and others greedily feeding on the fermenting fruit remains. What a sight it was! I felt guilty, hoping they weren't harmed or terminal. Wondered if they got hangovers!

Merlotgran a very happy birthday to you

Good morning Mick and all from Sunnyside sandhills northwest .
Two outings yesterday, the first to the usual lunchtime recital. Excellent pianist, but I wasn’t keen on the programme. Amazing how performers now use iPads for their music, cancelling the need for page turners. A very good turn out too.
Sat in the sun afterwards listening to an excellent baritone performing in the open.

In the evening to the first night of a local production, which was excellent. A very high standard indeed.
Glad to be at home today and have a catch up with chores etc,

I hope Iris makes a good recovery grandmattie, thoughts to Bella💐and birthday greetings Merlotgran
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Happy Birthday merlotgran enjoy Gilbert White’s, I remember going there on a school trip!
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Hoping all goes well tomorrow Grandmabatty🙏🏻

💐 Bellasnana. 🫰for a swift recovery for Iris.
Happy Birthday, Merlotgran.

Happy birthday wishes merlotgran.

Good morning everyone from a cloudy Northampton, rain showers forecast this afternoon. I was hoping to cut the back grass today but may not have time before the showers as I have a Sainsbury's delivery this morning.

A lovely day in Milton Keynes yesterday, meeting up with Maw again. We enjoyed a morning of shopping followed by an Italian lunch and wine 🍷and much chat. I bought a new T shirt but only paid half of it as I had a £5 voucher. I also treated myself to the M&S summer.beauty bag, which seems very good value.

A morning of pottering then the Sainsbury's delivery. If we get the promised showers then it will be an afternoon of reading.

So sorry to read your sad news Bellasnana.

Wishing all a pleasant day.

Happy birthday Merlotgran, it’s taken me so long to type my post I missed yours!

Morning all from West Oxfordshire.

Such a lot of distress and sadness this morning, but hope with Iris.

My chin wax didn’t happen yesterday. The receptionist tried ringing and I texted her, but nothing. I went home and got the tweezers out!

We are meeting friends for lunch. OH has known them for many years since they met up in Beirut on business.

Have a good day.

Good morning everyone from sunny Lancashire.

Yesterday it was a beautiful sunny day, we went out early to Lytham and had a walk along the sea front. It was quiet when we arrived and we had no trouble parking. As we were heading back home at lunchtime it was filling up rapidly. I didn’t do much after lunch as I was quite sleepy after all that sea air.

Clicky jaw is slowly resolving itself, I took one paracetamol before dinner last night, no more needed.

Pleased to hear Iris’s surgery went well Grandmattie. Here’s to a speedy recovery. Prescription sunglasses are a game changer.

Sorry for your loss Bellasnana .

Beautiful photos Grammaretto.

Hope all goes well tomorrow Grandmabatty.

Great charity shop find Marydoll, Babydoll looks so cute and innocent there .

Greyduster my short term memory is terrible as a result of my brain injury over 20 years ago. I do sometimes worry it might be getting worse but I had no problems with a cognitive test during my recent hospitalisation. Perhaps a chat with your GP might help.

Sending positive vibes to FGT2 and Himself.

As always, my thoughts are with those dealing with illness and troubles, I hope the day brings you some comfort.

Have the best day you can, happy Thursday 🌹

Morning all from a lovely sunny Kent. Up at sparrow fart this morning- 06.20 as DH had a hygienist appointment at 08.30! There’s no point in trying to go back to sleep as he is so noisy. I then had a text at 08.20 to say he wasn’t sure if he had closed the front door! He had.
Marydoll glad someone has had another professional look at your mouth. I watched the live stream of the funeral yesterday at St John’s. Lovely eulogy by our ex MP, he read a letter from Tony Blair which was a nice touch.
Having an issue with my surgery. I sent a message to my GP last Tuesday regarding steroid dosage- I got a response on Tuesday this week! I have polymyalgia rheumatica and the only treatment is prednisolone so it was important to get the right dose in place. Outcome was two weeks at a high dose and report back - wonder how long I will wait for that reply.
Not feeling 100% but I think it’s probably due to PMR and the steroids. Hoping to get out at the weekend for a bit of fresh air. Being housebound was never a problem I ever thought about. It’s the pits!!! Having a balance issue on top of the PMR is making things a whole lot worse - dizzy, sore, stiff, wobbly and massively fed up is not a good combination. I do like dipping in to all your posts. I live vicariously on all your exploits. I imagined my twilight years to be full of voluntary work, lunches and holidays - ah well, it’s not to be!
Have a good day all. 😁😀

Happy Birthday merlotgran 🍷🎉🎂

Happy birthday merlotgran enjoy your time with your DD

Happy Birthday merlotgran hope you have a good day

Good morning from Cambridgeshire.

💐 Bellasnana Hope the boys give you comfort today. I’m sorry to hear of your loss.
GM I do hope Iris ‘s post op recovery goes well.
Also hoping Marydoll gets that urgent appt very soon. Lovely pic of Babydoll.

I am hoping to get to Pilates this morning but still not quite feeling right. Just dizzy and heady and tired. Will see how I am after showering.

I need to chase up my two hanging baskets I ordered from the little local nursery. I just wish I had done them myself as I usually do! Other than that need to chase DH to get him to do his jobs in the garden before our friends arrive tmrw . He had his shingles vaccine a few days ago and has a very sore arm. Since our holiday we have both lost our get up and go maybe we need another one 😂

Hoping everyone has a good day

Good morning everyone from an overcast south coast. As it’s my birthday I shouldn’t be having one of those sad awakenings to the day that many of us know so well but I’m struggling to shake it off. DD will be arriving later to take me out - first to Gilbert White’s Gardens then a pub lunch somewhere. The weather forecast is a bit on the grim side. However, in the words of my favourite anthem (ELO) ‘You gotta hold on to something that makes you feel ALRIGHT!’

I’m sorry to read of sadness on the thread this morning.
Stay strong X

Good morning from a grey, cool NE but I believe it will improve later.
Sister and BIL visited yesterday, my sister stayed in the house while BIL dropped me off at the supermarket. My sister is not well and on top of that has been called to the hospital following her poo stick test last week.
In the evening I went to talk to my neighbour opposite, she is having her bathroom upgraded, bath out and large shower instead. She will be without a toilet and water all day so I told her she can use one of my bathrooms.
I heard that my adjoining neighbour had died on Sunday, I was shocked, he was still working full time. I have lived next door to them for 54 years.
Today will be a quiet one, might make some soup with tired looking vegetables.
Thoughts are with poorly people and those who are grieving.

Happy Lanimers stilllearning, I’d forgotten it’s today.

Good morning

I think we are forecast another dry, warm day. I hope so, because I’ve got some gardening jobs to tackle later.
I’m so sorry to read about your BiL Bellasnana. A shock for you 💐.

Wishing a rapid recovery from the surgery for your GD GrandMattie.

I hope you can soon see the specialist Marydoll, your mouth must be so painful.

I think we all sometimes do silly things, Greyduster. I did something similar last summer, but it was the hosepipe tap. I thought I’d switched it off, gone out, but came home to water gushing all over the garden - the force meant the hose attachment had come off. We’re on a water meter, too 😮. Lesson learnt, though. I double check now.

Good morning from sunny Lancashire.
Glad to hear that Iris's operation went to plan, grandMattie.

A sudden death is always horrible, Bellasnana, but it sounds like you have lovely memories and that's a wonderful legacy he's left behind.

My day with Reception class went well yesterday. In between doing the planters for the outdoor area we had a production line going completing Fathers Day cards and presents. All father figures are invited to a special assembly tomorrow where the children will sing them a song. Would bring a tear to a glass eye, as my dad would have said!
It's my son's 1st Fathers Day this weekend so he has all this to come.

I'm going to sort through 3 sideboard cupboards this morning. We've been here nearly 24 years and are planning to downsize in the next few years so I've made a start on decluttering.

My friend gave me a good tip when I was dithering about what to keep. She asked me would I want to pack it, move it, unpack it and find it a space in a smaller house. If the answer is 'no' then it has to go.
Time to stop procrastinating. Have a lovely day everyone. 🌻