Good Morning Thursday 10th July 2025

Litterpicker I was a pharmacy technician before I retired so as soon as the medication was mentioned I was wary.The consultant said my worries are because of the job I did🤷‍♀️

Happy anniversary Gingsters💐🍾🥂

Good morning from coastal West Sussex where it is much hotter than yesterday. DH went to the allotment early and came back just after 10, saying it was too hot to work but he had sat under the cherry trees for a bit and just enjoyed looking at it (I have been trying to gently nudge him into being more relaxed and mindful 🙂).

Thank you for the lovely travel photos, Ginny and LFL.

Glad to hear your DB’s funeral was what you hoped for, Harris.

Hope your medication works out ok Susan. Too much knowledge can make some things more challenging!

Grammaretto, I’m keeping my fingers and toes crossed that the tea set firing has gone well - maybe you will post a photo?

Happy anniversary to the Gingsters and belatedly to Ivy.
I’ve just heard our local swifts ‘screaming’ as they fly past - one of my favourite sounds of the summer. Yesterday evening a wren suddenly started singing with its amazingly loud trill - I guess maybe a second brood is planned and he is re-establishing his territory.

Marydoll, I don’t know how you manage these outings but it sounds as though you and Dolly had a great day.

My eldest DGD graduates tomorrow. We are very proud as, in spite of being mildly dyslexic and a bit chaotic in some aspects of her life, she worked very hard and got a 1st.

It is nearly p.m. so I will stop rambling, drink some more water, and do something useful before it gets any warmer 🏖️

Good morning everyone.

Happy Anniversary to the Ginsters 🥂 enjoy your tradition.

A visit to the dentist yesterday resulted in me making a decision about what to do with a couple of teeth.
In the afternoon I had a message from a friend which cheered me to read.

Today I’ll spend crafting and tidying indoors. Will pack a parcel to post tomorrow.

Enjoy your day all 👒🌞

Happy Anniversary Mr and Mrs Gingster 🍾🥂

Thank you *MD*, I will make a drawstring linen bread bag soon. I have a potato bag which works very well, potatoes should not be in the fridge, also I have a banana bag from temu, that is good too. I keep onions and garlic in ceramic pots

A very Happy Anniversary to the Gingsters! Lunch sounds wonderful!🥂💐

Good morning, Michael12 and everyone!

Thanks, ginny, for the photos, how beautiful they are!

In my house I have a smoke alarm on the ceiling of the bedroom, livingroom, kitchen, bathroom and passage and I insist on testing all of them each month and always keep spare batteries.

I don't smoke .... am life-long anti-brigade - and refuse to allow visitors to do it but I have multiple candles of various sizes and designs in the livingroom along with incense sticks. .

All of my lovely candles/sticks were non-lit when I went to bed then at exactly 1am I shot through the roof with fright/straight out of sleep when all 5 blared out together! The noise was enough to wake the dead!

My direct next door neighbours in their 90s must have heard the alarms and me jumping out of bed in a mad rush!

I did the bedroom one first, then livingroom, passage, kitchen and bathroom but of course I could only do one at a time so had to stand there for what seemed like ages being deafened by the other 4! At least they work!

After managing to switch them all off I tested all the batteries and they were all fine!

I can understand one going off but all five at the same time?!

Weird!

A quick late Good Morning from me in France 🇫🇷 to where we’ve had a smooth crossing but a short night! Already hot here.

After setting sail late, we were awoken by the Brittany Ferries alarm at 4.45 am BST! We'd had less than five hours sleep. 😴

Now we're safely at DH's home, I’ll read through all your news.

Thinking of the worried, bereaved and unwell. 🦩💐🦩🥰🦩

Very happy anniversary wishes to you both gingster 🥂

Good morning from a brightening northwest coast. Housework yesterday and FaceTime with DD in the south. Practised new songs.
New neighbours across the road are bulldozing their front garden, so it was pretty noisy. Seems a shame as it was a large nicely landscaped one before. Also there is room for parking without flattening it, but not my circus and not my monkeys. Sadly the couple I knew before them not long ago died within eighteen months of each other and no age…

I have the dental hygienist this morning and a little shopping, so nothing exciting.
Lovely photos, congratulations to the Gingsters and thoughts to Harris27🌺

Happy Anniversary to the Gingstersenjoy your day

Happy Anniversary to the Ginsters, 1971 was a good year.
Harris27 💐
Thinking of Bella and Buzz.
Must get a move on, cleaner due shortly.
Have a good day everyone.

Good morning everyone from an already hot south coast.
I was supposed to be going to see The Salt Path this morning but after all the recent revelations, have decided it’s not for me.
I’m now trying to make up my mind whether to go to Bon Marché which has recently re-opened in town (how often does that happen?) or stay at home and keep cool (and bored)
Hope everyone has a good day. Stay out of the heat - says she, about to ignore her own advice!! 😂
💐Bellasnana

Harris27 hugs.

Marydoll - Edinburgh then heading for the borders. tweedbank. Hugs. 🤗

Good morning everyone from cloudy Lancashire.

Today MrB and I are meeting up with family at the Marina café. We are planning to walk there and back. I will be using my tri walker so fingers crossed it stays dry.

Thinking of our poorly Grans and families, as always.

Have the best day you can everyone 🌹

Morning all,
It’s already very warm here and set to reach 28 degrees later.
Happy anniversary to the Gingsters. Enjoy your salmon and egg lunch. 🍾🥂💐

A very Happy Anniversary to The Gingsters 🥂

Thanks for all your kind messages 💒👰‍♀️🤵‍♂️

Happy anniversary to the * Gingsters*.🎉🎊🍾

LLFL, having studied German at uni, I have a great affection for Bavaria. Lovely photos

Have been playing silly b……s over passwords again. Why does GN suddenly shut one out for no obvious reason? However, am here early with the washing machine going and no plans other than keeping the house as cool as I can and watching the tennis. DGD and I have been working out what we are to say at Saturday’s party to celebrate DD’s 60th birthday and their 25th wedding anniversary. It should be quite an occasion.

Good morning from another glorious sunny summers day in S E Essex.

We are visiting our local Farm Shop first thing, then I hope to sit in the garden with my kindle until school pick-up, usual sleepover for the 10yr old.

Happy anniversary Gingster I hope you and your DH have many more happy years 🍾🥂😘

Pressed too soon.
I'm sending best wishes to all those celebrating today.
Stunning photos LlfL

Good morning all from the Scottish Borders. Overcast but warm.

But I have just popped outside to bring in yesterday's washing and that wretched seagull chick has flown back up again to the higher part of my garden. 🙄

I am looking forward to going into Edinburgh today, meeting a friend and walking along beside the Water of Leith to the Gallery of Modern Art.
Lunch and a blether.
I was up late glazing pots and packing my kiln. So fingers tightly crossed that the pieces turn out well. They are a commission for a wedding present.
No room for error as the wedding is on Saturday.

Harris, I'm glad that the funeral was a proper ch

Good morning from an already very warm Wiltshire.

DD1 is coming over and will stay overnight. We are taking her for lunch at Côte Brasserie in Bath. Really looking forward to seeing her. Her daughter DGD1 is 19 and has worked at Nirvana Spa since she was 16, serving in the restaurant as a weekend and holiday job. It featured in many newspapers yesterday as a male masseur has been arrested for “inappropriate touching”. It often welcomes rich and famous guests.

Having watched a lot of Wimbledon this year, I think I will swerve the semifinal with Sinner v Djokovic as I’m not a fan of either of them, though that’s tomorrow.

Happy holidays to all the intrepid travellers. Have a good day everyone.