Good Morning Sunday 10th August 2025

Good morning everyone from a misty Lancashire. DS is 32 today and is coming over later for homemade lasagne and birthday cake. I had hoped to have lunch in the garden, but the mist will have to burn off.

Sorry to hear of your cramps, Madeleine. I could feel the pain in your description. Absolutely awful!

You're right, GrandMattie, places like your church cafe are needed during the summer months for people who might otherwise feel isolated.
A lot of the toddler groups and baby and child activities close for the summer holiday too. It's understandable because a lot are run by volunteers who have their own children to look after during the holiday, but 6 weeks can seem a long time to a young parent who doesn't have family nearby.

Time to have a shower and decorate DS's cake. Wishing you all the best day possible. 🌻

Good morning from an already very warm Suffolk. I’m just enjoying my first cup of tea,always the best of the day and then we’ll take the dog out for her morning walk before it gets too hot. I’ll read your posts when we get back.

Fields around here have now been harrowed and we expect them to be ploughed and drilled very soon. How the farming year is changing.

DS and eldest DGDare visiting later. An essential small screw was missing yesterday so DS,who was sure all were there when he unpacked the outdoor sofa kit yesterday,called in to his local hardware shop to buy a replacement. DGD is moving into her first student house having lived in university accommodation for her first year and she is moving in on Friday for the start of what seems like a very early 2nd year. DGD3 is going with her and staying till Sunday when she will be collected and the remaining ‘stuff’ for DGD1 will be delivered. She’s coming to see us today before she goes.

Hope all can enjoy the sun whilst keeping cool.

Good morning from a bright and sunny Black Country.

Start getting clothes together to take to the caravan, and make a start on loading up the car. We are off to Swanage Monday, so a drive down the M5 to near Burnham where it is stored. Then hitch up and onto Swanage. Weather forecast is looking good

Wishing you all be the best day possible.

Good morning from Shropshire.Another warm day forecast.

I am feeling small improvements every day.Hopefully a walk round the garden later.DH is a star, so grateful for him.

Madeleine your day out sounded perfect.We love the area you live in and your descriptions bring such lovely memories to me.I hope we will be able to spend a few days there once I am fully recovered.

My thoughts with FGT and her dear husband and all with mountains to climb.

Wishing everyone the best day posssible🌻🦩

Good morning everyone from another bright and sunny 🌞 day in Northampton, a fine day ahead.

Had a nice morning yesterday, met two friends for coffee and toasted tea-cake in the M&S Cafe, then went our separate ways shopping. I then ran into a.couple of ex-colleagues from my teaching days and we had a good catch-up.
Had a browse round Next, tried on a couple of tops, which weren't quite right, then did the rest of my shopping, and got everything that was on my list.

Sat out in the.garden when I got back, and worked my way through the Saturday newspaper and the puzzle pages.

Off out late morning today, and meeting a.friend at the cinema to see 'Sense and Sensibility', the Emma Thomson/Alan Rickman version from about 20 odd years ago. Shall enjoy a nice G and T at the cinema! Will have a browse around the shops afterwards.
Roast chicken for dinner tonight.

Wishing all a pleasant day.

Like Madeleine, my sleep was interrupted by cramp and I am not at my brightest this morning, but need to get moving as the service today is in our own church. Afterwards I am going out to lunch with my former next door neighbour and her daughter and son in law. Her dementia makes this hard work and having someone from outside the family circle usually means she behaves a bit better. Not always, though!

Good morning all from a sunny North Leicestershire.

Slow start today. Dd2 and the girls are off to DD3's house so the cousins can interact. DH and I will be emptying the playroom as the carpets are being laid tomorrow. Yippee. Only the lighting to sort now.

kalu, how I sympathise re. DH absence. It was mine’s birthday yesterday. I’ll probably be crying through the service today; he loved his Sunday service.

Morning all.

Susan56 I'm pleased you are beginning to feel stronger.
Just wanted to let you know that I sent you a PM a few days ago. It's about my new home. Hope you see and open the message.
Kind regards to everyone reading.

Good morning all from a cloudy Glasgow, where it is 13°C.

Thank you for the photos, GM.

Last night was exhausting at Mass, thousands of £s worth of candles, incense etc to unpack, to start with. Thankfully the young sacristan did the heavy work.
The P,P appeared to find me sniffing the box of Rosa insence, he found it extremely odd!
I adore anything with a rose fragrance and realised the bags, that it was packed in, made ideal, scented nappy bags for Babydoll. I thought that was a genius thought.
I am a recycling fanatic and waste nothing. 😉

I was doing my rounds before Mass and discovered that the blocked toilet had been repaired, it has been a massive job, due to blocked outside drains. It is going to cost a fortune to repair them.
The plumbers had left an awful mess and hadn't cleaned up, I spent half an hour cleaning it, 🤮 but was struggling. I have indescribable fatigue and extremely high pain levels at the moment,
A very good friend of mine, who is eighty years old, spotted me and gave me a hand.
While I went to get disinfectant, despite cleaning materials lying all over the floor, I came back to find someone had used it in my absence!! They would have had to climb over the cleaning materials, to use the facilities.
The P,P was horrified to find me cleaning the toilet and kept apologising he thinks I am a delicate, wee flower , saying he was going get a cleaner to do it.

Today DH will help me strip the bed, I can no longer manage it on my own, oh the joy of clean sheets.
Yesterday, I made a traditional Scottish steak pie for Sunday dinner, DH is delighted, as am I, but not for the same reason.
He loves it and I am happy not to have to cook today! However, I may make some cheat's Eton mess. (meringue nests crumbled up).

There is much tidying in the garden needed, I haven't been well enough, but DH has said if I get out, before the football starts, he will give me a hand. Very considerate of him, to spare some time for his wife.🤣
There is no way, I can lift the compost, to pot my new agapanthus and I would like to rearrange some of the pots.

If I feel up to it, later I plan to go and pick brambles from the field behind our house.

Have a pleasant Sunday and best wishes to all, especially those, who are poorly. I hope Maw is ok.

hollysteers you have piqued my interest to visit Elizabeth Gaskell’s house (one day). I looked it up and realise I can get the number 15 bus from outside Sainsbury’s to the main Oxford Road at the MRI and just walk round the corner. So do-able. I really would like (one day) to spend more time in our city centre sourcing places of interest on our doorstep. Familiarity does indeed breed contempt! As our Yorkshire Lass once said to me “mum, you do realise people fly in for a city break and all this is so nearby for you to immerse yourself into. You could go in once a week and explore a different area.”

RosesandLilac

Good morning from south Glos, were it’s pleasantly cool at the moment.
We had a lovely dog walk yesterday, the fields had been harvested and we watched several red kites drifting around in the thermals, a beautiful sight.
I spent several hours doing coloured pencils work, very relaxing and absorbing.
Today more of the same.
Have a lovely day 🌹

That sounds like my idea of heaven! You are so lucky to see red kites.
I absolutely love coloured pencils and I am a great fan of Johanna Basford and her work. That girl really knows how to brandish a pencil and I have learned a lot from her.
Today my granddaughter is bringing my great grandson to see me. He is nearly 4 months old and I could eat him! My granddaughter and I are best friends. She calls me her bestie and I love her to bits.
I might tidy the study after that. It’s well overdue a good ‘bottoming’. I am quite a tidy person but I don’t know what happens in there! I put things down instead of putting them awa

Late good morning from a sunny NE.
I slept well despite napping on the sofa yesterday afternoon.
Another lazy day beckons with some reading in the garden.
Message from sister last night to say she was safely home in Germany despite delays on both planes. She has assistance at the airports and apparently they are very efficient.
DS and family are off to Berlin for one week and my friend is in the Lakes.
Have a good day.

Oops! It binned me!

As I was saying, I put things down instead of putting them away. Don’t know why as I’m not like that anywhere else in the flat. I like a tidy home.
Must have some breakfast so I am ready for my visitors.
Have a good day everyone.

Me again! I forgot to say that there is a Cruise ship in the harbour - the Carnival Miracle, which has just returned from a trip around the British Isles, I believe. The season is now starting for cruises so I should see a lot of ships over the Summer. I am very lucky here with my view across the harbour, the Straits of Dover and, on a clear day, the cliffs of northern France. It took me a long time to get here - family needs got in the way, but when my wonderful husband died, my daughters persuaded me to move here as I had always loved these apartments. We hadn’t moved here as a family as we wanted a garden for the children when they were young, and my husband loved gardening, so we lived in a village.
Moving here was the absolute right thing for me and has taken my mind off my loss to some extent. I would definitely have gone mad if I had stayed in the village. I like to see things going on!
Have a good Sunday, everyone.

Morning all from a warm West Oxfordshire.

We are taking daughter out for lunch later.

My thumb is still excruciatingly painful even with a support and painkillers. I will send an engage consult message tomorrow.

Have a good Sunday.

Good morning all from the Scottish Borders. Fine day but cool. My Italian helper finds this Scottish weather freezing which amuses me.

Yesterday I had a surprise invitation to the concert where DGD was in the orchestra. I sat next to her brother so had a good catch up with his doings, having just left school.

The youth orchestra was fabulous. The Greyfriars Kirk packed.

The red arrows flew over the city as I was on my way through the Festival crowds. It was quite a sight and noise!

Today my new lodgers will move in.
I am a little nervous having only met them for 10 minutes when they viewed.

Tomorrow I am having the younger DGC for a few hours. They like gardening and pottery decorating so I will make sure we can do that. They stay with their other DGP and she brings them to me and takes them back for their tea!

I did laugh at your Oscar winning cat Kalu . I remember mine so well.
With her white fur the dark fleas showed up - or was that the eggs.

Poor you Stilllearning 😢 . Are you getting any assistance from RNIB?
They were helpful wuth gadgets and advice when DFiL had macular degeneration.

Hoping everyone has a good day.

Good morning from a sunny and warm Kent. My jobs today are all in the garden. So many jobs to do but I'm so thankful I have the opportunity to do them when there are many people in the world who cannot.
The butterflies are out, eyeing up the winter greens. I've planted nasturtiums for them but they still prefer to fly around the netted plants, trying to figure out how to get in.
I've managed to release three butterflies trapped in the greenhouse. Bit of a job trying to get them to crawl onto my finger but when they're exhausted from flying around I think they're happy to be escorted out.

Good evening, Michael12 and everyone!

I've been doing extra and long work shifts again because of staff shortages, so I've got off today and tomorrow.

I've just watched a film based on a true story from the early 1980s.

''The Coverup'' with Michael Welsh as Kevin Thacker, and Gabriel Mann as his defence lawyer, Stu Pepper. He was 21 when killed and set up by a rogue cop, Officer Dodge, played by Colby French.

Brilliant film, and Kevin may have been having a record for drink driving, but he was basically a good lad; he didn't deserve to be murdered.

As I'm off for two days, I won't be driving anywhere, so I'm sitting here with a great big glass of Delainey's Country Cream!