Good Morning Wednesday 17th September 2025

Flipping heck Marydoll what a conversation with the lollipop lady😩

I hope you don’t have to wait too long for the scan and colonoscopy and so glad that finally someone is taking an interest in your care after the neglect from your surgery.

🙏🏻

Marydoll good grief, not what you wanted to hear in a waiting room!
I had a curtailed visit to the school library this morning. The flu vaccination was being done in the space and I didn't think it was appropriate that I was there, despite the shelves being in a mess with books on the floor too. I will be keeping an eye on that as I have my suspicions as to which class were responsible.
I have messaged the tree man who is coming out later to quote on removing a long hedge and replacing it with a fence. I expect it will be expensive but it's leylandii and truly horrible

Marydol 🙏

I know what you mean about the lollipop lady conversation.
When the medics were fighting for my husband's life the hospital chaplain sat with me and gave me chapter and verse on his wife's death!
It's a good thing that we have a sense of humour isn't it.

Im back home.
CT scan and colonoscopy ordered.
I'm just relieved to have seen a consultant.

I met our former lollipop lady in the waiting room, where she proceeded to tell me of all the people, who had died recently!
Cheery talk, given the circumstances.
DH was not amused. He thought he had got away with me not meeting someone.🤣

kittylester- hope all goes well for you.

Sorry to hear you're in hospital kitty. Sending positive thoughts and also to everyone else struggling.

Morning all. I always read, rarely post but couldn’t just scroll by without sending thoughts and hugs if required to Kitty MD the FGT’s and anyone else who might benefit from a virtual group hug.
The weathers not helping much either- it’s grey and very wet here on the East Suffolk coast. Still I suppose the rain is welcome, but overnight would be better😉. x

Marydoll

Wishing you all the best, Kitty.

And you, Mary. How was yours?

Good morning all. Up late today as had little sleep over the last week due to having to share a room with DH who snores a great deal. I’m surprised he’s not black and blue due to the repeated elbows and kicks.

So sorry to read about your bad dental experience yesterday Karmalady. I had similar and my jaw still aches and I had pain radiating down my neck but seems much better today. But
my tooth was saved.

Ocado later this morning and then school pickup later.

Have a good day everyone.

Good morning from a dark, wet, dismal and thoroughly miserable midlands.

Hugs to Marydoll and all those suffering.

I’m heading back to bed.

Thoughts are with MD and Kitty

Dismal forecast after yesterday’s bonus sunny day which allowed bedding etc to be dried outside but more wind and rain today. Thoughts with Marydoll and Kitty and hoping today provides a positive outcome for both.

Wishing you all the best, Kitty.

Thank you all for being kind.

All the best kitty

Good morning from Cloudy Chambers northwest coast. I really enjoyed yesterday, my first music club meeting after the summer. I sang four songs, two of which were new to me and was in charge ‘on the desk’. Great to see everyone although one guitarist flounced out like a prima donna (excuse me that’s my department 😁) because one guitarist in the quartet had the wrong music. Such childish behaviour from a grown man…

My DS was at home to greet me and moved furniture in the very cluttered spare room for the decorator as well as doing a few other jobs.
We had a takeaway and watched Gogglebox for a giggle.

I’m back for the first time tonight at a little opera company I left a few years ago and one of my friends who left at the same time is joining me. Again, it will be lovely to see old friends. Frankly it’s more to see my friends than the music!

Thoughts to kittylester and all🌺

kittylester

I've just had a visit from the surgeon who was lovely and cheered me no end by telling me that my gall bladder is pretty ropey.

Look in the bright side, you will lose a lb or two depending on its weight 👍🤩

Good morning Mick and All.

Sorry to hear you are in hospital Kitty. Get well soon. 💐💐

Best wishes, Kitty - hope the surgery goes well.

Sorry to hear you have to be in hospital Kitty . Get well soon.

Ash I remember when I first came home from hospital and did too much too soon and you advised me to listen to my body.I have tried to do that seeing how well it worked for you.Thank you☺️

All the best kitty. You'll feel so much better soon.

Good morning Mick and all GN's on a wet, grey morning in North Yorkshire. I am absolutely shattered this morning, and dont know what I will be able to do today after yesterdays hassle.

The lovely weather yesterday was totally wasted on me, and ended up costing me a fortune ! So the main point of the day was of course getting to the options. The usual struggle to get going and to be there for 10am meant that I had to try and hurry with things, and didnt have time to do a normal tidy up, but still got the car parked nearly opposite Specsavers and was there for quarter to ten. They were busy, so had to sit and wait for a bit, but then they got started. Because of the cataract ops they were very thorough and checked up on all sorts of things and checked the healing etc etc. It was a new option to me, she was very good and had just finished her degree and was of course qualified but did not have a lot of experience so she was also being mentored by the senior lady I had seen previously. Some people dont like to be looked after by a newcomer in whatever field, but I always say a much more positive attitude to take is that they are absolutely up to date with the latest new information and techniques, where your normal person may be very experience and have worked for 10 years at the job, but might not be as up to date. So with this way you get the best of both worlds as everything is checked out. So I was quite happy to have this young lady look after me. Not quite as happy with the usual painful leaning in to the wretched machines. They do a good job, but it is very painful for me to sit in the right position and already had a bad back before I started. So it all took quite a long time, and the upshot was that I need quite different glasses for reading and driving. I have very good distance vision and she said I am totally fine to drive but said that I might find the sunglasses helpful against glare etc . The reading glasses that I now need after the operations are quite different of course. So I had the offer of buy one get one free for the reading glasses so I have chosen to have a pair of sunglasses to my prescription in the hopes of being able to sit outside and read on sunny days. Dont need them today!!

So thankfully, but rather stiffly paid for the glasses, which should be ready to collect in a week, and hobbled out with the plans already forming of what I needed to do next, so a well deserved coffee at Nero's which is just along from my bank, where I needed to check something out. Then making sure that I dropped my prescription off, and as it was such a nice sunny day home asap with the hopes that I could at least get a bit done in the garden and the bulbs planted up etc .

Huh! One step forward three steps back! As I walked up to the car, which was in a row of parking spaces and not a wide disabled space, I saw my nearside tyre was totally flat. These days there is no way I could change a tyre myself and even if I had been doing it still no chance with my back as it was. Trying to think what to do, knew if I drove on it , it would wreck the tyre, but in a timed zone etc. That did feel like the last straw for the day, but then thought I would manage to walk down to Upfront, and at least could get some advice about best garage etc etc. Was more painful having to walk there and rest a couple of times against the wall, but finally made it. I started to explain the situation, and that I have a proper spare tyre but couldnt do it myself etc and a very kind man called Phil , unbidden offered to change it for me. He was just doing something and so I was very grateful to have time for a coffee and to sit down and then we went back to the car. It was quite tight in the space but there was just enough room for him to sort it. It did prove that it was worthwhile my having a proper tyre in the boot, but of course it was everything being shoved out of the way and all the usual hassle. I was standing around and watching him , getting bits from the car etc, but still standing which was very painful. Anyway he got all the nuts off etc but then it just didnt want to come off. However with a lot of effort it was all done. So by this time it was nearly midday and so my next job was to get to a garage to get the puncture done. I could see a big screw in the tyre, so that was hopeful that it could be mended. But first was in desperate need of a coffee, and wanted to ring a friend who would know the best garage to go to round here, who would not charge me the earth, No luck there , so went to first garage who said they had no space until pm today, on to local halfords, where the man came to look at it, he immediately said, ah you can see there, and the tyre is no good. So a very expensive day, and nothing done that I had wanted to do. He hadnt got the tyre in stock so now I am waiting for a phone call to say it is in, to take the car for them to sort out. So of course, all plans are off, and he will ring me straight away but when depends on delivery. So my plans to either go to see Downton Abbey on the matinee or go swimming are all up in the air. Not been my best day ever.

I just seem to be struggling to get things on an even keel at the moment and every step forward ends up with two backwards. I had a horrible night, not surprisingly my back was awful and I got very little sleep. Decided at 3am , when I was wide awake to put some washing in the machine so that I could at least get that on the line early this morning. Looking out at the rain coming down, the washing is still in the machine!! Oh well, at least it happened yesterday and fingers crossed, will be sorted so that I can still go to stokesly show on saturday. Something cheering to focus on. So now it is a very slow sorting out of just everyday housework stuff, but am not even attempting to look at the last of the wretched dresser job. I will probably look through some paperwork and have the pleasure of ripping some stuff up, which will relieve my feelings , from my lost drying day and the attack on my bank balance!!

Hope the rain eases off when you are in Bicester Mick but at least it will be helping with the gardens and resevoirs. So glad you had a lovely if tiring day out GrandMattie. You deserved it after all your battling with the Teflon kid. Hope you can find time to have a rest and think back to your day out and well done with the recipe book too. Karmalady, sorry to see you have had disappearing posts too and hope that you are feeling a little better today. Marydoll you will be off to your appointment and I hope a convenient parking space miraculously appears just where you need it and that all goes well with the appointment, and you can come home and have a rest. I seemed to have missed your posts lately, possibly as I was early and then had to go out. So was glad to see your message today and wish you all the best. sallyforth how good that you have the decent builder to help you. Hope all goes well with it and enjoy a cosy day keeping warm, dont think any of us are going to need sunglasses today.

So speaking of a cosy day, I am now going to get some coffee on the go, reluctantly accept that I need a warmer jumper on, and try and get a few jobs done here whilst waiting for the phone call, which will no doubt come while I am in the bathroom or throwing rubbish out to the dustbin! So I think it is a day that we all need to be kind to ourselves and not expect too much to be done. Hope problems can be solved and some pleasure got from the day, even if it is only a lovely cup of coffee.

I've just had a visit from the surgeon who was lovely and cheered me no end by telling me that my gall bladder is pretty ropey.

Good Morning from a grey, windy Durham. At least it’s dry, so far.
Lovely catch up with friends yesterday, then I watched DGS2 unwrap his birthday gifts - he seemed well pleased. Poor DD2 had a fire alert in her hotel last night and was evacuated outside for a couple of hours!
It’s a proper empty today, so in preparation for my holiday, I intend to slip into Domestic Goddess mode and blitz the housework!

Thinking of those in the sickbay today, especially kitty and of course MD

Best wishes to all. X