Good Morning Saturday 1st November 2025

Good morning from Lancashire. It's wild out there this morning....rain lashing against the windows and strong winds. I shall probably stay in today and finish my sewing.

White rabbits 🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇
Good morning from Bristol. It’s damp out, but less rain is forecast that I had thought, good for the fete this afternoon.
Yesterday was quiet. I was a good girl and did my Spanish homework - conditional tense! I also made myself a Shakshouka for dinner; too much as usual so shall have it for several nights, including tonight when I shall probably be beyond tired.
In the afternoon, the gentle tea with neighbours turned out to be a thorough going through the proposed budget for 26/27! TBH, I don’t know why we are asked to comment, because none of our complaints or suggestions will make the blindest bit of difference.
Today, I’ve got the local Dementia charity’s fete in the church, where the vicar volunteered me to be in charge of catering. Iris is coming to help but she’ll be selling raffle tickets, I hope. I shall be exhausted being tactful to two dragons in their 80s “who always serve”, as well as the rest!
May you all have a good weekend full of metaphorical sunshine.
Carpe diem 🦩🦩🦩🦩

Good morning, happy November! White rabbits or whatever the saying is 😊
It’s soggy in south Glos after yesterday’s deluges, I hope it’s a bit drier today.
I had a lovely morning at art group, finished another painting- I’m on a roll!
That’s the third in a row; since I moved away from struggling with just using watercolour I am really enjoying it! Just wish I’d done it years ago 😁
I didn’t do much for the rest of the day, I came home to the grocery delivery heaped up in the kitchen, then had to get lunch so a bit of a scramble.
Today I want to get on with sorting out my wardrobes, there’s a collection for charity booked for Wednesday, three bags so far, then some art fun.
Wishing everyone a peaceful day 🌹

I meant to add that, despite the internet mostly being down in Tanzania, DS has managed to get a message to us. He is safe, the violence and rioting is mostly elsewhere and the school campus is in total lockdown.
One very relieved mother - having lost one offspring, I can’t bear the idea of losing another.

Good morning from Malta where the forecast is for 26°C and a chance of showers. We haven’t had a drop of rain all week despite being warned to expect it.

Yesterday I had the boys from 7.30am so we had a busy day. They don’t stop for a minute but were both happy. I am glad to see them playing together a lot more now. They spent ages just marching round, DGS2 with a bag on his head which DGS1 found hilarious so lots of giggles ensued!

I had to take them with me to the hairdresser then they had exhausted themselves by 3pm and fell asleep on me.

I was pinned under the two of them when DD3 arrived, fortunately she has a key, she then took DGS1 for a haircut whilst his brother slept on until 4.30.

They left at 5.30 by which time I was worn out but had to take delivery of their little dog Milo, and the canary. DGS2 cried his heart out when he saw SiL taking them to the car as he thought they were being given away forever!

They will be on their way to Sicily on the catamaran now.

The dog is very feisty but I’m fond of him and actually slept better with his warm little body nestled in my back! I don’t approve of dogs on beds but this one does what he wants.

Thank you so much for your lovely comments yesterday on DD2’s cake and cookies. She was very appreciative when I passed them on to her.

Hoping the rain stays off so I can take Milo for a walk. He is not very friendly towards other dogs or people he doesn’t know so it might be a challenge!

Best of luck today with the fête, grandMattie, how lovely to have Iris with you to help out. Glad to hear your son is safe, what a worry for you.💐

Wishing you all a good day.☀️

Good morning from s somerset, rain today and perhaps bright skies

No heat input was needed yesterday, I am learning a lot about this house, how it handles temperature, I am pleasantly surprised if truth be told. The temperatures are still comfortable this morning and my body has adapted well.

The pullout larder is now fixed, it was an easy fix, thank goodness and I can pull it out all the way now, I did also check the screws on the base, I had to put two more in for safety soon after I moved in.

I decided to spend money on 12 more 10" tall 4" square oxo pop containers. I already have 12 and I put labels on their lids. They are neat and on the bottom shelf, the next 12 will go on the second shelf. No getting away from the fact that I have been a wholefood eater since the 70s and have lots of different beans, seeds, grains etc to store. Odds and end of containers make it difficult to find items. Amazon were £3 cheaper than lakeland and they are coming today. I am looking forward to finishing that job

Kitchen is clean and tidy, just the en suite to do and bed-making later then another sock to make. Size 12 is big and I use a socker to measure foot length. I felt cosy all day yesterday, a lovely feeling and I believe today will be the same but with a lit stove late afternoon and an exercise walk between showers

Have a good day

Good morning, Michael from South Yorkshire. A moody start weather wise but it doesn’t look too damp. I have an early start. DS is coming down to spend the day with me. I shall cook him lunch and hope we might be able to get out a bit, but just his company will be welcome.
Have the best day you can folks.

Good morning from a breezy but dry Torbay.

We had a lovely meal last night as a belated anniversary celebration with attentive, friendly service. I was pleased that we had no trick or treaters so my windows remained egg free, unlike a couple of times in the past.

Early Lidl shop today then some domestic chores before I go to the local theatre on the Downs to hear The Two Mr. P's with whose podcasts you might be familiar.. They are both in teaching and their show is based on anecdotes gleaned from their day to day life in school.

www.2mrpspodcast.com/live.html

Happy weekend, everyone! 🦩🥰🦩💐🦩

Morning Mick, morning All from a damp corner of Somerset. Showers forecast today and for the next week.

It’s been a frustrating week with little going to plan. Yesterday was no exception, my admin session was fraught. Family worries are interrupting sleep meaning patience is in short supply along with energy.

There’s space today to sort out guest bedroom which is full of all manner of things. I’ll enjoy that, some order might help me order my head. A lunch at our little garden centre will bring smiles then a foray to a supermarket for food for tomorrow when our friend will be here (daughter of the recently deceased couple). It will be good to see her. I’ll also shop for our neighbours, both have horrendous colds needing antibiotics for chest infections. They rarely allow help, an indicator of how unwell they feel.

That is good news about your son grandmattie, you’ve another busy day ahead.

Hope Saturday is kind to us all.

Good morning all from Polmont where it's currently 9° and damp. GrandMattie I'm very glad that your ds is safe. Ashcombe I have heard of The two Mr Ps. Much of what they say resonates! Bellasnana enjoy your doggy company.
Yesterday I was at the doctor's at ten, the hospital at eleven and home by half twelve having called in to see dgs2 on the way. Quick and efficient service from my local NHS. The upshot is, my leg is not broken but there is soft tissue damage. Rest and elevate until the results reach my GP who will contact me then. In other words, keep it til it gets better. 😂 He gave me ointment for my swollen eye too. Later I had a number of little guisers and ran out of sweets. Fortunately I had made two special bags for dgss who arrived just before seven. They didn't stay long as the were tired. Dgs2 is on stookie number three, a fetching pink colour. It is looking increasingly likely that he will have surgery on Monday to pin his elbow.
Today I'm expecting a Marks delivery of another new jacket. Then a Tesco delivery this afternoon. I will definitely rest as I had a rotten night. Lots of gentle pottering in the house. Dinner will be beef olives in onion gravy. Have a good day all.

Good morning from Ludlow.A mixed forecast today which will hopefully be better than yesterdays heavy rain.

DH wants to explore the castle today so I plan to visit St Laurences church and also have a look around the town.

Good news about your son grandMattie.

I hope Grandmabatty and her DGS had successful outcomes at their medical appointments yesterday.

Wishing everyone the best day possible🌻🦩

Good morning from a bright, blue skied Black Country, where we had intermittent rain off and on all day yesterday.

Lovely few hours with DD having Afternoon Tea. The Hotel has it in a beautiful Conservatory. As usual, we had to take some of the cakes home, far too much for one sitting.

Housework calls today, plus MrJ has Doctors appointment later this morning, as there is a suspicious small lump on his head. He had one last year which was cut out, and was pre-cancerous. Fingers crossed. At our Surgery, you fill a form in online and attach a photo if applicable. They ring you later in the day and either have a same day or next day appointment.

Such a relief gM that your DS is safe. Didn't realise there was trouble where he was.

Wishing you all the best day possible.

Crossed posts Grandmabatty.A relief your leg isn’t broken but sorry it looks like the little one will be having surgery😢

Morning from a dry at the moment S Hants, hefty showers due, similar to yesterday.
Better news on the health front Grandmabatty 👍
MrJ and crew were disappointed last night as the hall they use for bowls was all locked up and the alarm on, no caretaker available.
Paper, a walk and possibly duster wafting today.
FGT
🦩🦩

Good morning from DD2's house in Kent.
The trains were very busy yesterday especially the tube, it was hard to push my way out at Victoria. My SIL picked me up from the station.
Yesterday evening we went trick or treating with the 7 year old, her 17 year old sister declined to come !!
Today DD2, DGD1 and I are going to Bluewater for shopping and lunch.
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend xx

Good morning from a grey damp S E Essex.

Food shopping first thing, then I will be feeding the washing machine and general pottering.

(((Hugs))) to our poorly friends and those with worries 🙋‍♀️

Good morning everyone from Inverness where it’s just getting light and we’ve light rain
So good to hear your son is ok gMattie I hope the situation improves soon
Nothing much on this morning but I’ve a hairdressers appointment this afternoon so I’m looking forward to a bit of gentle pampering and getting all the local gossip ☺️
Enjoy the family time Sar
Thinking of everyone with worries and struggles, hope today is gentle and take care all whatever the day brings 💐

Good morning all from a showery Glasgow, where it is 8°C.

DH has a stinking cold, which he has generously passed onto me. My chest hurts badly and my coughing is so bad, the heigh ours think we have a dog!
He spent yesterday wallowing, while I had to play Florence Nightingale! Heaven help him if he ever has a serious illness.

I went to Silverburn, but was really struggling and only visited M&S food and TKMaxx. I still don't have my Nativity globe.
DIL happened to be there at the same time and kept missing me. She said she was looking for me to take me for tea and cake, but I was breathless and couldn't face busy Tesco, where she was. I just wanted home.

As I was leaving the car park, I spotted an elderly lady driving toward the barrier at an odd angle. Surely she doesn't think she can park there? To my horror, she was trying to go up the down ramp of the multi-story car park. I managed to alert her by putting my hand hard on the horn, she looked at me, as if I was mad.
She had absolutely no idea, what the problem was, looking at me in total bewilderment. Thankfully, although very busy, no-one was coming down. She could have caused a serious accident.
Then she blocked the exit, by attempting a twenty point turn.
This woman was dangerous.

Usual church admin today, then Vigil tonight.
The Diocesan Cemetery Mass is tomorrow and it is my responsibility to ensure the Mass kit boxes are in order, from ciboria filled with a thousand unconsecrated hosts, to the lighter for the candles. The young sacristan and I did the bulk of it last week, so not an onerous task.

I wish you all a pleasant Saturday and best wishes for all, who are ill or worried.

Good morning all and it’s grey here in Essex.

Yesterday we had torrential rain until mid afternoon and then brilliant sunshine.

Today I’ll shop and Dh might go to footie with ds1. He tripped and fell in the conservatory last evening and he has trouble getting up. We must persevere with the excercises to strengthen his arms and legs. He’s a difficult man to motivate.

I love the Halloween photos .,we didn’t have any tricksters knock. Lots of fireworks going off though.

I hope all appointments go well and your church fete GM. Nice for you to have Iris with you.
A relief for you hearing from your son.

Take care all 🍂🎃

Good morning everyone from a wet mid Essex. We had heavy rain during the night which woke me up. It’s stopped now but is still cloudy. I think it’s supposed to be brighter later.
Yesterday was very showery so my bulbs weren’t planted. I went for a walk and had a chat with some of my dog walking friends. I did a pile of ironing and tidied up the pile of papers on my dining table. Still some tidying to do and I’ll do that today.
I didn’t hear any trick or treaters in the evening, and not many houses were decorated in my road.

susan I hope you enjoy exploring Ludlow.
grandmattie I hope the fete goes well today and that you’re not too exhausted afterwards. You must be relieved that your DS is safe, I hadn’t realised that there was trouble in Tanzania.
I hope that all those with medical appointments have reassuring news today.
grandmabatty, I hope you are able to rest your leg today and sorry your little dgs2 may have to have surgery on his injured elbow.
Have a pleasant Saturday everyone.

Good morning Mick and all GN's on a windy but dry saturday morning in North Yorkshire. I rarely fall asleep before midnight so tend to say white rabbits at that time of night. However did manage to fall asleep a bit earlier and forgot when I woke to say it so now say Pinch and a Punch first day of the month to you all instead.!! I am having a bit of a different day today and am going to the park and ride and then on into Durham for a look round. How long I can manage to go around depends on how my back holds out, but I am going with the intention of enjoying a look in the city for a change. The weather is set to be definitely windy today and possibly rain later , so a good day to have a mouch around. As usual I shall mostly just window shop, more likely to look at art galleries and look down on the river, and see if there are any little secondhand book shops or places to poke about in.

Yesterday, I was sorting things out, felt I had worked quite hard but when I looked at it all it didnt look much different!! Went off to Strikes, which is a garden centre with a good cafe and plenty of places to park for disabled. Was struggling to walk about much so that seemed the best place to go, but somewhat of a mistake! It was still half term round here and so lots of grandparents on childcare duties, plus the usual friday visitors and of course even more looking for halloween stuff so hard to find a place to sit. However found somewhere to sit, and a quick browse of the local paper and then out to look at the lovely acers they had on show. They had a sign saying sale and so of course I hastened to see if there was something for me. Huh!! The smaller ones were reduced from £40 to £30 and the greatest bargain was a lovely larger one reduced from £150 to £120, so I just looked and drooled over their lovely colours and left empty handed.
I then drove down to Thirsk to see their beautiful display ready for remembrance day of wonderful tops on bollards and post boxes and the lovely sweep of red poppies down from the clock tower and in the corner the same sweep of purple poppies reminding us of the animals who lost their lives in the war too. A young boy of about 9 asked his granny why they were there and when she said she wasnt sure, I spoke to them and explained the meaning. He was a bright little boy and said he had heard of the Dicken medal presented to a pigeon etc and was pleased to know about them. I talked to him of my grandfathers horse (he was in the cavalry in the first world war) and how important the horse was , as not only carrying him but being able to touch and stroke and care about him helped my grandfather to get through things. He said he was going to find out some more things from the library and would tell them in his class when he went to school. I was happy to feel that now this is not just words to him but he has some sense of the reality, to be able to pass that on to other children as something real.

So went on a hunt for more euro games, no luck, and had a wander around but actually got nothing at all today until I finally went into Oxfam looking for the games and bingo, no games but two good music books. Oxford book of carols and opera chorus . Two good clean books for less than £6, which is a bargain these days. Music is so expensive now and with amateur choirs it is a serious amount to find for perhaps 40 people. So even if I already have a copy of some music myself, if I see a good clean copy of a popular edition of say Messiah I will buy it. Then I tend to keep a spare copy myself to lend to any friends who need one for a specific concert, and give the others to a choir librarian, who are grateful to have it and it saves them money, but also when there are different editions , it is very irritating if people are having to use two different editions as you have to keep saying page 3 in X edition and page 5 in Y edition etc. I have all the various editions of Messiah and Bach B minor etc etc, and it saves me a lot of faffing around. So if any of you have music that you never use and is not of great sentimental value to you, I do urge you to think of giving an early christmas present to a choir near you or donate it to the charity shop that does music. You usually find in a town one particular shop tends to keep it in, and I can promise you it is much appreciated by hard up choirs and singers, not to mention the joy of risking buying a new to you sheet music to try out if it is not too expensive. Sometimes we have great difficulty if we get some new members of a choir, when you may have 40 copies of X music, but never mind the cost, you cannot find another copy as it may be out of print, and copywrite means that you cannot photo copy something to perform in public, so it ends up with members have to share copies. Can be done but logistically quite difficult having to share a copy to learn something and what markings you can put in etc.

I am rather a stickler about things following on as they should and not jumping ahead of themselves. By which I mean that I strongly resist looking or buying anything for that december date before bonfire night!! An exception is made of course for friends overseas as, being yorkshire , I am not forking out pounds for postage, so still try and remember to post stuff to get there in good time. So I shall be concentrating on fireworks, parkin , and bonfire toffee, which I should not eat at all of course being diabetic, but I do allow myself one or two small pieces, as that is part of my tradition that I enjoy and still probably find some sparklers if possible. We always used to love "writing our names in the sky" and my dad had to light both my sisters and my sparklers at the same time and then a mad rush to write my name as quite a lot longer than her name so sometimes I didnt manage to do it all to my disappointment. Well there is no law that says you cant have sparklers at 80, so I hope to be whizzing my name in the sky as usual and think of her and of many friends from around the world, that used to share bonfire night with us. Then and only then I shall start looking onto other things. I am actually sorry for both the children and the parents having all the advertising shoved at them. Older children can have things explained to them, but the little ones have difficulty in the concept of time , and where you can say to a child two more sleeps , you cannot possibly get them to understand two months away, and it is so sad to me that you cant have that exciting anticipation any more. The advent calendars are a bit of a help , (mind you I rather disapprove of them all just being things to hold sweets in too!) Anyone who comes carol singing too early will also be told they may come back later but not now!! But I am also very sorry for the poor staff in supermarkets and shops who get endless carols 8 hours a day from now onwards. It would still be too much if it was Kings College Cambridge, but it is usually some horrible tinny badly done music and enough to put people wanting to ever hear it again. In the days of tapes before cds I once went into a shop , where the tape was so old it was woowing and horribly distorted. To me that is like having nails scraped down a blackboard. Painful. So I asked to speak to the manager, and when he came, I asked him not only to turn it down , but to take if off and throw it away as not only was he putting customers off but subjecting his staff to listening cruelty!! He looked a bit put out, but duly took the horrible thing off and I told him that no music was much better than distorted stuff and he would gain more custom that way, and I would be one of them. So I bought various things, told him I would tell my friends that they could find a peaceful shop here and as I left one of the staff came over and thanked me as she was nearly driven mad by the racket being a singer herself!! No doubt today I would be told to mind my own business. Ah well thats life, so time to think of getting ready to go out.

Hope you have a good day Mick and your team win.GranMattie hope you are able to sooth the dragons down and they dont breath fire across your stall. I think you should "volunteer" your vicar a difficult job or to sort out a whole load of jumble or something and see how he likes to be put in that position. Alternatively you need to think up a valid excuse to have ready so that the very next time he says Oh I put you down for X you can say sorry not available and perhaps you need to do it yourself!! I am so glad you have had good news from DS in Tanzania and you will be able to sleep better tonight. Karmalady well done for all your sorting. I have never heard of a socker, is it a shaper thing or something you can make bigger or smaller as you need? Well wishing you all a positive day today with a chance to meet a friend or two or get some job done that you planned.

Good morning from N. Bucks where it is dull with a gusty wind.
We shall do a local food shop this morning and a couple of other jobs indoors.
This afternoon we are going to a concert with some friends. It. Is at the parish church so weather permitting we shall also get a walk in too.
Wishing a a good day, thoughts with those who are poorly or with worries.

Morning all from a dampish West Oxfordshire. 🐇🐇🐇

We enjoyed our lunch out yesterday - portions seem to be getting bigger! OH spoke to the pub landlord and he is happy for OH to take a batch of his honey to be sold from the bar. They were also giving away glasses so we took four large beer glasses.

We will be doing admin today including preparing for tomorrow’s car boot sale. We will have to be up at the crack of dawn.

Have a good day.
FGT2S 🪻

Good morning Mick and everyone.

Thank you for all your good wishes for my house move.
On Thursday the removal firm cleared the house. Everything is being kept in the van in a secure warehouse until Monday, when it will be moved into my house.
Thursday night was spent at a local hotel, and last night at my family's home, where I shall be till Monday.
I'm thankful for the rest. Moving house is not for the faint hearted.

Thinking of all with worries, sadness or illness.