Good Morning Saturday 1st November 2025

Good morning everyone from cloudy with sunny intervals Lancashire. I tried to post earlier but the website wasn’t loading.

MrB and I have been for our morning walk around the Dock. We were well wrapped up, the wind has dropped and we were quite warm enough. Another walk is planned for this afternoon, weather permitting.

Thinking of our poorly grans and those with troubles, as always.

Wishing you all a good day, whatever you’re doing 🦩🦩🦩

Good morning and white rabbits from a wet northwest coast.
Art group yesterday then my flu jab. What I thought was my flu jab the other week was covid. So feeling slightly odd as usual after jabs, but nothing I can’t cope with. DD who leaves for the south today, carried on titivating the newly decorated bedroom. It looks frighteningly new and the other rooms shabby…
More music practice today and a tidy round. Glad to be staying in. Thoughts to all🌺
My Halloween drawing.

Michael12, good morning and everyone else!

I have today off work, but I just went in quickly to hand in my month's notice, as I've been desperate to do for the past few months.

My old Giganotosaurus of a boss was not the slightest bit happy; she was stomping and chucking royal tantrums, I told her that right from the first day I joined 3 years ago she's done nothing but treat me like filth, always shooting me down, being nasty, sarcastic, demanding, and she bows down to worshop the 2 members of staff that are useless, don't do their jobs properly, etc. she's patronizing and condescending, so I'm off.

I'll do my final shift on Monday, 1st December, then she can get on with it.

She demanded to know what I'll be doing after I quit, but I refused to tell her I'll be moving to Whitby in January and have lined up a job in a shop as a retail shop manager; it's nothing to do with her!

So just a few more days and poof! I'm so looking forward to it!

Have a great day, all of you!

Good Morning from a wild and very windy Durham. No doubt it was inevitable I’d catch cold from the DD’s. Theirs turned out to be Covid, but I’ve tested negative so far - I’ve been inside for days.
Unfortunately, due to her health and dyslexia, DD2 is in a pickle with her car (Motability) so I’ve been called in to help.
Thankfully, I feel a bit better today.
I’ve kept up with GN and hope the unwell and their loved ones are improving.
MaryD a taxi driver made an illegal right turn in front of me, it’s clearly marked and then stared at me as if I had two heads when I honked a warning.
No trick or treaters here as usual, but both DGSs had a great time.

Best wishes to all. X

Good morning from a very windy NE, so noisy had to wear earplugs to get some sleep.
I think DS and GD2 will visit today, I am looking forward to hearing about her week. On Tuesday she was at an afternoon concert and another one in the evening.
On Wednesday she was in Lincoln doing a photo shoot at Mannekin Hall.
Thursday she was on the train to London to see Hadestown with four schoolfriends, it is only two months since she was there with her sister.
Last night when I looked at Instagram she had posted photos of a Halloween party.
GD will be working in the charity shop this morning so she will probably be tired when she arrives.
Dinner will be a chicken casserole and then an evening of music.
Have a good weekend.

Good morning from very wet South Lanarkshire.

I’ve awakened still feeling affected by the film we saw yesterday about a man with Tourette’s. The film is called I Swear, and there was actually an enormous amount of swearing. I laughed and cried throughout, sometimes at the same time. If you are able to see I recommend taking tissues.

Today our yarn group will be putting up some poppies in our town. There will be far fewer than usual as our numbers are depleted this year and we’re not able to manage the huge netting panels, especially when they’re soaked by rain.

Wishing everyone the best day possible.

Good morning from a wet and windy start to the day here on the east coast of Fife. Luckily I had a tin of quality street as I had the trick and treaters in last night. 2 wee girls came with their parents the girls had very scary masks on and I had to pretend I was frightened

Good morning from a damp W Kent. I have asked DH to let me have the Christmas card list and think I will make a start today. It takes me a while to do now and I can quite see why the young don’t send many or any, how would they find the time? Later I have a curry cook up to do. A walk for the newspaper and that is it.
Best wishes

Good morning all from a bright North Leicestershire.

A lovely slow start today. DH and DS1 are going to the match today. Lunch is included with their membership so I have nothing to do apart from preparing crispy wings for when they get home.

Have the best day possible everyone one.

Good morning from East Lothian. Bright here with clouds scudding across the sky.

We are nearly packed up for our journey back to the south coast. I always hate leaving but we will be back in January. DD is spending the weekend on Lindisfarne with a group of university friends.

Aldom, glad to hear you’ve got the worst part of moving over with. Enjoy your breathing space.

Hopes for the best possible day for all.

Good morning all where it is a sunny start here in the Black country, very welcome after yesterday's nonstop rain.
Decided against going to the club last night weather off putting, but tonight we are over to our friends in Redditch.
grandMattie good to hear your DS is safe.
Have the best day you can everyone whatever your plans and may you all find some ☀️.

Good morning and happy White Rabbits Day to everyone from a bright and sunny 🌞 Northampton. It is also my youngest sister's 71st birthday.

Stayed in all day yesterday, knitting and reading, but did find time to put a curry in the slow cooker. I was disappointed with it, as I hadn't made it spicy enough - I will have to add a few dried chilli flakes to it.

A busier day today; this morning a get-together of several dance groups to run through the many tap and ballet dances for our event later this month: I understand there will also be coffee and cake!

Then a late lunch/early dinner as I need to be out by 4pm to catch a bus to the rugby 🏉 stadium - we have a match at 5.30, which includes a Remembrance commemoration as it is the closest home match to 11th November. It is always a moving ceremony - a wreath is laid in memory of players who lost their lives in the two World Wars and other conflicts.

Wishing all a pleasant weekend.

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.

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 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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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
🦩🦩

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

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.