Good Morning Wednesday 3rd December 2025

Good morning from a bright Suffolk from where I’ve just lost a long post(for me) about my visit yesterday to see my dear friend in hospital and today’s activities.

Suffice it now to say I hope all have their best day possible,whatever your circumstances.

Baubles, what an outstanding effort.
A joyful and uplifting idea. 💕💕💕💕💕💕

Good morning from a frosty , murky N. Bucks. I’m a bit late this morning so will come back to read all the news later.
Nail appointment this morning and a couple of errands down town. WI Christmas meeting this afternoon so a savoury dish to prepare for the food element.
Golf has been cancelled for DH so I shall put him to work on some preparation for visitors at the weekend. He will be sooo pleased.😄
Wishing all a good day with a smile along the way.

They are wonderful baubles quite lovely 🙂

Morning all from a frosty West Oxfordshire.

I have a pile of parcels to wrap - and a few more things to buy. I also need to get on with the food list soon.

We are out for lunch today. OH has been selling honey through a nearby pub. He needs to replenish the stock so we’ll have lunch there. He’s sold a few jars from home too.

Have a good day. Thinking of the FGT2S 🪻

Good morning from Cloudy Chambers northwest coast.
After my sister left for the south yesterday I resolved the photocopier problem and ran off more copies of my drawing for Xmas cards. In the evening, I carried on watching Affairs of the Heart, a series of Henry James stories from the 70s, very good and felt cosy under my heated throw.

Off to the usual lunchtime recital later and tonight to the opera co rehearsal before the concert on Friday.
A damp patch has appeared on the ceiling of the spare bedroom, so need to attend to that..
Interesting photos today and thoughts to all🌺

Good morning all and we’re set for a sunny day ☀️.

I am meeting my two old school pals and we’re off to Docklands for a 3 course Christmas lunch followed by a festive show. My friends mother died a couple of years ago and all the finances are now complete, so she is treating us . How kind !

I hope you all have a good day.🤶

Good morning all from the Scottish Borders where it's dry at least.

Yesterday was a bright cold day. I walked across the Meadows, in Edinburgh to meet my df at a café which had 5 * rating for its coffee friend likes a good coffee what I noticed was there was only one table reserved for no laptops. It's in the student quarter so naturally every other table had a student typing away.
Were we like that once, I mused. not in my case

Today yarn group but we don't do anything as amazing as your beautiful angels Baubles

I love your photos today; preserves, nails, sewn top and angels.
Here is Arthur's Seat from the Meadows.

Good morning everyone from a damp and misty Northampton, fine weather.forecast today.

Yesterday was lovely and got a few things done; the kitchen had a good clean, I paired up a load of socks and damp-dusted the bedrooms. After lunch I joined my walking group for a pleasant walk in the sunshine.
On the way home I called at the post office, sent the Australian cards on their way, and bought my Christmas stamps; cards will be posted in a few days.

Heading into town today to pick up two Christmas gift books from Waterstones. No doubt I will come home with other stuff as well. I shall also look for a special Christmas card for my retired vicar brother and his wife.

Bolognese thawing in the fridge for dinner tonight; I need to retrieve a macaroni cheese from the freezer for tomorrow, and a curry for Friday. I am trying to use as much as possible from the freezer to make space for Christmas stuff.

A.lot of busy Grans on the thread today - how talented you all are!

Wishing all a pleasant day.

Good morning Mick and all GN's on another cold , dark but misty morning in North Yorkshire. Yet again I am creaking round, wishing I could move a bit easier and less pain, but anyway I am up. Still not sorted out the situation with the yellow peril, so no chance of going down the market. No parking in the high street because of the market itself and I just couldnt walk from a car park today, frustrating. So if I need anything it will have to be supermarket so long as I can get parked and have their buggy.

Yesterday after looking at stuff on the internet and thinking about things I went to a specialist shop to look at supposed portable and ok to use on trains and planes buggies. I had to choose between two kinds, one where the buggy comes into various pieces and you can put each bit in the car or wherever, but they were still quite heavy when I lifted one part up, and as the whole point is to be independant and be able to sort myself out, with my back not so good. There was a possibility of getting a hoist thing made specially to use in the boot and there was a big difference in price too. But then when they said how much the hoist would cost, and also if I had it fitted and then changed the car , more expense etc, so that the rather eyewatering cost of the light one began to seem more practical and sensible. So I tried it out from the shop , not just inside. Of course it doesnt have the level of suspension that my yellow peril has , but no problem using it. I deliberately took it over various mended bits on the path to see how it felt, and it was ok. The lady in the shop was very helpful, knew all the details of things, could recommend someone they use to do hoists for all their different buggies and wheelchairs and was not the least bit pushy. So I now have the leaflet to study and have a bit more thought about, but even writing this now, I am already seeing how much easier it will make my life. I will be able to go to places like Harlow carr without being stuck if they do not have an available buggy there, and things like this lovely ice sculpture thing coming up, I will be able to park and go round on it and look at them all, rather than just the few I can park near.

There is always that to and fro argument in mind that I see in many people, at the point where you have to admit that you need more help or whatever. Years ago my husband was resisting using a walking stick, although he was becoming quite unsteady at times on his feet. We were in Richmond when he walked across the cobbles, stumbled and fell full length. My heart was racing as I rushed across , frightened he might have broken something, but thankfully he was ok, just bruised and shaken, However, while nothing was said at the time, the following day he went and found a suitable walking stick, and then admitted that he felt much safer and was walking in a more normal way with it.

So , for me, the pretence that I only need the buggy occasionally and that I CAN walk up and down the market usually, it is just that the occasionally need for the buggy now seems to happen quite a lot. But having sort of crossed that mental bridge, where I dont choose to acknowledge that things are permanently a bit worse, rather than just a bad day, I am already seeing simple things so that I will be able to go to a shopping mall or a hotel with long corridors etc and be able to get round under my own steam. I will still do my best to keep active and walk about a bit, but reluctant though I am to admit it, the time has come to accept I need this to help me remain the awkward independant so and so that I am. !! Think Diana Trent in waiting for god, as the role model - although I always think she was copying me not the other way round!!. So now it is down to practicalities, checking that things will fit ok and so forth, before I commit myself to such an expense. I always think that the advertising lot missed a trick when calling them disability buggies etc. They should have all been labelled Freedom Buggies!! Well we shall see. Watch this space!!

Ah, phone calls and more complications to the day tomorrow. Back again on here anyway and enjoying Bach's 3rd Brandenburg concerto, to cheer the morning, and just had the Nabucco Hebrew Slaves chorus too. Brightens the day for me.

Mick hope the eye check goes well today. RoseandLilac, have you not got a friend who would like the turkey and swap it with you for a piece of meat you enjoy? I am a great believer in swapping skills and things. Started many years ago, when as a child it was a rare treat to get chocolates , usually a very little box at christmas. I hated turkish delight, but couldnt bear to throw a chocolate away, so organised my friends to meet up the day after boxing day where we swapped chocolates around and I was definitely the winner as I was the only one who loved coffee creams and was very pleased with my swap!! GrandMattie, you are a perpetual motion cook I think! Picalli, marmalade and coffees all in one day!All looks very good . Bellasnana such elegant nails, looking lovely. My hands at the moment are nothing like that, clean but with broken nail from the garden and cut short to be able to rattle away on here.

So today I have yet more paperwork to get through and then getting bits and pieces out of the boot of the car, ready for tomorrows M0T. I am not sure how tomorrow is going to work, as I have two meetings I need to get to in the morning, which by hook or by crook, I shall also have to find somewhere to park the car. Then dash back home ready for the garage to pick it up and take it off, when I shall get a quick bite to eat and then the cleaners will be coming, followed by hopefully , fingers crossed, the car comes back done and dusted with nothing awful wrong with it needed much money spent on it. Greyduster , all your efforts in the gym will give you the right to second helpings of the christmas lunch. Hope you have a good time. Cornergranny I recommend making a loaf of bread when worries get on top of you. I find that physical thumping and kneading gets some of the tension out of you and you have some lovely bread to eat later. Karmalady another perpetual motion lady. Looks a lovely warm top that I could do with this morning. Aldom , definitely getting the pictures up is the start of feeling it is now your home. I have to be like a gallery as have lots of pictures from when I had a bigger house and a long corridor that the watercolours were safe and fine on and no direct light on them, so now have to swap them about when I have a mind to.Ashcome , know how you feel, Weetabix is definitely my go to if desperate for some food in the night, easy to eat and that is about all you can say. Glad the carol singing went well.

Hells bells how the time has gone on and must get cracking. Will come back on to see how things are going later. Hope everyone has a good day and manages to do something they want to do as well as something that has to be done. May the traffic be light and there be a parking space for you just when you need it or the bus arrives on time. Enjoy your day

Good morning everyone from sunny Lancashire.

MrB has a dental appointment this morning. I will have to wait until this afternoon for a walk.

I hope you feel better soon Marydoll, I admire the way you keep going but it’s taking its toll on you.

Still waiting to hear from my doctor regarding my recent blood results.

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

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

Full of admiration (as usual) for Madeleine; accepting that we need to do things differently is brave as well as sensible and I hope a suitable conveyance can be found. Any form of freedom has to be worth it!

Glorious sunny but very frosty morning here so indoor domestic tasks will occupy me till time for singing. Arthritic hand still not perfect but will need to be good enough tomorrow as I have four dozen mince pies to make for the village fayre on Saturday. So frustrating when bits of one don’t work properly, as Marydoll knows all too well. Good thing it’s a beautiful day.

Oh Marydoll 🫣 I’m sending you a big hug. I’ve just got back from a trip to the vets to find that DH no only has done something to my ‘new’ tumble dryer but he denies it was him! He won’t read instructions and it’s making a hideous noise. I could weep with frustration……
He’s also dropped a jar of jam on the kitchen floor (‘It wasn’t my fault’) and said I’ll make a better job of cleaning up than him 🤬
To cap it all tiddler threw up in the car and I need to tackle that before I do anything else.
I think I need to go back to bed and start again today.

Good morning from the bright but cold west midlands.
A busy morning, that goodness! As it will take mind off a rude encounter with a person I met in the woods; it actually left me speechless, which is a rarer than rare occurrence.
My flabber was actually gasted, that's how odd\weird the interaction was! In fact, I just seen said perpetrator swanning -up the street & I'd love some -sort of explanation but I felt like rugby-tackling the snotty unmentionable. Phewwww!

Back on having read a few more posts. Marydoll , You have my sympathies re DH and the financial hassle. These things always happen when you are not at your best to deal with it either. If it wouldnt make your cough worse I would suggest going out away from people and standing having a good scream about it all!! Absolutely the last thing you needed today. I only hope the day begins to improve from that disaster, and in your state of health I think if you could find someone available for an hour or two to do the sorting of the range and fridge etc it would be worth it to feel that little bit back in control. I am sure DH will have been shaken by it all , even if he is denying things and hopefully he will be very careful now. Then once christmas is over you might be able to concentrate on his memory situation and see if it is a one off or something more. No doubt he has been quite upset by breaking things and all the health problems in the family. He might be fine once things improve for you all. I have missed seeing your posts for a while and am glad to see you on here again, even if you are no doubt spitting feathers at the hassle of the day. Hoping you soon get your ct results and they can help you to feel a bit brighter. Ekwanimitee hope you are feeling a bit better now. Baubles that all looks so lovely. There are some good sewing people in this group, afraid you can count me out of that, but I enjoy seeing lovely work by other people. Well reluctantly I must go and do a few jobs since I went to see this lightweight buggy. It is very expensive to me but have to admit that I really do need something like it, and have been reluctant to accept the fact and it makes me feel rather miserable about things, but like my husband with the walking stick once I have got over having to face the truth and not kid myself that I dont need it , I shall no doubt think I was mad not to have got it before. Well havent actually said I will have it yet, but common sense says my independance may depend on it and it wont get any cheaper by leaving it either. Ah well we shall see. Am now cold and a bit fed up and am going to enjoy some comfort food of very good quality Heck pork sausages and a lovely jacket potato with as much butter as I chose to put on today. The diabetes is not top of the agenda today, I need to cheer myself up. Hope you are all eating something decent for lunch and have a good afternoon.