Good Morning Sunday 1st February 2026

Good morning and white rabbits from a brighter northwest coast.
A walk around a park I’m not so keen on here yesterday. My favourite is much smaller and started off as a pleasure garden, so it has more individuality. However I felt like a change, even in the rain and took myself off. I had a light lunch in the modest cafe there and wrote a poem. I like writing poems on trains or out and about. The ‘muse’ doesn’t seem to strike at home.
Returning home, I made a couple more cards for upcoming birthdays and found more backing tracks for my songs on YouTube. It’s fun trying out various keys and arrangements.

Flying DD off to Sydney, a nine day trip whilst I’m having another quiet day at home.
Thoughts to ginny FGT and all🌺

Thank you Susan
Here are the snowdrops in the smallest vase I could find

They’ve e raised a smile here Grammaretto thank you, lovely bowls too.

Hallo again everyone. Just thought I would come back to read some more posts, while I had a much needed sit down.
So sorry to hear your news Ginny and I send my condolences to you and your family. Marydoll I was pleased to read your post, as for some reason I have been missing it for a couple of days. I hope you get out to your visit, husband permitting!! Also hoping you are feeling a bit better and no doubt glad to see the back of January as I am. Whiteswan63, what a good idea to visit your friends. Our pets mean a lot to us and of course are there every day so you miss them at many times, and cant help noticing their usual walk times or dinner times etc., which is hard to get through and so hope that you will be a very welcome distraction for them . Blossoming was that Glasson Dock you were near when the coastguards were out and about?

Ah cheering that rare thing the sun as just come out again, and really visible now. I am not up to walking much but will hobble round the flats to make them most of it, before continuing the search for my wretched reading glasses and also my small hairbrush. Have found one or two other items and of course a lot of biros down chair arms etc but no luck with the glasses. Fortunately, I always keep the last pair in the car glove compartment, in case I forget the lastest pair when I am out. They are not brilliant but at least let me read instructions etc . I must keep looking as the thought of having to fork out for another pair is cringing! Deciding and spending money on something special or that you have saved for is one thing, having to pay out for a second pair is maddening, so the search goes on!

Good morning from coastal West Sussex. I have been laid up with a horrible cold and cough since I came back from Scotland. It is on the wane but I haven’t got my mojo back yet.

Along with other neighbours, friends and family, we said goodbye to our neighbour and friend, who died just after New Year after two years of living with terminal cancer. It was inspiring and moving to hear the tributes to R and see photos from her long and fully-lived life. I look across at her empty house and miss her very much.

Madeleine, I enjoyed reading about your garden and seaside visits - you are inspirational in the way you overcome your health problems to make the most of your days.

Grammaretto, lovely bowls and snowdrops and lovely vase of snowdrops 🥰. My last attempt to grow snowdrops, bought ‘in the green’, has failed, like all previous attempts in this garden. I think our soil is too heavy, in spite of all the compost and grit we have added over the past 10 years.

Marydoll, I’m glad to read that you, and your dear DiL are a little better.

ginny, I join with others on here, in sadness for the untimely death of your nephew and the grief you and all his friends and family are feeling 💐

I still have Christmas cards to take down, blu-tacked to the book case doors mainly so taking them down is one of today’s tasks as it is Candlemas tomorrow, I think, and St Brigid’s day today - I read that it is now a public holiday in Ireland, celebrating the contributions of women to society.

BlueSapphire

Greyduster I too have an irrational dislike of Monty Don and Chris Packham! Cannot hear to watch them on tv.

Oh, me too, with an especial dislike for CP. and I’m afraid that I don’t worship at the David Attenborough alter; I can’t bear his voice.

It's so lovely to see georgesgran posting I did think of you a lot as a fellow northerner and of course it's lovely to.see Mary doll back too .

Grandmattie I thought I was the only person in existence who doesn’t like David Attenborough.So pleased there is one more.

Gm and Utbb, DH and I both find David Attenborough’s voice irritating and sometimes watch his programmes with the sound off! I do admire what he has done, through his life’s work bringing so many aspects of the natural world to our screens and he seems to be a thoroughly lovely person.
I do like Chris Packham and now that we understand that he has autism it is easier to make allowances for his ‘peculiarities’. I think his on-screen relationship with Michaela Strachan is heart-warming - she knows how to gently tease him without upsetting him.
Monty is lovely, no disagreement allowed 🤣
I don’t think any of them would be easy to live with - but then, probably neither am I!