Good Morning Friday 13th February 2026

Good morning from an unusual, dry day. We are even promised sunshine, the penalty is a lower temperature.
DH was rather superstitious, I’m absolutely not, so whatever the dat, it doesn’t bother me at all.
A quiet day yesterday, with our t’ai chi class in the middle. Sewed, knitted, cooked, dusted (! 😲)
Much the same today, with Spanish thrown in. Half term next week.
Hope those in distress/pain/sorrow have a better day, th3 rest of us count our blessings.
Carpe diem 🦩🦩🦩🦩

Good morning from Kent where it is a very dark and still five degrees.

I woke up feeling positive, then remembered the date.

Yesterday I watched the women's half pipe snowboarding. So impressive what those women can do. There were a lot of falls though. I wonder if the falling snow during the competition did not help with visibility perhaps.

Today I need to sort out my seeds and plan my veg plot. I already have packets of onion sets and some seed potatoes. Food is so expensive now that I want to grow as much as I can this year. I didn't grow enough potatoes last year. I also gave too much space to curly kale which then got infested by slugs. The tiny slugs hide in the folds and then I was wasting too much water and effort washing the kale before cooking.

Hope everyone has a Good Friday without mishaps. Best wishes to all.

Good morning from Malta where the wind has been force 8-9 since yesterday evening, it sounds quite alarming at times but is supposed to drop to 6-7 by noon.

Otherwise a sunny day with a high of 16°C is forecast.

Had the boys yesterday afternoon, both were in happy moods and I really loved having them. I’ve got them again this afternoon so will look forward to that. Also have my usual hair appointment. Not the best day to have one’s hair done with this wind.

Managed to keep Winston and Milo apart yesterday so there were no incidents! Speaking of Winston, he has just come in to my room and is doing his usual inspection. I will miss him when he goes home later today.

Hope you all have a good day.🤗

Good morning from a dark NE where it is 1° with a forecast of sleet all day.
Sil came yesterday morning and we had the shopping done by lunchtime. Treated ourselves to éclairs for our afternoon coffee.
I didn't think I needed any help with technology but when we went to the study all three computers needed updating. One is DH's and I just keep it for sentimental reasons as it has a lot of photographs stored.
Maybe wash some bed linen today and free up some space in the laundry hamper.
Have a good day.

Morning Mick, morning All. Our corner of Somerset had some overnight rain, a fine morning ahead (with luck).

While yesterday’s eye clinic appointment had some very welcome good news about progress unfortunately the injection process was a difficult one. The staff member struggled, as a result my eye is very swollen and sore. A first fortunately. Next bout isn’t for 12 weeks which I’m delighted about, real progress from the initial four weekly injections.

Friends coming for coffee this morning, I anticipate some teasing about boxing rings. A quiet afternoon. We’re off on a day coach trip tomorrow with an unreasonably early start, seemed a good idea when we booked it. I’ll catch up with you all on Sunday.

Thinking of all with mountains to climb, have the best day you can everyone.

Good Morning everyone from a dark but dry south coast. We had a spring-like feel to the day yesterday which was so nice after all the ran and heavy skies. It puts a smile on everyone's faces to see the sunshine.

WI was very busy with several visitors from a neighbouring WI which seems set for closure. They can't get anyone to take on the secretary or president roles. The visitors seemed to be scoping out ours to see if it would suit them.

A Tesco delivery is due this morning but otherwise nothing much planned. I do have a new book to start which is definitely going to feature though. Also continuing to put olive oil in DH's ears to soften the wax therein!

Kind thoughts for all GNs with struggles of any sort and hopes for a better day with some ease and calmness.

Good morning from a calm and dry Torbay.

Yesterday, we took the bus into town and alighted near the station as I wanted to take DH for coffee at a hotel overlooking the bay. We were having such a good time that we stayed for lunch, enjoying the fine weather and the view of a peaceful sea, in contrast to recent storms.

Whether or not one is superstitious, I like to recall the origins of superstitions. In the case of the date, no doubt you all know it’s because of there being 13 at The Last Supper (with Judas Iscariot being the 13th) prior to the crucifixion on Good Friday.

Hope today is kind to you all. 🦩💐🦩🥰🦩

Good morning from S E Essex it’s 6° and cloudy.

I have to wake the 11yr old up soon, he is no trouble, he wasn’t sure what he wanted for breakfast, hopefully I will get my orders when he opens his eyes.

Friday 13th is lucky for our family, one of our boys was born on that day and we got married on that day, will probably play the lottery today.

Thinking of our poorly friends and those with troubles 🙋‍♀️

Good morning from a dry, quiet and calm Cornwall.

Spent the day on trains, having bought a Cornwall Day Ranger ticket which meant I could go anywhere all day. We have some lovely branch lines including the glorious St Erth to St Ives. Arriving into Penzance station is always thrilling with its arched ceiling and huge evocative paintings on both walls. At one point I stood on a mid-Cornwall platform in the rain watching huge industrial engines doing repairs. I was joined by a rail enthusiast from Yorkshire and we talked trains for ages. He was in Cornwall for the first time simply to go on our branch lines.

Today I can't Lego-wrangle because I have a dental appointment but someone is standing in for me. Then it's the usual school run, back to my eldest son's house with his children and when he finishes work I'll hop on a bus and meet my youngest son at Wetherspoons for some grub.

Good morning, damp and dark here on the hillside in south Glos, I’ve got bigger dog snoozing next to me on the bed because I disturbed her going downstairs for a hot water bottle. I don’t really like dogs upstairs but if I leave her downstairs she’ll start whining. Anyway, she’s fast asleep now.
I enjoyed my trip to the hairdressers for a trim yesterday, bought fish and chips for dinner so no cooking for once.
I have art group this morning, I’ve got everything I need ready to put in the car. It’s a bit of a scramble because I need to walk tiddler first, then shower and change before leaving to pick up two others.
I’m hoping we’ll see some sunshine, everything is so grey and subdued but at least I have snowdrops, crocus, daffodils and hellebores out and I noticed that the hawthorn trees are coming into blossom so at least we’re heading the right way!
Best wishes to you all 🌹

Good morning everyone from mid Essex, dry and chilly here this morning. I think showers are forecast!
I’m not superstitious about Friday 13th, DD1 was born on Friday 13th 50 years ago. A dear friend also had a DD on the same day. We are off to somewhere on the south coast later this morning, for a weekend’s celebrations, a surprise for DD1 arranged by her DH.

I hope my back behaves over the weekend, it was painful yesterday probably due to the gardening I did on Wednesday.

marzipan we discovered the St Erth to St Ives railway branch line one year when visiting St Ives. Such a lovely journey, helped on that day by glorious sunshine.

cornergran your eye sounds painful, I hope the swelling goes down soon.

Thinking of all those with worries of any kind, and hoping the day brings some relief for you.

Have as good a day as possible everyone.

Good morning from brightening W Kent. Off to Bluewater to use a bank pod and then lunch at local restaurant. Yesterday at art I learnt our local garden centre has changed hands I hope the new owners don’t make too many changes
Best wishes to all

Good morning all from a chilly and wet North Leicestershire.

A quiet day in prospect here. We are looking for a new cleaner and have someone coming to see whether she can cope with us. I suppose we could do it ourselves but.......

Burgerologist burgers this evening - the Burgerologist is a man selling 'specialist' burgers from a van (started during lock down) so no cooking and they are delicious.

Have the best day possible everyone.

Good morning all and we have rain forecast after a couple of dry(ish) days.

DGD has wild hair day today. Goodness knows what we’re going to conjure up!
She had her school disco o last evening which she said was great fun.

After school I’m taking her home to her mum . It’s half term next week so I’m praying Dd willcontinue to recover and be fit for the following week . I’ll miss her as she’s a little 🌟.

Housework and shopping today.
Take care all 🌱

Good morning all from Polmont where it's currently 1° and looks dry. cornergran ouch! That sounds sore. Redcar don't overdo things with your back.
Yesterday I got most of the washing done and dried and cleaned all the kitchen cupboard doors and the front and back door too. I hoovered as usual. I have no idea where all the crumbs etc come from! It's just me and I'm not messy. I couldn't make lasagne as I have run out of pasta sheets, so made a bolognaise pasta bake instead. It was very nice.
Today doesn't bother me. Mum wouldn't go outside on Friday 13th. She grew increasingly superstitious the older she got and was indulged by my brother.
I am going out today despite a very poor night and sore feet. Ds has taken a half day and has invited us all for lunch at a restaurant local to me. So dd, dsil and the boys and me will meet him there. I'm looking forward to it as I haven't seen him since early January, although we are in contact most days. After that, I will probably watch some of the Winter Olympics. Have a good day all

Good morning everyone from Inverness where it’s cold at -2°, we’ve had overnight snow and everything is looking very white outside
Good luck with the wild hair day Gingster!
Once we’ve sorted out the car and swept the drive I’ll be off to the gym for a couple of classes, then a bit of food shopping and home.
Enjoy your weekend away Redcar and hope your back is ok and enjoy your family lunch out grandmabatty it sounds lovely
Thinking of everyone with worries and struggles, hope today is gentle and take care all whatever the day brings 💐

Morning from a cloudy S Hants, friend called for coffee yesterday, a good two hour catch up.
Tesco delivery this afternoon and MrJ will venture out for a pint this evening.
Enjoy the family weekend away Redcar go gently.
I hope your eye calms down and you have a pleasant trip tomorrow corner.
Thoughts with poorlies.
FGT
🦩🦩

Good Morning everyone from the East Coast. I think we are in for a very cold day.

I am going to walk to a local coffee shop and now I’ve realised it’s Friday the 13th and probably going to be icy out maybe not a great idea. I can be suspicious. I’m meeting my best friend. She’s having a very difficult time with depression. I need to chat to her face to face. We talk all the time but are always with our DHs. The loss of her adopted dog and our other best friend dying from cancer is really taking its toll. I have my grandchildren to keep me up but she doesn’t feel there is anything worth getting up for anymore. It’s sad.

My prayers were answered yesterday and DGS had a great day at school and was super here. He will come for two mornings next week on half term.
Apart from meeting my friend today I haven’t anything else on. While I’m out I’ll pick up a gift for DH for valentines. I might call my dad for a chat this afternoon. Tea tonight will be fish of some kind and vegetables. DH is working hard at the moment and still I can hear him downstairs preparing my breakfast so better go. He is a love. ❤️

Take care today and hope there are moments of joy. 🌼
Thoughts to those poorly and stressed friends 💐

Good morning from soggy Leicestershire.

We need to pop out to the opticians today to swap my lenses over.
One result of DH being in hospital so long is that now we have a blue badge. I had no idea what a difference this has made to our lives. Only problem is that there are so many diverse rules it is hard knowing where and when you can park.
I will have to miss Pilates as someone is coming to tell me why my washing machine is leaking!

Hoping for continuing good news from Marydoll and sending love to the FGTs.

Morning everyone from West Lothian. There’s a slight covering of wet-looking snow and when I let the cat in, it was freezing. But it’s dry and fairly bright- yay!!
After two very busy days and early starts yesterday and the day before, today will be quieter. Nothing in particular is planned other than ‘life admin’ and household chores so a nice quiet day.

Good morning, Michael and all GNs. It’s not going to be above 3 degrees today and wet today. Yesterday I ditched a muddy walk in favour of a session at the gym, and bought myself a couple of new light fleece tops on the way back to the car. Then I drove on to have lunch with DD. We spent much time watching the birds on her garden feeders. She’s very excited about the amount of attention her bird boxes are getting this year. Several potential tenants are scoping out them out!

School this afternoon. Friday is a short session with year 4 who are always a joy. Half term next week.

This evening we are out to a country pub for GS’s birthday dinner. The food and the service are always exceptional. I must rifle through my wardrobe for something nice to wear.

Have the best day you can folks!

Good morning Mick and all GN's on a very dark still morning and cold that meets you when you open the curtains, on a poor starting morning. It is definitely a friday the 13th morning beginning to my day.

Firstly woke up yelping as I had horrible cramp, and it has taken me about half an hour to struggle up, and muscles still sort of juddering, so that I am having to be aware of how I am moving. Longing for a much needed coffee but havent dared to try to make one yet. Still have not found my latest glasses, so have had to resort to the last pair, and this morning my left eye is watering and somewhat painful, so I will not be attempting to read the small print on my local paper this morning. Cant really think of any places that I havent looked in, but will have to make another effort to check everywhere for them, and to cap it all am back coughing! Oh the joys of a day like this !

Well I am at least restarting my morning as the wonderful Bach before 7 is now playing and a piece I especially like , the Bach Magnificat, a piece I have sung many times, is cheering my morning now.

Yesterday it was a bit of a plodding along day, but at least got some of my favourite bread , did a bit of fridge sorting out, regrettably finding that the pears I had kept to soften had now oversoftened and so had to be thrown out, waste of money! I do not seem to do well with pears these days, especially if I buy from the supermarket. They can go from too hard to eat yet, to too soft , and I dont tend to take them on picnics as they bruise too easily . Oh well they will have to be off the menu until we have them in the right season. Oh for a lovely comice to eat right now! I should not have succumbed to the lure in a supermaket.

I spent a long time sorting out my blue hyacinths , as the stalks were too long and the flowers leaning at precarious angle, risking breaking. So somewhat of a Heath Robinson concoction, where I have used two sundae spoons, carefully pushed into the soil either side of the pot, and then two sets of ties going round them. Cotton doubled lower down to bring the stems into a more upright position and then a softer twine that I have struggled to tie higher up the stems to support them. I have put this pot into a ceramic pot, which looks a bit nicer but have still had to balance it carefully and let the flowers rest against another taller vase to stop them snapping off. Elegant it is not, but at least it is allowing me to have the perfume and if I ignore my handiwork the actual flowers are a lovely colour. My very yorkshire answer to the price of all flowers this weekend and didnt buy any daffodils yesterday after all, my hyacinths will cheer my day well enough.

Today I have a first meeting for the Talking Newspaper group. I was a reader for a long time many years ago, when I lived in Lancashire for a time, providing much of the news from the local paper for blind and partially sighted people . We had a good mix of voices, and used to share out the various stories to read, so that the listener didnt get bored with one accent or voice. My voice comes over quite well - you can never know what will sound well when you begin - we have had people who sounded quite pleasant, yet when they were recorded either sounded too squeaky , too quiet or whatever. We used to divide the stories up into three and often my 3 would be a rather lovely voice of a man with a slight scottish accent, another lady, who sounded somewhat like Jenny Murray from womans hour and myself. We had to do the cutting down ourselves as obviously you cannot read every word, not enough space, but whatever was left out on no account could "hatchs matches and dispatches " be left out or cut down. Births deaths and marriages were of great interest to our listeners , whether it was the joy of a new baby or their satisfaction (it seemed to me) as our listeners would inform us that they had outlived various people on the list! We used to get feedback from our listeners so soon learnt their preferences, and however much we needed to get into the tape, so having to cut down or out completely any article, there would be an outcry if that list was truncated in any way! We used to meet up with our very good sound recorder and spend time together , which on a good day might only be perhaps an hour, but on a bad day could be nearer two, if there were problems. We took the rough with the smooth, and you may get an interesting item about something new happening, but would be sighing if your appointed article was say the local council information about the rise in various parts of your council tax, important for people to have the information but quite boring to read.

Ah well I shall be seeing how the modern changes will affect me, as I gather that now they use zoom and do their own recordings at home, I am told. Well I will have no bother with the readings etc., but never got involved in using zoom up to now, so may be on a steep learning curve - or if I am useless at it might get thrown out on day 1. We shall see!

Due to the organisers schedule today the meeting is at 1pm, and so it will have to be a very early lunch to be sure of being on time and ready, or take something with me to eat after the meeting. So that is the time my day will need to work round, and the way it has started I must allow myself extra time to get ready and hope to be doing less coughing by then. So it is a steady plod through jobs and getting ready this morning with time planned to have a decent coffee whilst I practise my Makaton. I have deliberately not looked at it last night or this morning as I plan to test myself today to see how much is actually retained in my brain and where the gaps are , so that I can concentrate on those when I go back to the manual to both check on my good and bad efforts, and begin to try out a few more signs.

I also see a good use for a few of these signs, and plan to teach a friend or two, the signs for cup of coffee and yes and no etc and it doesnt need to be an actual Makaton sign but will devise a couple of signs to send secret messages to each other. One will be "lets get out of here" and another "please rescue me from this person" alongside the more polite "any chance of a coffee" to be used to signal across a room where you cannot be heard speaking!! So useful in bigger meetings , when you are not sat near each other!

Harks back to my teenage years when my sister and I had a pact to rescue each other from boys at dances or whatever. It always sounded so much kinder to say "sorry my sister needs me to ...." than simply reject their offer to dance or whatever . My goodness ,do any of you remember the conversation in the Locarno dance hall with the twirling silver ball of "are you dancing?" " are you asking?" followed by the choice answers of "ok then" "dont mind up to you" "dont know this one" or "No thanks!" I was a good dancer, doing ballroom , latin american, the cha cha and whatever else was on offer, and had lessons and with my dancing partner enjoyed the learning, but these would have been the local dances where the boys spent half the time in a group at one side of the room and the girls at the other. There would be much teasing and betting each other to go and ask one of the girls for a dance. For a lot of them it was just the way to get to meet each other, but I actually wanted to dance, and so was much more concerned to see who was a good dancer that I might partner for the pasa doble than which one I fancied!! There were other occasions when I would be sizing up the men and boys but dancing was not one of them for me!

Ah well, it has been fun remembering some of those days and those awful scratchy petticoats that you wore under the dancing dress to make it look good. Looking back at lovely friends, some of whom I still know and keep in touch with and sadly quite a few no longer with us, but so much part of that late 50's 60's times where the important thing was to remember your dancing shoes, not miss the bus, and have that emergency money for a taxi if you needed it. No mobile phones then and no hundreds of "friends" online. When we spoke of friends they were flesh and blood, and lived down the road!! Maybe this may set some of you off remembering similar things? Well it has definitely brought a smile to my face .

Mick, hope your day has started better and you get to Bicester in good time. GrandMattie . the date never actually stops me doing whatever so dont know whether that makes me superstitious or not! Gillymo I watched some of that snowboarding and they were magnificant to watch and quite brave. I wonder if they have some padding under their ski suits to help with the falls, or just have to grin and bear it and cope with the bruising? Good luck with the seed sowing. In our gardening club we used to have a little swap shop at seed times, as when you are on your own you do not want a whole packet of whatever and they are costly enough as it is, so we used to share a packet between us and get more variety each that way, Just tough if you liked something no one else wanted ! I never cared for spinach or chard so left those off my list!Bellasnana glad you had a good day and managed to keep the peace between cat and dog, but you will miss Winston today. I could have just done with a lovely cat to stroke this morning to soothe my horrible start to the day. Cornergran hope you eye continues to improve and you have a good trip out.

Well time to get started and in a better humour now with Bach and old memories of youth to smile at , I shall hope to get my coffee and perhaps by some miracle come across my missing glasses hiding in a drawer or a pocket somewhere. Hope you all have a decent day and started it better than mine. I will find out whether I am still able to do the talking newspaper or will be ignominiously thrown out for poorer voice quality or being out of date and a non zoomer. Watch this space. Enjoy your day and do you have memories of those teenage years dancing or skating together.Happy days folks

Good morning from Shropshire.Light rain at the moment.

We had a lovely day out in Manchester yesterday.Lunch out and then we met DD who had been to the theatre.The Young Voices concert was very good.The children had a brilliant day.A very noisy coach journey home as the children were very excited.

Today a quiet day until we collect the children later for their Friday night sleepover.My legs are aching after all the walking yesterday.

I hope your eye clears up corner and isn’t too painful.

Hoping for positive news from Marydoll and thoughts with all unwell.Hope you’re doing ok Jax.

Wishing everyone the best day possible🌻🦩

Good morning everyone from yet another grey damp and dreary day in Northampton. Rain forecast all day, glad I don't have to go out.

My neighbour and I chatted for nearly three hours yesterday morning, aided by coffee, mince pies and brownies! We certainly set the world to rights. After she left I had a quick lunch, then hopped.on the bus to the vets to pick up medication for the cats. I was back within an hour and spent the rest of the afternoon reading.

The eye clinic phoned yesterday to make a first appointment regarding my cataract; as I am away for half of March I now have an appointment for the end of that month.

This morning will be spent preparing a chicken curry for the slow cooker; Friday has always been curry night in our house, ever since DH and I were married in 1972, and I still keep up the tradition even though he died 8 years ago. I make that nearly 3000 curries!

More reading after lunch; I must make a start on The Bell Jar.

Wishing all a pleasant day.