Good Morning Tuesday 17th February 2026

Thank you grandMattie.I think I will have these symptoms always now but feeling better about it today.Onwards and upwards taking inspiration from some of our very strong mountaineers.

Good morning from a brightening northwest coast.
A good day yesterday with a visit to our new financial advisor fifty miles away who I think will be ‘just the job’ followed by a nice meal with DD in an Italian restaurant nearby.

My neck is not so painful and I’m on duty at the music club this afternoon. I’ll have a warm up warble soon,
DD is out tonight with friends so I’ll do my own thing and have the remains of a roast chicken to go at.

Thoughts to Pantglas FGTs and all🌺

Good morning from frosty south Glos, a pink tinge to the sky this morning.
Yesterday I spent a couple of hours sorting out the utility room, it’s tiny and gets so cluttered. I’m pleased with my efforts but it made me rather breathless for some time afterwards 🤷🏼‍♀️
I’ve done a few more inches of my shawl, I think I’ve got the hang of the pattern now. It’s a simple one but my brain isn’t what it used to be.
I have asked a friend’s husband who’s a gardener to come and thoroughly tidy the garden for me, I don’t seem to have the oomph I used to have. He’s done a lovely job on another friend’s garden.
I realised yesterday that I seem to be responsible for all the arduous work in this household…….
I want to do something with my watercolours today, have a few hours of drawing or something.
Hugs to all who need them 🌹

Good morning Mick and all GN's on a dark still morning in North Yorkshire, but I can see the outline of the tree so a little progress to lighter mornings to cheer the day.

Another mixed night, sleeping in patches and waking with pain or needing the bathroom, so I am now croaking and coughing and sneezing again. Hope that is going to ease off as this afternoon I am meant to be recording an interview about the car scheme!

Yesterday was a mixed day of results. I was struggling so much to walk about that I only just got to the Makaton meeting in time. Most of the group were there, and I checked with the tutor that she was happy for me to stay and hopefully keep learning and practising, although I wouldnt be able to get my certificate as I had missed the previous lesson. She was fine about it , but of course I found it quite difficult as I had missed the previous week and the other people had learned more signs and had progressed to being able to sign simple sentences without referring to the book, whereas I was finding it extremely frustrating, between not understanding some of the new signs and taking ages to look up things I wasnt sure of.

In the beginning it was getting so bad that I was feeling I had made a bad choice to go to the meeting, and could feel the tension rising in my body, which as we were not speaking at all, was making things worse. We were given small strips of laminated paper with a sentence in signs shown on it. With a partner we had to sign this to the other person and they had to write the sentence down on their paper and then we would change round. There were 4 different sentences to go through and the first two were so difficult and infuriating for me, but thankfully the last two I was able to understand and interpret quite quickly which was a relief and calming.

It was a little sad when it all came to an end and the others were receiving their certificates and being told about further classes they might go on to. However my actual main reasons for going were definitely worth doing. I wanted to show the tutor that I was very keen to carry on learning, and hope that she would be reminded of me if anyone else dropped out of a course and I could start again soon. Also wanted to check what I had already learnt was being done correctly, and that I hadnt begun to make mistakes that would be hard to correct later and lastly to speak to other classmates and wish them well.

So that all went to plan and actually I then went for a coffee with another classmate. She has no car at the moment, and so she came with me (at slower than snail pace!) to my car and we went off to Nero's where it was reasonably quiet and we were able to have a peaceful time enjoying our coffee, doing a little signing, and planning to meet up to try and do a few minutes signing to keep up with practising, besides the pleasure of hopefully managing to go out together to a garden or the coast sometime soon.

So then I got a little shopping and home where I felt absolutely shattered and was glad I had the curry already made and ready to eat. Did a few necessary jobs, but it had been a somewhat draining day and I just did the minimum and was glad to get to bed and hope for a good night . Huh!!

So today it is catching up with jobs left last night. trying to do something with my hair , which has decided to do the pulled through a hedge backwards routine today, and checking on the time for the meeting this afternoon. Hopefully I shall sound a little less croaky by the time I have had some soothing drinks etc. It is the games night tonight and of course it is pancake day today. I didnt even think about it yesterday, and I used to be the pancake queen!

I still have my special pancake pan which has travelled world wide with me. When I lived in Portugal I remember giving a great pancake party, where I had got beautiful lemons and oranges from the Algarve. Made up 3lbs of batter and had a large table with selections of savoury and sweet offerings, and spent a very long time in a kitchen with two doors, where people came through and I tossed their pancake for them and they went off and filled it with whatever they liked. Great pancake races at school as both a parent when my son was little and as a teacher too. There are various races and happenings going on around here but this year I am afraid I shant be watching or running . Oh well hope the day stays at least dry for them all. So a slow morning is all that is planned, but hope to leave things a bit tidier. The way I feel at the moment dont think I shall attempt to go to the games either tonight.

Hope you get back in good time to watch your cycling Mick. You had a good day yesterday GrandMattie and fingers crossed that your lady stays on as manager and can cross swords with Teflon man on your behalf and get some things sorted.Pantglas I am so sorry you are having such a tough time, and hope things can improve for you soon. Grandmabatty you are entitled to feel fed up at times and taken for granted. We are human beings not robots and cannot be brilliant and all managing life at a high level all the time. I think that is one of the problems of both the tv and social media, that people show themselves only at their best and in positive situations, conning us all into thinking we are the only people in the world having a bad day or a victor meldrew moment!! It will be good for the family to remind them that they need to provide you with support for a change sometimes and that they are very lucky to have your help and they should not be taking you for granted. I think a day of suiting yourself and a treat or two is definitely in order!

Well in keeping with the day hope everyone does well with their pancakes and gives themselves something good to eat and some pleasure of some description on this shrove tuesday, before Lent begins. Have the best day you can

Good morning all from the Scottish Borders. It's light! Surely that's a sign of Spring Mick 🌱🌼

I made another batch of marmalade yesterday as I have given away most of the first lot. I noticed I'd missed one Seville orange which is in the fruit bowl with the tangerines. 😄

The painter came to quote for the front door though he has no time until July!

Good to see Pantglas but sorry about your family woes 😟

I hope you feel better soon Grandmabatty . Toss a few pancakes with the wee one?

Wishing everyone a sunny day.

Good morning from sunny Leicestershire.

I am having to take the car in today. The app keeps telling me the battery is low but the garage say the problem is with the app not the car. They are going to check it just in case. These new fangled ways seem so ridiculous.
Tonight is NWR about horses as it is Chinese New Year and the year of the horse.

Hope your DD is feeling better today kitty.
Wishing everyone the best day possible.

Good morning from a bright W Kent. A drive this morning to visit a friend and catch up. I am looking forward to a country drive and getting out.
Pancakes later
Sorry to hear of all the problems Pantglas
Best wishes

Good morning from Cheshire.I am glad for a dry day as today is house clearance day at mum’s😢We have stayed in a hotel local to her house so we can be there early.We have sorted about 60% of her things which have gone to family members.What is left is what would probably have been decluttered if she hadn’t had the space to store things so not a huge job today.

Good to see you back Pants but sorry for all you are going through💐

I hope Georgesgran is feeling ok after her dental visit.Sorry you are feeling unwell and taken for granted Grandmabatty😢I hope you feel better soon, you too Bellasnana and anyone else suffering with these horrible viruses.

Wishing everyone the best day possible🦩🌻

Good morning everyone from a still dark dry morning, a sunny 🌞 forecast today but the temperature at the moment is 0°C! Thinking about going shopping in town as it is the only dry day for the foreseeable future.

No yoga yesterday so got a few things done at home: cleaned the.en-suite, two loads of washing then stripped and changed the bed, sheets etc washed and dried as well. Read a fair bit more of The Bell Jar late afternoon, which I am really enjoying, but I kept falling asleep!
An easy dinner of ham egg and chips, one of my favourites.

Hope all can enjoy the sunny weather today; wishing all a Happy Pancake Day!

Good morning from N. Bucks. We are hoping the weather is not too cool and wet as it is our towns pancake race today. The Original Race and is a big event.
I have a blood test and will then meet DD3 and DGS3 to wander the town and see the race.
DH has table tennis and they are all having pancakes afterwards. No pancakes for me , not a problem , I’m not keen anyway.
My ‘urgent’ appointment for the eye hospital came through for the 27th , not exactly urgent in my mind, I was expecting it to be in the next couple of days.
I have a few birthday cards to make later and then choir practice this evening.
Wishing you all a good day with a smile along the way.

Love Hendo’s, Melanie; always a bottle on the go here, but ask him why it is a pale imitation of its former self. It used to have a much richer flavour.

Good morning, Michael and all GNs from a very cold, still dark South Yorkshire. Going to be a sunny day today. After putting my back out on Sunday, I was a bit more mobile yesterday and managed to do the cooking I couldn’t manage on Sunday and also some light housework. During a brief dry spell in the afternoon I managed a walk.

I have a second ear appointment this morning and hope they can get at the last bit of stubborn wax. I have been dutifully putting drops in my ears, but who knows! My plan was to come home via the gym, but I will give my back a chance to fully recover before I go there again (any excuse!).

Have the best day you can, folks.

Good morning from still dark South Lanarkshire. I haven’t looked out of the window yet but I’m pretty sure it’s frosty.

As DH’s op has been postponed yet again he has decided to paint the living room so yesterday’s task was to buy the paint. I decided on a colour which DD has used previously so I know I like it. No faffing about this time. I also collected a pair of trousers which I’d ordered from Next but they’re horrendous looking on me so will have to go back.

A couple of local friends and I had a catch up in one of their houses in the evening. There was lots of chat and far too much cake, no wonder those trousers looked awful.

Charity shop shift today and yarn group tonight. DH will take delivery of the Sainsbury’s delivery while I’m out, this arrangement seems to work well.

Good to see you +Pantglass*, I hope things improve for your family.

Wishing everyone the best day possible.

Good Morning everyone from a chilly but dry south coast. Doesn't look like we have frost and more sunshine is promised later.

A quick top up trip to Tesco is the first on the the to do list then DH has another appointment to try and dislodge the impacted wax in his ears. I have been putting olive oil in them every day for the past 7 days so hopefully a better result can be achieved than last week. His hearing test can then go ahead with the audiologist.

I plan to make pancakes later and had to smile at your Vicar eating 10, GMattie. Our skinny little DGS used to love pancakes and his record was 16 at one sitting - not large ones but still quite a feat! No wonder he is now 6feet 6inches tall and broad with it!

Kind thoughts to all our GNs with troubles of any kind and hoping for some ease and calm today for us all.

Good morning from Sheffield

I am off out with my sister this morning. We meet up for a shopping day once a month but she has recently had a replacement hip operation so we haven’t been out for a while. It will be lovely to see her walk without pain.
We will have a look round some shops. Have a catch up and coffee

This evening. I have WI. We are having a talk by the owner of Hendersons relish
For those that don’t know , it is a Sheffield-based company that makes a relish similar to Worcester sauce, but better , those that know, know. We will have pie and peas as well.

Take care everyone

Good morning all from Polmont where it's currently 0° and dry. Good to see you back Pantglas. Bellasnana I'm glad the boys were good for you.
Yesterday went well. Soft play tired out the boys for a while. Then the toy shop made them happy. All went well until dd arrived to collect dgs2 who wanted to take one of his toys home. Dd wasn't having it so there was a stand down with lots of screaming. It was finally resolved but left me a bit fed up. I went to bed ridiculously early after toast because I couldn't face cooking.
Today I'll pick up the boys then drop off dgs1 at a football camp at ten. It'll just be me and dgs2 for most of the day. My virus has progressed to the productive stage. Although I slept well, I'm feeling not great. I'll probably take dgs2 for a hot chocolate and a brownie. I'm feeling a bit taken for granted at the moment and harbouring some resentment which isn't like me. Probably because I'm feeling rotten. Have a good day all

Good morning from a still and cool Kent.

It seemed to rain all day yesterday. I chose a gap in the rain mid afternoon to take the dog out. It seemed a lot of other dog walkers had the same idea so my dear dog got lots of doggy interaction.

Pancakes this morning! Extra will be made so that I can microwave them later with some lemon squeezed over them.

Best wishes all for Shrove Tuesday.

Good morning from Lancashire. Nice to see so many people up. It's cold again this morning. I'm still debating about going out shopping. Such a nuisance not having a car.

Morning Mick, morning All. It’s cold out there but what a treat to have sun forecast for our corner of Somerset.

Ironing completed we ventured forth between heavy showers for coffee and came back via TKMaxx where just the small table to go between our sofas was spotted. Very pleased. The afternoon was spent on a little computer research and much doing nothing for me while Mr C carried on with a jigsaw.

We’re meeting half the family late morning for a walk around a museum. Our not so Littlest operates at top speed and will whizz around while we wander behind. It’s a mix of agricultural which will please our tractor mad grandson and a sort of how we used to live which will bemuse him. He’ll be pleased with the cafe offerings anyway. It will be a treat to catch up with his parents, their lives as with many are more than busy. We may well go back in for a more leisurely look once the dynamo has gone on his way.

I’m sorry life has been and is challenging pantglas, you’ve been missed. Hope dental woes settled georgesgran.

Kind thoughts go to all dealing with personal mountains of any kind.

Hope this Tuesday is kind to us all and generous with pancakes.

Good morning from a dark, dry and calm Cornwall.

Yesterday... a different town and eight shops selling shoes resulted in no boots I really liked! There was a fair amount of muddle on the new bus routes but that will settle down in due course. The journey featured a mixture of freshly fallen trees which must have been weakened during the storm and clumps of burgeoning Gunnara, that giant rhubarb-leaved plant which pops up in every damp corner here. I've tried to grow it but it needs its roots to be in constantly wet soil so it's a non-starter for my patio! A dunnock appeared outside my window yesterday, a really cocky little bird whose bland colouring denies its character.

Today I must go and buy new specs which I keep putting off because of the cost. 😁 Also, we have a small, independent shoe shop here from which I've bought my Dr Martens in the past so I'll venture there. I'll be to and fro because my neighbour has a mattress being delivered while she's at work and so today I'm in charge of our shared entrance door, to make sure it's locked after the delivery.

No metalwork this evening as it's half term.

My poor pantl so hard for you. Hugs and prayers…
bellas, you are heroic. You can’t just shake off ‘flu just like that, especially with advancing years, so look after yourself, be kind. Abrazos.

Good morning from Malta where a cloudy day is forecast with a high of 15°C and the seemingly relentless force 6-7 wind.

Yesterday I decided that if Grandmabatty could look after her boys despite not feeling 100%, then so could I!
The boys were both so sweet and were happy playing, DGS1 with his dinosaurs and DGS2 with an old upright extension lead and a lot of old plugs and wires (not plugged into the mains. I hasten to add!).

We then watched Toy Story 3 with DGS2 commentating throughout!😂

After they’d gone I went to lie on the bed where I zonked off for a couple of hours. I don’t know why I’m so tired.

It’s not a very pleasant looking day but I need to walk to the pharmacy at some point. Otherwise not much on the cards.

Good to have you back Pantglas though sorry you are having to deal with poorly relatives.

Wishing a good day to you all.🤗

👋 Good morning everyone and apologies for going AWOL from this lovely thread - I’ve had some really kind messages then spotted a few posts about my absence…

The last two months have been an absolute eye opener for me on how much so many of you are dealing with health issues on a daily basis, loved ones and your own!

There’s a reason my health board is in dire straits with the amount of time and money being spent on my Dad and Mr PG on a daily basis almost for blood, wee and poo samples to be delivered…🤦‍♀️. That’s apart from actual X-rays, GP phone calls and face-to-face appointments for BP and Consultant Referrals!

To make things worse my 99year old aunt (Dad’s big sister) is in hospital and I’ve been planning her birthday surprise for the summer…I know, Pantglas plans and God laughs😂

I’m hoping that soon I can start my day under the trees with my chamberpot and feel my equilibrium is settled ready for the challenges to come.

Hope things are easier for those more challenged than me 💐
and may your pancakes be plentiful 😋

Good morning from a cold Bristol. 3C outside, one of the coldest days this year.
Got your pancake cooking on the cards? I’m making some fo4 the FAB cafe tomorrow, with the vicar’s blessing. Last year, he ate 10!
Susan, I hope that your symptoms, etc., are settling down. Georgesgran, I also hope that your dental woes are sorted.
Yesterday went well. Quick Tesco without neighbour’s friend. Chat to the temporary estate manager. She’s really on the ball. We are hoping🤞🤞🤞🤞 that she will decide to stay on as resident manager. She’s certainly keeping Mr. Teflon on his toes.
The WI meeting had a CPR and defibrillator demonstration, which was very interesting.
I was very tired, dozed in front of tv, the was in bed and asleep by 10pm.
Today sort of empty. DD sort of invited me to join the girls and her to an IKEA foray, but I’ve heard nothing since. Not knowing leaves me unable to get struck into anything.
Thoughts to our mountaineers, especially fgt.
Carpe diem 🦩🦩🦩🦩