Good Morning Tuesday 3rd March 2026

Morning Mick, morning All. Light cloud over our corner of Somerset.

Time in the garden yesterday did me the power of good, a treat to be out in the sun

Routine today. Grocery delivery, dust removal and maybe a nap this afternoon after a largely sleepless night.

Good to see you fgt 🌷. Go carefully mick, do you know why you fell?

Best wishes to everyone and a hope this Tuesday is gentle with us all.

Lovely to see you fgt, thinking of you.

marzipan my DGD’s school organises a ‘colour run’ during the summer term, raising funds for the school. There’s usually a refreshment term and craft stalls etc to add to the fun.

Good morning everyone from mid Essex, where it’s sunny, dry and a chilly 3 degrees. Yesterday was such a lovely day, warm in the sunshine. I had a walk then cleaned the shower and did a little gardening. Saw my friend with dementia in the afternoon. One of my nieces is on her way home to Australia today, having had to rebook her flight with a different airline, via Singapore instead of Dubai as originally scheduled.

mick I hope that your leg feels better today, rest if you can.

Lots of busy grans this morning, not sure what I’ll do, will go for my usual walk and maybe a bit more gardening if my back allows it! I charged the battery for the lawn mower yesterday, in case my next door neighbour wants to borrow it to cut the grass in front of our houses. My friend is getting his petrol mower ready too. I heard several lawnmowers yesterday, the sound of spring and summer!

Thinking of all those who are struggling at the moment, may life get a little easier for you.

Have the best day possible everyone, I hope we all have some sunshine.

How lovely to see you, FriedGreenTomatoes2! 💐

Sending you lots of love FGT lovely to hear from you. 💐

Good morning from a misty Torbay following a fine and sunny one yesterday.

I’m sorry you’ve had a fall, Michael, and hope any discomfort will ease with rest.

The news around the world is so disturbing that I also find it difficult to watch, Bellasnana. Yesterday, I was speaking to someone at my exercise class whose niece works in Dubai. Apparently, they are safe at the moment, but there’s a great deal of activity in the skies over the city.

I haven’t slept well, but plan to go to the theatre to meet up with the Props team as usual on a Tuesday morning. The lady in charge always finds things that need doing and kindly tailors them to suit our capabilities which, in my case, are fairly limited!

Have a good day, if possible. 🦩💐🦩🥰🦩

Good morning from a fine day on the east coast.
It’s going to be mild and sunny so I could do with going in the garden and trying to clear all the weeds from the veg patch and any other ones I may find ready for the garden bin to go out. I need to take a bag of clothes to the charity shop and pick up a parcel from the Amazon locker so i’ll have a walk. My walk yesterday was only half as long as a kind neighbour asked if I’d like a lift home. I didn’t have the heart to say no it was so kind of him to stop for me.
My knee is a little sore as it twisted as I was getting in my car when I went to pick up GS I was so annoyed with myself I did that.

GS had a good day at school just one little wobble were his teacher’s words and the little ladies were as gorgeous as ever last night. GD1 decided she wanted DH to dress her as a princess after her bath she always comes down from her bath in costume and last week it was Spider-Man. She appeared looking so beautiful in a Glinda outfit and took my breath away. I sometimes forget she’s only 7.

Mick sorry you had a fall yesterday. Take care 💐

Hope everyone finds a spark of joy in their day today. 🌼

Good morning from Cornwall where the sky is clear and bright. Yesterday I created chaos by dismantling my two single beds in my two rooms and swapping them over. A lot of dragging, lifting, manoeuvring and rebuilding but the job was done by the afternoon. Both bed bases are fabric-covered, one is denim blue, the other mustard and they look better in their new rooms. At one point my son offered help if I got stuck but I knew I could complete the task on my own.

Today I'm off to my other son's village to throw coloured powder 😆 over my grandchildren as they run around the village green. Will ask why once I get there. A sponsored something or other. 😂 Thence on two buses just in time for my silversmithing session. Tonight we're making cabuchon rings but I'm taking a piece of beach-found ceramic which I want to use instead of a stone.

Hope your ankle feels better soon Mick so you can resume your bus trips.

Good morning from Durham. Dry, but windy here.
Sorry to hear about your fall Mick, I think I’d rest up and give your travels a miss today.
I got a few jobs done yesterday, before visiting my post-op friend, who seems to be recovering extremely well.
I’m meeting a friend at a different cafe this morning, as she has to shoot off afterwards to do ‘something’ with her DGD. Her DGC are 17 and 13, but she’s been completely immersed in their lives since birth.
I need to get milk and biscuits, then I’m going to DD2’s to collect Little Dog, as I’ve volunteered to have him for a few days - it gets me out for a walk and helps her DH, while his Mum’s still in hospital.

Best wishes to all. X

Good morning everyone from south Manchester where it’s dry and seems mild enough.

Our (my?) Yorkshire Lass drive over after work yesterday as she has a day off work today and fancied spending an evening here. She’s still fast asleep. It was lovely chatting about Himself we shed a few tears (natch) but had a few giggles too about things he did.

It’s such early days into my new life without my darling man. I’ve done nearly all the necessary admin now as, in accordance with his wishes, there is to be no attended funeral so I’ve nothing g to arrange. A family friend is a funeral director and direct cremation is being arranged.

Early days and baby steps eh?

It goes without saying how very much I have appreciated all the kindness extended to me on here. Virtual friends indeed and it has meant so much to me especially during some highly anxious and emotional days.
xx

Morning Mick and all GN's from a dark and still morning in North Yorkshire. It has taken me all of 20 minutes to get onto GN. Dont know why but it just kept giving me blank when I tried to start in my normal way, so have done a lot of messing about and trying to get in until now, but at last here I am.

I did not feel I could add Good to my greeting, as neither world news nor my feelings today warrant it! Have had a horrible night and very little sleep as my cough seems to have decided to take over as the latest thing to deny me a decent night. So this morning all the usual aches and pains have added ribs hurting to the collection,

Thank goodness for my one lovely cheering thing as I came into this room. Went mad yesterday and bought some beautiful jonquils for £2. Their perfume is so wonderful and I have them in a vase with my little sprigs of catkins that are coming out well, brought from swaledale. How glad I am to see and smell them to lift my spirits from everything. My granny used to grow and sell daffodils from her farm, and this is the wonderful perfume that used to greet us in the early morning. You opened the shed doors where all the daffodils we had picked and bunched the night before were stood in big pails and the scent came out to greet you. Oh I wish that there was a perfume that captured this wonderful smell.

I was very tired yesterday and for some time was under the delusion that it was sunday!! I did two lots of washing. One was the new duvet cover and pillow slips and then just the usual clothes and underwear and risked putting them all out. Fortune favoured the brave, and they were a bit damp when I got them all in just as it was about to rain, but another cheering thing to feel that just for the moment everything is clean and smelling lovely from drying outside. Getting down to ironing the already quite high mountain of ironing is the main intention for today.

I spent most of yesterday trying to get things back to normal after my adventures with binoculars etc, but it all seemed to take a long time to get going. Did quite a bit of sorting out car, then kitchen and going through the fridge and cleaning the shelves before I went to the supermarket to get a few basics and milk. So not got everything done, more bits to catch up with and I need to look through letters and diary and calendar, as there have been one or two things that people have told me about and I have made a note but dont think I have written them all up on the calendar and dont want to find myself either double booked or still sat here when I should be somewhere else. That is one thing about living alone isnt it? When my husband was alive I dont think I worried about this much at all, and nor did he. You sort of assume with two of you, someone will remember everything. Probably totally false but once you are alone you know it is all on your shoulders.

The car is still looking filthy with mud splashed up on the side windows too, but they reckon we shall have a few showers today so that can give it a rinse. Certainly havent got the strength or mobility to have a go at cleaning it and the inside also wants a good sorting out too. Ah well no one else will be likely to see it for now so it can just wait. I made quite a nice "bitsa" lunch yesterday . Had some cooked rice and so Imade up a concoction of chopped celery and fresh onion sliced and fried in a little oil and then chopped up a slice of ham and added some chile dressing and it tasted very good and used up all the bits, followed by a small amount of lovely forced rhubarb with a treat of a little cream, so little effort, and a good result and used up all the stuff from the fridge. So a very quiet domestic day for me today, hope there is some good music or a play to listen too whilst I do the ironing and attempt to get the flat looking a bit less untidy.

Mick I was sorry to read about your fall. Do hope it improves today for you, but it shakes you up too doesnt it?GrandMattie you will certainly be kept busy with baking for so many. Hope all goes well with it. Lovely to have had a chat with your DS too. Bellasnana, my son and grandson both were keen on dinasours over the years and so I got to learn all the different names and would be swiftly corrected if I misnamed one.They seem to be a popular subject with many children and there are always models and books about them around, Karmalady sounds as though you did well with your boiler quote and you should have a very satisfying time getting your patio as you like it.

Just this moment am in a lovely place with Bach s St Matthew Passion on the radio and the perfume of my jonquils. May you all find some special moments in the day to cheer you all

Good morning from Shropshire.

Thank you for all the birthday wishes yesterday.I had a lovely day.Today I am going for a spa day with DD1.

Sorry you had a fall Mick.Take it easy.

Thoughts with all struggling.I hope we hear from Roses today.

Wishing everyone the best day possible 🦩🌻

Good morning from S E Essex.

Sorry to hear you have fallen Mick take these easy fro a couple of days and hopefully you will be ok.

Waiting for The Imp to wake up then I will cook his breakfast and get him ready for school at 8am.

Good morning from Cambridgeshire. I’m sorry to hear about your fall Mick rest up today and take care.

I’m also planning some baking today making cupcakes for the grandchildren and hopefully a walk before school pick up today. It is Book Club tonight.

Wishing everyone a happy peaceful day

Good morning, Michael and all GNs from South Yorkshire where it’s just getting light. Take it easy on that leg, Mick. Rest it.

Yesterday was a lost day, but in the evening DD and SiL turned up unexpectedly with some of his lovely chicken and vegetable soup and home made bread and stayed to eat it. I was beyond glad to see them, but I was tired and when they’d gone I went to bed.

Today I have what I hope will be the last appointment to rid my left ear of its stubborn wax. I shall have to find a different way to get to clinic though as the main road to the village it’s in is still blocked. It will mean a significant detour.

School this afternoon.

Have the best day you can, folks.

Good morning all from Polmont where its currently 2° with clear skies. Mick i hope you are ok today. Karma it'll be a messy job!
Yesterday went as expected. The boys were well behaved in the morning (not always the case!) I dropped them off and headed to aldi for lentils. A fruitless trip as they didn't have any so up to Tesco for some. Dgs2 had specifically asked for "grandma's soup." And who am I to deny the boy soup? After I made soup, I had an early nap then tidied up. I needed to find my birth certificate for the form I had to fill in. Fortunately I have all life admin things in an a-z folder so it was easily got. I did an hour or so in the school library before picking up the boys. Then ds sent a message to say he would call in with a present for his sister. Although he didn't stay long, it was lovely to see both my children.
I've had a decent sleep but woke with a headache. I'll pick up the boys and bring them back to my house for pancakes then get them to school. I'm hoping to catch the fish man again today as last week's lemon sole was delicious. Otherwise, a pottering day. Have a good day all.

Morning all from West Oxfordshire. Sorry to hear about your fall Mick.

It was good yesterday to have the house cleaned and the garden sorted. Our gardener had to prune some of our roses already.

I am seeing friends this afternoon. I said I would take a cake so will see what I have stashed in the freezer.

OH is having a cortisone injection in one of his knees today. The other will be done in a fortnight. He was pleased his car passed its MOT yesterday. He had forgotten it ran out last week! I suggested he rang the garage first thing and they fitted him in.

My cousin’s daughter, her husband and three children live in Dubai so we hope they are safe.

Have a good day. Spring is in the air,

FGT2 🌹

Good morning from Sheffield

I will go for an early walk this morning
I have just remembered I didn’t bring my washing in yesterday. Don’t know what state that will be in. Don’t you find that washing left out all night doesn’t seem clean anymore and it has a strange smell?

I have absolutely nothing planned to do today. I may, if weather permits potter in the garden

Take care everyone

Good morning from cloudy s somerset

My boiler quote arrived and I quickly accepted, it was far cheaper than I expected.

I think I will start my patio cleaning today, with karcher and stonewash fluid. It could take me three days and will be a satisfying job, with wellies on. Only last year my big L shaped patio was pretty full of pots and veg trugs, not any more. Getting rid, downsizing, was an awful lot of work, I need to do the cleaning anyway, to even out the colour on the slabs. I may well, start with my drive, pavers so I need to use the rotating flat brush, not the high pressure wand

It is going to be a satisfying day

Good morning from Malta where a cloudy, hazy day is forecast with a high of 17°C.

So sorry you had a fall Mick, take it easy before you venture out if your ankle is painful.

Didn’t do much yesterday but fell asleep from noon until 2pm, no idea why I’m so tired these days.

The boys came at 3pm, DGS2 was asleep so DGS1 had my full attention (DD3 also curled up on my armchair and had a nap).
He knows so many dinosaur names I’m quite impressed! I didn’t realise quite how many different ones there were.

I really enjoyed their company until they were whisked off to their swimming lesson.

I’m looking forward to the tennis starting in Indian Wells tomorrow although a few of the players are stranded in Dubai.

I made the mistake of watching the news yesterday and it really made me despair. What a world we are living in.😞

Wishing you all a good day.☀️

…letter from Indian bank sent to this address! Sorry

Good morning from Bristol. Dry and milder today - I did manage to dry a load of washing in the afternoon.
Mick, I’m sorry about your fall and hope you manage to get out and about soon.
I did go to Tesco in the end yesterday. Phew. Today will be full on baking. I shall buy biscuits to cover the shortfall. I’m not going to bust a gut in case there is too much…
I spoke to DS yesterday as what appeared to be an urgent letter from his Indian bank. He’s been having terrible problems getting his rather large balance transferred out. The letter, by airmail, was dated 13 January! He’s managed to sort most things out and the letter was redundant. It was nice chatting to him though.
Hope everything goes well with you all, despite hiccups.
Carpe diem 🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩