Good Morning Tuesday 10th March 2026

Good morning from damp South Lanarkshire.

The saga of the wound goes on. We went to the orthopaedic department yesterday and waited, and waited. Eventually the dressing was removed by a nurse who cleaned the wound. Another long wait before the doctor had a look, said it was fine and that the leaking is common. The staples were due to be removed today at our own surgery but the doctor said to leave them till Thursday, have them removed at our surgery then go back to the hospital on Friday so he could check the wound again. It’s a lot of to-ing and fro-ing but reassuring to be told that the wound is looking good.

Charity shop for me this afternoon but I’m having to miss my yarn group while DH is recovering.

DS sent us this video of a squid in the sea at his local beach.

Wishing everyone the best day possible.

The video won’t load but here’s a still.

Good morning, it’s dry and clear skies here in south Glos, a very welcome change from the dismal murk of the last few days.
Little happening here as I await a number of hospital appointments, it’s frustrating.
Take care 🌹

Late Good morning from Bristol. I haven’t looked out, but it was damp and misty yesterday.
I didn’t have such a good day yesterday. After an appalling night, I felt rubbish and, in fac, had about w hours before breakfast.
After no dinner, I really didn’t feel like breakfast, but made myself eat something.
I sat around until it was time to be taken to Tesco. Shopped and came home where I just had plain boiled noodles for lunch, went to bed where I slept for another nearly three hours!
I had planned on not going to my WI committee meeting in the evening, but felt so much better that I did. It was long and painful as the head office wants every single member to sign a form that they were assigned the female sex at birth.
Now quite a few members are trans and have been members for over 40 years, etc. it is a very difficult subject and it is not law yet.
The updated constitution is very ambiguous. On one hand, it says that anyone considered female, including trans, is welcome, in the next breath it refuses access to someone who doesn’t have XX chromosomes… 🤷🤦
Today will be very quiet, with me pottering about, ready for a busy rest of the week - again!
I hope “leakage” saga is sorted out, baubles. And thank you for the bluebell photo llfl, it rings back a lot of memories.
Carpe diem dear friends 🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩

Good morning all from Polmont where it's currently 5° and dry. The sky is clearing. baubles at least your dh is being looked after. Roses I hope you get some answers about your breathlessness.
Yesterday went well. Dgs1 has taken to winding up his wee brother and did it yesterday morning, causing the wee chap to get upset. However I sorted it out. All that drama at 7 in the morning! Once I dropped them off, I nipped to Aldi for juice then home for a welcome nap before heading to the school library for an hour or so. After school, dgs2 decorated the wee tree at my front door and he made fruit salad for his mum using the knife very carefully. I had an early night and was only up a couple of times.
Today I'll collect them and bring them to my house for breakfast before taking them to school. I have no plans for today. Ds is in Cannes and took US clients out last night. Interesting conversations, I'm sure! Have a good day all

Good morning, Michael and all GNs from South Yorkshire where we have a moody sunrise going on, but it is set to be a dry day.

Yesterday I went to the gym, then came home and set to work trying to make the camellia in my garden look a bit better by removing as many of the sickly looking leaves as I could reach (there were a lot), thinning out the interior and soaking the roots with ericaceous feed. Will it work? Who knows. One can but try.

GS has a reading week this week so he will come today to help me cut the top of the side hedge before the birds start looking for nesting sites. It’s pyracantha so a horrible job but he’ll make short work of it with the cordless hedge trimmer. It comes at a price. I have to feed him for the day!

Have the best day you can, folks.

Good morning from a lightening but grey S E Essex.

I am being quiet so as not to wake The Imp, he has to be a school by 8am, but he does like his sleep.

I need to go to the big Sainsbury’s today, (first time since November), laundry bits and bobs, on the plus side they have 25% off of wine.

That’s a worry about your DH’s knee Baubles

Good morning from Kent where it is a cloudy eight degrees.

It was sunny yesterday. That and a visit to the gym made me feel much better after a period of post viral ennui.

I planted twenty Carousel potatoes. Planning on planting some more today, before the Ides of March, my grandfather would say, although it doesn't matter I suppose, when they are planted.

Wishing all a sunny day.

Good morning all.
Just popped in to say that my in laws ,who were all very keen and good gardeners, always planted their potatoes on Good Friday, it was traditional.
Have a good day everyone.

Good morning from Malta where it is cloudy with a high of 17°C.

I walked up to the village yesterday and did my errands plus stopped for a coffee and sat outside to drink it. There was a breeze and it was a gloomy looking day but quite warm.

I went to pick the boys up from school and was happy to see their smiling faces emerge. I took them to their home and had a word with DD3 who was off school with severe anxiety and palpitations. I advised her to go to the doctor and she took my advice ( we can see a doctor when we are unwell here, there’s no waiting ages for an appointment nor do we have to go through hoops, we just phone the doctor on her mobile!)

I took DGS2 home with me as his brother had to go for an eye test (he’s fine). I enjoyed having him and he was his usual sweet self.

I set my alarm for 2am so I could watch Alcaraz and it was a good match after which I fell asleep on the sofa and under the cat so have only just woken up feeling half dead.😴😴

I’ll be collecting the boys again as DD3 was told to stay home today by the doctor who also upped her medication.

What a lot of faffing about baubles but I’m glad your DH is making good progress. Hopefully he will heal nicely after the staples come out and you can get back to a more normal routine.

Roses💐

Thoughts to all, especially those with trials and tribulations. Hoping for a better day for all.🤗

Good morning from Sheffield

A good nights sleep at last. I even slept through the alarm

I will potter about today. I need to sort the fold down bed that we had out for the kids at the weekend.
Then I think I will hoover upstairs, a job not done on a regular basis I’m afraid!

I have a volunteer session at tea time. I am a Samaritan

I will be home at just after 8, so will carry on with the Spider-Man blanket I’m crocheting for my youngest grandson

Take care everyone

Good morning all from a brightening North Leicestershire.

Yesterday was quite exciting - our new cleaners were really good but it was like having a whirlwind in the house. Thankfully, this was a one off and there will only be 2 next time rather than 4.

In the afternoon, we went for a dive around the villages in South Leicestershire.

Today, DH is off to the gym and I should iron

After lunch we are meeting a couple from DH's gym for tea and cake at a cafe in the village. We are not sure why they have invited us and, as they are both very into village 'things', we are concerned that they are looking for fresh volunteers. Watch this space.

Have the best day possible everyone.

Good Morning all from a dull overcast sky central south coast. Still feels chilly too.

A broken night for me with my damaged arm giving me painful twinges. It's always worse in bed. A nap will no doubt feature later.

GM our WI President has decided that she is not going to fill in the intrusive individual " trans forms" and will simply ask the members to have a private word with her if trans applies to anyone. We don't think it does but who knows? Anyway, anybody could simply lie. It all smacks of Big Brother tactics and will cause outrage with some members. I feel National is increasingly out of touch with the main body of members.

Had intended a visit to M&S today to collect some trousers ordered online on Friday for collection Monday but yesterday had a message to say sorry but delayed. Still not heard so far today so will probably not venture out. No problem really - I have a wardrobe full of black trousers but some are now far too big for me and need to go.

As always, thinking of our strugglers and hoping for a better day with some ease and comfort for us all.

Good morning from a much better looking sky this morning with sun making some clouds look pretty.

I’m glad the doctor was reassuring for Mr.Baubles and hope healing continues.

Thank you for all the good wishes about my hospital appointment yesterday. It couldn’t have gone better. I had a very efficient but friendly female echocardiographer and, as predicted, the procedure only took 30 minutes. By mid morning, I was home and within an hour or so I had a phone call from the hospital offering me a telephone consultation with my cardiologist next Tuesday. The NHS at its best! I was able to go to my Move It Or Lose It Class, too, which I enjoyed.

Today, I’ll be at Props before the whole team go out for lunch at a bistro near my home. I recommended it so I hope they like it! We shall be celebrating a couple of birthdays.

I hope everyone has something to make their day worthwhile. 🦩💐🦩🥰🦩

Good morning from s somerset, cloudy today but not the enveloping gloomy sky of late

I am now warm and cosy, the engineer is a lovely person and it was finished in 3.5 hours. I have registered the warranty for 8 years. The same clas boiler but very much upgraded inside, it looks very different internally to the last one. It is working very quietly and adjusts the flow temperature depending on the weather plus required temperature ie will be cheaper to run and the pump etc do not need to keep turning on and off ie it modulates itself

I tidied things away yesterday and did not do another thing apart from knitting, followed by a full nights sleep. I am ready for some exercise today, it needs to be via a walk, still far too mucky ground from where I live for cycling and I have no intention of needing to clean my bike

Good morning everyone from mid Essex. Broken cloud, with little patches of blue showing. Yesterday the mist cleared late morning and we had a few hours of sunshine before the mist came down again. I managed another few minutes in the garden, filled another bucket with weeds.

My dad always planted potatoes on Good Friday too utbb.

baubles a relief that your DH was seen by a doctor yesterday and that the wound will be checked again after the staples have been removed.

I hope all medical appointments go well today and those who are poorly feel a little better.

I hope everyone has the best day they can.

Good morning everyone from Inverness where it’s a dry bright start to the day
What a shame for your DD3 Bellas it must be so difficult for her but good that you’re nearby to help
I’m off to the gym this morning followed by a volunteering session this afternoon, a busy day but enjoyable. No chance of any gardening today but I did get lots done over the weekend
Good to hear you’re warm now llfl - at last!
Thinking of everyone with worries and struggles, hope today is gentle and take care all whatever the day brings 💐

Good morning Mick and all GN's from a still grey morning with no sign of sun in North Yorkshire. I had hoped that I might have a decent night as I hadnt done any major things yesterday but no an absolutely rubbish night, with very little sleep and rotten cramp added to the rest of the hassle. So I need to have a decent coffee and hope that Bach before 7 calms and cheers me. I have people to speak to today and am on a short fuse at the moment.

Yesterday I plodded on with boring but necessary things, and risked washing lots of towels as there was a bit of a breeze, but they said there would be rain too. Back was very painful, but I needed bread and one or two things and so out came the yellow peril. With the situation at the moment and the cost of petrol, I am trying to use the buggy rather than the car as much as possible. However previously I would make a judgement as to how my back was doing and if very painful would choose the car. The potholes are so bad that it makes it difficult trying to avoid them, not get in peoples way, and not jar my back making things worse. I carry on nagging at the council for their shortsighted attitude re the potholes and there are letters in the local paper and pictures of the awful potholes that are causing so much problem for everyone. Of course I have to charge my buggy so it does cost something, but more importantly if my back is made worse it stops me doing what I have planned and costs me yet more pain.

Yesterday morning I was so slow to get going, and my shower didnt seem to help much either. However I wearily carried on and then went down the town for the bread and bits. It looked as though it might rain but wasnt too chilly so actually quite nice to be out in the open admiring a lovely early clematis in one garden and daffodils cheering many others. Got home and admired my own little miniature daffs which looked lovely and then took things in and by which time my washer had finished so got that out on the lines with fingers crossed.

I carried on with bits and pieces and saw there are several things that I need to do checking things but just wasnt in the right frame of mind and totally ignored the laptop, as I knew there would be emails needing replies etc. I worked on simple and straightforward things, didnt want to have to concentrate and make decisions, so hoped that I would feel in a more organising and efficient mood after a decent nights sleep. Huh!!

Bach has just improved my morning and I see more daffodils cheering the garden , but no squirrel or birds in the tree yet. So I shall have to have a little walk round the garden to wake myself up and then get down to put off jobs. There are one or two things that have to go in letters and the way the wretched post office is at the moment, having the cheek to put the price of stamps up when they are not even delivering letters properly. Another scandal by this cheating lying company. If you worked in a company where you promised next day delivery for an extra cost, and not only hadnt met these targets constantly but actually deliberately not delivering them so that you could make more money on something else you would be done for fraud.

Hope you meet some friends today Mick. Baubles do hope things improve for your dh, and soon. It makes things harder that you will have to go to and fro, and your normal routine is messed up and tends to take a while to catch up. commiserations GrandMattie on your rotten night. I can see that the WI situation is rather a conundrum, especially as you say when there are people who have been with you for many years. It would seem wrong for them to be asked to leave now, but it is difficult in other areas to find a solution, in such things as changing areas etc. as we saw with the nurses situation up here. Greyduster good you are having a help with the pyracantha. They certainly know how to bite back, but do give a good show especially in the late autumn.

Oh I am itching to get out and do something in the garden, but my back is not going to let me do anything today. I wish my GS lived nearby. My problem is that it is only a very little garden that is mine - with the larger general garden with the trees etc done by the so called gardeners - who hurtle up and down on a mower but dont take care of plants well. But I really need a little doing regularly but it is only small borders etc and wouldnt be worth a gardener coming for perhaps less than an hour. I am usually quite good at working out plans , but so far havent found anyone who is into gardening. I used to do "skill swaps" with other mums, when my son was young. So I would happily make quite an ornate birthday cake and another friend was happy to sew etc and so we would do things for each other and it worked out fine. I need to think of something similar here, but have been stubbornly determined to do it myself and waiting to feel able to do it, but another thing to be faced rather than hoping for a miracle!!

Ah well the sun has come out a bit and looking a little brighter, so shall try and take a tip from that and enjoy my little walk in the garden. Wishing everyone a calm and happy day

Good morning from a grey W Kent. Plenty of ironing this morning and the U3A monthly talk this afternoon.
Best wishes

Good morning from sunny Leicestershire.

I managed to see one of our lovely doctors yesterday who doesn’t think I have broken anything although I am still in a lot of pain. He has given me some stronger pain killers.

Today will be a day of rest.
I hope everyone has a lovely day.

Morning from a quiet S Hants, dull again.
Glad your boiler is in karma and working well. Enjoy your lunch out Ashcombe
My first day back on the voluntary phone went well, not too busy, good to catch up with people.
Today I’ll be out for a walk as it’s forecast dry.
🦩🦩

Good morning from a drizzly but brightening Cornwall. Had a good time with my daughter-in-law yesterday, the arty one who looks very pre-Raphaelite. Her home is a wonderland of collected tiny items and there's always something new to see. Later in the day I joined a new church group via Whatsapp, who meet not far from me on Wednesdays at lunchtime which is very handy.

Today I must make a banana cake and start to sort my freezer, which I intend to empty before I go away in two weeks' time, as I need to replace it. Quite a bit of miscellaneous eating ahead! 😁 I'll have a walk on our beach later as I'll be glad to breathe the sea air after all that time spent in the kitchen, my least favourite place. 🤣

Good morning everyone from the east coast and it’s looking bright.

Took mum’s little dog to the vets to have her paw checked and re bandaged and it’s looking good. She has to go back Thursday for another new dressing. I woke at 6 am this morning thinking oh no it’s Thursday cake day for Grandson. I am going to have to rush back home from mums to get it in the oven for him as it’s really important his routine is the same. Hoping we get straight in with the vet. I stress about things like this. I’m with mum today so will tell her and maybe my brother could take her and the dog instead.

DGD enjoyed her birthday yesterday. She loved our gifts especially the two Barbie mermaids. When we looked after them last night she insisted I sang Part of your world from the little mermaid while she swished them through the bath water. Good job I know the song word for word and in my head it sounded nice.

Hoping everone with stress, sadness and family worries can find a moment of joy today 🌼

Good morning all from the Black country where the sun is trying to make an appearance.
Hairdressers today and DH needs petrol.
Well the machine has stopped so will put washing out and come back later to catch up with everybody's happenings.
Have a good day folks☀️