Good Morning Monday 16th March 2026

Good morning from Bristol. The weather turned awful, with squally hail showers all afternoon.
I filled myself to the gunwales with ginger to lessen the permanent nausea, took a taxi (big treat) instead of faffing about with buses and headed to DD’s church for Mothering Sunday. DD1 rushed up to me as usual for a kiss and a hug; she is so affectionate.
As usual I was a soggy mess, crying through most of the service. I miss DH horribly in church; he was inordinately proud of his daughter’s achievements and absolved attending her services.
The children did a sterling job running the show; the posies (see photo) were gorgeous and everything went really well. Being “the boss’s” mother, it can be a bit odd being there; people either gush or avoid me, and being naturally introverted, I often find these situations difficult.
I was showered with lovely the family, and given several small, delightful presents and cards.
Once home, I spent a quiet afternoon. I started to watch the “Other Bennett Girl”. It is delightful. Highly recommended.
My health seems to have turned a corner. I have a little appetite, the nausea is fading, etc. so perhaps, I’ll postpone speaking to GP if it carries on. It has been so very unlike me.
Today, the dreaded WI meeting with the resignation of99% of the committee. It’s going to be a hard afternoon.
I trust you all have had a happy weekend, feel better,and all is improving. Carpe diem 🦩🌺🦩🌹🦩🌷🦩🦩

Good morning all from Polmont where it's currently 3° and damp. The sky is gradually lightening. I hope you had a nice time Mick.
Yesterday was a lovely day. My aunt picked me up and we had a wonderful time at dds. Her afternoon tea was delicious. Homemade sausage rolls, pastry pinwheels, a selection of sandwiches, smoked salmon blinis, mini lemon tarts, brownies, eclairs and macarons. She had gone to such trouble. The boys were well behaved too. We left just as they were getting wild - probably a sugar rush. When I got home a parcel had been delivered from ds. He doesn't usually bother so that was a pleasant surprise. I didn't need any dinner but ate a slice of toast.
Today is early childcare day. I'll head to dds soon. After I've dropped off the boys, I'll come home for a nap. Later I'll do an hour in the school library. The boys will be picked up from my house later. Have a good day all.

Good morning all from a dry and dark north wales where I’m up with sparrowfart exited at another Bingo Jolly, this time to Susan’s patch…Shrewsbury 👋 (hope your DD is doing better 💐)

Lovely wreath Annapops, an eye for colour and nimble fingers 👍. Belated birthday greetings to Georgesgran 🥂 and anyone else with occasion to celebrate 🥳

Here’s a picture of our adventurous wild Welsh Mountain Ponies who’ve invaded the parish hall grounds, luscious grass with all the rain we’ve “enjoyed” recently 🤨

The Head Plumber will instal a new 🚽 whilst I’m away, he insisted my advice/oversight would be much missed…😉

I shall be checking up on your mischiefs and meanderings x

Good morning from Malta where it’s a grey, rainy day with a positively arctic high of 13°C😂

It’s my day for having Milo dog whilst their cleaner does her stuff so I must get up soon as he usually arrives very early.
Looks like it won’t be a good day for a walk, unfortunately.

Watched the Indian Wells final last night, honestly thought it was a bit boring and would have been much more exciting had Alcaraz been playing, but glad Sinner won.

DS and his gf arrived late last night and are asleep in my spare room. They will be taking Winston with them later.😭😭

So glad you had a good day yesterday and that you are feeling a bit better grandMattie.

Sounds like you had a lovely day yesterday too Grandmabatty.

Wishing you all a good day.🤗

Good morning from a breezy morning in Torbay following squally showers yesterday.

My Mothering Sunday was a quiet one, following the church service where all the ladies received posies of Spring flowers. Not everyone there was a mother so I was pleased that the priest spoke of godmothers, adoptive mothers and those who had taken on a motherly role in their professional or personal life. At home, flowers and a card were delivered by Royal Mail. Our posties seem to work seven days a week but I know other parts of the country do not receive a good service.

I agree regarding The Other Bennett Girl, grandMattie and thought the leading rôle was well cast.

Enjoy whatever you have planned for today. 🦩🥰🦩💐🦩

Good morning, it’s a tad damp around the edges here on the hillside in south Glos. The squalls yesterday afternoon have battered the blossoms on the hawthorn and almond trees and it had decorated the cars as we walked the dogs late afternoon.
I have started an embroidery so I will carry on with it today after the usual chores. I have ironing to do first.
Best wishes to you all x

Good morning from Shropshire.A sunny day forecast.

I had a lovely day yesterday with some lovely gifts.I spoke to mum who was quite lucid.I hadn’t gone to see her as I was meant to have a cardiology appointment (cancelled😠)so had asked my brother to visit.He was there when I rang so we had a chat too.
We will visit tomorrow.

Today we are off to Staffordshire to collect DGS1 from school.A few phone calls to make first but hopefully we can leave a bit earlier to get some shopping done.

Enjoy Shrewsbury Pantglas and glad you are feeling better grandMattie.

Thinking of all struggling and wishing everyone a good day 🦩🌻

Good morning from a dark but dry (well, that's a change) Cornwall. Yesterday was delightful. After a lovely church service, where the minister reviewed the last year and told us about the work of the youth group and toddlers gave out flowers, my son and I took off on a random trip with the aim of avoiding crowds and clamour (it was too muddy to tackle the piano hunt) and took in Starbucks, the Range and McDonald's, which were almost deserted. 😂 Then we drove to the north coast and ended up at this virtually empty cove, one which I can't reach by bus, so that was a treat. The sea was breathtaking. A wonderful day.

Today I was meant to be at my monthly prayer meeting but it has been cancelled so I have the bliss of a free day to go wherever. Yippee.

Good morning, Michael and all GNs from South Yorkshire where the sky is salmon pink with the rising sun and rain is forecast later.

Yesterday’s Mothers Day lunch was delicious. The pub was very busy and the young serving staff were run off their feet but unfailingly cheerful. I didn’t get flowers from DD this year but three lovely books of poetry by favourite authors instead. They will keep me engrossed and amused for a long time.

The chiropodist is coming this morning and then I’m off out to have coffee with a friend.

Have the best day you can, folks.

Good morning from a lightening N Surrey. The sky is a very pale turquoise. Still feels chilly.
I really enjoyed The Other Bennett Girl as well. I watched 3 episodes before bed. Well cast. And you really felt the desperation to make a good match and the fear of spinsterhood.

Good morning from Durham. I’ve had a very disturbed night with an unpleasant dream, which I can remember in detail.

A cold, dry day forecast, so I hope to get DD2’s laundry dry.
A lovely afternoon out for lunch with DD1 and family yesterday - a shame the food and service weren’t up to standard, not cheap either. We didn’t leave a tip.

My Monday morning friend has medical stuff this morning, so we’re going to meet up this afternoon. I wish she’d commit to a holiday now that DD2 has given me her holiday dates, where I’m needed to help out with DGS2 and look after the dog.

Job for today is to contact the aerial man, as a neighbours mighty sycamore is blocking my signal and will only get worse when the leaves appear.

Best wishes to all. X

Morning Mick, morning All from a chilly, damp corner of Somerset.

Heavy rain showers encouraged an indoors day yesterday. Gifts of flowers were appreciated, the very posh blondies looked a work of art but sadly I’m not a fan. Mr C of the sweet tooth was delighted, I’m sure we were meant share them 🤞.

Finally finished reorganising the office cupboard - no space for a filing cabinet - Mr C said he was almost certain he could find things now. Hmm! Responded to messages, one from our former daughter in law was very touching. I took the opportunity to catch up with a tv programme or two Mr C dislikes while he had a long afternoon nap and generally had a good enough day.

A far too early blood test this morning. Friends will be here for coffee later then I’ll begin my pre visitors count down list. A little each day is the theory. Will it work? We’ll see!

Best wishes to all. Have the best day you can everyone.

Oops its The Other Bennet Sister.

Good morning from cool cloudy s somerset

A lovely day yesterday,I was spoilt and felt very appreciated and loved

A full day for me, I mended a trolley that lost a castor 2 years ago, now castorless with felt pads on the ends of its legs. It is a very useful bit of storage in my sewing room

Then I spent hours chopping and changing a warm toile, a roomy top that I really want to wear but the neck was horrible, too baggy. I found the fabric remnants, cut out a new back and front with a changed neckline. Unpicked sleeves and ribbing and now have a new top that fits like a dream.

I still need to discard items from my wardrobe, I was going to discard that top, would have been a shame. Back to square one

Good morning from soggy South Lanarkshire.

This horrible rain is interminable.

I was exhausted last night and slept almost as soon as I fell into bed. All I have on today is a supermarket delivery and walking the dog.

Wishing everyone the best day possible.

Good morning all from the Black country.
Today I'm meeting DS for lunch, don't normally eat in the middle of the day so shall skip breakfast.
DH has his fishing AGM this evening so the time will be my own.
Pantglas enjoy your jolly.
Best wishes to all have a good day☀️.

Good morning Mick and all GN'son a still clear morning, No frost but feels quite cold already,so still need winter stuff on. Another bad night with cramp etc. I am so fed up with lack of sleep that I have resolved to go down to the surgery and attempt to book an appointment with the doctors. I have to go out for some shopping anyway and it is probably going to be a lot easier than sitting hanging on the phone for the endless queue for half an hour.

Yesterday was very cold and grey and miserable day, and I felt very weary and quite happy to just stay in for the day. I did poke my nose out a couple of times thinking that I would at least walk round and look at the daffodils but it was bitterly cold and I swiftly came back in and closed the door, and just looked at the flowers through the window! I was so pleased we had had our lovely day out on saturday.

It took me such a long time to get myself showered and dressed, and that was the theme for the day. Whatever I tackled seemed to take me much longer than I thought. However I did make some inroads into the mess, and got all the washing up done and the kitchen looking clean and tidy, but it really needs reorganising more to suit my back , and putting all the things I use the most of in the middle level of shelves. I need to get a choice of tins etc all at that level , so that when my back is very bad I dont have to either stoop or reach up. So I need to think of the things I use most and then wait until I have someone here who can rearrange stuff for me. Cant do it myself at the moment.

I was slowly doing things and enjoying my music when heard the letter box go and went to check and there was a mothers day card from my son and family delivered by the moonpig people. It was a lovely card and given the problems with the po at the moment it did mean that I actually got it on the right day. It was my oldest friends birthday yesterday and I had sent her a card with a first class stamp (something I rarely do) to hope that she got it in time, but you just cant trust the po at the moment.

A bit later my son rang and we had a catch up. His firm had been taken over very recently and he says they are basically asset stripping the firm and several of them, him included, were made redundant , so he was doing agency work at the moment. However he has seen a transport manager wanted advert and fingers crossed that he gets the job, he is in with a good chance hopefully, as it is a firm that he worked for a long time ago and so they know him and his good attitude to work, so it might give him an edge at an interview. I used to say to him when he was young that it was always best if he could leave a company in a decent way, because then you can always go back to them in the future, so who knows it may work out right. Hope so.

I stayed in all day and got a fair bit done , but my back was very bad so abandoned the idea of the ironing. I plodded on and read my Yorkshire post from cover to cover and did a bit of sudoko and the crossword and that was quite enough. So today when I can get myself going I need to sally forth on the yellow peril and get some basics , bread ,milk, and hopefully looking in the shop windows for something for dinner tonight. I did treat myself last night and defrosted a duck leg , which was very enjoyable for dinner and even had a glass of wine with it. Did not miss being out in the very crowded restaurants and watched the other bennet sister. Thought it was good and look forward to the next episode, but for me I always think of Alison Steadman as the best Mrs Bennett, and have her in my mind . Anyway looks promising.

Glad you had a good visit with your sister Mick. Do you find you have that mixed feeling, when you have had a visitor? You look forward to them coming and enjoy your time together, but also when they leave there is a different sort of relaxing as you get back to your own routine? I do think that living alone you have a pattern that evolves and you may not even realize it yourself until someone else is there and they do things differently. Once they have left there is a sort of pleasure in doing things your way and having your coffee in your favourite chair at your "normal" time.GrandMattie glad to hear that you are improving a little and hope it continues. I hope that the meeting today goes as well as possible and you can come home and rest. I also enjoyed the Bennett girl.
Grandmabatty that tea sounded delicious. Susan56 glad you had a good day.Marzipan wish I had a tardis to just be in cornwall today. I used to come down so often and miss seeing it, but think the only practical way from here would be either by train or fly. Ah well maybe one day.

Well the sun is just beginning to show but still looks cold. Think I shall stick some washing in before I venture forth on my shopping trip. Wishing you all a positive day today , enjoying seeing some flowers in gardens to tell us that spring is coming.

Morning all from a damp and grey West Oxfordshire.

Yesterday was good. Flowers from both sons and chocolate from my daughter. Daughter stayed overnight and we had a delicious lunch at a nearby restaurant.

I too watched the first couple of episodes of The Other Bennet Sister. I will reserve judgement. I thought Mr and Mrs Bennet were beautifully cast but I’m not sure the book (which I’ve read and is very good) was totally kept to!

Our cleaner should be here this morning. I have the last of my diabetes prevention meetings and I will do a Waitrose trip afterwards. OH has now been invited to the same set of meetings but is waiting for the official phone call.

Have a good day.

Good morning everyone from mid Essex. There’s high cloud, but it’s quite bright and breezy. I think a showery day may be forecast. DDs came to see me yesterday, with the eldest and youngest DGDs. Traffic was bad so they were unable to shop for lunch, fortunately I had a quiche in the freezer, some salad and some smoked salmon, so enough for us all for lunch. I felt quite sad when they’d gone and but forced myself to boil up the chicken carcass from Saturday to make soup today.
It would have been my DH’s birthday today, so will take some flowers to his grave today. I must also do some ironing.

pantglas enjoy your trip to Shrewsbury.

corner well done for reorganising your office cupboard. Mine also needs some organising, but at the moment there’s too much stuff in front of it so access is restricted. Another task for the ‘to do’ list!

grandmattie I hope that your health continues to improve and that the WI meeting this afternoon isn’t too difficult.

Best wishes to all those with medical appointments today, hoping for good outcomes for you all. Also thinking of those who are anxious for any reason.

Have as good a day as is possible everyone.

Good morning Mick and everybody from cloudy Carlisle. It was raining heavily when I went to bed last night.
I went for an early walk yesterday morning, the park was practically deserted apart from 2 or 3 dog walkers and a cyclist who narrowly missed mowing me down. A pedestrian just isn't safe on the paths these days with ignorant people on various wheels.
The rest of the day was quiet with various little tidying up jobs interspersed with reading.

Today, it's into town for yet another prescription, if only it could be one big collection once a month!
It will be back to bed changing and vacuuming plus admin. Hopefully a quiet afternoon of reading follows.

Best wishes everyone.

Good morning from N. Bucks where a mainly cloudy day is forecast.
A lovely meal yesterday with all 3 DDs and eldest DGS turned up to have dinner with his Mum too. The younger ones had treated DD3 earlier.
Today I have an on line art class at 10am. I also need to contact the GP surgery to see if there are any results re. my recent eye problem. Otherwise we’ll see how the day goes.
Thoughts as usual with those who are poorly or troubled in any way and a good day wished for all.

Good Morning all from a cloudy and damp central south coast. We are promised sunshine later.

I have an early dental check up this morning and an old friend is calling late morning, on a return visit to our area from her new location on the east coast. Will be good to see her. It's DS's birthday today and hard to believe that he is 55 today. Also, the window cleaner is coming to do his stuff, I have a bit of ironing to do and a button to sew on DH's shirt. Then I can catch up on my other "stuff"! Not my usual quiet Monday.

Glad you feel a little better GM and managed to go to your DD's service. I used to have a ginger biscuit before getting out of bed, when pregnant with DS and having bad nausea when first wakening. It helped a bit.

Kind thoughts of all our strugglers and hope today brings some ease and comfort.

Good morning from Cambridgeshire where it feels chilly but no rain.

I enjoyed a lovely lunch out yesterday in a local pub with DD2 and family but it was so busy and so very noisy. I was quite pleased to retreat home but the DGC were quite difficult yesterday (effects of a few late nights at Daddy’s house and an early handover). It continues to be a worrying situation. DD1 sent flowers and we had a lovely long chat late afternoon.

Today we need to go over to DD2’s as some of her shed roof has blown off in the gusty winds the last few days and possibly prune her roses. She will be working from home so it will be a brief visit. Do the necessary which probably includes some washing up 😂 We will then take the day as it comes. A ballet pick up later and possibly a little person will arrive to play chess at some point.

Hoping everyone has a good day 🌸

Good morning from an overcast W Kent. A happy day yesterday with a FaceTime with DD1, a visit from DD2 and lunch with DS and family.
As I got into bed last night read about the outbreak of meningitis at DGD2’s University, she is at home for Easter but did have slight contact with someone involved. 111 have been contacted but I don’t know what happened. A terrible illness
Today my cleaner should be here and I shall be ironing.
I enjoyed The Other Bennet Sister very much, what a nightmare trying to marry off 5 girls, it was difficult enough with two 😂