Good Morning 1st May 2026 "May Day"

Morning from a sunny S Hants, the lily of the valley posy is a tradition in Françe - to bring luck and happiness.
I had a busy day yesterday just around the house and garden, then an unexpected evening visit from a friend, she’s also my hairdresser.
Today I’m not sure what’s happening, apart from Tesco delivery pm and pub at tea time.
Enjoy your day,
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Good morning all from my bit of Leicestershire which is also sunny.

My visit to the new dentist (a scary experience!!)"went really well - no treatment needed and the staff were so friendly and welcoming. The new cleaner seems to be good and not overwhelmed!!

Lunch was a bit strange - the menu had changed and there wasn't much that was gf. Also, one of our group seems to have lost quite a bit of mental capacity and become deaf.

Today I will go to Waitrose for my top up shop.

Have the best day possible everyone.

Happy May Day Mick and everyone!
It's another sunny, warm day in Carlisle but, sadly, not due to last.
I am back from my week in Malta where I enjoyed a tour of the island. I'd been especially keen to see the Grand Harbour, which lived up to expectations, it is magnificent. Amongst other visits, I loved Gozo and Mdina. Both Mdina and Valletta had masses of visitors. Goodness knows what it's like in July and August. Valletta has big cruise ships come in, on the day I left, I saw 3 come in at dawn.
Anyway, it's back to reality now, re-sorting my stuff and doing the laundry. A Tesco delivery is due today, yesterday I had a quick trip into town to collect a largish prescription I'd ordered before I went so I should be OK for a month now.
I'm hoping for some gardening later and will do a walk through the park as I have a birthday card to post.

Enjoy the day everyone if you can.

Good morning from a bright and sunny Essex coast.
We are off to Norfolk today for a weekend of rugby for the under 12's.
If the weather stays like this it will be good but alas I believe rain is forecast for Sunday.
We are travelling with friends, leaving about 10'sh.
DH still can't see out of his right eye and is having another transplant next Wednesday. Fingers crossed it works.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend xx

Good morning everyone from Inverness where it’s another gorgeous sunny start to the day, really beautiful weather here just now with 22° reached yesterday but not set to last after today
Oh dear Bellas! 🤭
I’ve a gp appointment this morning, I’m going to see if I can get anything stronger for my hayfever which is really bad just now. Then onto the gym for a couple of classes then maybe a coffee in town later.
Enjoy the birthday party this evening Baubles
Thinking of everyone with worries and struggles, hope today is gentle and take care all whatever the day brings 💐

Good morning everyone from mid Essex, blue skies and sunshine again today, a warm day is forecast.
My niece and her DH came to see me yesterday morning, both are retired now and getting used to the freedom! They brought some family photos and documents from her mum’s house, which they are beginning to clear. It was good to see them.

I need to collect my meds at sometime today, and will do a little more weeding - a never ending task. I’m going to have to bite the bullet and get onto the front garden and be careful to only pull up grass and not plants that I’ve put in! Also have to be careful not to end up on my face in the flower bed!

Have a lovely holiday ash, and safe travels to anyone on the move today.

latedecember. I hope you have a good day with your little grandson, I hope he enjoys the story time at the library.

Have the best day you can everyone - May already! The year is going past very quickly.

Good Morning all from a sunny central south coast and it is feeling warmer. We were always told that you only said "white rabbits" when there was an "R" in the month - seems it was different where you were?

An interesting day yesterday as our new neighbours started to move into the next door house, which has been empty for 12 months or more since the lovely lady owner died. Her son and daughter have visited regularly to maintain the property.

I spoke to the couple moving in who have been living with her parents locally for the last 2 years but wanted to stay in the area. Their belonging have been in store so they expect it to be 10 day or more before they are in full residence. Think today will see more things arriving.

We got the pots filled - well I planted after DH did the compost filling and moving the pots around. Then we planted the small rear garden bed and the two small front borders and watered everything well. Looks good and just as I had imagined when planning. No doubt extra plants will find their way in as vacant spots develop.

This morning Tesco will be bringing our groceries and DH is leading a cycle ride to the sea further along the coast for coffee and cake in a walled garden cafe they like.

As always, thoughts are with all those with struggles or troubles of any kind and hopes for some ease and comfort.

Good morning from sunny Leicestershire.

I managed to get a few plants in the garden yesterday before the NWR quiz. Hopefully we will get some rain over the weekend.

We are up early this morning as we need to be in town by 9 to pick up DH’s new hearing aids.
After that it is Pilates.
White asparagus for dinner - a rare treat. You can only buy the white variety in Holland and it is must tastier.

Wishing everyone the best day possible.

Good morning from a still, cloudy Cornwall. No Morris dancing in my town, phew, as I can't abide it! More painting yesterday and we were joined by my daughter-in-law's friend, a young widow. We talked a lot about her husband who died suddenly a year ago. We also had lots of laughs. The lounge is finished and next is my grandson's bedroom; he's chosen deep purple for the walls. I'd made him some little purple origami star boxes which I left on his window sill for him to find.

I noticed the lack of young people when I was in Torbay Ash. I'm so used to seeing students wherever I go here that it came as a surprise!

Today it's granny duty, collecting the eight and ten year olds and taking them back to their house. A jaunt home by bus later.

So many of you up bright and early!
Dry and sunny in Lancashire but rain is forecast for later. It's amazing how quickly the garden dries out, so I have no problem with rain.

Good morning from South Lanarkshire where it’s bright and rather cool just now.

We had a busy day yesterday, lots of tidying inside and out in preparation for a birthday party for a one of the grandchildren this evening.

Today I need to buy a voucher from our local hotel to give as a wedding gift to young neighbours who are getting married tomorrow.

Wishing everyone a good day.

Morning Mick, morning All. Our corner of Somerset is forecast a showery morning. Hope so. It’s very dry out there.

Volunteering this morning, a bag to the tip and Waitrose this afternoon. There’s so much else I need to be doing but until some energy and a clearer head return it’s basics only. I get really irritable feeling like this.

Have the best day you can everyone.

Good morning from s somerset, not as windy today and some sun

Great news for the family yesterday, dsonil went for a career job interview and three hours later had a phone call to say he did a very strong interview. He starts training in four months, an emergency service. Meanwhile he works at a very big lovely leisure company, all outdoor work with people. The best thing he ever did was leave teaching, thanks to a bully male headmaster who could not take the imagined competition from an ex forces officer who was also a superb teacher

Very strong winds here yesterday, they always come here with rise in temperature but I had a good long time on my recliner, reading outdoors. I had to water all my baby plants again, they dry out so fast in the wind. I do think I will be able to get many in the ground in a couple of weeks

I did some plying yesterday and now have to make skeins from that, probably today as I want a cleared table for the weekend.

This and that today, no big plans but I am hoping to put my recliner outside again

Good morning from a bright Black Country, where it is forecast as sunny until the afternoon which may bring thundery showers.

Visiting Mum yesterday is such a sad experience now, her short term memory has completely gone. It makes it worse as she is aware and keeps saying 'I don't want to be like this'.

Yesterday was such a gloriously sunny day, we even ate our evening meal outside. Cheese Omelette and Salad.

May join an organised walk this morning, but would have to be out of the house by 9am, so see how I feel later.

Welcome latedecember

Wishing you the best day possible

Morning all on this May Morning from West Oxfordshire.🐰

Book group was fun yesterday. We looked at various diaries. I spoke about Chips Channon’s three enormous volumes.

OH visited his bees yesterday. They seem to have calmed down. He reckons there will be a lot of honey to take off at the end of this month. It seems to happen earlier each year.

We are out for lunch today to one of our favourite places. Yesterday I made our annual feast with the new season’s asparagus. I always make Hollandaise sauce which we love. It contains three egg yolks and six ounces of butter so it’s a once a year treat.

Have a good day everyone.

Good morning from a bright sunny one in London where we’re staying in a Premier Inn near St. Pancras. It struck me last night how young everyone looks - so many old folk around my home area of Torbay!

We’re booked on the 9.01 Eurostar so an early start. Thank you for the good wishes yesterday. By this evening we should be on board our home for the next seven nights: the Oscar Wilde, sailing The River Rhine.

Wishing you all a happy May Day! 💐

Ooh, itchy ears is the thing that drives me mad with hayfever, GrannyGravy13!

Good morning, a bit of me is hoping it’s going to rain today. I sorted out my pots on the patio yesterday, the soil was bone dry, I have definitely been neglecting them 😢
DH helped me with emptying and refilling some of them - I discovered a very healthy dahlia tuber in one that I’d forgotten about 👏 They were all given a very good watering and I will feed them today.
I have various plants I have bought over the past few weeks online that need transferring into the garden, that’s the plan for today. I’ll probably have to get DH to do most of it.
Usual housework first then out into the garden.
Happy May Day x
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Good morning from Lancashire.
Thankyou for the good wishes and welcome back posted yesterday.

I've been awake since 5am, not because of the little chap, but because of the Jackdaw family nesting in the soffit and fascia above our bedroom window.
The eggs have hatched and I can hear lots of cheeping!
The parents come back every year and are particularly attached to DH's voice. They ignore me, but get very animated if he speaks. 😁

Yesterday was spent at home playing out in the garden. Today I'm going to take him to a storytime session at the library that I've heard good things about.

Wishing everyone the best day possible. 🌻

Good morning, I have just been woken up by the 11yr old. He thought it was 7am not 6am 😡

Will be cooking his breakfast shortly.

My hay fever is rather bad this morning (itchy ears, sore throat etc, and feeling rather blurgh ) or I have caught something

Will see how I feel after a few cups of tea as to whether I go to the gym or not.

DH and I are going to the local Malaysian restaurant for dinner, they are all from just outside Kuala Lumpur, really nice people.

White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits 🐇🐇🐇

Good morning, Michael and all GNs from South Yorkshire. The sun is getting its act together again, but there’s a light frost on the conservatory roof at the moment.

Yesterday’s woodland walk was lovely; swathes of bluebells still and the leaf canopy is filling out. I had lunch with DD and then came home and set to work on my knees weeding the edges of my front rockery where it borders the pavement. My neighbour brought her new cordless lawnmower over to show me as she knows I’m thinking of getting one. She set out to demonstrate what it could do - and the battery ran out! Ah well! I was still impressed.

Early this morning I have someone coming to give me a quote for cleaning all my guttering. There’s a lot of it so I expect to need smelling salts. After that I will walk down to the pharmacy to get my covid jab. A short session at school this afternoon, and that will be my day.

Hope you all have a good one folks.

grandMattie I write everything in my diary. Trouble is I forget to look at it and, as I usually have my appointment on a Friday, I get thrown by all these wretched public holidays. I think Malta and Ireland have 14 of them!

Bellasnana how annoying for you! I have everything in three places, a paper calendar, on the fridge door and in my phone. That way, I rarely forget

White rabbits 🐇 🐇🐇 from an overcast Bristol.
It’s not as chilly as in the last few days. Yesterday’s diurnal variation was 13 degrees - too much!
May Day - is anyone going to hear choirs singing in the day, or seeing Morris dancing at dawn as the family is doing?
Thursday was quiet, I went into town and had a generally successful shop. After lunch I did my Spanish homework, I didn’t finish it as I found some bits too hard.
Today, after my class, I’m going over to the church hall to replace the covering of the remaining sound boards. Then, while I’m there, I’ll do my cleaning stint in the church.
Carpe diem 🦩🦩🦩🦩

Good morning all from Polmont where it's currently 3° and dry. There's a lovely clear sky which sadly has not to last.
Yesterday was a repeat of the day before. I did the ironing and put the clothes away. Then more clearing out the boys room and more weeding of the front garden. I had a lazy afternoon watching tv.
Today I have no plans. There's an in service day so I won't be going to the school. If it stays dry, I'll do more weeding. It's endless! I will probably change the sheets etc and wash them. Have a good day all.