Good Morning Sunday 28th June 2026

Good morning all from the Scottish Borders.
It's cool and quiet after high winds yesterday.
I am supposed to be considering the offer on my house and I am minded to accept it despite it being a bit lower than the asking price.

I felt happy with the couple's enthusiasm and not fear of taking on this old pile.

Meanwhile I am still nursing my painful
back. I must do some food shopping. I'll take the trolley so I don't have to carry a heavy rucksack.

Such a shock when old friends go UTBB

I have lost contact with a couple of people due to their change of number or address.
Mind you, they know mine! 😅

Thinking of all the poorly ones on here and also the holiday makers.
Enjoy Málaga again FGT
Enjoy your family day GM
Thailand sounds good Baubles

How funny your tiddler sounds R&L 😄

Keep cool everyone.

… the heat will be back…

Good morning everyone from Inverness where it’s a lovely sunny start to the day and a high of just 20° forecast
So sorry to hear about the loss of your friend Uttb
I’ll be out most of today as there’s a line dancing social event this afternoon but I’m going along early to help set up the tables and decorate the room. It’s a butterfly themed event to support a local charity, I was busy yesterday sewing appliqué butterflies onto a Tshirt and making a few table decorations. There’s a couple of singers coming along so we’ll enjoy some live music as well as the usual drinks and food to share.
Have a lovely day today BlueSapphire it sounds wonderful and very well organised
Thinking of everyone with worries and struggles, hope today is gentle and take care all whatever the day brings 💐

Good morning Mick and everyone from grey Carlisle. It is 17°C outside but much warmer and very stuffy inside in spite of the windows being open all night.
I should be out on a walk but it has just started raining lightly. If it doesn't get worse, I shall go anyway.
It was a tad cooler yesterday and I managed to get out in the garden and give my black elder a pruning. I want to encourage it upwards not sideways to smother other things. That was it, I am just not up to anything physical and I'm getting bored, I'm not someone who's happy sitting about inside.

I'll probably be moaning about greyness and rain next week!

Have a good Sunday everyone.

Morning all from a relatively cooler West Oxfordshire. It was supposed to have been cooler yesterday, but ‘they’ lied! I barely went out and sat in the lounge with the fan on. I managed to do some ironing but felt quite queasy.

Today will be equally quiet. OH will take over the kitchen where he will take off lots of honey and store it for a short time. The bits of bees etc will ruse to the surface so he can lift it off. Something like that anyway.

Have a good day everyone. Savour the slightly colder weather because it will be back in a week!

Good morning Mick and all from a cooler fresher Morecambe Bay. The forecast is for more blue sky, but hopefully not so hot.
Plans for today include an early longish dog walk followed by church. DH has various jobs to do now it’s cooler so I will get on with more sorting. We have a full diary for next week and it doesn’t include catching up with my gardening jobs which will have to be fitted in somehow as we are off again on our travels in just over a weeks time. I only have two gardens to look after these days as well as mine and the church garden, but they seem to take up a disproportionate amount of time.
Take care everyone 🌸

Good morning from Suffolk where the temp is just a couple of degrees cooler than yesterday when,thankfully,a slight onshore breeze returned.

About to go and water the backyard pots and then enjoyed another cup of tea. I think today should be the last really fiercely hot day and,like others,it can’t come too soon for me. I don’t think I’ve ever had such a lazy few days and am looking forward to my normal life resuming.

We were very fortunate with our Waitrose order yesterday where everything was available and no substitutes although the driver said that.on his return to the store to reload,there were screens down certain areas.

Hope those feeling unwell feel better as the heat recedes and all have the best day possible.

Good morning all from a much cooler Black country according to my phone its 6° lower than yesterday.
I was awake at 5 but went straight back to sleep, have watered the pots in the garden and may do a bit of ironing before DH awakes.
Mick our big Tesco's freezers were all broken so all shelves were empty there wasn't even anything in the fruit and veg aisles.
Enjoy your proper breakfast Mattie 🥓🍳.
Have the best day you can everyone whatever your plans and stay cool 😎.

Good morning everyone from mid Essex. Blue sky and sunshine again, with a cool breeze so it feels fresher this morning. Both DDs visited yesterday morning, which was really nice. We were in the garden for a little while but it was quite uncomfortable in the heat. I did very little after they’d gone. I’m hoping to resume normal exercise and activities this week after not doing anything in the heat of this last week!

utbb I’m sorry to hear about your friend, a sad time for you.

helterskelter one of my friends is up at 4.30 most mornings and is outside pottering about in her garden then!

grandmattie enjoy your “proper” breakfast with your DS and the family lunch at your DD’s later!

Hoping that those who are poorly will feel a little better soon.

Have as good a day as is possible for you, enjoy the slightly cooler weather!

Good morning from Sheffield

I have a baby shower to go to this afternoon. The menfolk are invited too so we will pop along there later. It is in a bar in the city. We will go out for some food before we go. there is a lovely Greek café nearby, so I will fill up on Feta and Humous .
I’m not sure whether there is food there but as I am coeliac I think it’s best to eat before.
I can’t make my mind up about baby showers . Any kind of gathering for friends and families is a good thing but I’m still unsure about the new trend for men to go. I’m sure in America where it first started it’s just a gathering of the female friend and family members, but hey ho perhaps I’m being a bit mean

I think I will just have a little potter in the garden this morning. Nothing too strenuous.
I’m sorry to hear about your friend UTTB.

Take care everyone

Good morning everyone from an overcast Northampton, going to be cooler today thank goodness after several days heatwave.

Had my feet done yesterday morning; looking good now, especially after I put nail polish on when I got home.
Hopped on the bus to the shops, had coffee and a bacon roll in Costa where it was lovely and cool, then popped into Next and M&S Food. Came out of Next with a new dress... already have this style in orange and have been looking at the blue for a few weeks.
Like Mick and others have said, many fridges closed in Marks - to enable the remaining ones to be more efficient according to their notices. But I got what I needed.

Well I shall be in London today, at the Royal Albert Hall!
Am going to see the Royal Ballet's Sleeping Beauty, accompanied by DD and her DH. It was a Christmas present from them, and they have arranged everything including booking an Indian meal afterwards. It has seemed such a long time to wait, and now here it is! So looking forward to it - hope I don't fall asleep!

Am going to do a sausage butty for breakfast, as we shan't be eating till late afternoon after the ballet, and it will be a long day.
DD and her DH will pick me up about 10.30 then head to the station for the train.

Wishing all a cooler pleasant day.

Good morning all from a still muggy North Leicestershire.

It's our village street fair today. My choir is singing but not till 3om. In the meantime we have got to feed DGS4 &5 and DGD3 as their parents are going out for lunch. We also have the possibility of a decorator calling to give us a quote to paint the outside.

Have the best day possible everyone.

Good morning, Michael and all GNs from South Yorkahire where it is 18 degrees with loose cloud. I had hoped we might have had some rain but it seems not😩. DD and the menfolk arrived after their holiday looking relaxed and happy. I cooked a roast dinner (yes, I know - lunatic) and it was very well received. They ate some excellent local food while away but my SiL said nothing beats a roast dinner. We followed it up with homemade strawberry flan, eaten outside in my breezy garden. GS cut the lawn for me, saving me a job today.

I’m not sure how my day will pan out. I don’t have anything particularly pressing apart from keeping all my plants from dying of thirst. I save every drop of water I can, but if we don’t get rain soon I shall have to take start taking water from the outside tap.

Have the best day you can, folks.

Sympathies UTTB. It's a shock and sad to lose friends.

People do change and, as long as you were friendly towards her, there is no need for guilt.

Good morning from a sunny cooler W Kent although we are expected to get to 25 degrees. Another quiet day today will cook at some point and a pile of ironing looking at me
Best wishes all round

Good morning from a cool Bodmin. We are now settled into a small cosy cottage on the edge of the moor after a very easy journey.
Our plan for today is a visit to Trebarwith, taking a small picnic for lunch and then to Port Isaac for a walk. I hope to do some sketching too. We’ll find somewhere to have a meal later . Of course we may switch that around if we see a pub/ restaurant we like the look of.
I hope there is some lowering of the temperatures today for you all and wishing everyone a pleasant day with a smile along the way.

Good morning from a cooler N Surrey.

I have been in the garden since 4.30 with a mug of tea and had a clip of a wisteria climbing over from next door. It started as a couple of tentative shoots peeping over and now is a complete jungle hanging ovee the wall. Likewise a virginia creeper. I love them both but the creeper is going mad as well and is overhanging and almost smothering my garden bench.

When I was young 33 and we moved in here, I used to laugh at the previous neighbour gardening at 6 in the morning. She would laugh at me now. I love being out there as it gets light.

This cooler week will be refreshing before the next heatwave from 6 July.

Good morning from a cooler Stockport, 19 degrees with a high of 21 forecast.
It was hotter yesterday than expected so I still felt unwell but we had young visitors so put on a decent face.

A huge shock first thing when I picked up a recorded message on the house phone to say a friend of 55 years had died.
She had been very unwell for a couple of years but it was still a shock.
I have very mixed feelings, and lots of guilt because over the years I came to change my feelings towards her, she became obsessed with her “perfect family” and they became her only topic of conversation, I was not alone in this, she lost friends and was unpopular in the McCarthy and Stone development where she lived.
It was sad because she just couldn’t see it.
It is still the end of something for me though.

I hope we all have a better day heatwise and can do some sadly neglected jobs without wilting but still stay hydrated everyone.

Good morning from the NE Mids. It certainly looks like another hot day today and I really must tackle the ironing so that job is next on the list after my morning cup of tea. Judging by the direction the clouds are moving there’s a westerly wind blowing…….I wonder if it might bring some rain 🤔.
Have a good day one and all!

Good morning from s somerset

I was not expecting another hot day yesterday

Thank goodness for cooler weather and clouds today, Like many, I don`t think I could stand much more of the oppressive heat, I felt off colour by yesterday afternoon.

No housework today, I am in recovery mode and need to get out for some exercise and that might well be on my bike and to the allotment. I cannot be doing with sitting for another day

I have fresh greens to pick and potatoes to unearth. Strangely I could not stomach the sweet potatoes in my fridge so they went into compost. I think I am going to put more salt on my food too

First I must try to reduce the heat held in my house, it went down a couple of degrees last night with the loft hatch open

Just checked the football activity from last night.

Scotland are OUT of the World Cup apparently and the Tartan Army are heading home after they lost to Croatia whilst England won 2-0 against Panama so are through to the next round 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Thank you grandMattie I shall! I’ve just made myself TiB.

Good morning everyone from south Manchester where the torrential rain (goody) woke me up just before 5am. However I’ve slept really well. Must check how England fared last night in a bit.

I’m seeing my local little family at some point before I fly off to Málaga tomorrow afternoon. I’m not eating with them so will decide later whether to pop into my larder for some lame and new potatoes or whether to go on my own to what was ‘our’ favourite curry house over the road and dine alone there.

Ooh it’s so much fresher sitting drinking my tea near my open bedroom window! I shan’t be sorry to see the back of all this humidity.

Good morning, it’s damp and cloudy here in south Glos and
I am looking out of my bedroom window at grey clouds approaching from the southwest so hopefully more rain 🤞🏻
I watered my pots last night but more rain will be very nice.
I had a good go at getting the housework done yesterday, but the heat is affecting my breathing so I will continue today.
I did give bigger dog a good grooming, getting hand fulls of fluffy undercoat out. It’s ridiculous how fluffy her undercoat is 🫣
Tiddler had a bath and then sulked in the most dramatic fashion, giving me the side eye for the rest of the afternoon. She makes me laugh, she’s such a funny little dog.
Wandering around watering my pots yesterday evening I clearly need to get the lovely gardening man in to attack the jungle. My garden is lush but everything is growing out of control! No bad thing but I’m somewhat aghast 😁
Best wishes to all x
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You’re early fgt. Enjoy the lovely cool and peace of early morning.

Good morning from a cooler,overcast Bristol. Although the night started very warm, it is appreciably cooler atm.
Like Mick, our local Tesco is denuded of cold/frozen items,this was because the fridges and freezers broke down due to overheating, although our Tesco petrol station and little shop was ram raided and much of the visible stock stolen.
There were 16 people at the coffee morning including one lady who had to be escorted to her car and a/c as she was starting to feel unwell. I have to confess feeling unwell too, walking home from church at midday.
I rested for most of the afternoon, and did some skirt assembly as well.
Today, I had a surprise invitation to lunch at DD’s. An even more surprising self invitation by DS for a “proper” breakfast after I go to early church (his sister and family are vegetarian).
I’m hoping the heat dome has moved/disappeared from today.
Keep safe, keep cool, be sensible in the sun but enjoy the weather. Hugs to the missing posters and to the poorly.
🐦‍🔥 Carpe diem 🦩🦩❤️🦩🦩🌹