Good Morning Tuesday 20th October 2026

Good morning from La Sarthe where it has rained for most of the night. The garden will be grateful but one soggy moggy tapping at our window before 5.00am was not impressed. Nor were we!

I was interested to read of the various experiences folk had had of eating rabbit. It would appear that a (rather expensive) butcher near my flat in Torquay sells rabbit and venison so DH will investigate further when we go back next week.

No plans for today but no doubt some household chores will be tackled.

Wishing everyone a good day.

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Good morning Michael and all GNs from South Yorkshire where it is still dark, and raining, but it feels milder. I was awake at some ridiculous hour with no hope of getting back to sleep so I will pay for it later in the day.

I called over to see GS yesterday before he went back to uni after spending the weekend at home. I made him some peanut butter cookies to eat on the train! He was delighted. On the way home I called in at one of two garden centres en route. They changed hands in the summer and it now seems to be less about plants and more about food (the cafe was rammed, the nursery almost empty), garden furniture, sundries and, at present, all things Christmas🙄! Hey ho. After that I spent a fruitless couple of hours trying to find a car insurance quote that didn’t require me to sell a kidney. First world problems.

School this afternoon. May have to take the car today.

Have the best day you can, folks.

Good morning from Bristol. It’s supposed to be raining now and all day. I haven’t looked out, but hope it’s not too heavy and doesn’t soak me on my way to my Spanish class.

I’m absolutely done in after yesterday’s shenanigans. I spent the first bit of the morning doing a final tidy up (I’m not messy, but…), doing the floors and so on.

Then the Tesco shop took over 2 hours, with the fetching and returning of my neighbour’s friend, etc., unpacking, very quick lunch during which I dropped a large blob of tomato soup on the front of mt clean top. 🤬

Rushed off to my notWI meeting to set up, then greet the members. Very well attended - we had line dancing! Cue a lot of tangled legs and constant laughter… I left early, to finish preparing dinner.

I had barely an hour, when the first guest (of honour) arrived! One of our little group had sent me a text earlier to say he couldn’t come as one of his children was in hospital, poor chap. I must find out today how the boy is doing..

The other two came individually, but at the same time. We had a lovely time as we know each other quite well from FAB and get on really well. My food went down ok, so all were happy!

Exhausted, I filled the dishwasher when they left and did the minimum tidying up; furniture needed rearranging as the room is so small, the sofa needs pushing away to get 4 people round my dining table…. (Easy job with wood flooring)

I’ve got an early start for Spanish, but at least I can just sit for the rest of the day!

Have a good day all. Carpe diem 🦩🦩🦩❤️