Good Morning Monday

Belated birthday wishes to you too mrswoo

I almost got it right GrandmaF ?. We sang it so long ago in school. I would much rather be dashing away from the smoothing iron but will play the martyr for the sake of some clean clothes and bed linen. ??

Pant, are you making your ? lemon curd with “limones robados” as I once made marmalade for a friend? She stole large lemons from the street, over a wall, when she was in Torre Viejo. ?

Good Morning all from a bright Harrogate, yes this town does leave a lasting impression on visitors!! Especially the Cycles race last year - it was sooo wet and cold. The stray in Harrogate has just about recovered! Got to go to PC world today, this laptop needs more storage space. Can't afford to buy a new macbook, so an external harddrive it will have to be. The machine is doing all sorts of silly things because I have not got the space to update it. However it's a chance for an outing, the guys at PC world will hopefully do the reformatting for me (which will save my time and temper)
anyway wish me luck!!

Hope everyone has a lovely day today

Grandmafrench I was lucky enough to get garden vouchers for my birthday so later this week I'm going to raid the garden centre which is barely five minutes away and get goodies. Pots, winter flowering pansies, bulbs and I've a hankering for a solar powered water feature.

It is just like a book, Ellan. Can’t understand why people worry that they’re boring the rest of us! So pleased to hear that you only have Summer feet....that’s what the heat does.

This is not just a Thread (and it’s certainly not “an M&S thread”. ) It’s a Morning Club.....and I’m pleased to be a member.

Kalu what are you like? ? It’s ‘dashing away with a smoothing iron’ - or boring old ironing to most of us. Get happy with your bulbs.

Good Morning to you all from a warm , sunny Cambs.,

We had a lovely, but short, weekend to the Norfolk coast.

Belated Birthday wishes to Nannyjan & Mrswoo.

Take Care, All You Good Folk.

Vieux Mans is a beautiful part of the city Ashcombe as is Vieux Lyons. Old buildings with narrow cobbled streets is my preference when visiting any French city.

Nannytopsy
Did you visit Vieux Mans during your stay in Le Mans? It’s the medieval part of the city, complete with cobbled streets and magnificent buildings, near the cathedral.
What a friendly thread this is! Thank you for making me feel welcome and I wish you all a day of sunny skies and pleasant times, especially those on holiday.

We bought a pile of bulbs at our local garden centre a few days ago Grandmafrench and you have just reminded me to put them into pots. My next purchase will be a couple of amaryllis and paperwhites for indoors. Happy planting.

Good Morning All x.
I'm getting too used to these lovely mornings, it'll be a real downer when they end. This is what I love about foreign holidays---the guarantee that most mornings are going to be light, bright and sunny. It makes such a difference to your day.

It's a strange thing that my " swollen feet " revert back to being shrivelled as soon as summer's over. I've noticed this for long enough now. They'd been quite puffy at times but are now back to normal. Only problem being that it loosens the shoes, which start flopping I say it's a normal reaction to summer and that's that.

I'm going to make the most of outdoors today and do some pruning. Inside jobs can wait until the weather turns, says I.

I love hearing about what others get up to here, it's like reading a book which is why it takes me so long getting through the posts as well as breakfast in between.

I don't need any shopping today so it's a complete stay at home day. Remnants of yesterdays dinner today so no preparing as such, maybe an apple crumble to use up apples/ falls from a neighbour's D's tree. Nice apples too.

Hope those who didn't have the best night's sleep can manage 40 winks during the day, as sleep is so very important ( well I think it is ) Also thoughts to those who aren't feeling up to the mark, hope things improve for you.

Thinking of our absent friends xx Everyone stay safe and well and we'll see what 11am brings. xx

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Good morning Mick, Annie and all. Goodness how quickly this lovely thread grows!

Had a really nice day yesterday, mostly doing nothing.
We did try to have a coffee at the local garden centre, on the way home from Church, but after waiting 25 minutes, we left and had it at home instead. Shame. Spent the afternoon finishing my book in the garden.
Nothing planned for today, but housework looms large.
Sending best wishes to Gillybob and all who are missing.
Have a good day one and all..

Good Morning everyone from another beautiful one in the S of ?? and where my garden smells wonderful (and will do for months) thanks to the tiny flowers covering the Eleagnus hedges.

Steam mopping the floors today (yay! such fun) and then hopefully off to buy bulbs. Our garden centre is doing 20% off. Last week at a huge ‘pot’ place we bought 4 big garden pots and were told they were doing BOGOF. We were so pleased and surprised at only having to pay for 2, we’re now keen to fill them for the Spring.

Everyone appears to have a date with the outdoors today.....and the promise of good weather. Lovely walks - enjoy them all - you deserve it and it’ll distract you from more nonsense in the news. (Remember that those tv proclamations are like buses : if you miss this one there’ll be more along very shortly!)

Well done, you stilllearning. Hard to beat a little trip to the seaside. Have an ice cream for me (my diet currently forbids it but hope to report how well it’s going at the end of the week). Please take a nice photo to show us? I worried about your hay, Beauregard cos memories of safely stashing ours for our sheep can still alert my nervous tic ?. Any contest with Mother Nature can be hard going, can’t it.

Enjoy your day all. North Yorkshire cottage, grannyowl. Perfect! Suppose you can’t get up to too much mischief in a sofa shop Mary - and with a ‘minder’ ?. We shall see!
Keep safe all - and absent posters. Do so hope you feel better soon if you’re poorly. Stay strong Georgesgran Grammaretto Hazbeen and everyone currently finding life particularly hard.

Every good wish....and a hug from me to you.

Good Morning from a bright Newcastle I think it's going to be a lot nicer day than yesterday which was grey and rainy.
Belated birthday greetings for yesterday nannyjan - it was mine too! Actually, the day itself was quite quiet as we had had a very busy few days beforehand and DH is still suffering with a painful leg after a bike accident. The BBC in their wisdom showed my favourite film, Dr Zhivago, in the afternoon. They must've known it was my birthday!
On Saturday we went to a socially distanced outdoor concert near Hexham. The concert, Voices of the West End, featured 4 singers and was most enjoyable. We took a picnic, wrapped up warm - it was very windy - and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Most importantly it felt very safe and was wonderfully well organised. They have been on a mini tour of the UK and are playing the Midlands Motor Museum next.
I had a long chat with my DS and DGS's up in Inverness yesterday the wee boys had been to the beach as it was a lovely sunny day. They were surprised that I knew the weather was nice there! So thankyou to brook for your daily Inverness weather updates. I always check to see what sort of day they will be having.
I hope everyone has the best day that they can. for all those feeling unwell and with worries.

Good morning from Western Isles. Windy but dry. I'm hanging out towels and hope for the best! Waiting to hear what Chris W has to say at 11am. Have a good day, all

Good morning all from a cloudy sky at the moment in Glasgow. We have had such lovely sunny days recently, just wish they would stay for a couple of weeks before winter kicks in.

Snap Maw. I was an au pair in Bordeaux in 1967 when TDF came through our area. It all seems a lifetime away now, when the whole world was at our feet. Hope Hattie is doing well. ?

Good decision Stilllearning. Enjoy your day at the coast and now you know it is doable, it’s good to have the option of a trip just for a change of scenery.

A calm day weather wise yesterday meant I could finally clear the garage of the cardboard mountain and use the incinerator without smoke billowing everywhere. One mountain down I will tackle the other one today....ironing!? Deep joy.

Hope your DH feels better soon Grammaretto
I am going for late summer too Mapleleaf. More power to your elbow as us wicked party girls smooth away with the dashing iron, or words to that affect, memory fails me. ?

Happy Monday to all.

Sun’s up here! ? 30°C at noon apparently.
Good morning everyone from Malaga ?

Think we will go out for a walk after a leisurely breakfast. Just need to choose which direction to head off in! Decisions, decisions ...
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This is the life.
#lazygran

Enjoy your day at the seaside Stillearning! My dear dad used to say ‘you can’t get lost with a tankful of petrol’.

Hope Monday (? already, how did that happen) is kind to us all. Keep safe everyone that’s the main thing. x

Good morning from a sunny but cold Morecambe Bay. Hopefully it will warm up as the day goes on. Had a lovely day yesterday exploring a bit of coastline just up from Barrow. I quickly arranged a mortgage and bought an ice cream from an ice cream van! When did ice creams become so expensive?
I didn’t even enjoy it! It’s like fish and chips, they are never quite as you expect these days. Take care and stay safe everyone ?

Good Morning everyone from a dull and cloudy Severnside.

I’ve just arrived home after visiting my daughter and an early morning visit to Sainsbury’s.
I’m now going to drink my cuppa and read what you are doing today.

Take care all ?

Good morning from Durham - it’s very bright and we are expecting 70 and sunshine later.
Expecting a long day on the phone today - DH couldn’t have his treatment last Tuesday so it was rearranged for tomorrow and they said they’d ring with a time. Despite leaving messages on a supposedly ‘urgent’ number, we’ve heard nothing. It’s a shame the ‘admin’ side lets the practical side down.

Should be meeting friends this morning, but the new lockdown here has me confused. Had coffee yesterday with DD2 and just realised no track and trace there. DD1, her family and FIL due back today from Lake District, they’ve another week off work so should be ok to see soon.

Hope everyone has the best day today. X

Good morning all! Its overcast and murky here in Surrey so that's me for the sofa!
MIL came yesterday for lunch. We haven't always seen eye to eye but we get on much better now. All the housework is up to date because of her visit so that's one good thing!
She did bring a load of family papers and photographs so I have copied quite a few and now I will attack OHs family tree.
Thank you for the kind wishes from GNers it means a lot to have you lot rooting for me.
Take everyone and stay safe.

Good morning from a sunny NE.
We are in lockdown although that apparently does not apply to the younger generation who continue to party.
We had a long Skype call with DD yesterday, she is alone in Belgium but, thankfully, now has a car so she can transport shopping.
My widowed sister seems to have a busier social life than anyone I know, she is eating out several times a week and visiting friends, Germany must have very low infection rates.
Take care.

Very misty here in North Somerset but I have indoor jobs this morning - the last of the cultivated blackberries to cook with apple, and a lot of tomatoes to turn into passata for the freezer. Getting something out of the freezer to cook with in the winter months gives me real pleasure.

DH has a Zoom session with his speech therapist this afternoon which will involve me to press the necessary buttons. We’ll see how this goes but I am not sure how he will react.

Make the most of the last days of summer, everyone. It will be a very long winter.

Good morning Auntyflo and all x