Good Morning Tuesday

Good Morning all from sunny Harrogate - wow, it wont last!!
At last out tree is up and decorated. It has to be up by the 13th, though often not decorated. My DD2's birthday is on the 13th - she used to think it was up for her birthday, so we try to keep to that tradition (she's now 46). When she was in Sunday school, the teacher asked the children who were 3, "and whose birthday do we celebrated at Christmas". Her hand shot up " Mine" she shouted!!
My DH has this belief that if he keeps use of the car to the minimum, it will increase in value (never has before). So I had to laugh when he tried to go out in it and he found all sorts of warning lights coming up. Turned out the Turbo had gone in the car from lack of use!! Hopefully after coffee we are going for a jaunt to Boroughbridge - to keep the battery charged??
Pantglas My nain lived in Clifton Road, the other one lived in Deganwy

Stay safe everyone, hope today is good to you

Good morning all, cold and bright here for a change. Supermarket shop done, hoping to get out for a walk this afternoon. Keep safe and well.

Good morning everyone, it's a lovely winter's day in the Gower.

I did have a good night, perhaps too good a night thanks to my additional sedating medication, thank you for your well wishes Nortsat and Susan. I didn't get the opportunity to read yesterday's morning thread until last night, I'm pleased that your family's covid tests were negative Susan* ?

Love the Christmas wreaths Ashcombe and Lins, you did a good job on that Lins.

Sounds familiar Marydoll, sitting on the floor rootling through cupboards. Yesterday I was sat on my kitchen floor with the contents within all around me because I couldn't find something (new scourers) I'd bought. My WP came into the kitchen and looked at me with an exasperated expression on his face and exclaimed "what is everything doing on the floor"! Five minutes earlier I'd told him what I was going to do ?. He claimed I didn't, but I know I did, we'd literally just been telling each other what jobs we were about to do! I know he's always had a bad memory - but really ?

I finally managed to post all the cards I needed to (except the hand delivered ones) and all but one of the parcels I needed to send yesterday. Job's a good un ?. Not at m organised best this year but it has been a strange year so I'll excuse myself. GrannyOwl, your way of wrapping sounds a lot like mine, my WP is so much better than me too.

Pets! Or should I say cats ?. Can't stop interfering with the trees can they - Gingster I think your DD knows that more that most ?

I hope Iris' hospital appointment goes well grandMattie ?.

Well, coffee break over so I'd better shift myself from my comfy chair and get on with today's doings.

Be kind to yourselves everyone ❤️

A late good morning to you all.

I've only skimmed the posts so will return to them when I've posted, but as I've scrolled down, I've been struck by all the beautiful decorations - how lovely they all look.

It's a beautiful, though chilly, morning here in South Yorkshire, so my job in a bit is to pop outdoors and sweep up all the leaves on the lawn that have fallen from the magnolia tree in preparation for the lawn people coming on Thursday to give it its winter feed. I'm sure that as soon as my back us turned, more leaves will appear! ? Still, it's a spot of good exercise for me.

I do hope that you are all ok, but for any of you feeling sad or troubled, I send you kind thoughts and these ?.

Morning everyone from a dry NE, for now!! Finally managed to get a hair cut yesterday, my gd took me to her mums friend who is a hairdresser. Been a busy couple of weeks trying to get the rest of the xmas presents in, and sending my cards in between working and looking have DH. Cleaner is going to do my carpets tomorrow as well as usual clean. We had to take the rug up, as instructed by the OT in case DH trips over it. No decorations up yet, SIL normally does it for me, but he was waiting on carpets being cleaned. My DH who has fostered for nearly 20 years now has her new baby she is adopting, she is adorable. She has already adopted a little boy, and is legal guardian to another. She is always busy, both of her sons also foster and I am really proud of them all. Hope everyone keeps well.

Morning from a sunny Kent! You’re one busy lady Marydoll ! I’m trying to work out where you now live. I thought you were still on the outskirts of my home town but the Victorian houses are nowhere near!
Had the gas engineer at 08:00, our boiler was acting up! DH had just come home from work so took charge as usual. Hubby’s op was cancelled last week with about twelve hours notice - after isolating for two weeks! So back to work last night - he drives an HGV to Birmingham Mon-Fri night. I got to see Only Connect and University Challenge last night quietly. He doesn’t participate but makes a lot of noise while the programmes are on because he is not interested in them. Any one else got a ‘noisy’ partner? He seems to operate at high volume all the time - he says it’s due to being deaf; he can’t hear himself! Aye right!!!
I do enjoy reading everyone’s news - good and bad. I’m never sure what to post here. I promise to be more active in posting.
Meanwhile, I shall enjoy the peace and quiet while DH gently sleeps until 16:00. I made chicken stew yesterday in my multicooker so no need to prepare anything for him later.
I will spend the afternoon till then doing the Times crossword and reading. I had thought that I would be nursing him post-op this week. Maybe in February- Covid-19 permitting.
Have a good day all!

Good morning everyone from a lovely sunny West Norfolk. Don’t post on here much but good news for us! My husband had his first Covid jab! Second one on January 5th. Unfortunately I will have to wait a bit longer!

baubles and Marydoll, Your
Christmas tree counting stories suddenly reminded me of driving with my two eldest grandchildren, then aged about 5 and 6, in the back of the car. They were both tired and grumpy and in desperation I told them to count the trees on ‘their’ side of the road
Peace ensued for about 10 minutes, then even worse crying broke out, unbelievably there were nonstop trees on one side and about 4 on the other!
Happy days?

Very late good morning from wet Anglesey.
Just a quick skim of your news. Hope the removal of stitches makes Iris more comfortable grandMattie.
Have you tried the epli manoeuvre Urms you’ll find examples on YouTube. Worked for me after three goes over three days. Apparently moves the crystals that cause the horrible dizziness when you turn over.
Love all the Christmas wreaths and trees, so many artistic Grans.
Ooh sun has just appeared, going to deliver cards now.
Have a good day everyone and hope you all have at least one reason to smile today.

Finished the crossword in 20 minutes!

Good afternoon all , I thought I would share my disaster with you (it will probably make you all laugh!!) This morning after I had done a load of washing the 'your machine needs to go through its deep clean cycle' message came up on the screen so I set the cycle to go and added a well known deep clean powder to give the cycle a boost and went off to clean the bathroom . Well when I came back I had obviously added too much cleaner because there was foam coming out of the detergent draw and advancing across the kitchen floor !! It must have taken me over half an hour to clean up the foam and sort the machine out , but the floor is very clean and the machine does smell lovely and fresh .
Take care all of you and to those of you who feel sad and fragile today be gentle to yourselves.