Good morning Thursday 15 December

Good morn8ng from, as Sally said -4 in S Hants, enough now thanks.
Shocking news Ashcombe.
What a slap in the face gMattie, words fail me.
I had a lovely lunch with a friend yesterday in front of a roaring fire, no such plans today, a few phone calls and a little tidy up.
Belated Happy Birthday baubles 🎂.
Enjoy your day all 🦩🦩

Hello All! It’s very freezing here in Carlisle….-8C. Obviously it’s not warming up yet. Roll on the weekend when I shall probably start moaning about greyness and rain….
I quite like to see the blue skies and the garden plants prettily frosted but detest the defrosting of my car. I had to go out yesterday and it was a lengthy process with the windscreen threatening to ice up again as I drove across the city.
It’s an early visit to the podiatrist this morning so I must needs be off shortly… without reading all your posts till I return, so I’ll wish you all a good day.

Good morning all from grey Harrogate -3 here.
I await my Sainsburies delivery, still coughing but managed to wrestle the required antibiotics out of the surgery who really should look at my notes!!
Think I finally finished my present shopping yesterday- now I have the job of getting them wrapped!
Maybe you can get a video of the children’s nativities Susan and Marydoll? We went to DGDs nativity,, but weren’t invited to DG’s one, but DD2 sent me a treasured clip of DGS in his.
Such a shock about your neighbours Susan.
Have the best day possible folks

Good Morning Mick and everyone from Hull. Not quite a deep frost today but still only getting to 3-4 degrees.
When we left my uncle in Bridlington yesterday we left in a blizzard of snow.

Susan that is such tragic news for you and your neighbours.💐

Our DD , SIL and DGDs fly to Morocco today for a little pre Christmas holiday. Lovely to get away from this chill for a few days.
Today I’m going to the gym and later picking up GS from school.
I need to prepare my curry paste for my yellow curry tea tonight and DS will have some before he takes GS home.

Have the best day possible. Hope you can all keep warm and safe. Thoughts to those struggling with stress and illness🌻🎄

Good morning everyone. It's a positively tropical +1°C on the Angus coast today! Unfortunately that rise in temp usually heralds snow and there's a yellow warning out for a shedload of the stuff tomorrow. All hatches battened down!
Susan what a horrendous thing to happen to your neighbours! And I echo your Grrrr! Grandmattie. A little gratitude wouldn't go amiss. But now the bed has gone you can get on with your own life. I hope you enjoyed your tai chi - it's lovely that you all just get together to do it. Ash that sounds a lovely warm outfit to get you to the surgery - a new fashion trend emerges!
Today is my tai chi morning which will be followed by a festive lunch at a hotel along the road from the hall. There won't be a chance to change into festive finery, so I have decided to wear my old Chrissie jumper, resplendent with pearl snowflakes and a large fuzzy polar bear in a Santa hat! After that - and a foray into Nature's Garden for milk and bread to see me through the forecast snow at the weekend - I shall do my usual Thursday afternoon collapse in front of the tv. (I have given in and the heating is now on - it's like a warm hug!)
Have a good day everyone, and I trust Mick is enjoying his week away. Sending healing wishes to the heartsore, and warmth to all x

Good morning all from a very frosty Black country -9°.
We were going into town today I need some lush bath bombs for Dil but think will give it a miss stay in and present wrap.
Haven't read through yet will make a drink then sit and catch up with everybody's happenings.
Take care all those out and about, best wishes for anyone celebrating and virtual hugs where needed.
Enjoy your Thursday and may you all find some 🌞.

Good morning from a clear blue, bitterly cold South Yorkshire where my new boiler is struggling to get up to the required temperature this morning. There’s a hard frost, so whether I will get out with my minder for a crutch walk later is debatable. I am serially bored with all this hip malarkey now. Normal service seems a long way away still! I have some letters to write to go in with cards, particularly one to my cousin in Ireland. We have both had a difficult year. DS and I are having fish and chips this evening. He has cooked every day since he’s been here, and very nice it has been, so I’ve suggested he has a chef’s night off! He didn’t protest.
Have the best day you can, folks and stay warm.

Good morning all .
Bright and cold outside. Not much warmer inside. We are open plan here so the heat escapes.
Blankets and hotties for us!

I didn’t go to the choir social last night as it was icy and I don’t like driving much in the dark. Shame ! But sensible I think.

This morning I have my bowls group and I’ll stop off in town to M and S food hall. I didn’t get there yesterday.

Take care Ash - yes the onesie seems a good idea.

Lovely for you to have Dolly snuggled up beside you. Mary. They are warm little hot water bottles aren’t they!

Susan what a shock about your neighbours and so very sad. Were they close by to you?

Lots of baking going on ! I’ve been ask to make a couple of cheese cakes. Lemon and a chocolate one, to take to DS1’s on Boxing Day.🎄. I’ll do it at the weekend.

Take care and keep cosy.❤️

Good morning all from South Lanarkshire where the temperature has risen to -5.

Awful news about your neighbours Susan.

My eldest DGD was due to have a little clarinet solo in her school concert this evening but the poor girl has two burst eardrums and spent yesterday in bed. We had a FaceTime chat last night, she’s so disappointed and will now miss the last couple of days of the term too as they finish tomorrow.

We’re off to visit the family in the east as it’s Thursday but will keep an eye on the weather as there’s a chance of snow later so we may leave early. We had planned to anyway as we should have been attending DGD’s concert.

Thanks for the birthday wishes, it was a busy day at work and a chilled out evening. We are rewatching Happy Valley ahead of the new series, great acting but it’s fairly brutal in places.

Have the best day possible everyone.

Good morning everyone from another very frosty morning in Northampton, -5° outside today. Need to get my skates on as I have a Sainsbury's delivery shortly.

Had a pleasant time yesterday at the garden centre with neighbours; we walked up there, so were ready for our not drinks. Had a good browse around after coffee, but nothing took my fancy apart from a pretty Christmas mug.

Spent the afternoon on the laptop trying to cancel an annual automatic payment for a service I no longer require, to no avail - there was simply no way of doing it on line, so I will have to phone them. I could renew, or even request a new service, but not cancel. Very frustrating.

Tap and ballet classes after lunch, and that's all my plans for the day.

Take care everyone in this frosty weather; hope Thursday smiles on us all.

Good Morning from a chilly S Yorks.

Susan, that is dreadful, warm thoughts your way x

My lovely cleaner comes today so I was busy tidying last night and got the tree up.. GM - totally out of order!

Bests for poorlies, and may outings go well. I'm off to the gym while cleaner here for my dose of walking, yoga and nattering..

Good morning from -1C Sefton.
Yoga and cake with mates feature today. I hope you picked up on my birthday wishes at the end of yesterday’s Good Morning baubles…morning is an elastic concept to me.
Such a tragedy Susan. My, your DL grandMattie! She takes the biscuit.
Keep safe and cosy everyone.
🌲 ❄️ 🌲

Good morning from a very icy Black Country where it is -7!

Completed my Tax Return yesterday, so that is that job out of the way for another year.

Cooked sausages and baked potato in the new Air Fryer, and they turned out very well. So very pleased as it was much quicker than using the oven.

Today is our bi-weekly Thursday walk. Don't think so many are going today. We will finish with a hot drink in the park. MrJ is supposed to be on a cycle ride, but doubt he will in these icy conditions. He is meeting his brother and a few mates this afternoon in a pub in Birmingham, he was umming and aahing about it, but I said you must go, you don't meet up that often.

So sorry to hear about your neighbours Susan such a shock for their family, friends and neighbours.

Stay warm everyone

Belated birthday wishes to Baubles we are going to Leeds today for some last minute shopping .Susan that's a horrid thing to happen. Sending ;((hugs))to those that need them.

Good Morning everyone from a very chilly and frosty Severnside.

The venue at my outing yesterday was very cold. It definitely could not have advertised itself as a ‘Warm Space’. I was very glad I’d left my slippers on top of the radiator before I went out and sat down with a chamber pot of tea, which reminded me of Pant.

I had a nice FaceTime with Beechnutella. She showed me the crafting she was doing and sent me a photo later when it was finished. She said she’d been walking her elderly neighbours dog for her in the cold weather.

I’m going out to get some shopping and maybe running a few errands.

Will now make another cuppa and start to read the thread.
Have a cosy warm day all 🎄🦩

-10 here in Oxfordshire, but the sun is up!

Good morning all from a grey, wet Algarve.

GrandMattie

My haircut went well yesterday, despite needing sorting out now I’ve slept on it. However I was pleased to be able to get back in the car without getting soaked. However because we needed to go out again early afternoon, we decided to stop off nearer town for lunch rather than go home. Just as I got to the door of the restaurant the heavens opened and the cook who had just popped out of the kitchen, took one look at me, with water trickling down my face, and said, “Chuva?” (Rain). I must have looked like as if someone had emptied a bucket over my head. .

Good morning everyone.
Minus 8 in my part of N. Bucks at the moment.
Youngest DGS was sent to A&E yesterday. Thankfully he was sent home with antibiotics so hopefully will improve today. DD was with him there for about 4 hours. She said the adult A&E was packed with people sitting waiting on chairs outside!
Taking MIL to a local Garden Centre/Emporium for Lunch and a mooch.
Home to finish decorations and a few other bits and pieces.
Stay warm and safe.

Good morning all from the Scottish Borders.
Minus 2°C but no sun so very icy
SiL's dad is coming to try to dig my car out about now so I can drive to a Christmas lunch off the bus route
My new boiler stopped working yesterday due to the extreme cold! Luckily the plumber came last night to fix it. He says he's working 12 hour days.
So sad to hear about the house fire Sar56 what a tragedy.
Your boy wonder is a chess champion Urms!
I hope you are taking the credit
Glad to hear you and Dollie are having fun Marydoll
DGD was a shepherd in the play. I asked why the manger was empty.
"Baby Jesus isn't born yet" was the obvious answer. Silly grannie
Have a good day if you can everyone.

Good morning everyone. Sunshine and freezing in this corner of Lancashire, currently -8°C.

Hope you can have some peace now Grandmattie, how ungracious of your ex-DL after all you’ve done.

What a dreadful shock Susan.

No real plans for today apart from keeping warm. Have a good day all 🦩🦩🦩

Belated birthday greetings baubles. I hope you enjoyed your day.

Perhaps that’s why DL friends didn’t offer to have her Mattie!

Good morning everyone from a bright frosty northwest coast.
Off to lunch at converted country house just outside the town with long standing bachelor friend. We have lunch every six weeks or so and a I have a hand painted card and bottle of wine for him. Am picking him up. My passenger window in the car is still taped us as the part hasn’t arrived for my son to fix it🙄

I watched the new Lady Chatterley film last night, so so and now find sex scenes boring…
Will read through later and thoughts to all with worries.

Back from the school run and reading through properly.

What terrible news for you Susan. So much sad news at the moment.

Good morning from the NE where it is-3.
Didn't go shopping yesterday as burglar alarm maintenance man didn't come until after 3pm. SIL ate out of the freezer, roast chicken, red cabbage, carrots and mashed potato.
GD2 missed her carol service in Durham cathedral because of a virus, such a shame as she was singing in the choir and loves it.
Today is my sister's 82nd birthday, she is having lunch out with friends in Germany before flying to Newcsatle tomorrow. I wish I had half her stamina.
DD is on her way to the UK from Brussels and will be with me at 2pm, all being well with the train 🫰
Sorry you got the backlash grandMattie, I think you have been extremely patient and tolerant considering your own grief for DS and DH 💐

Good morning from a sunny -4 W Kent. A few phone calls to make and a bit of floor washing for me today. DF is getting the keys to her new house tomorrow, we seem to have talked about it for so long, nice for her it has finally happened.
Belated birthday wishes baubles
Susan so sorry to hear about your neighbours.
I think Beechnut maybe right about your DL gM please relax and please yourself for a while.