Good Morning Tuesday 6th June 2023

Yesterday was a sad but satisfactory one when we said goodbye to my oldest friend at an entirely suitable memorial and in the evening scattered her ashes in a place she loved. Poignant but entirely right, the end of a friendship which lasted over 75 years and a gap in my life which will not be filled.

Home today so had better finish my little bit of packing and go for breakfast.

Good morning all from cloudy Harrogate
Marydoll my BIL is at present in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary receiving steroids to reverse his body rejecting his transplant liver. We are all praying that it works.
Today hope to go into town, then this afternoon I have the Tuesday Club- a church ladies group. We are saying farewell to one of my friends who is moving to Manchester to be near her family.
Have the best day possible folks

Good morning from Durham. What a strange mix of weather. Here, yesterday’s glorious sunshine has been replaced by grey and cool today. Not sure it will burn off later.
Coffee this morning with a couple of friends - will use my M&S vouchers and buy a few essentials while I’m there. Picking up DD2’s little dog later, as she’s off to work in Edinburgh for a few days, so I’ll take him for a walk this evening.
Surprised you were nearly scammed Ginster but I guess you had other things on your mind.
I echo yesterday’s advice Mick to limit your activities prior to your surgery - you could pick something up, even just a cold, especially on public transport.
Enjoy a wee trip out Marydoll
Best wishes to all. X

Good morning from a cloudy Essex by the sea.
We left home this morning at 4.30 to drive to Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey so that DH could meet friends and motor up the Thames to Teddington. I have just driven back, the Dartford Crossing was busy but not too bad. I feel like I've done a day's work already.
We can see Sheppey across the Estuary but have to drive over 60 miles to get there !!!!!
I'll have my cup of tea and read through all the entries so far.
I have to visit the Post Office later and the chemist.
Have a great day everyone, I hope the sun shines wherever you may be xxx

Good morning Mick and everyone from grey Carlisle. It may or may not clear up. I wish it would rain on my poor lawn but suspect it won't.
Yesterday was another hot one. My coffee morning was not a social success. The folk I'd previously chatted to were away and the remaining people obviously all knew each other well and didn't seem to notice little me! I didn't linger and got on with my shopping, remembering that I owed 2 birthday presents.
Today, a little housework and some sorting out of clothes and some admin plus more watering of the garden if it doesn't rain.

GrannySomerset, how lovely to have had a good friend for 75 years....

Wishing you all a good day...and some sun!

Good morning everyone from a grey cloudy day here in Northampton; no sunshine forecast, so it will be like yesterday, cold and windy. However I managed to cut the back grass in the afternoon, and then finished my book, 550 pages over four days, not bad going!
I can now start on my library books. One of which I discovered I already had on my bookshelf, awaiting reading.

Health walk early afternoon, then a dentist appointment to replace a missing filling - this one has fallen out twice already this year,.so will see what the dentist says. Also have a decision to make about whether to sign up to a dental plan, as all patients in the practice had a letter last week announcing that they were going wholly private. So it's a case of sign up, pay-as-you-go, or be left with no dentist - NHS ones here are rarer than hens' teeth.

Wishing all a good day.

Good morning from a grey W Kent. Every day the sun has appeared around midday and I am hoping for the same today as DD is taking me out for NT visit. We rarely get time together for one reason and another so hope it goes well.
Granny Somerset these long friendships are very precious.
Gwenisgreat hoping for the best for your BIL I have a friend at my art group whose SIL is having similar treatment.
Very best wishes to all

Gwen, my friend had her transplant fifteen years ago and lived an almost normal life. She has a virus in her system, which resulted in her liver failing, all those years ago.
Unfortunately, the virus has raised it's ugly head again and is attacking her new liver, it's not a rejection. In January, her treatment was stopped.
However, she has defied all the odds and is out and about again and back on her medication.

She also attends the Edinburgh hospital and I hear they are a centre of excellence.
I hope your BIL improves.

Good morning Mick and all from Cloudy Chambers (after days of sunshine) northwest coast.
Enjoyed lunchtime concert yesterday, old fashioned palm court style, then returned a top and bought casual trousers from M&S.
Nice face time with Dsister in the south, back from Bilbao which she liked and also her birthday and facetime with DD back from Mexico City (cabin crew) where she went ballooning. Looks scary. Everyone is coming and going.
Music club today and I’m going to have a warm up warble.
I now have a couple of slightly painful swollen joints in my left hand, so hello arthritis!

Thoughts to GrannySomerset, all poorlies and those with worries.

Good Morning from a slightly grey Co Armagh, such a change from yesterday’s unremitting sun
Granddaughter is being Confirmed this evening, I got a verbal invite , ( please come Gran , there’s plenty of room at the back of the Chapel ) . So I’ve been trying to find something in the wardrobe to wear , got out a smart blouse , but , as I was ironing , it reminded me that I’d worn it to same child’s First Communion! I hope people have short memories 🤣
Any way I’ll go early and light some candles

Good morning all from cloudy Lancashire. The sun is beginning to break through and MrB and I are heading out to the coast for a walk.

Have a good day all 🌻🌻🌻

Morning from a grey chilly S Yorks. I hope the sun comes out later. Clothes to dry, and it's so cheering.

I had a good visit to super physio yesterday but then went and twigged my back in the evening! *od's Law. At least I know now what it is and how best to recover, but cant walk much for a day or so, so it's an indoor day. Nice counselling Zoom at 12.30.

Marydoll my smaller size trousers all went to the charity shop and I bought a set that's comfy. Bests to accept. I also have a collection of slightly larger tops and dresses from charity shops. Thats been fun.

Very bests for poorlies and sad news of poorlies. As a friend said ageing is not a wimps game. You just don't realise that when you are younger.

Enjoy outings and family!

Good morning all. Here in Angus we are on the east side of the Great Divide (east being chilly and grey, west sunny and warm) and have seen no sun since glorious Saturday. Apparently the west is seeing the best of the weather and that is certainly borne out in your posts. It's certainly chilly here and my oodie is being worn again.
Sorry to hear about all the people in hospital because of transplant rejection.
Today DD's New Man's DS2 is, as I write, under the knife for a spinal correction (a la Princess Eugenie). It's a six hour operation, so very much a heart-in-mouth day for everyone. He's almost 18 and a very sporty young man.
Congratulations to your son LLfl, you must be very proud.
Grandmattie lovely to have your son here just now - just when you need him!
There are so many scams at the moment and your one sounds devilishly clever gingster. I had one the other day purporting to be about my M&S card. I don't usually answer the phone when I don't recognise the caller's number, but this time I was expecting a call from a friend with a new number ....... You had a lucky escape gingster.
Now I must be off as I am going with DGD3 to her school where she's to receive an award, we think possibly something to do with the Lifeguard qualification she gained recently. She doesn't want to go (boring) and I think now her exams are over school has been relegated to the past already and it's "Uni here I come"! Anyway we are under strict instructions from DD, so go we will. It's the last school thing ever for me after three children and five grandchildren so very much the end of an era. I'm not sure I like all these 'last times' which seem to be accumulating around me these days!
So anyway it's off to Perthshire this afternoon - hoping it's on the better side of the Great East-West Divide!
Have a good day everyone x

Marydoll I expect it's just picking up bugs from the nursery boy who likes to spread it around! GrannySomerset 💐 a friendship which lasted 75 years is a true friendship indeed. Dgs2 was not impressed with the park this morning. He was thoroughly miserable so I brought him home. A slice of toast on jam, a dose of Calpol as he's still coughing and a change of nappy and he's down for a nap. It was pretty cold out so I expect he was feeling chilly.

Good afternoon from misty Michigan. It's 8.30 am here and we're enjoying a cuppa by the Lake. Signal is dodgy so I'll send pics later. Love to all 🦩 x