Good Morning Thursday 23rd May 2024

Good morning from a cloudy Algarve. Over the years the weather is far more unpredictable here. Days of wall to wall sunshine cannot be taken for granted. However I am grateful for no rain! Today we will drive out to our favourite walk, enjoy the views and have a coffee or maybe a beer. Time for us.

Roses - so sorry about the summerhouse so frustrating. Do hope you get a response from the company who supplied it

Hope everyone has a good day

Good morning from a grey and cloudy Suffolk where I’m hoping it stays dry as I’m meeting 2 friends for a fish and chip lunch at the beach cafe in Dunwich.*Gingster*knows it well.

But first it’s my stretch class,my usual Thursday morning exercise. I do this,and my keep fit class,not in the hope I’ll become more supple,but in the hope they delay further physical decrepitude somewhat!

Hope today is a good one for all.

Good morning all from the Scottish Borders where it has been raining solidly since yesterday and the buckets beneath the sitting room ceiling have filled once again. I have new roofers to try today. 🌧

I think I'll come to stay with you Bellasnanna 🌞 ☀️

Yesterday's afternoon tea at the Signet Library was sublime. Masterchef meets Downton Abbey but meanwhile my poor lodger and her friend were dealing with the deluge here.

Glad your problem with Octopus is resolved Georgesgran . Marydoll let's pray you can sort things out with Virgin! and DH hearing

Dgs has finished his Highers. Hooray!
Yoga this morning.
Wishing you all a happy day whatever the weather.

Good morning from a grey and damp NE.
Yesterday we had torrential rain all day.
Went shopping with SIL and then got on with some little jobs around the house. I have a subscription for Private eye for my sister in Germany and it needed renewing, so much easier than buying magazine and posting it to her.
SIL went in the attic and found old computer software and cables, he carried a crate away to bin/recycle. DH never binned anything 🤔
CCTV maintenance this afternoon other than that a quiet day.
Have a good day.

Morning Mick, morning All from a chilly, grey corner of Somerset It’s hard to believe it was hot and sunny just three days ago.

Our friends had some delays on their journey yesterday and were more than flustered when the arrived. We soon settled into our usual chatty, happy time together. The showers mattered not at all.

A different day ahead. I need to sort out home insurance and prepare for a call from a medic I find unsympathetic and often rude. I’ll not relax until that one is over then I suspect we’ll wander out for a stretch and a cuppa.

roses please fight the summerhouse issue. It’s definitely not fit for purpose and must be very upsetting. A sad morning ahead for you, hope all goes as well as these things can.

Enjoy what you can of the day everyone.

Cool and grey morning and no plans so an indoor day, I think, where the inside of the windows reproach me; I have to do this job in several stages these days but could at least deal with downstairs. Otherwise there is plenty to read.

Good morning everyone from a cloudy and overcast Northampton, also really windy. Forecast to be dry so I have put the towels in the washing machine.

As predicted, the gardener did not come yesterday, due to the continual heavy rain, so I am waiting with bated breath to see if he messages me with a new date.
I managed to give my en-suite a deep clean and then dusted and.tidied the bedrooms. Spent the afternoon reading and have only a few pages left to read now; I shall be glad to finish the book as I have not enjoyed it.

Not sure how I shall spend the day.
Hope.whatever comes your way today is good.

Good morning from North Yorkshire. It’s very soggy. We had 24 hours of rain and even Alexa told me about the flood warning!
I went out to post a card yesterday and someone came so fast through the village I was splashed from head to foot when he went through a big puddle.
Another quiet day today before heading off to the family for the weekend.
Have a good day everyone.

Morning from an overcast S Hants, it was bright sun forty minutes ago, we didn’t get heavy rain until much later yesterday and not for that long.
I can sense your anticipation gMattie 🙂
Enjoy your family visit Bonny.
Trading Standards Roses?
Yesterday was library, local shops and kitchen cleaning.
Today hasn’t started well 🙂 my favourite jeans have totally worn out and been consigned to the bin!
Dental hygienist this afternoon, not my favourite.
🦩🦩

Good morning everyone from south Manchester where it’s damp out, not actually raining now and Alexa tells me it’s a chilly ish 10°C rising to the dizzy heights of 12°C later today.

We are enjoying our TIB these days which is why I can’t see the train station platforms over the road with coming and goings.

Our Yorkshire Lass has just messaged Himself from our Málaga apartment “enjoying breakfast and coffee in the morning sun on the balcony, watching and listening to the swifts. Perfect start to our day”.

Tomorrow is half term (Whit) holidays in Trafford schools. L’il Miss and her mum have 2 weeks off but the Boy Wonder at his high school only has one week. They are all off to a nice hotel in Lytham at the weekend to give the holiday a kick start.

Thursday = date night for us. We sometimes arrange to have friends join us. Tonight we are just lovebirds. 🥰 We go out around 6pm and are back home before 9pm as more than that tires Himself but hey - look at what we CAN do! It’s amaz and we are so very grateful for any of life’s blessings.

Enjoy the day folks whether you have plans or none.

I’m envious Liberty . Best fish and chips around. My mouth is watering just thinking about it 🤣🤣. Enjoy!

Good morning from a grey but dry West Yorkshire on our way north to Scotland. We stayed last night with my cousin and her husband, she is childminding her 4 year old DGD today so we are going to meet up with them shortly for a stroll and coffee.
We camped very near to you on Tuesday night, Mick. It poured all night but our van, unlike some of the structures mentioned above, is rainproof and cosy. Sorry for Grammaretto and RosesandLilac - both suffering from ingress of rain 🙁

Twin DGSs in Scotland have their last exam today (they are doing National 5s which is equivalent to GCSE, I think. Not quite as scary as your DGSs Highers Grammaretto. I remember them well from 1968 when I sat mine (and did better than I expected, or than some of my teachers thought I deserved 😂).

Have the best day you can and may the sun shine again in the British Isles, soon!

Good morning Mick and all from a windy, chilly northwest coast. We seem to have returned to winter…
Before DD returned to the south yesterday, we arranged holiday stuff, insurance, parking etc for our family holiday abroad next month. DGD has had her university finals, so she can relax with us.

In the evening, I went to the live screening of “A Winter’s Tale” the ballet from Covent Garden which I thought was wonderful,
especially enjoyable as the male principal dancer is a local boy.
Thoughts to all as always🌺

Grammaretto you’d be most welcome! I have a spare room.😄

Good morning from a wet, wet, wet north of Scotland.
Those few days of sun were uplifting. Back to grey and like so many of you, wardrobe sifting. I need to accept that I am unlikely to be a size eight again.
Off to have an early lunch and enjoy some tennis.

A very late good morning from rainy Lancashire. I had a rather bad night so have been catching up on some sleep.

Will read the thread with my coffee.

Pleased to see you back,Urms Missed your posts.
Wonderful news re himself Enjoy your 'Date Night' and many more TIB's.