Good Morning Wednesday 1st July 2026

Just came back to read further posts and so wish you a very happy birthday Bellasnana, oh to be so young!! (I will be 81 next week , GN's is great to let you meet people without age coming into it! )

Oops, that didn’t work did it!! I’ll try again!

And to see *you&, taichinab. I’ve missed you! 🫂

I know it's ridiculously late to come on a good morning thread, but just wanted to say how lovely it is to see Madeleine posting again xxx

Happy Birthday Bellasnana. Glad you decided not to let the b*****s get you down. 💐

Good morning, Michael12 and everyone!

I was quite excited yesterday! A man came into the shop with his daughter, about....5 and she was carrying a colouring book.

As I was serving him, I was thinking ''Oh my cod! That's a brilliant idea!'' So as soon as I finished work, I galloped into Morrisons and bought 2 adult colouring books and 2 x 24 packs of coloured pencils, then last night on the kitchen table, about 10:45, I set them up with a can of Bacardi & Coke and a bowl of cold custard and coloured away!

Until about 11:00, I was a 61-year-old kid! Had so much fun and it was therapeutic too!

See you all later!

Good morning from Stockport, overcast but still warm and we had steady rain last evening which I am sure the garden welcomed.
Happy Birthday Bella enjoy every minute.

My Wednesday friend has rung to say she has a dental abscess so will not be coming today.
I was supposed to visit her, she is getting very forgetful and confused.
Since her H died 4 years ago her AC have taken over her thinking and doing, they have done her no favours at all.
She does not take much responsibility for herself, I cannot say anything, it is not my place and her C are beyond reproach in her eyes.

I must get going continuing my bedroom clear out, I am moving into another room when my GD leaves for her own home and feel quite excited, a change is as good as a rest.
Their Solicitor is getting frustrated by the Vendor’s Solicitor who hasn’t done much now for over three weeks in spite of many “nudges” they should have been further on by now.
However everything comes to he who waits I believe is a popular saying.

I shall be watching England tonight, please please please it doesn’t go to a penalty shoot out, I can’t watch them.

Keep hydrated everyone.

Good Morning from a very dull Co Armagh, we are due rain , but not till the afternoon
My sister called to ask about my weekend away , then proceeded to barely listen to my entertaining description of my happenings of lost stick , broken rolator etc
Yes she did roll her eyes , I guess I’m not the raconteur I think I am 🤣
Nice to see Madeleine back posting
Today I must see if I can find the iron , I took the washing in in a hurry and some things need flattening 🙄
Here’s wishing for a good day with no disasters

Sainsbury’s delivery put away so I can rest.
Gagagran, it’s two weeks since my fall, I know just what you mean!
Well done to your dgs, Karma
Melanie61, we look after our dd’s two sausages Monday to Wednesday in term time. They do bark but also sleep a lot.
Marydoll 💐.
Madeleine, my fb has been showing me pictures of your area. It’s many years since we were there, it was a popular Sunday out for us.
Enjoy your holidays those venturing forth.
🎂 Bella.
Glad to say I’m feeling less miserable today 😀

Happy birthday Bella and so pleased to see you back.♥️

I've decided to spend the morning in bed, I am feeling rather rough. I cannot wait to see my R.A consultant.
However, I have had a snooze and do feel slightly better.

Ash, my consultant wrote to my reluctant GP, insisting, that taking eight paracetamol daily, to top up my painkiller patch, was part part of my medication regime.
It was immediately put on repeat.
Is it worth your consultant formally requesting it for you?
Research has shown that paracetamol is very effective, as a second line painkiller.

*R&L, ♥️

Good morning Mick and everyone.
So pleased to see Bellasnanna is back.
I wish you a very happy 70th birthday. And many happy and healthy returns of the day.
Good news of progress for RosesandLilac. Wishing the best for you.
I was in the garden early this morning as it had rained overnight.
I had a new rose to plant and the conditions were perfect. The rose is a gift from my late son's Godmother in memory of him for his July birthday.
I chose the rose last week when I visited the David Austin rose gardens.
It's called Blue for You.
I'd better get back to the garden as I want to do some weeding and it's looking like rain is on the way.

Good Morning - sorry to be late. Have a great day everyone- off to golf for me if the hip stands up to a few holes.

Good to see you again bellasnana and you too madeleine.
Happy Birthday bellasnana 🥂🎂

Good morning all from the Scottish Borders. My garden girl is busy mowing the vast lawn. She's very keen on leaving areas uncut - for the bees - and now it's almost too much "meadow" lots of orchids though.

Happy birthday. Bellasnanna I hope you are celebrating in style. 🎂🎊🥂🍾❤️

My friend's DD had a baby girl last night which is v exciting. Her DD and mine were school friends.

I'm still suffering with awful back pain and dosing up on tramadol just to function. 😟

Marydoll you'll have to hide your DH medicines. It is funny but it isn't really. 😯
I hope you can run away for a while even if it's to a friend for coffee.

Malaga sounds fab FGT.

Well done your DGS very proud gran Karma

Good news for you R&L at long last.

I hope your antibiotics work soon. GrannyGravy

Glad to see Bella back with us; just don’t understand how anyone can be unkind and am glad she is recovering. Thoughts as always to Marydoll who has more to try her than anyone should have to cope with.

Like others, I am relieved that the temperature is more reasonable but already dreading the incoming heat next week as I don’t cope well with it these days. Meanwhile I have a trip to the optician and possible the supermarket if I have the energy, having done all the washing and putting away.

👋🏻 Hello Bellasnana nice to see you back here. Hope your grandson gets better soon. x

Sorry to hear it was not the news you wanted to hear from DVLA Ginster😥

Good morning all and how lovely to see Madeleine and especially Bellasnana who had been upset by unkind posters.
Happy birthday Bella you deserve a special day 🥳.

Yesterday was cool so I got much needed housework done , walked up to town to be picked up by friends for Bridge Club.

I had a letter from the DVLA . 3 months since my appeal but I still don’t meet their requirements for driving 😢. I’ll enquire about laser/stent or anything else that might allow me to get my licence back.

I have some lovely friends who are always ready to give me lifts but I do like to be independent and get busses or a cab if the journey is tricky.

Today I have a pedicure booked and then a dry cut . My hair is thick and I want a shorter cut with some layering. I’ll probably regret it but my hair dies grow very quickly,

Well done Karmas gs. 🥇.
Sorry to hear about your DH’s faux pas Marydoll. I have to be behind my Dh all the time to make sure he’s doing the right thing. Very waring at times. 🫣.

Hope you’re feeling better GG. Take it easy. 📖.
Enjoy your lunch Liberty.
Take care all 🌺

Great meet-up in Market Harborough yesterday, here we all are!!

Good morning, Michael and all GNs from South Yorkshire where it is slightly cooler again. We had rain last night, for which much thanks, but it wasn’t really enough.

School yesterday was chaotic. The library was like a jumble sale when I got there as the infant school’s Yr2 had been visiting for an induction day and had been instructed to dump their belongings on the floor. The table I use was covered in cups of orange squash. They eventually departed at ten past one which meant I lost half an hour of what is a very busy session and wasn’t able to finish my list. Sports day on Friday which means I shalln’t be needed at all, so an extra day off this week! My long distance friend and I had a hilarious couple of hours on the phone in the evening. Her tales of her GD’s have me in stitches.

Writer’s group at the library this afternoon. I will do some shopping while at the mall.

Have a Very Happy Birthday, Bellasnanna. 🎉🥂🎂 Good to have you back.

Have the best day you can, folks!

Hello Bellasnana and a very happy birthday 🎂🎂! So glad to see you back. xx

Morning from South Lanarkshire, very still outside, nice, as we get so much wind here.

Happy birthday Bellasnana, I hope you enjoy your day🎂!

Very well done indeed by your DGS karmalady, preventing lives being changed forever.💐

Lunch out with DD1 today, the farm is slightly less frenetic now that the lambs are more established, so it will be a proper catch up.

Best wishes for a good day x

Oh, hello, Bellasnana - glad to see you back 😁

Good morning,

White rabbits 🐰🐰 to you all.

A lovely sunny start to the day after a drop of rain last night which seems to have cheered up the plants.

Oh dear, MD, your DH certainly does go off piste as FGT2 says 😮. You are a 😇.

So glad things seem to be moving for you Rosesandlilac.

What a lovely garden, Liberty.

Happy birthday to Bellasnana. 🎂🎉. I hope you’ll be back posting on the GM thread soon.

Wishing everyone the best day possible.

Good morning from sunny Wiltshire. We had a bit of rain yesterday but could have done with far more.

Tackled some housework yesterday. Between us, DH and I managed to work our way through the ironing mountain. We got a fan (very pleased with it) from Amazon. A few hours later it had sold out. There are hardly any left. Then spent rather a long time online looking at mattresses. I’m thinking of a Simba Hybrid to replace my Leesa. Does anyone on here have one?

During the very hot spell last week, my joints swelled up and I was in a lot of pain all over. I have a longstanding right shoulder problem with a full rotator cuff tear. It isn’t bad all the time but a tendon swelled in the space and was agony, far worse than my hip. Things have settled alot this week with cooler weather.

Melanie61 I have used magnesium for the past 3 years. I had a 48 hour heart monitor in 2023 as I had a racing heart even at rest with a lot of ectopic heart beats. I declined the medication offered. I have found magnesium seems to have almost eradicated it. It hasn’t improved my sleep though.

Thinking of you in your happy place FGTS

Wishing everyone a good day.