Good Morning Wednesday 19th August2026

Good morning from Stockport.
It is damp and cooler, suits me better but the sun has been good for the holiday season.

My friend picked me up yesterday and we went to a local garden centre and had a sandwich and for me ,a pot of tea.
Looking round I spotted a pair of slider type sandals, I wear them in the house in summer and they seemed ok at £18 , when I got to the till, they were half price, so at £9 a real bargain I was delighted.
Home again I fell asleep on the sofa for quite a time, I am very tired these days.

I got a physio appointment but it is in two weeks time, meanwhile my pain isn’t getting any better.

Visiting my neighbour this afternoon, she isn’t at all well, neither sounds or looks it.
Her family aren’t at all attentive.

Make the most of your day everyone and safe landings to the travellers.

Good morning everyone from Inverness where it’s dry with light grey clouds, it still feels warm too
Please rest up Roses I’m sure the cleaner understands
I’ve a busy day ahead with the gym, dancing and a dentist appointment this afternoon. I’m having both my dentist check up and hygienist appointment this afternoon, both different people but at the same place so it’ll be out of one chair and into another.
Hoping your DD is soon over her Covid Jax
Hoping everyone has the best day they can, take care all 💐

R&L we are going to get very cross with you.

Good morning everyone from sunny warm Lancashire. Off to the eye clinic this morning for my jabs.

Have a good day 🌹

Hope you have a safe journey and enjoy your holiday FGT. Gelisa I have been having a case of the gremlins gobbling up my posts as well. Very annoying. I am hoping to organise a trip over to visit my son in the Fylde area soon , and wondered when I get something arranged if you might like to meet up for coffee somewhere? I would love to meet up with some of the GNs, as it is good to be able to put a face to so many people that you feel you have got to know, yet wouldnt recognise them if they walked past you in the street!

When I was doing missionary work, living in Lancashire with my white roses in the garden!, I used to enjoy going up to Morecambe and treating myself to coffee in the Midland hotel, It cost very little more than other cafes and allowed me to pretend it was the 1920's and I would see the wonderful Gill things and look around to see if Poroit was sat in the next window! Send me a message if you would like to meet up

Time to get the coffee and set off on my errands. Will put my lightweight mac in the bag, dont think I will need it , but who knows maybe a welcome shower for the garden. Lovely for all of us who have at last seen the welcome rain, to at least start helping the gardens. My neighbours where I used to live ,used to think I was quite mad, as after a long spell of dry weather, when the rain finally started , would see me with a watering can out there watering the borders. Method in my madness, if the ground is bone dry, the rain can run off so just dampening the soil encouraged the water to go down into the soil. Gardening friends understood my actions , but I am sure there will still be a few that remember me as that mad woman who waited for the rain to go out watering the garden! Ah wonderful, just playing Bach on the radio, lovely. Have a good day everyone

So sorry to hear that such news Marzipan thoughts with the family and all who knew her 💐

R&L! You are supposed to be resting! Can’t your OH do those things you want doing?

Good morning Mick and everyone from showery Carlisle.
Those cyclists will be met with some proper Cumbrian weather today Mick. Better than cycling in the boiling heat though.

I did a bit of bathroom and kitchen cleaning yesterday then couldn't resist getting out in the garden. I sawed down one of my Minarette crabapple trees, I just don't need all the crabs I get.
It's a functional looking tree rather than looking ornamental and I'm developing other plans for that fruit and veg border.
In the afternoon, just admin and sorting out more paperwork though little went.

Today, I've already been for my early walk which will now be followed by a bit more cleaning followed by a day at the computer I think, plenty of admin and things to organise.
The window cleaner plans to come but I suspect he'll pass if the rain gets steady.

R&L you have been well told off advised this morning!
I know it's frustrating but.....

Have a good day everyone and happy travels if you're off.

Good morning all from a showery Glasgow, where it is 11°C

R&L, you are only prolonging your recover Those of us, who have experienced major surgery, know that you must do absolutely nothing for six weeks.
Please do as you are told.

Life continues to be very problematic here and into the bargain, I have a small stress fracture in my foot. Over the years, I have had a fair number of fractures in my left foot and, as a result nowhave a condition, where the bones don't heal. It has caused neuropathy in my toes.
This is the first one, I have experienced one in my right foot. 😔
I just have to get on with it, DH needs me and we still haven't heard from the cardiologist.
I feel so helpless.

I wish you all a pleasant day, have a great time with your family, FGT,

Good morning from a damp Leicestershire.
I am hoping for more rain today.

Today I am meeting kitty and three other friends which is exciting.
DH will have to deal with the Ocado delivery.

Grandmabatty you have the most delightful DGSs.
So sorry to hear your news Marzipan how incredible sad.

Wishing everyone the best day possible.

Good morning everyone from a bright and sunny but much cooler Northampton day. Not sure whether we had rain overnight or not.

Really enjoyed my walk yesterday in more comfortable weather - I was greeted like a long-lost friend returning, as its now several weeks since I joined them! Managed nearly 8000 steps over the hour.

Today I shall be joining my dance groups as we meet for our annual summer coffee morning in the parkland of what whas a medieval convent/abbey - also where the funeral cortege of Eleanor wife of Edward 1 rested on its way to London. Hoping it will be nice enough to sit outside. A bit of a trek for me as I have to get two buses, one into town and then another to the abbey.

No plans for the rest of the day except put the bins out when I get home!

Wishing all a pleasant day.

Good morning from a damp, overcast Durham. I feel overheated - a bit odd.
I’m meeting a friend for coffee this morning at a local garden centre. We enjoy your weekly catchups and I’ll miss her when she’s away cat sitting for her daughter next week.
I’m hoping that Little Dog will go home tonight, as he’ll be back here next week for quite a long stay with DD2 and family away.
Later, I must see if I can find a decent car valet service. A couple of cars I had my eye on have been sold, so if I’m going to change mine, I need it properly cleaned.

Roses you have been told in no uncertain terms - sit down woman and do nothing, despite your frustration!

Best wishes to all. X

Devastating Marzipan how awful for the family.

Good morning,
We had lots of lovely rain through the night once more, and already the grass is beginning to green up again. More forecast for tonight 👍🏼.

R&L, please listen to your friends here, and do nothing - the cleaner will understand. I know it’s hard to sit still, but you really must follow your doctors advice or as Marydoll says, you are prolonging your recovery period.

How awful for your friend, Marzipan - so incredibly sad.

Wishing everyone well.

I sit suitably admonished…..😬I promise I will do better. It’s so difficult when DH doesn’t see muddle, mess or dust. He literally does nothing around the house.
I have done an online shop for more ready to cook meals that can be put in the oven. I must add some vegetables.

Oh Marzipan, I am so sorry to read your post. How utterly heartbreaking 💐🤗 xx
I absolutely love reading all about your days Madeleine, you’re such an active person, just like so many on here who fill their days in such interesting ways.
Marydoll all I can say is I’m sending you love and hugs xx
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Thank you to all of you, I shall behave xx

Tragic news Marzipan 💐

Good morning all from the Scottish Borders where it's been raining.

My Gransnet freezes mid sentence too. Is it because I use my phone?

So sad Marzipan thinking of you all.

My news is that the sale will go through mid October so I will be moving - I know not where!

Yarn group this morning so hopefully the girls will have some suggestions 😁

Enjoy Málaga with the family FGT

Wishing everyone well today and please rest Roses&l

👋 to you Ziplok
Good to have you join us. Please tell us your location so we can place you it makes it easier somehow to get to know new posters better on here.

Hoping to hear again from yesterday’s newbie too.

Wonderful news Grammaretto to hear you’ve finally sold your house (X posts). Now to find somewhere for you to buy to live … soonish 🤞

Or ‘spend some of the kid’s inheritance’ and find somewhere nice to rent while you look! 😂
Good luck dear lady.

Marzipan such sad news. Your poor friend. My friend's son killed himself earlier this year and I don't think she will ever recover. Dragonfly thank you. Sometimes they can be hard work but I love my boys dearly. Marydoll I'm really sorry to hear about your foot trouble. I have peripheral neuropathy and it can be so painful.

Oh dear my post has disappeared now!

So sorry for you Marydoll you have a lot to contend with. Accept as much help as you can. I know it doesn’t come easily.

Marzipan what a sad day. Questions that will never be answered. 🙏.

Take care all 🌺

We’ll miss you Fgt.
Have a great family time and we await your news and adventures when you can .

^When I was doing missionary work, living in Lancashire^….
Gosh Madeleine, I didn’t know we were still sending missionaries into Lancashire. I thought they’d eaten the last one ages ago🫣! Apologies to all our lovely Lancastrians, I just couldn’t resist! I get my coat!

Great news Grammaretto.🥰
What will you do with your studio?

Grandmabatty, thank you. My colleagues were horrified, when I came back from an RA appointment one day and informed them that I had been walking about for months with three stress fractures. I am used to pain, so never gave it a second thought.
I couldn't remember the name of the condition, it is Freiberg's disease. (See how blasé I am. )

DH says he feels OK, so we are going out for lunch. We will take the bus, it is less stressful, no no DH impersonating a driving instructor and nipping my ear every few minutes. After fifty years, I think I know how to drive. 😡
The bus will take us door to door in fifteen minutes. No strenuous walking required.
We have an expensive voucher, which is about to expire, having already lost one, due to DH's ill health.

We are going out mainly because in the words of our lovely Maltese friend, I can't be arsed thinking about cooking, let alone actually cook.
The menu looks delicious. Prawn tempura or sea bass? I cannot make up my mind.

Good morning everyone. There’s been rain in our corner of Somerset. Puddles even. Lovely!

I’m so sorry marzipan that’s very sad news and a situation I’ve been involved with in the past. So hard.

Oh heck roses, I know from bitter experience how impossible it feels to shut off from what needs doing. Please don’t be tempted, everything waits and your cleaner will have seen far worse I promise you. A surgeon once explained to me that healing happens from the outside in, just because the incision looks and feels happy it doesn’t mean what we can’t see has healed.

Have the best day you can everyone.