Good Morning Bank Holiday Monday 31st August 2026

Good morning from Morecambe bay where it is cloudy and mild. More showers are forecast on and off over the day. Hopefully we won’t get one when we are out with the dogs. Yesterday evening we got caught in a thunderstorm and torrential rain. It came so suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere. Today will be another quiet day as DH is still hobbling through he’s insisting on keeping walking as he fears seizing up altogether. I need to arrange to do some gardening for folk. I’ll have to do DH’s grass cutting jobs too which I was hoping I wouldn’t have to.
I’m with you all the way on those wind turbines Madeleine having seen what they have done to the beautiful previously unspoilt Shetland landscape.
Take care everyone 🌸

Beautiful photos Greyduster. We will be visiting Yorkshire in a few weeks, I’ll look up the abbey.

Good morning all from Polmont where it's currently 14° and soggy, after heavy rain overnight. Bellasnana enjoy having your boys later. GrandMattie you are a very kind person.
Yesterday was very quiet and I was careful with my food choices, so the gallbladder pain has subsidised a bit. I didnt do much then in the afternoon a friend phoned for a very long chat.
Today I had a long lie. Dd gets the Bank Holiday, so has the boys. It isnt a Bank Holiday locally though, so I will head to the school library for a tidy up. Then back home to clean up the kitchen. Thereafter it will be quiet. Gammon and cauliflower cheese again for dinner with some sweetheart cabbage too. Have a good day all.

Good morning from a grey, breezy Durham. We had some rain yesterday, including a torrential downpour.
A normal Monday for me, meeting a friend for coffee late morning then hopefully, I can pull out some ‘sad’ plants - I don’t think they’ll recover.
DD2 and family due home from Majorca this afternoon, but I’ll hang onto Little Dog a bit longer, until they get settled.

Best wishes to all. X

Good Morning everyone from the central south coast which is just drying up after overnight rain. It is lovely to see things perking up after the long drought we have had this summer.

It's my birthday today and we are going over the road to our lovely local cafe/restaurant for lunch. I was born 2 weeks early and seem to have been early for everything ever since. Had I been born on my due date, my life would have been on a different path as I was always the youngest in the schools I attended. 31 August has long been the cut off date for school years.

Kind thoughts of all with struggles or worries of any sort and hope the day brings some relief and ease.

Good morning from Cambridgeshire where we had rain overnight but a bright blue sky at the moment. We plan to do one of our favourite walks this morning before the rain comes early afternoon. Otherwise a quiet day is planned.

Take care everyone and hope you all have the best day possible.

Good morning a it’s bright and a bit breezy.
Yesterday was a good day for gardening and I got a lot of clearing done. Once you start it’s hard to know where to stop.

I had two messages from my old pals. One to say she’s booked us in for the ABBA voyage in November and the other pal to say she’s broken her hip falling off her bike. They spend the summer camping in the south of France. She’s 76 and her Dh is 86. . Both extremely fit, swim and cycle every day.

I pad keeps freezing so I’ll call it a day. 🌺

Melanie61

Good morning from Sheffield
GM do you put a wax disc on top of your preserves or just screw the lid on tight?
I have just made a bucketful of tomato chutney and I worry how long it will keep for.
We are supposed to go to Sherwood Forest today with our daughter and family but it’s pouring down at the moment. We will see how it is in a couple of hours.
I could do with a quiet day to be honest. I feel a bit weary.
Take care everyone

I never put the waxed paper on hot jam if I have an intact metal lid, which I screw on tight immediately after filling the jars.
If you only have the cellophane paper and elastic to seal the preserve, that’s when the waxed paper is used.
Most preserves will keep for several years, only losing a bit of freshness. Things like mincemeat will keep for longer with no ill effect.
Good luck.

Happy birthday Gagagran 🎉🎂💐 enjoy your lunch.

Happy birthday Gagagran! Enjoy your day.

I use both a wax circle and an intact lid.

Good morning from a bright and warm S E Essex, we have showers forecast, will they actually happen, who knows 🤷‍♀️

All holiday washing has been done, today I will be ironing.

Happy birthday Gagagran 🥂🎂🍾

I love that view FGT2 👍

Good morning everyone from a post thunder stormy Lancashire.

I haven't had chance to read your messages yet, so apologies if it appears I haven't responded to anything in particular.

The church person sendoff was lovely yesterday. He'd no idea and seemed very touched. He and DD had a good catch up.

DD goes home to Birmingham later today. We might all go into Bury and have some lunch out before she heads back to Manchester on the tram.

I can hear Thunderfeet giving DH the runaround so I'll go and help.

Have a lovely BH, whether it's quiet or busy. 🌻

Happy Birthday Gagagran 🥳🎂🥂 enjoy your lunch and the rest of your special day.

Happy birthday Gagagran. 🎊.

I switched off the I pad which seems to have stopped the freezing. So frustrating!

Dd and DGD coming this afternoon and will stay the night as we are catching a coach to Windsor to have a boat trip along the Thames with lunch on board. A last treat before school resumes.
They’ve had a lovely summer with so many days out, rather than going away.

DS2 is coming here to work and keep an eye on his dad.
I don’t like to leave him for a full day, although he says he’ll be fine . 🙄. I would worry and not enjoy our day out.

Bed making up and shopping at the local shops, walking little dog and back to make something for dinner.

Take care 🌺

Back to read some more posts. 😁

Wishing you many happy returns of the day Gagagran a fellow Virgoan! We would get on well. The Earth sign where family is of greatest importance.

Oh Gingster how awful for your friend suffering a broken hip like that, sustained whilst using her bike too for healthy exercise. Shudder. 😱

Happy birthday to Gagagran. Have a lovely day.

Good morning from a dry NE where it is 15°.
We had a lovely afternoon at a castle where we had afternoon tea. We had a sudden downpour as we returned to the car which continued until we got home.
I gave GD2 her birthday present because I won't see her on the actual day. She wanted an apple watch so that is what she got, she set it up there and then as soon as she opened it, the youngsters are so good at technology.
She then played the piano for more than an hour which was lovely.
GD1 sorted out my phone, I had lost an important voicemail and she found it.
Today I am having a quiet day, catch up with TV and do some admin.
DD and SIL are coming to the UK tomorrow, haven't seen them since we were on holiday at the beginning of May.
Enjoy the bank holiday.

A very Happy Birthdat Gagagran enjoy your day today! 💐🎂🥂

Good morning everyone from a bright and sunny 🌞 Northampton; funny Mick, that I'm only 20 or so miles from you and yet our weather is so different! But I think we may get showers later; however I have taken the chance and got some washing in the machine.

Did very little yesterday apart from spending an hour in the garden after lunch. I needed to put the cover on the garden seat. I also trimmed back some of the climbing rose on the pergola, and noticed a few good bunches of purple grapes on the vine. I think the 30 year old pergola may need replacing next year as it seems to have bits falling off it! I also found some duct tape and repaired the garden bin which had two splits in it, probably caused by the bin lorry mechanism when emptying.

No plans for today really; may strip and change the bed later, then read the paper and continue with The Odyssey.

Wishing all a pleasant day.

Happy Birthday, Gagagran
Snap, Georgesgran, dd2 and family are at Palma airport now, arriving at Newcastle mid afternoon. We will keep the two granddogs for a couple of days.
Sun shining here so washer on.
Hope those feeling under par get better soon.
Some beautiful pictures today.

Good Morning from a bright chilly Co Armagh
The washing is thrashing away , I hope the showers hold off
I’ve no plans for today , the village is quiet , so many away on holidays
Hoping for a peaceful healthy day for all

Good morning from Wiltshire.

Happy Birthday Gagagran. Hope you have lovely day. 🎂🥂

BBQ for GD3’s 8th birthday went ahead and incredibly there was no rain until the evening. There were 23 family members in the end, from both sides and DS’s beautiful dog so it was just as well we were outside. Luckily SinL has a covered outside kitchen with an enormous BBQ. The teens ate inside which made space for everyone. We had a fantastic afternoon. Just a shame DH wasn’t feeling very well which he hasn’t been for a few days, in a way he couldn’t really explain and still doesn’t today.

Hope you all have a relaxing Bank Holiday.

Morning all from West Oxfordshire. We have blue sky and clouds.

A quiet day today - the rest of the week is busy.

I think OH is doing bee things today rather than his fortnightly U3A croquet.

Have a good day.

They must be on the same flight GrandmaC47 - Jet2? DD2 should be boarded first with assistance, but that’s rare these days with such short turnarounds for most flights.

Many happy returns Gagagran! I hope you have a wonderful birthday.🥳

In Malta the school year is a bit different, my children all started the year they turned 4. I remember DD1 had two girls in her class who were sisters, one born January and the other in December of the same year.