Good Morning Sunday 18th October 2026

Good morning from Bristol. The mornings gave suddenly turned very chilly - it’s 5C outside, with a promised maximum of only 13C.
Yesterday went well. I was packed and ready early as I hate making people wait…. DD hasn’t inherited her parents’ need to be on time; everything is done at the eleventh hour…. We left the flat clean, tidy, beds stripped, etc., as requested. An easy journey home, with no hitches, though it seemed odd that so many cars were going the same direction as us. Doesn’t the traffic normally go to the West Country at weekends and holidays?
Safely delivered home, I set about unpacking and sorting myself out. I thawed a meal for dinner and had an early night - not before changing my summer weight duvet for a heavier one. Put the heating on too!
Today, I have church in the morning. One church lady is trying to offload all her extra produce on me; apart from not liking her, I’m very busy atm and really don’t need extra work. Having said that,I gave in at the offer of quinces,; I love the scent of the fruit and the jelly it produces.
In the afternoon, I need to make a fruitcake, allowing for maturing time for the FAB cafe’s next live concert, finish my Spanish homework (about Garcia Lorca), do some washing to be hung out, make a casserole so I only need to reheat it tomorrow…
May today bring only blessings. Carpe diem 🦩🦩🌹🦩

Good morning from Sheffield
I’ve not posted for a few days. I’ve been so busy.
Hubby had his carpal tunnel surgery on Wednesday. It went very well. The hand centre was fantastic. They were so kind and very efficient.
As he can’t do much I’ve been working and looking after him. I’m pacing myself and not doing anything that’s not necessary. Dusting has gone out of the window.
He’s glad the pain has gone away, just the wound is a bit sore.
We went for a lovely walk yesterday. It was good to get some fresh air. I will be sorting out laundry today and resting, ready for the week ahead
Take care everyone

Good morning from a dark and chilly corner of La Sarthe.

Despite planning to stay indoors for fear of encountering demonstrations yesterday, DH had to go out as we needed cat food. I’m enjoying a dry rosé, Grenache, which he discovered is available in 5litre boxes so we have one to take back to Torbay. But will it fit in my fridge❓❗️

A blessed Sunday to you all. 🦩🥰✝️💐🦩

Good morning, Michael and all GNs from South Yorkshire where it is currently 6 degrees (“but feels like 2”). We are promised sunshine later.

I’m glad your DH’s surgery went well, Melanie.

Yesterday was a rather sedentary day but it was very good to be able to share it with my friend of many years who I don’t see all that often these days. There has to be much poring over calendars! We caught up on family news, generally put the world to rights and laughed a lot. DS FaceTimed in the evening from a B&B in the Lake District where they were having a long weekend.

Today I will have a quiet day with paperwork to attend to, and a walk featured at some point, but in the meantime I am not in a hurry to leave my bed!

Have the best day you can, folks.

Good morning from s somerset, we are expecting a bright sunny day but it is rather cool, I`ll have to find my draught excluders, it is time

My trip to the allotment yesterday was just lovely and I brought some young strawberry plants home and did a lot of weeding but that was very easy, the soil was crumbly and dry. I had 6 ever-bearers at home towards the end of summer and they were still producing fruit yesterday. I will be adding to them now the parsnip bed is cleared

My housecoat is finished and of course I was dreading the buttonholes, not sure if they would work on this fabric, all was good until the very last buttonhole, I unpicked it four times until I worked out that the curved binding at the top was causing the problem on the automatic sensor. Unpicking buttonholes on that double gauze fabric was not easy and I definitely did not want a hole. Manual buttonhole worked and lesson learned

Anyway, it is warm cosy and very comfortable, cotton double gauze with a warm filling, like a sandwich. The pattern was Salis by Itch to stitch and I simply elongated the bottom and tapered out a bit. I will be making a Salis jacket before too long

I have a lot of tidying to do today and my sewing room is very bad as was the untidy kitchen before I went to bed. I`ll be doing those first today and I need some PJs, I was feeling cool in bed last night. I will start to make some later today in flannel cotton, I bought the fabric last week, it is beautiful quality

Thankfully I have food made for the main meal for three days and I made the parkin, which is maturing out of sight

Good morning from south Glos where it’s dry and chilly but sunshine later so I’ll get the washing dried outside.
Yesterday I walked bigger dog, we wandered around the lanes and she enjoyed sniffing everything while I enjoyed the sunshine and observing the wonderful autumn hues and all the hips and haws as well as huge amounts of Old Man’s Beard in the hedgerows. There were lots of fallen chestnut cases but few conkers, piles of beech masts everywhere and quite a lot of hazelnuts. A walnut tree on the estate has been shedding walnuts too, I have picked up a few.
There was a beautiful red kite drifting overhead, how I love that languid way they float across the sky. We also have buzzards here, one came very low overhead during our afternoon dog walk.
DH finished hedge/bush cutting yesterday, it looks good. He has an MRI this morning so I’m dog walking; it’s lovely to be outside and able again.
The forecast is for rain next week, we so badly need it, so I will dig out better boots for walking and my wellies in anticipation. I need to get back to walking every day, I so miss it.
I too am always ready early grandMattie unlike DH who is deplorably late for just about everything, it drives me mad because I think it’s very bad manners. I’m glad you had a nice time away, I hope to book somewhere for a night or two, just me because DH doesn’t want to go anywhere.
Have a lovely day if you can 🌹

Good morning from a dark mid-Wales. Currently 3 degrees with sun forecast later.

Yesterday our table came fifth out of ten in the pub quiz. Not bad considering there were only two of us. Just a bit of fun really. We did very badly on the round on YouTubers and Social Media celebrities!

Today I am driving back home to Herefordshire after church. I intend to spend the afternoon reading and knitting.

Stunning housecoat karmalady beautiful colours.

Happy day all.