Good morning friday

Nice to hear from you Yiayia4.What an interesting username you have chosen.I don't know whereabouts you are in Surrey but we are having a small meet up in Staines on 28th June.You are very welcome to join us if you are free and would like to .
It is also very cloudy here in Berkshire. I am going to a garden party at a local stately home today where DH is a guide so it would be nice to see a bit of sunshine.

Welcome yiayia from another Surrey gran!

Late good morning everyone.

Damp and grey here in The Black Country, after a lovely sunny week.

Off to gym shortly, then the dreaded housework and ironing. Partner is working from home today, so will have some company

Have a good day all.

Welcome, Yiayia4. I’m sure you’ll have many happy hours posting on the GN forums. ?

Good morning all, sun has just come out in my part of Essex.

Have a good weekend mawbroon.

Good morning ab, hope you are well ?

I rarely look at GN first thing, but is there a monopoly on this thread about who posts first? Some posts sound quite unwelcoming if a different person starts the thread. Not very GN like. Does it matter who gets going first?

No-one, I am sure, is trying to be unkind or unwelcoming to anyone. It’s not a question of whether it matters, but there is an unspoken etiquette around the fact that, for as long as I can remember anyway, 12Michael has always started this thread off. Most people seem to latch on and are happy to accept it. The last thing anyone, and certainly not Mick himself, would want is for the matter to become contentious.

I think Michael12 aka to all of us as Mick started the whole idea of this thread way back in the mists of time and has always started it. I’m sure nobody minds ?

There are good number of new posters on here which is great. I love to hear what everyone has planned for their day.
I'm sure the newer posters have been blissfully unaware that there is an "etiquette" here. It took me ages to realise that there was. .
As Greyduster has said, Mick would not want this to become contentious, so please keep posting everyone.

I agree with Greyduster, Mawbroon and Marydoll that it has been a given for some years that we wait for Mick to start the day off for us. When I explained this in a pleasant non threatening way some months back, I found on another thread some very nasty comments said about me for having the temerity to say something.

That's such a shame, NanKate. There's no need for anyone to be nasty about it.

I have never put a comment on the good morning thread before and am relatively new to GN I was unaware of the etiquette of the post and I am sure I am not the only one! Are there any other unspoken rules or etiquettes that newer members might be unaware of?
No one wants to annoy older GN members but we don’t always know these rules

No to my knowledge there are no other rules of etiquette Jen on GN this one is unique.

It's not really a rule more a convention.

I may be shot down for this but I think we need to think of both stevie and Micks feelings on this and ask them

Very wise Maw.

I like your wording Kitty a convention not a rule.

Good morning all, sorry I am also relatively new to this thread, and having had my fingers burnt on another I will do my best to conform to your traditions.

Sunny here in Essex, my wings are clipped for the next 6 weeks (foot fracture and torn ligaments) so shall be reliant on my 'new virtual friends'

Wishing you all a lovely day ahead

Except it's Saturday gg.

I started this thread and I’d like to confirm that I delib mentioned no names and meant no offence. The responses do seem to me to reveal a surprising prickliness re departures from convention but will leave it at that.

With all due respect, it’s not prickliness. I for one am sorry that it should come across like that. In the great scheme of things it doesn’t matter who starts the thread, but, to my knowledge, and if I’m wrong, I will stand corrected, I have never seen Mick post on any other thread than the Good Morning thread and it has come to be regarded as long as I have been on here as his thread to open. I don’t know why, nor have I seen anyone question it before. It does not occur on any other thread, and neither should it. Personally, I rather like it. Others might not. Whether the status quo should be maintained is not my call to make, but I hope we can bring this to some sort of amicable conclusion soon, as it may by now be causing him some embarrassment. It would if it were me.

Very well said Greyduster you have summed the situation up perfectly. And yes Mick has not intervened in anyway.

He seems to start the day off well for me and all that follow slot in well.

As the two Ronnies and the chap with the long legs, whose name evades me, said in the sketch from That was the week that was. ‘I know my place’.