Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections.

I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one off.

If you have time in the mornings, come post in the thread before you head off to work, let us know what you've got on and what the weather is like in your area etc. Anything at all is fine.

Posts and likes get counted towards your total stats in this thread.

So GOOOD MORNING PEOPLE - WEATHER IS NICE TODAY IN STOKE. I'M THANKFUL IT'S FRIDAY, HAD A RUBBISH WEEK. THANK GOD IT'S OVER.

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[littlespark]

@littlespark Nice picture of the onion town, I used to frequent it a lot in the early 80s when I went out with a girl from there, not been back for years.

It’s my home town, was just a kid in the early 80’s though. My parents still live there, as do the in-laws.
I’m there 2 or 3 times a week with jobs, visiting and taking middle kid ice skating.

 

[R-fur]

A lot of good memorys from there, the GF lived on Newton Don estate, on the road to stichill.

 

[littlespark]

A lot of good memorys from there, the GF lived on Newton Don estate, on the road to stichill.

I know it well. I had a friend live in the cottages there.

Small world.

 

[DPG]

How come everyone on here is Scottish lately??!

 

[R-fur]

Because the Angles are in a panic over the wind.

 

[littlespark]

Weather report today in Berwick… van says 6 degrees, slight breeze, white clouds on a blue sky…. The odd shower.

What storm?

 

[littlespark]

Typical. As soon as I posted my last “weather update” the skies darkened, the wind picked up and the 7 mile drive back home, the temperature dropped from 6 to 3 degrees.

It is now snowing/ sleeting and I’ve been out and tied me wheelie bins down, sport…. Tied me wheelie bins down.

 

[DPG]

Typical. As soon as I posted my last “weather update” the skies darkened, the wind picked up and the 7 mile drive back home, the temperature dropped from 6 to 3 degrees.

It is now snowing/ sleeting and I’ve been out and tied me wheelie bins down, sport…. Tied me wheelie bins down.

Yep it's took a turn for the worse here as well. (In Yorkshire - a bit south of most of you!)

 

[littlespark]

Still trying to get over what was on tv last night.
Was watching Gogglebox, and near the end they showed clips of Pam And Tommy that’s showing on Disney Plus….

If you’ve seen it, you’ll know what I mean….

Tommy Lee is being played by Sebastian Stan from the Marvel films….

I don’t think I can watch The Winter Soldier in the same light ever again.

 

[littlespark]

Kids back to school today after half-term, and on a Tuesday, I take them in as one of them is carrying a heavy musical instrument… so after dropping them off, I headed to a job that’s ongoing… (the one with an old MEM board that’s mentioned in another thread)
The garden was full of dog crap… had to watch where I was walking…. and while I was there, the fairly large dog sneaked into the kitchen and shat on the floor.

Lovely.

So, I just packed up and came away. Can’t work in that.

 

[Mike Johnson]

80hrs without electricity, we now have hot water and heating Hooray.

 

[Moley]

Well, I'm back up in Scotland. Hunterston again. Up here until Sunday then drive down to Southampton for Monday morning

 

[littlespark]

Good deed for the day.
Headed into town to the bank because one of my elderly customers paid by cheque… I photographed it into my banking app, and they ignored a text from their bank to validate it.
It went into my account, and came straight back out again….

I digress.

On the street, near the bank, I came across a rather fat wallet on the pavement… quick glance, no one about that could have dropped it…so I picked it up, and honestly, I took it to the police station.
They had a quick look… 10 quid, drivers license and a hell of a lot of store cards, loyalty cards, family photos… no wonder it looked fat.

 

[Mike Johnson]

80hrs without electricity, we now have hot water and heating Hooray.

Quick update, electricity went off again yesterday for eight hours, why do they do that during the day and just as your are preparing Lunch back up into the loft to get the gas ring out again, power came back on overnight.

 

[nicebutdim]

Quick update, electricity went off again yesterday for eight hours, why do they do that during the day and just as your are preparing Lunch back up into the loft to get the gas ring out again, power came back on overnight.

Not having much luck lately.

 

[littlespark]

I have woken up this morning with a bit of a bad back. Had trouble last night, but woke at 2am, couldn’t sleep couldn’t move. Can hardly climb into the van… so it’s a day of picking up stock and delivering invoices… was supposed to be up a ladder, but that ain’t happening

 

[brianmoooore]

I have woken up this morning with a bit of a bad back.

First night of a brand new mattress, so I was expecting the same, but so far so good.

 

[pc1966]

Sorry to hear that @littlespark

I'm also in the rubbish-sleep camp, but that is due to having COVID and resulting cough keeping from sleeping well

Seems I drew the short straw, as only one of the group out that caught it (one friend's BF found they had it next day) and work mates have been fine, even though I'm vaccinated. Not too bad in other ways (feels like bad cold sort of thing), just the rubbish sleep getting to me.

 

[Mike Johnson]

I had to wear a BP monitor for 24hrs a few days ago, the thing pumps up every 10mins and takes a reading, no way I could sleep with that on, next comes the heart rate monitor, I have to wear that for forty eight hours, now that will be fun.

 

[littlespark]

My back still giving me jip, so I was on a nice easy PAT job…. 60 or so pieces of equipment… mostly office stuff, staff kitchen across 2 sites of this particular company…

“Just don’t turn off the fridges… they’re serviced separately”