You don't need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
Martin Luther King Jr
Welcome to my Sunday 🍾
Might have to try and go to see the Doctor this week about my knee....
Brew with hug time.
Breakfast.
Dressed.
Everyone else gets up,
As they are going for a walk around the lake.
I am resting the knee.
Coffee time.
While hubby takes the kids around the lake.
I get yesterday's blog post wrote.
Now for a little play with Kenny.
Halloween themed of course!
Put the cakes in the oven.
Everyone comes back.
One son moaning about how many were around the lake, and how rammed it was...
Lunch time.
The visit to see my parents was postponed until the rain stopped.
Finished the cakes instead.
Rain stopped.
Now out...
Tidied the grave up.
Nice clouds in the sky..
Nice plume of cloud when we got home.
Puts chicken on in the oven.
Late tea at 3.
Roger Miller was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor, widely known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs and his chart-topping country and pop hits "King of the Road", "Dang Me", and "England Swings", all from the mid-1960s Nashville sound era.
He died on this day in 1992 aged 56 years old.
We caught up with the semi-final and final of series 6 of The Great British Sewing Bee.
Now to move onto two episodes of Top Of The Pops from 1990.
I had to fast forward half of the first programme because the music was dire.
Moving on to the next episode...
A bit more fastforwarding....
I left hubby to watch this week's Top Gear.
I got other things to do.
Then to catch up with more programmes.
I ordered some more sewing books off AbeBooks website.
I like to be a free spirit.Some don't like that. But that's the way I am - Princess Diana
After the shopping trip, my left knee blew up like a football.Making it impossible to walk.
All night was left leg was up......↗↗↗
Brew and hug.
Breakfast.
Dressed.
Hubby had to drive the Sexy Beast.
We dropped off son at his Boxing lesson.
Checked Sexy Beast's tyres.
Back home to swap cars over.
Checked hubby's tyres next.
Off to Chemist to try to get down the swelling and ease the pain.
Coffee with a dash of pain relief.
Picks up son from his Boxing lesson..
Back home to put leg up....↗↗↗
Had some light lunch.
Washing machine went on,
&
The tumble drier.
It was looking like a Chinese Laundry here.
I got my blog updated.
The pain might be helped with the gel, but I'm having trouble walking....
Feel like an extra in a pirate film.
Tomorrow's Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡
is looking doubtful.
Chicken tea.
While hubby had a hot shower.
I caught up with 2 episodes of Top Of The Pops from 1990.
I have got the 7 inch single of this song↑
Next up was a lot of fast forwarding
Until I got to:
A great new entry into the chart this week↓
Great to see Del Amitri again↓
I saw them twice in concert in 1990.
I got all their singles and their "Waking Hours" album.
Fast Forwarded to the next episode.
Another great song was on↓
I see my favourite song is still going up ↗↗↗
I fast forwarded the rest as I couldn't stand the rest of the songs being played.
Quick look at the Birthdays.
Chuck Berry was an American singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. Nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll", Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958). Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship, Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music.He would have been 94 years old 🎈
He died aged 90 in 2017.
Curtis Stigers is an American jazz
singer. He achieved a number of hits in the early 1990s, most notably
the international hit "I Wonder Why" (1991), which reached No. 5 in the UK and No. 9 in the US.He is 55 years old🎈
Alfredo Lettieri was an Italian-American actor and screenwriter. During his career, he acted with some of Hollywood's biggest screen stars, including Steve McQueen in The Getaway, Charles Bronson in Mr. Majestyk, John Wayne in McQ, Richard Harris in The Deadly Trackers, Michael Caine and Mickey Rooney in Pulp, and Marlon Brando and Al Pacino in The Godfather. In most of those roles, he was cast as a villain and was sometimes credited as Anthony Lettieri.
He died on this day in 1975 aged 47 years old.
Julie London was an American singer and actress whose career spanned more than 40 years. Born in Santa Rosa, California to vaudevillian
parents, London was discovered while working as an elevator operator in
downtown Los Angeles, and began her career as an actress. London's
35-year acting career began in film in 1944, and included roles as the
female lead in numerous westerns, co-starring with Rock Hudson in The Fat Man (1951), with Robert Taylor and John Cassavetes in Saddle the Wind (1958), and opposite Robert Mitchum in The Wonderful Country (1959).
She died on this day in 2000 aged 74 years old.
Now for some Sleep Tea....
I am fearing I won't be able to get abroad the Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡 tomorrow.
