The reward of a thing well done is to have done it -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Welcome to my Monday 💋
So much to do today...
Will I get to fit it in????
Brew with a warm hug.
Breakfast.
Gives hubby a wet sloppy 💋 before he goes to work.
Dressed.
Then to open up the windows upstairs,
&
Get kids up ready to do their on-line learning.
I get yesterday's blog wrote.
Out for some fresh air and ride in Sexy Beast.
I got my newpaper before the rush started.
Someone arrived and left a inch space between her car and mine!
The some freezer is still left on the pavement!
I went past my dad's house, and my younger brother's limo and his wife's car is still parked on the drive.
Still heard nothing from my late dad's Solicitor.
It will be the first anniversay of his passing on 5th February and still nothing has been sorted about his affairs...
(That I am being told about that is!)
Back home.
Coffee time!
&
Read of the newspaper.
Bobby Goldsboro is an American pop and country singer-songwriter. He had a string of pop and country hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including his signature No. 1 hit "Honey", which sold over 1 million copies in the United States, and the UK top-10 single "Summer (The First Time)".
He is 80 years old🎈
Tom Bailey is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician, and record
producer. Bailey came to prominence in the early 1980s as the lead
vocalist for the new wave band Thompson Twins, which released five singles that entered the top ten charts in the United Kingdom during the 1980s: "Love On Your Side", "We Are Detective", "Hold Me Now", "Doctor! Doctor!", and "You Take Me Up".
He is 65 years old 🎈
Barry Manilow scores his first US No 1 with Mandy. On this day in 1975.
Al Waxman was a Canadian actor and director
of over 1000 productions on radio, television, film, and stage. He is
best known for his starring roles in the television series King of Kensington (CBC) and Cagney & Lacey (CBS).
He died on this day in 2001 aged 65.
Now for a big tidy up of the Living Room.
Hobbycraft had to resend out my order after the first one was misdelivered somewhere else.
I finally had it!
Sorted out what can be recycled and what can't from the Living room.
Now for a light lunch.
I watched the last hour of a good film on Film4..
My neighbour came round to see if I can get the books he wanted.
I started looking about and could save him some money...
One is in the UK and the other 2 are in the USA.
After that mission was completed.
Film Time..
I chopped the vegetables for the Stir Fry while watching it.
I gave hubby a sloppy wet 💋 when he came home.
Dished up the meat free Stir Fry.
We carried on watching Kitchen Nightmares from the UK Updated.
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels - Bob Thaves
Welcome to being onboard my Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡
I didn't cover up Sexy Beast last night...
Oh dear, it's scrape time later...
But first hug and tea↓
I made sure those thermal knickers were put on!
I gave everyone their sloppy 💋💋💋
before I left the house↓
Frigging cold↑
Down to Lollipop job.
The tree picture↓
It started to warm up.
The stinky blue van is still spewing out clouds of diesel.Someone wondered if it has got a MOT.....
I finished in one piece.
Back home to move the lorry that was blocking my drive...
The lorry went back over the drive again↑↑
Some things I had to catch up.
Empty bins.
Load up dishwasher.
Coffee and early lunch↓
The lorry went....
Big sunglasses time
More singing to do↓
The first Papershop didn't have my newspaper in.Off to the next shop.While I went in to get the newspaper, one red car was waiting for the traffic lights to change.I came out, it was still waiting.I wasn't going to wait.Someone came out to the driver to tell him to move the car under the sensor.I turned around, went all round the reakin' to the traffic lights,only for them to turn red on me, and the lights turned green for the red car!!
I finally got to read my newspaper before work!
Some good films on tonight↓
Birthdays:
Al Waxman, was a Canadian actor and director
of over 1000 productions on radio, television, film, and stage. He is
best known for his starring roles in the television series King of Kensington (CBC) and Cagney & Lacey (CBS).He would have been 85 years old🎈
He died aged 65 years old in 2001. Karen Carpenter, American vocalist and drummer (We Only Just Begun),would have been 70 years old🎈
She died aged 32 years old in 1983 Dusty Springfield [Mary O'Brien], English vocalist (Growing Pains), died aged 59 in 1999.
I looked across the fields of fun↓
I gets in.
I had two more Birthday cards :)
They asked how my Birthday went.
I replied,"The food was great, the 4 tog on the bed was not nice, and even the dancing cobweb had more fun than me!"
I got my rollers to move even faster than normal↓
I left with a nice red face...
Back to more singing↓
I guessed the year right ;)
Back home.
Coffee and nibbles↓
Great Birthday cards↓
My son's waistcoat arrived for his prom in June.
(The tie came yesterday, suit jacket will come on Friday.Got everything else already!)
This afternoon's tree picture↓
The fun with the low lying sun.
I chatted with some of the parents before I started.I repeated what I said earlier on.
"The food was great, the 4 tog on the bed was not nice, and even the dancing cobweb had more fun than me!"
It seems my Lollypop stick was turning invisible as some point during my shift!
I could see it, but the car drivers couldn't!
One woman has to slam her brakes on, as I was walking back to the pavement when she suddenly started to drive off!
I finished in one piece JUST!
Back home to enjoy a much needed coffee!
Both kids got spot the intro Oasis - Wonderwall. If they had played my favourite cover of it, they wouldn't have got it so quick... (It's at the end of the blog) Now onto The Happy Place Of Work.
I had to redo the polishing of desks, I did on Friday....Mutterings of someone had to hoover some biscuit crumbs off the floor of an office!
There were no crumbs on the floor when I finished on Friday....!
They asked how my Birthday went.
I replied with:
"The food was great, the 4 tog on the bed was not nice, and even the dancing cobweb had more fun than me!"
Now more music to work to...↓
Back home to have a nice Stir Fry↓
Then off to burn that off with work and singing....↓
"Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly." - Virgil
The Home phone rung at 4am...
(Lifeline had phoned the Paramedics, as my dad had pressed the button, and wasn't answering the phone)
My hubby went round to meet the paramedics, my younger brother arrived an hour later.The urine infection is making my dad confused. He was told to start drinking more water, he he don't he will go back into hospital...
Hubby came back and joined me back in the warm bed.
I got up later on as I needed a cup of tea.
(I left hubby alone, as he needed the catch-up)↓
I caught up with the blog.
Hubby arose, plus the kids.
As we needed to be out of the house, to drop one of the son's at his boxing lesson.
The sun was out↓
First stop was to Morrison's.
Nice price↓
I got a few bits...
We had coffee and nibble↓
Next stop we nipped into Sainsburys.
Nice car in the car park↓
Pick up a red faced son from Boxing.
I saw my dad and told him to drink more water!
Then off to Stratford Age UK Reuse Centre at Burton Farm.
Loads of nice things I got for £5.
Just a mile down the road I nipped into The Shakespear Hospice..
I got what I needed from there...
Now for the ride home↓
I had a late light lunch↓
We moved the living room around to fit the item I bought in..
Quick look in the newspaper↓
Bobby Goldsboro is an American pop and country singer-songwriter. He had a string of pop and country hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including his signature No. 1 hit "Honey", which sold over one million copies in the United States, and the UK top-ten single Summer (The First Time).He is 79 years old 🎈
Tom Bailey, English rock vocalist & keyboardist (Thompson Twins),he is 64 years old 🎈
Al Waxman was a Canadian actor and director
of over 1000 productions on radio, television, film, and stage. He is
best known for his starring roles in the television series King of Kensington and Cagney & Lacey.He died aged 65 in 2001.
Tony Hart, English artist and television presenter (Take Hart, Hartbeat), died aged 83 years old in 2009.
A very nice price↓
We got it in↓
Now to catch up on last week's telly.
Graham's guests include Just Mercy stars Jamie Foxx and Michael B
Jordan, comedian Jennifer Saunders and Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart.
With music from Michael Kiwanuka.
I have got some more 1970's CDs coming tomorrow... \o/
