Shut That Lid!

 Sine I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less - 

Ray Mancini 

Welcome to my Saturday 👅

We listened to "Sounds of the 60s" in bed.

Great selections of good tunes to start Saturday with.

Brew with hug.

Breakfast.

Dressed.

Hubby and son left the house to do this week's food shopping and next door neighbour's shopping as well.

I went outside for fresh air.

Followed by the important coffee...

Hubby came back after a while with all the shopping.

I had wrote half of yesterday's blog post.

However, I had to leave it as we had to fetch my yellow paint from Alcester!

Nice ride out!

No trip into Waitrose,

As I have to save as much money as possible as my the MOT on Sexy Beast is next week!

Collects my pot of paint \o/

We have a walk down the high street.

We grab a takeaway coffee with nibble.

Someone in a big car dropped off some bags of clothes and put them in the charity bins by us.

Only forgot to close the boot lid, they got out by the entrance of the car park to close it, and something was blocking it closing.

After several attempts she finally shut the boot lid!

Back home.

Finally get the skirting done this week \o/

Lunchtime. 

Then we went for a walk around the block for 25 minutes.

Hubby put the gamon in the oven when we got back.

I had a quick look into today's newspaper.

Holly  Hunter  is an American actress. For her performance as Ada McGrath in the 1993 drama film The Piano, she won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Broadcast News (1987), and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Firm (1993) and again for Thirteen (2003).

A seven-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee, Hunter won for Roe vs. Wade (1989), and The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993). She also starred in the TNT drama series Saving Grace (2007–2010). Her other film roles include Raising Arizona (1987), Always (1989), Home for the Holidays (1995), Crash (1996), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Incredibles (2004), its sequel Incredibles 2 (2018), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and The Big Sick (2017), which earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. 

She is 63 years old 🎈 

I caught up with all the newspapers of the week as well.

Tea time.

Bingewatch time!

Sleep tea time.

We finished series 3.

Moving onto series 4.

We watched 20 minutes of episode 1.

Realised the time....

Time for bed!

 

 

 

 

Plenty Of Me To You!

My last credit card bill was so big, before I opened it I actually heard a drum roll - Rita Rudner

Welcome to a painful Saturday!

I managed to hear the last hour of "The Sounds of 60s".

I soaked my right foot in the bath to ease the pain!

My ankle was a nice colour of black and blue!

Time for tea and nibble!

 

  I rubbed some stuff onto my bruised ankle.

Got dressed.

Gave hubby a big sloppy 💋

And off I went to do my final job of the day.

With some great music:

 When I got home...

It was bacon time↓

 After one son was took to his boxing lesson.

The other son rose from his pit.

He too had a bacon sandwich.

We left the house...

We picked up son from his boxing lesson.

Now to do some charity shop visiting..

My lollipop spot is still there↓

 Not much in the one Charity shop we visited.

Now off to Alcester...

 We got some right bargains from the Charity Shops.

We nipped into Waitrose↓

 We got the free coffee and newspaper↓

 Off to have a look around Sainsbury's to get some Nectar points↓

 One great magazine↓

 Now off to wash hubby's car in the car wash↓

 Dropped in my dad's newspaper.Back home to unpack some lovely things we got from the Charity Shops in Alcester↓

My dressing table is now full of Me to You Bears↓

 Nice Chinese meal↓

Now to catch up with last week's telly↓

 Together on Graham Norton's sofa, Robert Downey Jr, Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie and Terry Gilliam. Plus singer Sara Bareilles performing She Used to Be Mine.

Then:

 Then to watch one of the DVDs we bought today.

(I last watched it on video)↓

 Quick look in the Birthday File:

Christopher Ryan [Papazoglou], English actor & comedian (The Young Ones, Only Fools and Horses),is 70 years old 🎈

 Andy Cox, British guitarist (The Beat & Fine Young Cannibals) is 64 years old 🎈

Demis Roussos, Greek singer and performer died aged 68 in 2015

Sir John Hurt CBE  was an English actor whose career spanned more than 50 years.He died aged 77 in 2017.

 Now to hobble back to a warm bed....

 

Trying To Get Comfortable On The ......

You can't have everything.I mean where would you put it? 
- Steven Wright

I slept on the sofa last night...

(Due to hubby not being well, and I don't want to catch it!) 

He is slowly getting better...

I was awake by 6am....

Time for a cup of tea, crumpet and "Sounds of the 60s"

 

  Unloaded the dishwasher,

Loaded it back up.

Washing machine and Tumble drier were put on as well.

I went back to sleep for a bit.

A hour later, hubby was up with a cup of coffee for me....

I was going out on a road trip...

Kids up, dressed.

I blew a 💋 to my hubby.

Out on the road trip we go...

 Let's try out the new CD↓

First stop to visit the Charity shop in Studley.

 

 Nothing in there...

Back on the road trip we go...

with↓

 We finish up in Alcester↓

 Off to look around the Charity Shops..

 We got lots of lovely things.

My youngest son bought his first copy of Big Issue..

We popped into Waitrose for the free newspaper and coffee.

There was some nice reduced items...↓

 Nice, but I couldn't afford it..

I could just afford this instead↓

Enjoyed my coffee↓

 More good music to listen to on the way round to drop the newspaper around to my dad's..

We pick up his shopping list..

Back home to unpack my bargains

 Quick lunch↓

 Back out to do my dad's shopping

I pick up some bargains on the wool.

To finish off the turkey, I am doing a Gordon Ramsey receipe....

Once we did Aldi,

The great music carried on playing..

Now on to Morrisons..↓

 Drops off my dad's shopping.

I go back home to unload the wool I bought from Aldi's↓

Now to use up the last of our Turkey from Christmas Day.

Nice recipe from Gordon Ramsey...

Turkey,Ham and Leek Pie

So yummy.

Dame Maggie Smith is an English actress is 85 years old 🎈

Charles "Chas" Hodges, English musician (Chas & Dave). He would have been 76 years old 🎈

He died aged 74 in 2018

Denzel Washington, American actor is 65 years old 🎈 

Back to sofa sleeping as the red cross has put on our bedroom door...

 I wouldn't normally sofa sleep but I don't really want to catch the lurgy!