Monday Mission Completed!

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.

With Sleep Tea of course.

More things to do to inside of the house

&

More film watching tomorrow👅

 

 

 
 

When The Hump Goes Past Cold!

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way - Juan Ramon Jiminez

Welcome to my Hump of the Week 🐫

Brew with a hot hug.

Breakfast.

Dressed.

While hubby walked to get the newspaper.

I took down the curtains from bathroom window.

As there is a cold blast coming from the window.....

So the curtains are having another layer of material added to them!

Out comes the sewing machine again.

I added another layer to the back of one curtain.

Coffee break

I filled the Application Form to be a Councillor for my Ward on Redditch Council. I sent it off.

I will see our friend Cllr Baker about what happens next tomorrow..... 

Quick  look in the newspaper...

Skeeter Davis (born Mary Penick ) was an American country music singer who sang crossover pop music songs including 1962's "The End of the World". She started out as part of the Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Victor. In the late 1950s, she became a solo star.

She would have been 89 years old 🎈 

She died aged 72 in 2004.

Charles  Westover , better known by his stage name Del Shannon, was an American rock and roll country musician, singer and songwriter, best known for his 1961 number 1 Billboard hit "Runaway". 

He would have 86 years old 🎈 

He died aged 55 in 1990.

Then light lunch.

Back to sewing another layer on the other curtain....

Ran out of thread on the bobbin....

Losing the will....

As it was getting colder,

The curtain went up...

(I will finish it off tomorrow)

Cheese and Ham Toastie for tea.

Once yesterday's blog was wrote...

Time to hit Disney+..

Sleep tea time.

The heating went off...

Rushed straight to get under that 16 tog duvet....

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

Having to Press Repeat A Few Times...

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read - Frank Zappa

 Welcome aboard the Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡

Brew with a warm hug.

Breakfast.

Christmas clothing...↓

Plus thermal knickers.

Out in the dark and cold.

I gave hubby a sloppy wet 💋 before I left.

Nice picture of the crane this morning.

And of the tree.

My Lollipop boss came down to see how I was doing. The traffic behaved themselves except one car failed to stop!

Survived the morning shift!

Back home..

Much needed coffee↓

The school I sent the Application Form said thank you for me sending it in. They will be in touch.

Another CD to sing-a-long with↓

One song had to be replayed a few times,

It's that good↓

Quick read of the newspaper↓

Frank Allen (born Francis Renaud McNeice)  is an English bass guitarist with The Searchers &
Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers

He is 77 years old 🎈

I looked across the fields of fun↓

I wore another homemade facemask.

Once I done what I had to do,

I was back in Sexy Beast listening to the top ten of a mystery year...

Back home to enjoy a much needed lunch!

The Uk Map I bought for my youngest has been delivered somewhere else!

The school I sent my Application Form too, want me to have a tour around it....

I said tomorrow, they said see you tomorrow!

Back out to do Lollipop shift.

The traffic behaved themselves again.

I got chatting to my friend again about 60s music until it got well dark.

I said to him, "He will have to  pick up his dog as he is refusing to move!"

I gets home, one chore hadn't been done...

I told our kids, if it's not done tomorrow,

NO INTERNET FOR A NIGHT!

I get yesterday's blog post wrote.

Gives hubby a wet sloppy 💋 when he comes home.

Fish night tonight!

With more Season 14 of Hell's Kitchen.

I find out my Amazon parcel was delivered next door. I go round and get the parcel and have a chat.

Comes back to enjoy some Sleep Tea.

Counting down for the Christmas Holidays🎅

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He Writes The Songs, For Me To Sing-a-long With!

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific - Jane Wagner

Welcome to my Tuesday🍿

Just over a week to go and it's back to school!

Storm Francis was making his presence heard  and felt!

 Brew and hug↑

Breakfast.

Dressed.

It's tipping down with rain↓

 Into Sexy Beast we go to fetch the newspaper↓

 When we get back.

There is a nice river forming up the path↓

 I gives hubby a nice sloppy 💋 before he goes to work.

Quick read of the newspaper↓

 Declan MacManus, OBE  known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter. He has won multiple awards in his career, including Grammy Awards in 1999 and 2020,and has twice been nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist. In 2003, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Costello number 80 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.He is 66 years old🎈

   With coffee↓

 Great start to the day.

Younger son's tablet drops out of his pocket and smacks on to the floor ...↓

 I bought a case for it, and he never uses it!!!

I write up yesterday's blog post.

My other son gets his final GCSE results...

This is the final grades he got↓

(I was the first year back in 1988 to get my GCSE's....results)

(Makes me feel so old!)

Packs up the 4 facemasks I made.

Ready to post to Wales tomorrow↓

 Early lunch↓

 Back onto cuttting out the material for more facemasks↓

 Tea at 3↓

 I had completed 6 more facemasks.

With a nice singalong with Barry↓

 The flag ones are for my son starting 6th Form next week↓

 My lavender body lotion arrived.

Hope it helps me to sleep through the loud snores↓

 Then it's time to dish up the chicken Casserole I made earlier↓

 We had 3 episodes left of Season 6 of NYPD Blue to watch↓

We watch one and half episodes...

Then its off to work for me...

Big tune to start with↓

Gets back home.

We finished watching Season 6 of NYPD Blue.

On to Season 7 tomorrow.

I hope I don't smell the bedroom with too much lavender↓

 As soon as my head hits the pillow,

I went out like a light!