Too Many Lead Foots Around Here!

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still - 

Chinese Proverb

 

Welcome back to the Friday Feeling🎈  

 Brew and hug time.

Breakfast.

Dressed.

Gave everyone their sloppy wet 💋💋💋

Another sunrise picture.

My boss came down to see how I was doing.

Some parents ACTUALLY crossed with me instead of chancing their luck further up the road. 

Finished in one piece.

Onwards back home.

Much needed coffee..

Time to change CDs in Sexy Beast.

I picks up the newspaper.

Someone didn't fancy sticking to the speed limit of 30 m.p.h and done double that,speeding on down the road. 

More singing along...

Quick read of the newspaper↓

Dave Lovelady, English drummer of the 60s band The Fourmost  is 78 years old 🎈

 I looked across the fields of fun↓

I did my thing.

Back in the Sexy Beast for more singing along.

Someone couldn't wait  for me, overtook me, he must have been doing 100mph.

He had to stop at the bridge, then further on the road he was stuck behind two grey vans doing 40 m.p.h.

Oh dear.

I finally gets home.

Light lunch time.

My yoga mat came to do the Wii game that I like doing.

 Off to do my final Lollipop shift of the week.

I sit on the bench to wait to start.

The view from my bench.

I starts 10 minutes early.

(The parents are glad of that!)

Finish in one piece.

Back home.

Writes yesterday's blog post.

Puts the wreath in the oven for tea.

Yum Yum.

Final job of the week.

With a big tune to start with.

When I came out, one of the units had left their lights.

I informed the Landlord when I got home.

I caught up with:

with some Sleep tea↓

The weekend is back \o/

 

Pass Me Another Light Please!

Anything you try to fix will take longer and cost more than you thought - Murphy's Law

Welcome to Tuesday's lockdown 🎈

I had my hug and cuppa↓

  I wasn't feeling very well.

Off to sleep I went.

Hubby went out to get the newspaper.

 Hubby's view from outside↑

Hubby goes to work↓

 I wakes up feeling refreshed.

Coffee time↓

 Has a quick look in the newspaper↓

 Richard Chamberlain, American actor (Dr Kildare),He is 86 years old 🎈

 Herb Alpert is an American jazz musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB. Alpert is also a recording industry executive, the "A" of A&M Records, a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold to PolyGram.He is 85 years old 🎈

 Christopher Walken  is an American actor, singer, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, and dancer, who has appeared in more than 100 films and television programs.He is 77 years old.🎈

I goes outside for vitamin D↓

 Sorted out a bit of the garden↓

 

 

 

 

 Felt better after that.

Coffee and nibble time↓

 Followed by

Light lunch

Digs out the wool, ready for the pom pom making↓

 

 Gets changed.

Off to the Happy Place Of Work.

Tomorrow is my last day there.

As I am going furlough.

I come back to catch up on↓

 Polish dumplings for tea↓

Now off to burn that off with work↓

 

 Gets home to check if my bathroom light has turned up↓

No sign of it.

Oh dear, it has been sent back to sender!!!!!!!!!!!

On the look out for another bathroom light now!

Watches another episode of↓

 I'm on a misson to get my hands on another bathroom light tomorrow!

 

Look Who It Is....It's Saturday!

If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it - J.P Morgan

The weekend is here \o/

I woke up and saw the sun coming up↗↗

 I caught the last hour of "The Sounds of the 60s", while enjoying a cup of tea in my warm bed!

  Once we had breakfast.

Kids were woken up, as they had boxing club to go to. 

My dad failed to tell us on Friday that he had run out of some of his tablets. As his doctors were not open today, we had to phone 111 to get a urgent perscription for this tablets!

 Hubby took kids to boxing and pick up his perscription.

I meanwhile played with the saw!

 Then coffee with nibble

Quick read of a nice magazine that came yesterday↓

Nice items, nice prices!

Hubby and kids come back.

My dad failed to tell my hubby last night and this morning to get his newspaper.

So we will have to go out again!

In the meantime we listened to 

"Pick of the Pops" on Radio 2.

The first year we listened to was: 1986

I knew most of the songs in the chart,

Word for word...

(As I used to listen and collect the 7 inch vinyl singles in that year)

Here are a selection of some of the songs in the chart:

The Number 1 is:

The next year was 1993.

Here are some of the hits from that week:

 The number 2:was Pet Shop Boys - Go West↓

Number 1 was:

Boom!Shake The Room by DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince 

Now out for a little ride↓

 Visiting Sainsburys↓

 The Method Surface Cleaner is down from £3 to £2

Popped into the cafe for a quick coffee:

 Gets back to put the Gammon Joint in the oven.

Once done, we used up the rest of last night's Shepherd's Pie.

Looking at the Birthdays....

It's Helen Shapiro's 73rd Birthday 🎈

(One of my favourite songs of hers is at the end of this blog)

Jim Diamond would have been 68 years old🎈 

 He sadly died aged 64 in 2015.

We caught up with last week's:

&

 Catches up with the Review of tomorrow's newspapers.

Now for snuggles and more.....