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Showing posts with label Blue Swede. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blue Swede. Show all posts

Friday 31 January 2020

Getting Through The Chaos....

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes - Edgard Varese
Welcome to Friday 🍾🍾🍾🍾
 I enjoyed a hug & a cup of tea↓
 I gave everyone their sloppy πŸ’‹πŸ’‹πŸ’‹
Now to leave the house↓
 
 It's going up↗↗↗
I quickly looked in my newspaper↓
 I didn't get chance to take the tree picture.
Lots of traffic to deal with with.
I survived!
Now for some more singing..
I couldn't park in the B3 space.
So it was C3-PO space instead↓
 
 A nice £500 ↑↑↑
A nice coffee and nibble↓
 I had a good chat with my good friend.
I said goodbye.
More singing along to do on the way..
I looked across the fields of fun↓
 
 I performed more miracles
I left with a nice red face!
Back to more singing↓
It reached double figures!!
 
 Found another mince pie!!!
 Then off to do final lollipop job of the week!
Oh dear, it was chaos, bedlam, & mayham!
Cars backing up, 6+ cars failed to stop.
One woman who stopped in the Keep Clear area, left half of the tread of her back tyres when she drove off!
I finished in one piece....JUST! 
Back home↓
 
 I gets changed 
&
Off to Happy Place Of Work.
With some great music...↓
 
 I get back after several hours.
Tea is waiting for me :)
 I put my feet up
&
fell asleep Zzzzz
I wakes up,
I decide to do my final job tomorrow.
Now to drag my tired bones off to a warm bed with hubby! 





 

Thursday 15 August 2019

Back To Singing Along!

There is more than one way to burn a book.And the world is full of people running about with lit matches - Ray Bradbury
Welcome aboard!
The sun is shining 🌞
Now to enjoy my warm hug with tea.
  While I waited my kids to rise from their beds.
I went outside...
 Now to clean my CD player.
The CD player now works \o/
*Back to playing and singing along with some great tunes!*
  
While I dropped off my son to deliver more newspapers↓
I went down to Morrisons to do more shopping..
They have some nice CDs...
Pity I have most of the 60s and 70s
 I had a quick coffee and a read of the newspaper.
 I picked up my son from his newspaper round.
He wasn't too happy Jim Dale's 84th birthday wasn't in the I newspaper. 
 I popped into see my Dad.
Oh dear, nothing but moan about my younger brother. The other Prodigal brother can do no wrong......
I finally got home to have a very late lunch!
Then off to my Happy Work.
 I come back to start on the Evening Meal.
 Smoked Salmon, lemon, mushroom Risotto
 While hubby went off to do my dad's shopping.
I went off to work...
 With some great music
I gets back to unload the dishwasher...
Someone didn't put the plate in properly!
 Oh dear...
I caught up some more:
Hubby kept the bed warm while I watched the second part of:

 At last the Friday Feeling🎈 be here soon!
 
 

Saturday 6 April 2019

Getting The Hot Pants Ready!

On Saturday Morning, I like to get up early and go out! TV is banned! - Debra Stephenson.
Hey Hey it's Saturday...
I woke up early,
Made the tea...
&
Listened to "Sounds of the 60s" in my warm bed πŸ› .
Followed by breakfast..
 I had to write down my predictions for the Grand National..↓
Hubby took youngest son out to fetch our new garden gate in Birmingham.
When he came back...
We all went for a ride in Sexy Beast.. 
 Time to get some goodies↓
 ↓↓↓↓
There were some interesting books↓
 
 Then moves Sexy Beast to the other car park..
 Church on the hill↑
 Waitrose↑
 St Andrew's Church↑
 Some nice hot pants for the summer↑↑↑
While I was stood in a charity shop,
The Fortunes and "You've got your troubles" came on the speakers...
I started to sing-a-long, one man was singing along with me until his wife shot him a look, and it was back to me singing along.

 
 I got some reduced plants for 50p....↑
Coffee break time↑
 Birthday Time
Dudley Sutton : Was an English actor. He appeared as Tinker Dill in the TV series Lovejoy.He was in lots of films and other television series.
He would have been 86 years.
(He died aged 85 in 2018) 
Billy Dee" Williams Jr : Is an American actor, artist, and singer. Williams is best known for his role as Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars film franchise, first appearing in The Empire Strikes Back in 1980. Williams has also appeared in critically acclaimed films like Brian's Song (1971), Lady Sings the Blues (1972), Mahogany (1975), Nighthawks (1981), and Batman (1989), in which he portrayed Harvey Dent. In July 2018 it was announced that Williams would return as Lando Calrissian in Star Wars: Episode IX.
He is 82 years old.
Roy Thinnes: is an American television and film actor best known for his portrayal of lonely hero David Vincent in the ABC 1967–68 television series The Invaders.
He also played Alfred Wentworth in the pilot episode of Law & Order. He starred in the 1969 British science fiction film, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (also known as DoppelgΓ€nger). 
He is 81 years old.
Michael Rooker: Is an American actor, best known for his breakout role as Henry in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), as well as his roles as Terry Cruger in Sea of Love (1989), Rowdy Burns in Days of Thunder (1990), Bill Broussard in JFK (1991), Hal Tucker in Cliffhanger (1993), Jared Svenning in Mallrats (1995), Merle Dixon in The Walking Dead (2010–2013), and Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and its sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017). 
He is 64 years old. 
Tammy Wynette: was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female singers.
Wynette was called the "First Lady of Country Music", and her best-known song, "Stand by Your Man", is one of the best-selling hit singles by a woman in the history of country music. Many of her hits dealt with classic themes of loneliness, divorce, and the difficulties of life and relationships.
She died aged 55 in 1998. 
James Best: Was an American television, film, stage, and voice actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician. During a career that spanned more than 60 years, he performed not only in feature films but also in scores of television series, as well as appearing on various country music programs and talk shows. Television audiences, however, perhaps most closely associate Best with his role as the bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the action-comedy series The Dukes of Hazzard, which originally aired on CBS between 1979 and 1985. He reprised the role in 1997 and 2000 for the made-for-television movies The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! and The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000). 
He died aged 88 in 2015 
Blue Swede was top of the Billboard #100 with "Hooked On A Feeling" in 1974 
 I popped into Waitrose for my free coffee and newspaper.
It's nice and warm in the sunshine↓
 We gets home↓
 Starts to tidy up the garden↓
 Unpacks the trolley↓
Got some bargains from the Charity shops in Droitwich↑
After such a busy day,
We all had a early night......on a Saturday!!!