Attempting To Be A Domestic Goddess: Bobby Vee

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Saturday 24 October 2020

Now To Turn Back Time!

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve - JK Rowling

Welcome to my Saturday \o/

I had a bit of a lie-in.

Swelling going down more on the knee.

A bit of early morning sing-a-long↓

Now for brew and hug↓

Breakfast.

Dressed.

While hubby drops off son at his boxing lesson.

I had some nice fabric come to make some skirts with:

I give the kitchen a good clean, put the washing machine on, and load up the dishwasher and put it on.

Hubby is going to attempt to tidy up the dining room.

His trainers have gone.....rip after 3 years of use.

He is so lucky, mine go after 6 months.

Hubby fetched son after his boxing lesson.

I wrote my blog from yesterday.

Coffee time

I wrote out the shopping list for tonight's shopping.

Paul and Barry Ryan were UK pop singers.

In 1965 they signed a recording contract with Decca under the name of Paul & Barry Ryan. Within two years they had amassed 8 Top 50 singles in the UK. Their best sellers were "Don't Bring Me Your Heartaches", a number 13 hit in 1965, "I Love Her", a number 17 hit in 1966 and "Have Pity on the Boy", a number 18 hit the same year. However, the stress of public attention caused Paul to retreat into the background, while Barry went solo. Paul Ryan wrote Barry's 1968 hit "Eloise", the 1971 hit "Who Put the Lights Out?" for Dana and another of his songs, "I Will Drink the Wine", was a UK hit single for Frank Sinatra.

Paul sadly died in 1992 aged 44.

Barry is 72 years old today 🎈

Robert Thomas Velline , known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer, songwriter and musician who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films. According to Billboard magazine, he had thirty-eight Hot 100 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20. He had six gold singles in his career. He died on this day in 2016 aged 73 years old.

Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr. was an American pianist and singer-songwriter. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Between 1955 and 1960, he had eleven Top 10 hits. His humility and shyness may be one reason his contribution to the genre has been overlooked.

During his career, Domino had 35 records in the U.S. Billboard Top 40, and five of his pre-1955 records sold more than a million copies, being certified gold.His musical style was based on traditional rhythm and blues, accompanied by saxophones, bass, piano, electric guitar, and drums.

He died on this day in 2017 aged 89.

After a late lunch,

Hubby went food shopping with one of my sons to do the neighbour's food shopping.

Once they came back,

Put the shopping away,

We had tea.

I found more books on Sewing.

The Reader's Digest book on Sewing is really good!

Be soon whipping up new clothes!

(I hope!)

Now to carry on with series 6.

With some sleep tea.

Going to have an extra hour in bed tonight \o/

Thursday 30 April 2020

Using The Whiskey For Other Things...

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat - PJ Rourke

Welcome to my lockdown Thursday🎈

I had a warm hug and a nice cup of tea↓

I had breakfast.

Got dressed.

Now out for a daily walk.

The flowers have come out↓

Off we go↓

The sunshine is out↓

We gets back.

Hubby goes back to work.

I enjoy coffee and read of the newspaper↓

Bobby Vee, was an American singer, songwriter and musician who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films. According to Billboard magazine, he had thirty-eight Hot 100 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20. He had six gold singles in his career.He would have been 77 years old 🎈

He died aged 73 in 2016

Dame Elizabeth Campion is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. She is the second of five women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and the first and only female filmmaker to receive the Palme d'Or, which she received for the acclaimed film The Piano (1993), for which she also won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.She is 66 years old🎈

I gets yesterday's blog wrote.

Light lunch time↓

I start on tonight's evening meal.

All the chicken was pan fried then added to the oven.

Then I start making a Whiskey and Ginger cake.

I left it far too late to get the paddle out of the breadmaker.

After an hour it was ready....

Found some nice icing to cover it with chopped hazelnuts and a dash of chocolate↓

Tea at 3pm with cake and coffee↓

We got 3/6 on the TV themes quiz.

I had a quick powernap.

Then it was time to dish up the evening meal.

Chicken,with Leeks and Mash↓

We watched the final episode of season 3 of:

Off to work in the daylight↓

Listening to some great music↓

I gets back to carry on watching season 4.

It's getting cold...

Off to that warm bed....

See you all in May!

Tuesday 30 April 2019

No Tongues Given

Hope the ride on that unicorn doesn't hurt too much - my quote in a co-worker's leaving card.

Tuesday is a day of goodbyes...

Co-workers at my jobs are leaving on their unicorns for fields of retirement....

(More about that later..)

I am getting used to getting up early once more....

I gave out 3 sloppy 💋💋💋 when everyone left.

I had things to get on with after being so busy yesterday....

Coffee First↓

Bins emptied..

A bit of blogging..

I got talking to my neighbour and forgot about the time!!!

A very late Liquid Lunch!

The sun was trying to come out..

Double figures↗↗↗↗

Time for those big big sunglasses to come out...

I get my newspaper..↓

Quick look of the Birthdays...
Richard Morea, better known by his stage name Burt Young: is an American actor, author and painter. He is best known for his role as Rocky Balboa's brother-in-law and best friend Paulie Pennino in the Rocky film series.
He has also been praised for his roles in Chinatown (1974), The Gambler (1974), Convoy (1978), Uncle Joe Shannon (1978), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), Back to School (1986), Last Exit to Brooklyn (1990), Transamerica (2005), and Win Win (2011).
He is 79 years old.

Robert Thomas Velline known professionally as Bobby Vee: was an American singer, songwriter and musician who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films. According to Billboard magazine, he had thirty-eight Hot 100 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20 He had six gold singles in his career.
He would have been 76 years old.
(He died aged 73 in 2016)

Leslie Grantham : was an English actor, best known for his role as "Dirty" Den Watts in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
He would have been 72 years old.
(He died aged 71 in 2018)

Dame Jane Campion :is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. Campion is the second of five women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and is the first—and thus far, only—female filmmaker in history to receive the Palme d'Or, which she received for directing the acclaimed film The Piano (1993), for which she also won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
She is 65 years old.

Ben E. King: was an American soul and R&B singer and record producer. He was perhaps best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Me"—a US Top 10 hit, both in 1961 and later in 1986 (when it was used as the theme to the film of the same name), a number one hit in the UK in 1987, and no. 25 on the RIAA's list of Songs of the Century—and as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group the Drifters notably singing the lead vocals of one of their biggest global hit singles (and only U.S. #1 hit) "Save the Last Dance for Me".
He died aged 76 in 2015.