Doing Skip Diving!

I have my standards.They may be low, but I have them - Bette Midler.

Welcome to my Sunday🎈

Is it going to be stress free Sunday or not???

I will find out on Tuesday when my dad's funeral is...

I let hubby have a longer lie-in than me.

I went down downstairs to make the tea...

 I left his cup of tea by the bed.

 I had a bit of yogurt with tea.

The wind was blowing outside....

Storm Ciara has arrived!

I wrote yesterday's blog post.

Hubby rose from the warm bed.

I fancied a bit of 💋

So I took him back to bed for a bit of it...

 I felt a lot better after that!

While hubby cleaned out our gerbil.

I started to make hubby's Valentine's present for Friday..

 Finished doing up the wooden heart...

It's pom pom time↓

Then the phone calls was coming from my younger brother...

The progical brother was throwing everything away in the skip...

Photos, etc...

As progical brother wasn't there.

Hubby went round, and found my house keys straight away.

They put stickers on things that I want.

Photos of my kids were got out of the skip!

Hubby brought some things back from my dad's house↓

Then we sorted out the funeral songs for my dad's funeral.

 I had a look in the newspaper...

Carole King, American singer-songwriter (Tapestry),is 78 years old 🎈

Holly Johnson, rock vocalist (Frankie Goes To Hollywood), is 60 years old 🎈

Brian Connolly, lead singer (Sweet), dies of heart failure aged 52 years old in 1997.

Ian Richardson, was a Scottish actor of film, stage and television.

He portrayed the Machiavellian Tory politician Francis Urquhart in the BBC's House of Cards (1990–1995) television trilogy. Richardson was also a leading Shakespearean stage actor.He died aged 72 in 2007.

I got the lollipop coat dried for tomorrow.

All ready to mount the wobby work wheel tomorrow 🎡

 

Having Lots Of Play!

If you think nobody cares if you're alive or dead, try missing a couple of car payments - Flip Wilson

Welcome to my Saturday.

I slept right through and missed

"Sounds of the 60s" 

(I will catch up with it on BBC Sounds later)

 The sun might make appearance today.

 It was nice to have a warm snuggle and a cup of tea in bed.

It would have been my mum and dad's 51st Wedding Anniversary today.

(My mum passed away 6 years ago)

There is a lot of great people whose Birthday it is today.

Stephanie Cole is 78 years old 🎈

 Steve Miller  is 76 years old 🎈

Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) would have been 74 years old 🎈

He died aged 51 in 1997

Russell Mael,(Sparks) is 71 years old 🎈 

 Bob Geldof is 68 years old 🎈

 Now for a little play with Kenny↓

 

 Once the carrot cake was put in the oven.

Coffee & Nibble↓

I had 2 blog entries to write up.

While doing that I listened to Pick of the Pops from 1964.

Some of the hits that were in the chart:

Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers

One Way Love↓

 Jim Reeves - I love You Because.↓

Matt Monro - Walk Away↓

We're Through - The Hollies↓

The Batchelors - I wouldn't Trade You For The World↓

Number 1 is Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman↓

Moving onto 1979

The Dooleys - The Chosen Few↓

Dave Edmunds - Queen of Hearts↓

Madness - The Prince↓

Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind↓

The Buggles - Video Killed Off The Radio Star↓

Bellamy Brothers - If  I Said You Had A Beautiful Body↓

Blondie - Dreaming↓

Number 1 is: The Police - Message In A Bottle↓

Coffee & light Lunch↓

 My order arrived...↓

 

 Once the cakes were cooled down.

Now for a little play...again↓

 *I will unveil the cake on Wednesday.*

Finally finished it!

A late tea↓

 We caught up with The Graham Norton Show↓

 Graham's guests are Renee Zellweger, Lenny Henry, Louis Theroux and Andrew Ridgeley. Elbow perform White Noise, White Heat.

&

The final of Interior Design Masters

We caught up with Law and Order season 11 for the week.Only to find the ending was being cut off!!! Before we could see if they were been found innocent or guilty. We are going to watch it off Universal TV channel instead, as it is showing Season 11 as well as 5*USA channel.

 The new curtains in our bedroom are looking nice and keeping the bedroom warm.

 

 It probably helps we have a 16 tog duvet as well ;)