Soothing A Battered Ego!

If you play with anything long enough it will break - Murphy's Law

Welcome to my Monday Motivation 🎈

No Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡 this week \o/ 

Nice warm hug to start the non-working week with. 

Brew with breakfast.

Hubby still has to go to work.

I gives him a sloppy wet one before he leaves.

I go back to sleep for a bit.

Then it was time to get up.

Both kids are up.

One son has work to go to ....

I leave the house and wait in Sexy Beast. 

I get the newspaper on the way.

Drops one son off,

The other one nips into Lidl.

Then off down to post some letters, and visit the local Charity shop.

First stop, Post Office.

Has a laugh with the Post Office staff, on the letters are for.

"You are gettting them poor inmates all excited!"

"True, and they must like what I am writing, as they write back!"I replied.

 Now onto the Charity shop...

Loads of bargains!!!!

Dropped off the bargains in Sexy Beast.

Quick look in Co-op for more reduced stuff.

I got the veggies for the homemade soup this week!

Now back home.

Coffee machine went on.

Unpacked all my bargains.

8th Minion......

My youngest has worn out the DVD of "Grease" he likes it that much!

My other son hasn't seen "Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", or "Snatch".

The soup and bread maker went back on.

So he has no excuse not to watch them now!

 Coffee Time.

&

Soup.

I did a bit of meditation,

The lavender candle and incense was well nice.

Felt full charged.

Tea at 3 

Then I got yesterday's blog post wrote up to tea time.

Meat Free Stir Fry.

Yum.

The bread from the breadmaker wasn't quite done, back in the oven for a bit longer....

Now to look inside today's newspaper.

Tyne Daly  is an American actress. She has won six Emmy Awards for her television work and a Tony Award, and is a 2011 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.

 Daly began her career on stage in summer stock in New York, and made her Broadway debut in the play That Summer – That Fall in 1967. She is best known for her television role as Detective Mary Beth Lacey in Cagney & Lacey (1982–88), for which she is a four-time Emmy Award winner as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. In 1989, she starred in the Broadway revival of Gypsy and won the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

She is 76 years old 🎈 

William  Baldwin  is an American actor, producer, and writer. A member of the Baldwin family, he is the second-youngest Baldwin of the four Baldwin brothers. He has starred in the films Flatliners (1990), Backdraft (1991), Sliver (1993), Virus (1999), The Squid and the Whale (2005), Forgetting Sarah Marshall, in which he portrayed himself, and the Netflix show Northern Rescue (2019). Baldwin is married to singer Chynna Phillips. 

He is 59 years old 🎈 

 Les Gray was an English musician best known for his work with glam rock pop band Mud. Gray was also known for his distinctive vocal impersonation of Elvis Presley.

He died on this day in 2004 aged 57.

UK No.1 on this day in 1963:

Frank Ifield - Wayward Wind.

UK No.1 on this day in 1975:

Pilot - January.

UK No.1 on this day in 1976:

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons -

December 1963, (Oh What A Night)

UK No.1 on this day in 1981:

Joe Dolce Music Theatre -

Shaddap Your Face.

UK No.1 on this day in 1998:

Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On. 

USA No.1 on this day in 1981:

Dolly Parton - 9 to 5

The bread is now done!

I have 3 Godfather Books to read.

Outcomes the first one:

With 

Sleep Tea.

Hubby comes back all deflated.

He lost his snooker match and his team lost 3-2.

His has a week away from it now,

(As we are celebrating my Big Birthday 🎈)

He came back with my Birthday present from his dad.

Plus

 2 magic bags from Spar and Co-op.

Now to use my warm hand to soothe his battered ego in bed!

 

 

 
 

 

Wouldn't Fit In The Car!

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

Welcome to my Saturday 🎪

Nice big hug :)

Brew with Breakfast.

We listened to "The Sounds of the 60s"

The Top 3 Singles From 1968. 

3:

2:

1:

Not so many layers to day.

Loads up the shopping trolley into the car.

Going to have a full day of rain!

Drops son off at work.

Then on our road trip to Droitwich...

First stop was to visit the Droitwich Lions Event.

Lots of lovely things!

I bought a Les Dawson and Elizabeth Taylor.

It's on again in 3 weeks.

We said goodbye to them, and moved the car to the other car park. 

Now onto look round some Charity Shops.

The first one had a big map of the world.

There is no room on my son's walls for it,

Plus it wouldn't fit in the car for a start!

I found a book for my Father-in-law for next Christmas.

I got Birthday card for my son's nan whose 80th Birthday is next weekend.

We visited three more, when I spotted a↓

Pity I got one already!

Then we looked in one more Charity shop before we went to put the shopping trolley in the car.

Before we went into Waitrose, we visited one more Charity Shop.

Got some books on soups and some good DVDS.

Now to get some blue milk from Waitrose!

Now for a drink and a nibble when we came out.

Still raining on the way to pick up son from his job.

Once we got home, it was time to unpack all our bargains we got.

The coffee machine went on,

&

Soup maker.

The 2000 piece world puzzle will keep son busy.

Now for much needed coffee.

The soup was lovely!

Sweet Potato, vegetables, tomatoes, herbs and added Chilli for added kick.

I finished it off what was left in the soup maker as it was so nice. 

As hubby didn't go food shopping last night.

He went this afternoon with younger son who was doing our neighbour's food shopping.

I meanwhile had other things to do.

Washing machine went on as well as the Dish Washer.

Now to write yesterday's blog post.

Opened my post that came this morning.

 The lighthouse is going into the bathroom.

The hunt for Chicken Mince was called off, as they couldn't find any.

Younger son was miffed off as so many wasn't wearing their face masks.

Unpacked the shopping.

Time for light tea.

Steak with Lentil Noodles.

Now to catch up with some telly programmes from this week.

First up was:

"Dragon's Den"

then The Apprentice.

Time to open a bottle of non-alcohol fizz.

Quick look into today's newspaper.

Peter  Sarstedt, briefly billed early in his career as Peter Lincoln, was an English singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. He was the brother of musicians Eden Kane and Clive Sarstedt.

Although his music was classified as pop, it generally encompassed ballads derived from traditional folk music rather than traditional rock and roll. He was best known for writing and performing the song "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?", which topped the UK Singles Chart in 1969. Set to a "faux European waltz tune" and described as "a romantic novel in song", it won an Ivor Novello Award. The record remained Sarstedt's biggest hit. He had 1 more hit single and 1 hit album but despite numerous releases never had chart success again. 

He died on this day aged 75 in 2017. 

The Ministry of Food introduced food rationing in the UK, to ensure there was enough food to go round during the Second World War. Britain was particularly vulnerable to a naval blockade as it imported 20 million tons of food per year on 8 January 1940.

TV series "All Creatures Great and Small" debuts on BBC TV, based on the books by James Herriot, starring Robert hardy and Christopher Timothy in 1978.

The first episode of Gimme Gimme Gimme broadcast on BBC2. It ran for 3 series and starred Kathy Burke and James Dreyfus in 1999.

 

Sleep tea time.

We watched caught up with the news.

The deaths were 313 today :(

We have reached the grim total of 150,057 deaths :(

Off to get under that warm duvet cover before the heating goes off!

 

 

Another Road Trip!

 Friends help you move. Real friends help you more bodies

 - Milton Berle.

Welcome to my Sunday Funday 🎈

Nice warm hug to start Sunday with.

Breakfast with brew.

Thermal vest on.

Dressed.

Now out of the house as hubby is going for his Covid-19 Booster.

He has his booster.

He didn't have a card

(Which tells which one he had)

 or have to wait 15 minutes.

We go to have a look around Stourport.

No charity shops were open.

Then we carried onto Bewdley.

The flood Barriers were put up just incase the river burst it's banks.

We crossed the road, went into the Charity Shop and bought some lovely things.

Now to explore more Bewdley.

Let's look at the other side of the Bridge.

It was getting really warm.

I had to take off two layers!

Now off for Sunday Lunch.

Turkey dinner :)

Followed by Pudding↓

We had two coffees each.

It was a lovely meal!

Now home we go.

Unpacks our things we bought.

Now to go in Sexy Beast.

Then we nipped into the Co-op for some bits.

Still had people NOT wearing their facemasks in there!

The self- service till was playing up, everything we scanned something and put it in the bag, the buzzer and red light kept going off!

Once it was all sorted.

Off home to unpack.

My youngest son had finished a 1000 piece jigsaw I bought yesterday already!

I got him a 1500 piece jigsaw from Bewdley...

See how long it takes him to do this one↓

What's behind the Advent Calender door?

I wrote yesterday's blog post.

I pinned the linings on the curtains in the hallway.

Hubby had fun putting up the curtain pole then!

Very light tea for us.

Now to get down to more watching of Netflix.

Second Series.

Now to look into today's newspaper.

 Concetta  Franconero  known professionally as Connie Francis, is an American pop singer, former actress, and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw.

She is 84 years old 🎈 

Charley  Pride was an American singer, guitarist, and professional baseball player. His greatest musical success came in the early to mid-1970s, when he was the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis Presley. During the peak years of his recording career (1966–1987), he had 52 top-10 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, 30 of which made it to number one. He won the Entertainer of the Year award at the Country Music Association Awards in 1971.

Pride is one of three African-American members of the Grand Ole Opry (the others being DeFord Bailey and Darius Rucker). He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000. 

He sadly died aged 86 in 2020.

Sleep Tea Time.

Final week of being on the Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡