Attempting To Be A Domestic Goddess: Doris Day

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Tuesday 19 November 2019

Perhaps x 3

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company - Gian Vincenzo Gravina

Welcome to a freezing cold Tuesday!

The thermal knickers gets put on.

I had more warmth...↓

I had warm hug and a cup of tea ↓

I gave everyone sloppy wet 💋💋💋 before I left the house.

Nice and frosty↑

Cold, cold, cold↑↑↑

Crispy and cold.

I have so many layers on,

I feel like the Michelin Man

There is traffic lights being installed by my stop↓

Then the blue van from yesterday comes back.

First blocks the road by putting a trailer on the drive by the skip.

Then he parks the van on double yellow lines and in front of a bus stop!

Now I can't see up the road!!!

I still have cars failing to stop!

I saw and waved to an ex-postman I used to work with.

When I finished my shift, I bumped into the ex-postman I had been waving too. We had a handshake, hug, and chat.

I gets back home.

It's still freezing!

I have coffee and nibble

Now back out for a little ride...

More singing to be done..

Time to look in the newspaper↓

Jodie Foster is 57 years old 🎈

The sun might be out..

It's still cold!

I have a nice red face when I finished.

More singing along..

Gets home,

It's still cold↓

Coffee and nibble↓

Then back to it🍭

The van hasn't moved since 8.20am↓

I chat with the local window cleaner.

Who remembered me as that sexy Postwoman!

Perhaps I might have a better afternoon shift than I had yesterday

As I am trying to cross people over.

Several cars go under my 🍭stick.

I was in the middle of the road, when a black car on my left, failed to stop and nearly took my left shoulder, arm, and hand with him!

I did wave to my parent's former postman who waved back at me.

I gets back home.

Gets changed.

Off to the Happy Place Of Work.

Some good music to work to..

Does my bit.

Then back home to make the evening meal.

Pasta with homemade tomato sauce↓

Off to do the final job with more good music↓

I gets back to catch up on more:

Then off to a 16 tog duvet with a warm hubby!

Monday 13 May 2019

The Steam Is Coming Off!

Don't let a day of the week have so much power over your happiness.....Monday
- Andrea L'Artiste

Back on the Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡

Someone's snoring woke me up....

I went back to bed at 6am.

I had my breakfast later on...

I gave some sloppy 💋💋💋 to everyone when they left the house.

I loaded up the dishwasher...

Watered the veggies in the greenhouses.

Liquid Lunch↓

The sunshine is back!

big big sunglasses time...

Quick look at the Birthdays

Bea Arthur (born Bernice Frankel) :was an American actress.

Arthur began her career on stage in 1947 and made her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera in 1954. She won the 1966 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for playing Vera Charles in Mame. She went on to play Maude Findlay on the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family (1971–72) and Maude (1972–78), and Dorothy Zbornak on the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls (1985–92), winning Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1977 and 1988. Her film appearances included Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) and Mame (1974). In 2002, she starred in the one-woman show Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends.

She would have been 97 years old.

(She died aged 86 in 2009)

Harvey Keitel : is an American actor and producer. He has starred in films such as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), The Duellists (1977), Bugsy (1991), Thelma & Louise (1991), Reservoir Dogs (1992), The Piano (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Cop Land (1997), Red Dragon (2002), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Isle of Dogs (2018)

He is 80 years old.

Joe Brown: Is an English entertainer. He has worked as a rock and roll singer and guitarist for more than five decades. He was a stage and television performer in the late 1950s and a UK recording star in the early 1960s. He has made six films, presented specialist radio series for BBC Radio 2.

He is 78 years old.

Paul Thompson : Is an English drummer, who is best known as drummer for the rock band Roxy Music (from 1971 to 1980 and then from 2001 onwards). He was also the drummer for the Oi! band, Angelic Upstarts and the American alternative rock band Concrete Blonde. He is a member of Andy Mackay's project with the Metaphors and joined the reformed Lindisfarne in 2013.

He is 68 years old.

Johnny Logan : is an Australian-born Irish singer and composer. He is known as being the only performer to have won the Eurovision Song Contest twice, in 1980 and 1987. He also composed the winning song in 1992.

He is 65 years old.

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, her first hit recording being "Sentimental Journey" in 1945 with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.

She died aged 97 in 2019.

The Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black" in the UK in 1966.

Lots of vitamin D to be had!

I go round to see my dad after work.

I make sure he eats his lunch.

I get home in need of quick coffee↓

I go to do my other job.

I come back to start on the evening meal.

I dish up the tea to my kids.

Now to take a meal round to my dads↓

I give my dad his tea.

Then I get home to have my tea↓

I found out my favourite Doris Day film↓

I had to go and do my other job...

Had some good music to help me along..↓

Hubby had my sleep tea ready for me when I got back.....

The steam was coming trainers...

It's tiring being on this Wobbly Work Wheel!

🎡

Wednesday 3 April 2019

Third Time Lucky!

Never rub another's man rhubarb - The Joker.

Welcome to Hump of the week 🐫

The sun still hasn't returned yet..

Gave everyone a big sloppy 💋 before they left.

I go outside to get some fresh air...

The sun is coming up at last..

Last night's frost on the lawn↓

Slipped on the gardening gloves...
The rhubarb that came yesterday,
got planted↓

Coffee time↓

Some nice soup↓

The blossom looking good↓

The sun is back \o/

Still freezing...↑
Listened to and sung along with some great tunes....

Birthday Time

Doris Day:Is an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist.She was usually one of the top ten singers between 1951 and 1966. As an actress, she became the biggest female film star in the early 1960s, and ranked sixth among the box office performers by 2012. In 2011, she released her 29th studio album, My Heart, which became a UK Top 10 album featuring new material.

She is 97 years old.

Marlon Brando : Was an American actor and film director. With a career spanning 60 years, he is well-regarded for his cultural influence on 20th-century film. Brando's Academy Award-winning performances include that of Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954) and Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972).He would have been 95 years old.

(He died aged 80 in 2004)

William Gaunt : Is an English actor.After minor roles in 1960s series such as Z-Cars and The Avengers, and the Edgar Wallace Mysteries movies The Sinister Man (1961) and Solo for Sparrow (1962), he gained a role as the super-powered secret agent Richard Barrett in the 1968 British espionage/science fiction series The Champions.Between 1983 and 1987 he starred as harassed father Arthur Crabtree in the sitcom No Place Like Home.He is 82 years old.

Jonathan Lynn: Is an English stage and film director, producer, writer and actor. He directed comedy films such as Nuns on the Run, My Cousin Vinny, and The Fighting Temptations and earlier co-created and co-wrote the TV series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. He is 76 years old.

Barry Pritchard: He was one of the founding members of The Fortunes.(Here it Comes Again, You've Got Your Troubles).

He would have been 75 years old.

(He died aged 55 in 1999)

Mary Ure:Was a Scottish stage and film actress. She was the second Scottish-born actress (after Deborah Kerr) to be nominated for an Academy Award, for her role in the 1960 film Sons and Lovers.She died aged 42 in 1975.

The 1976 Eurovision Song Contest was staged in the Netherlands and Brotherhood of Man performed the song, dressed in red, white and black with simple choreography devised by Guy Lutman. "Save Your Kisses for Me" took the title with an overwhelming victory.