Attempting To Be A Domestic Goddess: Dragon's Den

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Friday 11 February 2022

Let There Be Cake!

You can e-mail me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. Ilike letters that have been licked by strangers - David Letterman

Welcome back to the Friday Feeling 🎈

Nice warm hug to start Friday with!

Brew with breakfast.

Thermal vest went on.

Going to be a dry day \o/

No frost overnight either.

Uncovered Sexy Beast.

Two winter hats and my big big winter gloves went on.

I put on my lights.

Now to enjoy some Friday Feeling 🎈

Oh dear,

Car drivers just going under my big raised stick!

BOING went my stick!

One woman driver came past me, messing with her hair with both hands,

Who was driving the car????

At lot of cars are missing their front license plates!

Too tight to put it back on.

The flower lorry that normally comes on a Thursday, came today with a extra trailer...

All those red roses for Valentine's Day!

I met up with an ex-worker from Royal Mail.

He made my life hell while my I was work!

Finished in one piece.

I got some cake for everyone.

I picked up the newspaper on the way home.

Coffee machine went on,

As well as the soup maker.

All ready for my friend to come around for coffee, chat and cake.

With Lent starting on March 1st.

No cake or chocolate for 6 weeks!

Good job my Birthday is before March 1st!

My friend arrived.

Yak,yak, yak.

The post arrived.

I had a return letter from one of the other 3 Prison Pal Pals to write back.

He has had Covid twice!

I even had the £30 Dunelm gift card.

£40 to spend in store tomorrow!

I said goodbye to my friend.

Now for some liquid lunch!

Then out for final shift of the week.

I got the two doughnuts ready for my friends.

One hat with gloves went on.

Turned on my lights.

Went back to have a rabbit with my friends and hand out the doughnuts!

Said goodbye to my friends.

Now for my final shift of the week!

I had one lucky van go straight under my outstretched big stick.

Limbo dancing time!

Cars not stopping the otherside either!

I was so glad to finish in one piece!

Hometime.

Fish was put in the oven for tea.

I got on writing yesterday's blog post.

Hubby had a big wet one when he returned from work.

Now to dish up the tea.

We caught up with this week's Dragon's Den.

Hubby and son went out to do some food shopping.

I meanwhile loaded up the dishwasher.

Then to look into today's newspaper.

Vincent Eugene Craddock , known as Gene Vincent, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and rockabilly. His 1956 top ten hit with his Blue Caps, "Be-Bop-a-Lula", is considered a significant early example of rockabilly. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. He is sometimes referred to by his somewhat unusual nickname/moniker The Screaming End.

He would have been 87 years old 🎈

He sadly died in 1971 aged 36.

Sorrell Booke was an American actor who performed on stage, screen, and television. He acted in more than 100 plays and 150 television shows and is best known for his role as corrupt politician Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard.

He died on this day in 1994 aged 64

11 February 1976. Birmingham born, John Curry (aged 26), became the first Briton to win a gold medal for Men’s Figure Skating at the Innsbruck Winter Olympics. Britain’s previous highest place in Men’s Figure Skating had been 4th place.

No.1 in the USA on this day in 1959:

Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee

No.1 in the USA on this day in 1968:

Paul Mauriat - Love Is Blue

Toy Story 2 was released in UK cinemas in 2000.

I helped hubby put the shopping away.

We watched a bit more of "The Godfather".

Sleep Tea time.

Off to bed to enjoy more Friday Feeling 🎈

Saturday 8 January 2022

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.

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.