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Showing posts with label Dunelm experience. Show all posts
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Tuesday 26 February 2019

Invisible cheese

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside - Hugh MacLeod
I have got an exciting day....
Having my gas cooker installed! 
 I gave everyone a big 💋 before everyone left.
I had to tidy the house up as it looked like someone had left off a 💣
 Just had enough time for a liquid lunch↑
 The sun is shining...
Big sunglasses time!
 I had a nice ride to work in the warm sunshine...
Birthdays Time↓
Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr.  was an American pianist and singer-songwriter. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music,(Blueberry Hill) would have 91 years old.
(He died aged 89 years old in 2017) 
Johnny Cash:American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author.(A Ring Of Fire) would have 87 years old.
(He died aged 71 in 2001)
 Sandie Shaw, MBE  is an English singer. One of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s(Girl Don't Come) is 72 years old.
 J T Walsh: American actor (Good Morning Vietnam), dies at 54 in 1998
RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt (In the late 1930s Watson-Watt led the development of the radar early warning system that was vital to British victory in the Battle of Britain) in 1935


 
 
 
 
 
 When the food was dropped off for the dinners. We wasn't given no cheese....
I replied to the comment of:
 "You have been given some it's in the blue box!"
"Unless this cheese is invisible, and only you can see it, we haven't received it!"
More cheese arrived later on...
 Picking up my Dunelm order↓
 I got back for coffee and nibbles↓
 My cooker can be cooked with!
 Comes back from Job 2
 I have changed the net curtains over the front door and the front window...
 
 
 Playing with Kenny, while listening to some 60s music on my Alexa!
 Once they were baked,
Off to a warm bed,
Hoping to have a sunny hump tomorrow...
 

Saturday 1 December 2018

No Kippers But Plenty Of Nets

Never sweep.After four years the dirt gets no worst. Quentin Crisp

Welcome to December!
 I was up early to listen to "The Sounds of the 60's"
We listened to the rest of the show in a nice warm bed.
After getting up and having breakfast.
It was time to upgrade the house a little bit.
Net curtains and tidying up bedrooms was top of the list.
Time for some fresh air!
 
 We managed to get a parking space.
First stop was my Dunelm Experience.
 Picked up net curtains and net curtain wire.
Next stop was to get some top up shopping in Lidl.
Robot vacuum cleaner↓
 
 Much prefer my Henry...↓
 Bongo time!
 Much prefer my Kenny :)↓
 Pops in to see my dad for an hour.
Enjoyed a good coffee↓
Gets back home to continute upgrading the house.
My older son had some nice blue net curtains.
My younger son had some nice green and white net curtains.
We had some nice blue bird net curtains in the small window.
 After we finished tea.
It was time to relax....
 I put another internet order for some more net curtains for the huge stairs window.
(As the nets have not been changed for 8 years!!!)
It was ready for 10 to 6pm.
However I was in my PJ's and the shop shuts at 6pm...
However it was ready at
We bought this particular film a few months ago...

 It was a very good film.
So good, I have ordered the second film...↓
 and another film,
we missed when it came out on the cinema. 
 
I had quick look at the Birthdays...
 Matt Monro: English singer, (Born Free,From Russia With Love) would have been 88 years 
(He died in 1985 at the age of 54.) 
 Keith Michell: American actor and theatre director (6 Wives of Henry VIII) would have been 92.
(He died in 2015)

Anton Rodgers: British actor (Fresh Fields, May to December) died at the age of 74 in 2007.
 John Lennon & Yoko Ono: release
"Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US in 1971.
 
Off to bed, as we are visiting another Country House tomorrow....
 
 
 

 
 

 

Sunday 28 October 2018

Playing The Apache's Game Of Love

Welcome to my Sunday...
 I was up again.
Made full use of it.
A cup of tea with marmite on toast↓
 The sun was coming up↗↗↗
 I got dressed.
Off to do my other job...
 The moon was still out, while the sun was still coming up...
 
 Playing with Henry...
 I came back to sunshine.
 I had to pick up my Dunelm order...↑
 
 I got my order.
My mum's grave is going to look nice for her upcoming birthday next month :)
 While my hubby took my dad's cat to the vet.
I had to repot out new additions to the house.
 Peace Lilly↑
 Spider Plant↑
 Is it too cold for a salad?
Now for a trip out.
Followed a classic car through Studley↓
 Now for our free coffee & newspaper↓
 Enjoyed the free coffee ⛾
 &
Free newspaper↑
 Back to do some more food shopping at Lidl.
 Coffee and brownie.
Two of my favourite artists from the 1960's have birthdays today...
 *Hank Marvin, (Brian Rankin) guitar, The Shadows,is 77 today.*
 &
 *Wayne Fontana, (1966 UK No.2 single with Mindbenders, 'Groovy Kind Of Love', 1965 US No.1 single 'Game Of Love').
is 78 years old *
 We cleaned out Ruby the hamster, and Willow the gerbil.
We caught up on the middle film of the boxset.
 Then onto watch last Friday's Graham Norton Show.
 Off to bed before I fell asleep on the sofa...