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Showing posts with label Gladys Knight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gladys Knight. Show all posts

Saturday 22 August 2020

Picking Up A Early One!

"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you." - Harold Bloom
Welcome to my weekend 🎈
I actually slept through the whole night without waking up!!!!!
I am not holding out that I won't end up sleeping on the sofa in the next few days!
 Hug and brew time.
 My stronger needles came \o/
We had breakfast.
Got dressed.
Time to drop one son off at his Boxing lesson↓
 Wearing my new spotty dress↓
 I dropped off a Flintstone's facemask to a good friend.
Then off down to Studley to look in the Charity Shop that had reopened.
We were so lucky.
First Christmas present bought for one son!
Enjoyed a coffee from the Co-op↓
  I also got some hand wash and hand lotion↓
 Picks up son from his Boxing lesson.
All nice and sweaty.
Gets home to read the newspaper↓
 Honor Blackman  was an English actress, widely known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers (1962–1964), Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger (1964), Julia Daggett in Shalako (1968) and Hera in Jason and the Argonauts (1963). She is also known for her role as Laura West in the ITV sitcom The Upper Hand (1990–1996).She would have been 95 years old 🎈
She died aged 94 in April 2020.
   Coffee
 
Lunch
 We rewatched the Fear City on Netflix↓
 It's so good.....
I will have to watch The Irishman again↓
 I gets my neighbour's shopping list.
Off we go to get our and his shopping↓
 We come back.
I give his shopping and change.
I will get his Ham Hock tomorrow from Asda 
(I hope)
Teatime↓

 

 More 
NYPD Blue also↓
 With some sleep tea↓
 Then off to bed with some new ear plugs that hopefully drown out the snores!

 

Thursday 28 May 2020

Pulling Too Hard!

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders.I Hate necks 
- Steve Martin
Welcome to my Lockdown Thursday🎈
Due to have painful left foot,
no walking today :(
Start the day however, with hug and brew↓
I had breakfast.
Got dressed.
The sun is back \o/ 
Out for a little ride in Sexy Beast↓
 Back home↓
I gave hubby a big πŸ’‹ as he was going back into the office again.
At least he doesn't have to lug this big thing back and forth each time↓


 Now for a peak in the newspaper↓
 John Karlen  was an American character actor who played multiple roles (Willie Loomis, Carl Collins, William H. Loomis, Desmond Collins, Alex Jenkins and Kendrick Young) on the ABC serial Dark Shadows, in various episodes between 206 and 1245, which aired from 1966 to 1971.
In 1971, Karlen starred as the male lead in Daughters of Darkness. He played Harvey Lacey, husband of Mary Beth Lacey (played by Tyne Daly), on the CBS crime series Cagney & Lacey (1982–88).He would have been 87 years old🎈
He died in 2020 aged 86.
 Gladys Knight , known as the "Empress of Soul", is an American singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, and author. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner,Knight is known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips, which also included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and cousins Edward Patten and William Guest.She is 76 years old🎈 
 Roland Gift  is a British singer, songwriter and actor. He was singer/frontman of the 1980s pop band Fine Young Cannibals.He is 59 years old🎈
  Audie Murphy, American soldier who was among the most decorated in WW II with 33 medals and actor (To Hell and Back, Whispering Smiths), killed in a plane crash aged 46 in 1971
Afterwards, as it is so nice outside.
I am going to attempt Orange and Lemon Pom Poms↓
 I pulled to hard on my pom pom maker and it fell off!!!!
 After I emailed Hobbycraft,
On where my order went.
It appeared like magic!
 My trees had arrived↓
 Time for light lunch↓
 My Amazon order arrived↓
Tea at 3↓
 I left the TV Themes Quiz until hubby gets back.
I noticed a ex-boyfriend was doing a bit of rubbernecking in his lorry when he went pastmy house.
(I could give him a picture it might last longer)
He did the same when he came back up the road......
(Already forgot what I look like????)
The pom poms are coming along nicely.
 I didn't fancy cooking after spending nearly all day in the garden.
Hubby got Scallop and chips on the way home↓
Then off to work with some great music↓
 It is still light when I gets back↓
  Someone flying away↓
 As my foot was really hurting.
Gel was applied plus a hot wheaty bag was left on....
Hopefully the swelling will go down soon....