There are two types of people; those who walk into a room and say, "Well, here I am," and those who walk into a room and say, "Ah, there you are!". - Frederick Collins
Welcome to my Sunday💋
After the late night we had.
We had a bit of lie-in.
Nice brew in bed with a warm hug.
Breakfast.
We just lay in bed listening to the radio.
Loud knock on the front door.
It was my next door neighbour.
He was locked out.
Good job his son gave me a spare key!
Now to get dressed!
First a warm coffee to wake the brain.
Then out for a little ride.
We got the newspaper.
Then to test hubby's air pressure of his tyres.
The electrics were playing up on his car....
Spooky time 👻
Gets back home.
I use up some shortcrust pastry and a jar of mincemeat.
Blind baked the pastry.
Let it cool down.
Added the filling and back in the oven it goes.
Late lunchtime.
The tart had been baked.
I gone on with cooking tonight's tea before putting it in the oven for later.
Belated Tea at 3.
I ordered some things I need for the upcoming Valentine's Day 💗
Hopefully they will arrive before Feb 14th!
Tea is ready.
Pig in Blankets with Root mash.
We were still full up to eat the tart I made earlier, we are eating our little bit tomorrow.
One son was not....
We carried on watching Season Two of Narcos up to episode 9.
With some Sleep Tea.
Harry Casey , better known by his stage name K.C., is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his band, KC and the Sunshine Band, as a producer of several hits for other artists, and as a pioneer of the disco genre of the 1970s.
He is 70 years old 🎈
Al Doughty (born Alan Jaworski, in Plymouth, Devon, England) is an English musician and bassist.
He is primarily known for being a member of the alternative rock band
Jesus Jones since 1988, for which he continues to be active in. He is 55 years old🎈
We were not going to have another late night like last night.
"Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind" - Evan Esar
Welcome to my Saturday....😀
I woke up early....far too early for a Saturday...
Nice cup of tea to start the day with.
Now to update the blog by publishing 3 days of blog posts.
Halfway through, Sleepy Beauty woke up.
He got the son whose Boxing lesson is this morning up.
A had a Christmas Present delivered, that was due for yesterday!
(Christmas Jumper Day is the clue)
We hadn't had no mail since Wednesday, so I wasn't really going to suspect any mail yesterday.
Warm hug with brew.
Breakfast.
Hubby dropped off son at his Boxing lesson.
I posted 3 blog posts.
Dressed.
Washing machine and tumble drier went on.
Once son had been collected from Boxing lesson.
We went out in Sexy Beast...
Christmas Card Delivery Time.
Every year it is getting less and less.
My good friend of 27 years died in May so that's one less Christmas card :(
After an hour, all was delivered.
I will try and go to the Post Office to send more cards next week.
Quick lunch.
Hubby then went food shopping with younger son (Who is doing next door's shopping as well)
I have to catch up with 2 episodes of Top of The Pops from 1990...
Next Episode:
After watching it. I caught up with today's newspaper.
Concetta Franconero better known 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 83 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 (1966–87), 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 was one of three African-American members of the Grand Ole Opry (the others are DeFord Bailey and Darius Rucker). He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000.He died aged 86 on this day in 2020.
When hubby came back with the shopping.
Once the shopping has been put away, I started on the tea which involved Meat Balls!
We caught up with 2 weeks of
"Have I Got News For You!"
Followed by 2 episodes of Season 19 of Hell's Kitchen.
Followed by one more episode of Hell's Kitchen season 14....with Sleep Tea!
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards - Arthur Koestler
Welcome to my Saturday 🍿
I woke up early....
Time to get up...
I listened to Sounds of the 60s...
The top 3 from 1961 was:
3.
2.
1.
I gets yesterday's blog post wrote.
Sleeping Beauty wakes up.
We go back upstairs to enjoy a
warm hug and a brew!
Breakfast.
Dressed.
Out for a little ride!
Drops off son at his boxing lesson.
Off to Droitwich, to visit the Droitwich Lions.
Picks up some nice bargains.
Bought some Crab Apple Jelly.
Nice lights up in the market place.
Picks up a coffee to go..
Picks up son from his Boxing lesson.
Back home.
Now down to Studley to visit their Charity Shop.
Nice cup of coffee when we got back!
&
Lunch
Hubby and younger son went to do the food shopping.
Some nice DVDS and Blue Ray we got from the Charity Shop...
I had 4 weeks of Top Of The Pops to catch up with:
Second week
Week three...
4th week....
It would have took me 2 hours to watch the whole 4 weeks worth.
However I have a very good fast forward finger, and it took me only 25 minutes.....
Once I watched all that, it was deleted off the planner.
I finished making 3 facemasks.
Hubby came back with younger son.
Put the shopping away.
Found the certain boxset we were looking for:
Had tea.
Read today's newspaper.
Little Richard was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was an influential figure in popular music and culture for seven decades. Nicknamed "The Innovator, The Originator, and The Architect of Rock and Roll",
Richard's most celebrated work dates from the mid-1950s, when his
charismatic showmanship and dynamic music, characterized by frenetic
piano playing, pounding back beat and raspy shouted vocals, laid the
foundation for rock and roll.
He would have been 88 years old 🎈
He died aged 87 in March 2020.
"Fat" Larry James, American drummer (Fat Larry's Band-Zoom), died in 1987 aged 38.
(Zoom will be at the end of this blog post)
Sleep tea...
Hubby will be wearing his thermal hat more often after tomorrow......
