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Thursday 16 May 2019

Getting Loads Of S.....

I am not interested in being original.I am interested in being true. Agostinho Da Silva
Ah, Friday's Eve is back....
Going to soak up the sun's rays some more 🕶
I had the nudge......
Then they all had sloppy 💋💋💋 when they all left...
A nice coffee to set me up...
 I put the washing machine on
&
The dishwasher.
Tidied up the kitchen...
Liquid lunch time↓
 Hey hey hey the sun is back!
 
 Those big big sunglasses just have to come out 🕶
More Motown hits to sing along....
 Let's look at today's Birthdays↓
 Władziu Valentino Liberace : was an American pianist, singer and actor. A child prodigy born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin, Liberace enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame, from the 1950s to the 1970s, Liberace was the highest-paid entertainer in the world.
He would have been 100 years old.
(He died aged 67 in 1987)
Pierce Brosnan OBE  is an Irish-American actor, film producer, activist and environmentalist.  Following a stage acting career he rose to popularity in the television series Remington Steele (1982–1987), which blended the genres of romantic comedy, drama, and detective procedural. After the conclusion of Remington Steele, Brosnan appeared in films such as the Cold War spy film The Fourth Protocol (1987) and the comedy Mrs. Doubtfire (1993).
In 1994, Brosnan became the fifth actor to portray secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, starring in four films from 1995 to 2002 (GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day).
He is 66 years old.
Hazel O'Connor: Is a British singer-songwriter and actress. She became famous in the early 1980s with hit singles "Eighth Day", "D-Days" and "Will You", as well as starring in the film Breaking Glass.
She is 64 years old. 
Glenn Gregory:  Is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose music career spans more than 30 years. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co-founder and lead singer of the new wave and synthpop band Heaven 17, which released six singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1980s, and 1990s, including "Temptation", "Come Live with Me", "Crushed by the Wheels of Industry", "Sunset Now", "This Is Mine", and "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" 
He is 61 years old. 
 Margaret  Hamilton : Was an American film character actress best known for her portrayal of Miss Almira Gulch and the Wicked Witch of the West in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's classic film The Wizard of Oz (1939)
She died aged 82 in 1985
The Beach Boys release their groundbreaking album "Pet Sounds", containing hit singles "Sloop John B" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice" in 1966 
  Woo hoo more blue skies!
*Getting loads of sunshine! *
 
 As I saw my dad this morning,
I got home on time...
 
 More Birthday presents for our children for next month↓↓
 My folders have to come to file away my magazines↓
 Much need coffee boost!↓
Went off to do other job...
Came back, the sun is hidden by clouds :(
We have a nice homemade chinese meal.
Telly time:
We actually had a early night...
Bed before 11pm!
The Friday Feeling will soon be here...🍾

 
 
  

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 BrownIs 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!
 🎡