A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something - Wilson Mizner
Welcome to the Friday Feeling 🎈
Warm hug with brew.
Breakfast.
Kids were having a TE day, so they had a lie-in.
Hubby was working from home today.
I too enjoyed a lie-in.
Hubby bought me up a coffee a little time later.
Up I got afterwards.
Dressed.
Then out in the cold to fetch the newspaper.
One of my kids was up, so came out for some fresh air.
Newspaper got.
Nothing happened at my late dad's house.
Back home.
Quick read of the newspaper before lunch.
Ralph Bates was an English film and television actor, known for his role in the British sitcom Dear John and the hugely successful TV drama Poldark.
He would have been 81 years old🎈
He died aged 51 in 1991.
Michael McDonald is an American
musician, singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and record producer known for
his distinctive, soulful voice and as a member of the bands the Doobie Brothers (1975–1982, 1987, 2019–present) and Steely Dan (1974). McDonald wrote and sang several hit singles with the Doobie Brothers, including "What a Fool Believes", "Minute by Minute", and "Takin' It to the Streets". McDonald has also performed as a prominent backing vocalist on numerous recordings by artists including Steely Dan, Christopher Cross, and Kenny Loggins.
He is 69 years old 🎈
Lunchtime
The new duvet cover arrives \o/
Tea at 3.
Once hubby finishes work.
He and younger son goes off to do the food shopping.
Me?
I have yesterday's blog to write and keep an eye on the tonight's tea.
Once they come back.
Tea is served!
Chicken wrapped in bacon.
There was only one episode of Top of the Pops to watch tonight from 1990.
Next we watched Roy Orbison:Love Hurts.
It was such a lovely documentary
When he died in the December of 1988 I was working in a Newspaper Shop when it came across the radio he had died :(
Next up:
I still have to look away when that music starts..
Hubby was falling asleep and I was looking more at him than the movie.
I like to be a free spirit.Some don't like that. But that's the way I am - Princess Diana
After the shopping trip, my left knee blew up like a football.Making it impossible to walk.
All night was left leg was up......↗↗↗
Brew and hug.
Breakfast.
Dressed.
Hubby had to drive the Sexy Beast.
We dropped off son at his Boxing lesson.
Checked Sexy Beast's tyres.
Back home to swap cars over.
Checked hubby's tyres next.
Off to Chemist to try to get down the swelling and ease the pain.
Coffee with a dash of pain relief.
Picks up son from his Boxing lesson..
Back home to put leg up....↗↗↗
Had some light lunch.
Washing machine went on,
&
The tumble drier.
It was looking like a Chinese Laundry here.
I got my blog updated.
The pain might be helped with the gel, but I'm having trouble walking....
Feel like an extra in a pirate film.
Tomorrow's Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡
is looking doubtful.
Chicken tea.
While hubby had a hot shower.
I caught up with 2 episodes of Top Of The Pops from 1990.
I have got the 7 inch single of this song↑
Next up was a lot of fast forwarding
Until I got to:
A great new entry into the chart this week↓
Great to see Del Amitri again↓
I saw them twice in concert in 1990.
I got all their singles and their "Waking Hours" album.
Fast Forwarded to the next episode.
Another great song was on↓
I see my favourite song is still going up ↗↗↗
I fast forwarded the rest as I couldn't stand the rest of the songs being played.
Quick look at the Birthdays.
Chuck Berry was an American singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. Nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll", Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958). Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship, Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music.He would have been 94 years old 🎈
He died aged 90 in 2017.
Curtis Stigers is an American jazz
singer. He achieved a number of hits in the early 1990s, most notably
the international hit "I Wonder Why" (1991), which reached No. 5 in the UK and No. 9 in the US.He is 55 years old🎈
Alfredo Lettieri was an Italian-American actor and screenwriter. During his career, he acted with some of Hollywood's biggest screen stars, including Steve McQueen in The Getaway, Charles Bronson in Mr. Majestyk, John Wayne in McQ, Richard Harris in The Deadly Trackers, Michael Caine and Mickey Rooney in Pulp, and Marlon Brando and Al Pacino in The Godfather. In most of those roles, he was cast as a villain and was sometimes credited as Anthony Lettieri.
He died on this day in 1975 aged 47 years old.
Julie London was an American singer and actress whose career spanned more than 40 years. Born in Santa Rosa, California to vaudevillian
parents, London was discovered while working as an elevator operator in
downtown Los Angeles, and began her career as an actress. London's
35-year acting career began in film in 1944, and included roles as the
female lead in numerous westerns, co-starring with Rock Hudson in The Fat Man (1951), with Robert Taylor and John Cassavetes in Saddle the Wind (1958), and opposite Robert Mitchum in The Wonderful Country (1959).
She died on this day in 2000 aged 74 years old.
Now for some Sleep Tea....
I am fearing I won't be able to get abroad the Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡 tomorrow.
