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Showing posts with label Lesley Gore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lesley Gore. Show all posts

Thursday 2 May 2019

Getting Plenty Of....

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real - Cormac McCarthy
Finally made Thursday...
Fingers crossed I am not going get too wet
Tea in bed time!
I gave everyone  sloppy 💋💋💋 before everyone left. 
I enjoyed the first coffee of the day↓↓
 I unloaded the dishwasher
&
loaded it back up.
Liquid Lunch time
The forecast said it won't rain until 3pm..
Out in the fresh air
 
 Double figures↗↗↗
 Birthdays Time
John  Neville:Was an English theatre and film actor, who moved to Canada in 1972. He enjoyed a resurgence of international attention in the 1980s as a result of his starring role in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). 
He would have been 94 years old.
(He died aged 86 in 2011)
 Engelbert Humperdinck : Is an English pop singer. Humperdinck has been described as "one of the finest middle-of-the-road balladeers around."His singles "Release Me" and "The Last Waltz" both topped the UK music charts in 1967, and sold more than a million copies each. In North America, he also had chart successes with "After the Lovin'" (1976) and "This Moment in Time" (1979). He has sold more than 140 million records worldwide
He is 83 years old.
Lesley Sue Goldstein  known professionally as Lesley Gore: Was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16 (in 1963) she recorded the pop hit "It's My Party" (a US number one), and followed it up with other hits including "Judy's Turn to Cry", "She's a Fool", "You Don't Own Me", "Maybe I Know" and "California Nights".  
She would have been 73 years old
(She died aged 68 in 2015)
 Doctor Robert, [Bruce  Howard]: Is the lead singer of the band,"The Blow Monkeys".They subsequently enjoyed a successful career with several hit singles and albums across the 1980s before splitting up at the beginning of the 1990s. Their first hit song was "Digging Your Scene", which hit No. 12 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1986. They had four albums and eleven singles in the UK charts from 1986 and 1990.
He is 58 years old.
 Oliver Reed : Was an English actor known for his upper-middle class, macho image, hellraiser lifestyle, and "tough guy" roles. Notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill Sikes in the Best Picture Oscar winner Oliver! (1968), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), portraying Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973), Tommy (1975), Lion of the Desert (1981), Castaway (1986), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) and Funny Bones (1995).For playing Antonius Proximo, the old, gruff gladiator trainer in Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) in what was his final film, Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
He died aged 61 in 1999.  
 "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery", starring Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley, is released in 1997.
 Oh dear the rain is coming in,
&
I have left my rain mac as home.
Good job I got a big umbrella!
Oh dear, it's wet t-shirt time!
 
 
The rain stopped and started again.
Gets home listening to some more great 60s tunes....
 
 Coffee time!
 Comes back from other job
 My Amazon order arrived....
 My bulk order of sleep tea↓
 I will be getting plenty of that ...with honey.
We had a nice evening meal with pork chops, with roast stuffing on the top.
We caught up with:
We had a early night...
As it's Friday tomorrow \o/
 
 
 

 

Saturday 16 February 2019

A Mini Drama

“Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.” – Yvon Chouinard
I just caught the last little bit of "Sounds of the 60s".
 
 Bacon & Black pudding sandwich↑
Out on a road trip to Kidderminister....
 The sun is out↑↓
Found the cattle market↓
 
 
 Brinton's Carpets HQ↑
He introduced the Penny Post↑
 I was given a leaflet about Brexit
Now to get some bargains..↓
Pity they didn't have my size↑
Nice hand bag↑
Nice big bottle of Zoflora! 
Nipped into Dunelm↓
 
 We had a coffee and sandwich at Morrisons↓
 We went too the Range.When we got there, we saw two people trying to get a large picture and a ironing board in a Mini. The passenger was squashed in the front seat afterwards...↑↑↑
We got the paint to update our kid's bedrooms.
 Then we had a Boost↓
 We had to have another trolley, as the first trolley was rammed with bargains.
We popped into see my Father-in-law.
He was amazed on how many bargains we got...
He replied:
"I didn't know there was ANY bargains in Kidderminster!" 
Now back on the road ....
Home Time....
Birthday Time.
John McEnroe:American tennis player (US Open 1979-81, 84 / Wimbledon 1981, 83, 84) is 60 years old today.
Salvatore "Sonny" Bono: American actor, musician, vocalist, (Sonny & Cher) and politician (Rep-R-Ca, 1995-98) would have been 84 years old. 
(He died aged 62 in 1998) 
Lesley Gore: American singer (It's My Party, You Don't Own Me),dies aged 68 in 2015.
George Harrison releases "Blow Away" in 1979.
The UK version of"The Apprentice" with British business magnate Alan Sugar premieres on the BBC in 2005.

We were all so tired when we got home...
All in bed by ten pm on a SATURDAY NIGHT!