All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening - Alexander Woollcott
Welcome to my Thursday....
I'm still shell shocked after yesterday afternoon...
Nice warm hug to start the day.
Brew with breakfast.
No thermal vest needed either :)
Just checked what the weather is going to be today...
I hope not!
I gave hubby a sloppy wet one.
I gets the newspaper.
I ask if the man from yesterday, survived.
He didn't :(
Plus someone moaned on how I just stood there and didn't direct the traffic!
Now to slip into the winter coat.
I left off the gloves....
I turned on my lights.
Now to get to get the shift started...
It was a bit of a solemn mood after yesterday.
Everyone asked what when on, and did the man survive?
One car stopped just inches away from my backside.
One of the parents commented on it.
The Woman Driver put down her window and said, "Sorry!"
Still people were asking about yesterday.
Few BOINGs were carried out as well.
At least I survived this shift.
Back home.
Picks up my jar of coffee, and voting card.
I vote, then I go around and see my friend for a coffee, chat and a stroke of the dog!
Felt better afterwards!
Hometime.
Someone lying the bird food...
My new net curtain arrived for the front door.
Liquid lunch time.
Then back out.
On goes the summer coat.
I put on my lights.
Now for a bit of rabbit with my friends.
The man that shouted at me yesterday, got out of a taxi and came over to speak to me.
He was trying to say sorry for shouting at me.
He told us, the man that died yesterday was a friend of his, and he was the last one to see him alive, and he was holding up the blanket so people couldn't see his friend receiving CPR off people and shouting "Can that Lollipop lady please stop the traffic coming down," was not aimed at me???
His friend wasn't feeling too well, got on his bike at 3.15pm just up the road from me, fell off his bike, banged his head on the kerb, and had a heart attack. In the end, there was 5 ambulances turn up and the air ambulance, and after given 7 shocks by the defib and CPR he didn't make it.
It was time to start, so I said goodbye to my friends and started the final shift of the day.
One parent said to me, his daughter looked around the corner to make sure it wasn't me in the road!
Some of the parents were still asking if I was alright after yesterday.
Still gave out some BOINGs!
Finished in one piece.
Hometime.
Much needed brew needed!
Now to get the tea sorted for tonight!
Hubby came back and had a sloppy wet one.
Now for tea!
Cottage Pie.
Yum.
Afterwards, to look in today's newspaper:
UK No.1 on this day in 1960:
Everly Brothers -Cathy's Clown.
UK No.1 on this day in 1966:
Manfred Mann - Pretty Flamingo.
UK No.1 on this day in 1984:
Duran Duran - The Reflex.
UK No.1 on this day in 2001:
S Club 7 - Don't Stop Moving.
USA No.1 on this day in 1979:
Peaches and Herb - Reunited.
USA No.1 on this day in 2007:
Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
I watered my garden before the sun went down.
Our kids were going off to the Count tonight to make sure the counting of votes were alright.
I've killed so many plants.I walked into a nursery once and my face was on a wanted poster - Rita Rudner
Welcome to my Sunday Love💓
I woke up at 7.20am and needed a cup of brew.
I left Sleeping Beauty have a lie in.
I got on writing my blog posts for the last 3 days.
After I wrote Thursday's, he appeared like magic!
More brew, breakfast and warm hug soon followed.
Got dressed.
Now to go out for some fresh air in Sexy Beast.
Checks the tyre pressures on Sexy Beast.
Then home.
Hubby and kids put up the Christmas Decs and tree.
Hubby puts the Christmas decs outside.
I wrote Friday's blog post up to lunch.
The Christmas Tree is looking nice once more :)
The Naughty Elf is after my Teas!
Today's Tea is:
While I was writing yesterday's blog post.
Hubby gets out the Ab's machine.
He has the whole time of the 12" of "The Race" by Yello to do as many Stomach Crunches as he can in 13 mins and 25 seconds
He manages 110.
Once he cools down, he goes for a shower.
I keep a eye on tea in the oven.
Publishes all 3 blog posts.
Now to dish up the tea!
We all catch up on Friday's episode of
"Have I Got News For You"
Now to carry on with the series=
Live and Death Row.
Series 1: 2 of 3 Judgement
This film follows the trial of 26-year-old Guy Heinze Jr, with
remarkable access to the jury members charged with reaching a verdict on
allegations that Heinze beat his father and seven members of his family
to death. As the trial progresses, there is legal manoeuvring while
evidence about the brutal killings unfolds.
Series 1: 3 of 3 Crisis Stage.
The final film of the series follows 25-year-old legal student Kelly
Hickman as she attempts to save two of the young killers facing
execution in America.
Kelly volunteers at the University of
Houston Death Penalty Clinic, a team of Texan students who help mount
last-ditch legal appeals for killers on death row.
The team are working on two 'crisis
cases' - cases where all of the offenders' normal legal appeals have
failed and they are now just weeks away from execution.
Robert Pruett was sentenced to death for
murdering a prison guard at the age of 20. He was already one of the
youngest killers in the American prison system, having been sentenced to
99 years for his involvement in another murder at the age of 16.
Robert Garza was a member of the
notorious Tri-City Bombers street gang and was sentenced to death at the
age of 20 for his part in the drive-by killing of four young women.
As execution day dawns, Kelly feels
frustratingly shut out of the legal process, confined to her office and
following events over the internet and the phone as news filters through
of an eleventh-hour intervention by the Supreme Court
Series 2: 1 of 4 = Execution
Series telling the story of capital punishment through the eyes of young people whose lives have been shaped by it.
On March 11 2009, Daniel Lopez was pulled
over for driving erratically. The dramatic car chase that ensued killed
a police officer and 27-year-old Daniel was given the death penalty.
Unusually for a death row prisoner, he is resisting all appeals to block
his execution - which is due in five weeks time. The state-appointed
attorneys for Lopez are arguing that their client is using the justice
system as a form of suicide. His family are also pleading with him to
fight the execution and stay alive for them. With access to Daniel, his
lawyers, his parents and the widow of the police officer that Daniel
killed, this film follows the lead up to 'execution day'. Will Daniel go
to his death, as he insists he wants to do, or will the people who love
him be able to save him?
Series 2: 2 of 4 = Punishment.
Series telling the story of capital punishment through the eyes of
young people whose lives have been shaped by it. With unprecedented
access inside prison walls, it discovers what it's like to live with the
threat of the death chamber, as well as hearing from victims and their
families, and the family of those on death row - some praying for
execution, some hoping for a reprieve. Each episode focuses on different
aspects of the system - execution, punishment and the complex nature of
'truth'.
In April 2013, 18-year-old Shawn Ford Jr
was charged with killing his girlfriend's parents with a sledgehammer.
Now he is on trial for his life and a jury of 12 ordinary people must
decide whether he should live or die. This film follows the court case
from the inside, as both the family of the victims and the defendant
struggle to come to terms with such a horrific crime. But it is the
jurors who must ultimately decide Shawn's fate. As the details of the
shocking murders mount, can an impassioned plea for mercy from Shawn's
mother save her son's life?
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