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Showing posts with label Mark Hollis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Hollis. Show all posts

Tuesday 4 January 2022

Getting Ready To Go Back!

"Did you notice the heavy fog last night?"
"No, nothing wakes me!" - Morecambe and Wise 
Welcome to my Tuesday πŸ‘
Nice warm hug to start Tuesday with.
Breakfast with brew.
I gave hubby a sloppy wet πŸ’‹ before he left for work.
Then I enjoyed the king-size bed for an hour.
Then up I got!
My son finished another jigsaw last night.
(Took him 4 hours to do)
Thermal vest went on.
Dressed.
Now out to get some fresh air.
Good job I got my thermals on!
I gets the newspaper and fills up Sexy Beast with fuel.
Back home I go.
Puts on the coffee machine.
Two baskets of washing goes upstairs to be sorted out.
Tumble drier back on for a bit.
Now for the much needed coffee.
Then I get on with writing 2 blog posts.
All the way to lunch!
Second time I sent Dunelm a email about my order....
Heard nothing from the first email I sent them!
Lunch.
Mmmm homemade soup.
The temperatures are going to drop down tonight.
Covered up Sexy Beast.
Back on the Wobbly Work Wheel tomorrow🍭
Lollipop Stick went back in...
Now for a belated Tea at 3.
More fabric arrived and a Me to You Bear.
Finally could unwrap my Pooh bear I had for Christmas.
Our Prime Minister was giving a press conference...
Hubby came home and a sloppy wet πŸ’‹.
We had Vegetarian Burgers for tea.
Once the dishwasher was loaded up.
I had a nice hot shower.
Chopped up more veg and the soup maker went back on.
Now to look inside the newspaper.
Mark  Hollis  was a British musician and singer-songwriter. He achieved commercial success and critical acclaim in the 1980s and 1990s as the co-founder, lead singer and principal songwriter of the band Talk Talk. Hollis wrote or co-wrote most of Talk Talk's music—including hits like "It's My Life" and "Life's What You Make It"—and in later works developed an experimental, contemplative style. 
He would have been 67 years old 🎈
He sadly died aged 64 in 2019.
Gerry Rafferty was a Scottish rock singer-songwriter. His solo hits in the late 1970s included "Baker Street", "Right Down the Line" and "Night Owl", as well as "Stuck in the Middle with You", which was recorded with the band Stealers Wheel in 1973. 
He died on this day aged 63 in 2011.
UK No.1 on this day in 1957:
 Guy Mitchell - Singing The Blues
The ABC action series StreetHawk starring Rex Smith as "Jesse Mach", a desk bound cop who secretly fights crime as the test pilot for a prototype combat motorcycle, airs its first episode on this date in 1985.
Sleep Tea Time.
Back on the Wobbly Work Wheel 🍭 tomorrow.


 
 


 

Thursday 25 February 2021

Big Baps!

Take calculated risks.That is quite different from being rash -
George S Patton
Welcome to my Thursday πŸ‘€
Hug with a brew.
Breakfast.
Dressed.
Gave hubby a wet sloppy πŸ’‹ before he went to work.
(He was getting the newspaper on the way to work) 
I got the kids up, ready for their on-line learning for school.
I went outside to get some fresh air.
Coffee time.
I add the roll mixture to the breadmaker.
I start writing yesterday's blog post.
Got mixture out of the breadmaker..
Shaped out the rolls.
Put them in the oven to prove.
Filled the jars I had yesterday,
with flour. In the kitchen cupboard they went.
Lunchtime.
Finished writing yesterday's blog post.
I even put a jukebox on my Twitter :)
Tea at 3.
The nice big baps are ready!
Film time.
Great film.
Next film↓
Burger Bun time.
Another film to watch↓
Hubby came back from seeing his dad.
Both were glad of seeing each other and a good few hours of talking.
He gives me the newspaper for a quick read.
Sir Tom  Courtenay  is an English actor of stage and screen. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Courtenay achieved prominence in the 1960s with a series of acclaimed film roles, including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)⁠, for which he received the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles⁠, and Doctor Zhivago (1965), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Other notable film roles during this period include Billy Liar (1963), King and Country (1964), for which he was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival, King Rat (1965), and The Night of the Generals.  
He is 84 years old 🎈 
Elkie Brooks (born Elaine Bookbinder) is an English singer. She was a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe, and later became a solo artist. She gained her biggest success in the late 1970s and 1980s, releasing 13 UK Top 75 singles, and reached the top ten with "Pearl's a Singer", "Sunshine After the Rain" and the title track of the album No More the Fool. She has been nominated twice for Brit Awards.
Brooks is a Gold Badge Award of Merit winner from formerly the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors – BASCA now The Ivors Academy.
She is generally referred to as the "British Queen of Blues".
She is 76 years old 🎈
Mike Peters MBE DL is a Welsh musician, best known as the lead singer of the Alarm. After the band split up in 1991, Peters wrote and released solo work, before reconstituting the Alarm in 2000. Additionally, he is co-founder of the Love Hope Strength Foundation. Between 2011 and 2013, Peters was the vocalist for Big Country as well as The Alarm.
He is 62 years old 🎈 
Mark  Hollis was an English musician and singer-songwriter. He achieved commercial success and critical acclaim in the 1980s and 1990s as the co-founder, lead singer and principal songwriter of the band Talk Talk. Hollis wrote or co-wrote most of Talk Talk's music—including hits like "It's My Life" and "Life's What You Make It"—and in later works developed an experimental, contemplative style. 
He died on this day in 2019 aged 64
Sleep tea time↓
The Friday Feeling is back tomorrow 🎈


 
 
 

 

 


 

 

Monday 4 January 2021

The Kitchen Wall Trying To Move.....

You can stop almost anything from functioning by hitting it with a large rock - Russell Bell 

 Welcome to my Monday 🎈
(No getting on the wobbly work wheel 🎑 due to a TE Day)
Brew with warm hug.
Breakfast.
Dressed.
Gave hubby a wet sloppy πŸ’‹ before he went to work.
It turns out the kids had a TE day so no online learning for them.
I got yesterday's blog post wrote.
Opened up my Jukebox on Twitter....
I took my youngest son out for some fresh air.
Still feels cold.
I got the newspaper.
Then off to visit Morrisons for some bits.
Not bad price for a bit of Dirty Harry...
Then we had to face the red light.
Back home for a quick lunch.
Two weeks of post turned up!
I will be alright for fabric for a bit!
Tea at 3
Quick look in the newspaper↓
 
Iain Cuthbertson  was a Scottish character actor and theatre director. He was known for his tall imposing build and also his distinctive gravelly, heavily accented voice. He had lead roles in The Borderers (1968-70),Tom Brown's Schooldays (1971), Budgie (1971-72), its spinoff Charles Endell Esquire (1979-80), Danger UXB (1979) and Sutherland's Law (1973-76). He guest starred in many prominent British shows including The Avengers, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, The Onedin Line, Survivors, Ripping Yarns, Doctor Who, Z-Cars, Juliet Bravo, Rab C. Nesbitt, Minder, Inspector Morse and Agatha Christie's Poirot. 
He would have been 91 years old 🎈 
He died in 2009 aged 79 years old.
Sorrell Booke was an American actor who performed on stage, screen, and television. He acted in more than 100 plays and 150 television shows, and is best known for his role as corrupt politician Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard.
He would have been 91 years old 🎈
He died aged 64 in 1994. 
Arthur  Conley  was an American soul singer, best known for the 1967 hit "Sweet Soul Music".
He would have been 75 years old 🎈 
He died aged 57 in 2003.
Mark  Hollis  was an English musician and singer-songwriter. He achieved commercial success and critical acclaim in the 1980s and 1990s as the co-founder, lead singer and principal songwriter of the band Talk Talk. Hollis wrote or co-wrote most of Talk Talk's music—including hits like "It's My Life" and "Life's What You Make It"—and in later works developed an experimental, contemplative style.
He would have been 66 years old 🎈
He died aged 64 in 2019.
Then I got on making a  Cottage Pie.
I got all my things ready for the return back to work tomorrow.
It's ready!
We got ready for Boris Johnson.
Back to another Lockdown.
At least my kids can learn on line.
My younger son is not happy with the cancelling of this year's GCSE's which he was supposed to do.
Sleep tea time.
7 weeks off from doing my Lollipop job!
My kitchen wall is going to move next door from me talking to it too much!
At least my kids can escape to their bedrooms to get away from my singing!
Even my sewing machine is going to moan about being used to much!
And some use out of Kenny too!