Kicking Away The Holiday Stone!

Patience has its limits.Take it too far, and it's cowardice 
- George Jackson

Welcome to my Thursday 🎈

I was back on a rather small Wobbly Work Wheel🎡

 We were running low on food...

Just had enough milk for tea and breakfast↓

 Hubby still not well enough to go back to work...

I blow him a 💋 when I leave the house↓

 Trying out another CD I bought at Christmas↓

 Listening to some great songs↓

Now to do some shopping..↓

  Sing-a-long time on the way home↓

It's not quite double figures↓

 I have a quick look in the newspaper↓

Nelly Furtado, Canadian singer and songwriter (I'm Like a Bird) is 42 years old 🎈

Dave Mount, English drummer (Mud), died at 59 years old in 2006

More shows we have to watch↓

The Council phones up,

No new boiler now,

As far as they are concerned the boiler is fixed!!!

The boiler was condemned last month..

Patched up and no hot water upstairs!

We are not happy with this decision.

We are taking this further....

Off to The Happy Place Of Work.. for the first time in 2020.... 

When I got back, it was well dark!

Nice pork chop for tea.

We caught up on:

 The Graham Norton Show.

Graham's New Year's Eve guests are Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Motsi Mabuse, Stephen Graham, Florence Pugh, Anthony Joshua and Melanie C featuring Sink the Pink.

Then the extended version of 

Have I Got News For You best of 2019.

 Then off to do more work and singing..

I gets back.

Hubby had filled the bath full of hot water..

(Using pots and pans from the kitchen)

Used our ducks we had for Christmas↓

Caught up with:

 Off to bed before the Friday Feeling comes visiting 🎈

 

Starting The New Year With....

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit! - Harry S Truman

Happy New Year🎈

Welcome to my first day of 2020🎈

We had a nice big lie after doing lots of bingewatching Netflix↑

Coffee and late late breakfast in bed..↓

 Off for a little walk to clear out the cobwebs↓

 

 Not taking that short cut↪

  Where do the steps lead to???

 

 Take a peek into the newspaper↓

 FR David,Tunisian-born singer is 73 years old 🎈

 Coffee and nibble time!

 Followed by a liquid lunch↓

 Now for more pom pom making↓

 Caught up on more:

Tried to use some Christmas cheese by having cheese toasties...

More Mindhunter to watch...

I am back on a small wobbly work wheel 🎡 tomorrow....

Best to get to bed early!

 

Gone Off The Sausage!

Doing nothing is very hard to do…you never know when you’re finished - Leslie Nielsen

Back on that Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡

After the Bank Holiday Weekend...

I had the nudge for breakfast in bed 🛏

I gave everyone sloppy 💋💋💋 before they left...

I meanwhile had lots to do....

Dishwasher went on,

Followed by the 

washing machine and tumble drier...

As the sun was shining,

I watered my plants in the garden...

As I had no soup left...

I had to make do with↓

 Back on the Wobbly Work Wheel..

 

 I left my rain mac at home as NO RAIN was forcasted.....

Quick look at the Birthdays↓

 David  Tomlinson: was an English stage, film and television actor and comedian. Having been described as both a leading man and a character actor, he is primarily remembered for his roles as authority figure George Banks in Mary Poppins, fraudulent magician Professor Emelius Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks and as hapless antagonist Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug. Tomlinson was posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend in 2002. 

He would have been 102 years old.

He died aged 83 years old in 2000)

 William Lyle Richardson, known professionally as Darren McGavin, was an American actor. He was known for his portrayals of worldly, often somewhat gruff characters.He appeared in X-files and
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975).

He would have been 97 years old.

(He died aged 83 in 2006) 

Rick West [ Born Richard Westwood],He was the lead guitarist of The Tremeloes from 1961 - 2012.(Altogether without Brian Poole the group had nine Uk Top 20)

He is 76 years old.

Eddie Rabbitt : Was an American singer and songwriter. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974.

He died aged 56 in 1998.

Ray Harryhausen : Was an American-born British artist, designer, visual effects creator, writer and producer who created a form of stop-motion model animation known as "Dynamation".
His most memorable works include: working with his mentor Willis H. O'Brien on the animation for Mighty Joe Young (1949), which won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects; his first color film, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958); and Jason and the Argonauts (1963), which featured a famous sword fight with seven skeleton warriors. His last film was Clash of the Titans (1981), after which he retired.

He died aged 92 in 2013

 Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1 in 1966.

  There was sign of rain whatsover↓

 I was wrong as normal....

Good job I had my jacket on,

Or it would have been a Wet T-shirt competition!

I goes round to see my dad after work.

My younger brother and his wife was tidying up the house!!!!

(Makes a change from me doing it!)

I had to hurry back home as I have another job to do!

 

 A quick gulp of coffee and change of skirt, I went off to work...

My dad's hospital bed was being delivered between 5pm-8pm.

My two kids were there to wait for it.Once hubby had finished work, he too helped setting it up, so my dad could sleep in it tonight.

When all three males of the house arrived back, their evening meal was ready.

I declined to share, as I have gone off sausages.....

Once Dish washer was loaded up, we caught up with:

 &

Louis Theroux on Netflix.

 I stick to gambling with 1p and 2p when we go and play on the slots on the South Pier in Blackpool, when we go on holiday....

Hoping for a dry Hump Day tomorrow🐫 

 

I Feel Pretty, Witty & Bright!

It is Saturday night, which means that it is time for you to be a hero and rescue some that has been trapped inside a bottle....

Woo hoo it's Saturday!

I caught the half an hour of "Sounds of the 60s"

 It is hair cut time...

We all leave the house↓

 Drops James off at the Barbers.

We park in Car Park 1.

Nice view of the bus station↓

 

 A bus goes up the hill...

 Nice coffee while we wait for James to come back..

 Back to the car as I have my hair appointment

 The sun is out...

 Off to the hair cut time...

Feel a lot better for having short hair!

I feel like I have lost 2 stone in weight!

Sun is shining again!

 Nice bit of lunch to work off ....

 Goes off to do some work...

Singing along like I have to..

 

Felt better after that workout.

 

 Nibble time↓

 I had a email from Littlewoods. It showed a pink and white box in the baking bit...↓

 I found it...

£189.99!!!!

Even my second hand gas cooker isn't go to cost that much!!!

Found a great film to watch later...

(As the director, Stanley Donen has died aged 94)

 Found some good programmes on Netflix

My brother came round and dropped off my gas cooker.

My husband offered to clean it.

I stopped in his tracks...

I pointed out, "If he hadn't tried to clean the last cooker, I wouldn't need to buy another one..."

We had a quiet evening from then on.

More Netflix time:

  I caught up with the Birthdays.

Linda Cristal: Argentinian actress (High Chapparal), is 85 years old.

Peter Fonda: American actor (Easy Rider, Lilith, Wild Angels, Trip),is 79 years old.

Kelly Macdonald: Scottish actress,(Trainspotting, Nanny McPhee) is 43 years old. 

Emily Blunt: English-American actress,(Devil Wears Prada, Mary Poppins Returns) is 36 years old. 

Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson):was an English comic actor, writer, and film director who was part of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy died aged 74 in 1965.

Lewis Gilbert: British film director, producer and screenwriter, who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979) died aged 97 in 2018.

US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture in 1945.

"Trainspotting" directed by Danny Boyle based on the book by Irvine Welsh, starring Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller opens in cinemas in the UK and Ireland in 1996

Hubby went to bed,

I watched one more programme on Netflix....

 Such a powerful programme.

Oh dear better get to bed....↓