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Showing posts with label On Days Like These. Show all posts
Showing posts with label On Days Like These. Show all posts

Wednesday 11 March 2020

Wow, That's Well Nice!

The family is the country of the heart - Giuseppe Mazzini
Welcome to Hump of the Week 🐫
After yesterday's fun, I hope this day gets better 🎈
I have a warm hug and a nice cuppa↓
 I gave everyone their sloppy 💋💋💋
before I left the house↓
 
 Today's tree pic↓
 I saw a green lamborghini.
 There was grid lock off traffic.
One car stopped for me, then carried on!
A Nissan Juke was making a terrible noise when it went past me. He had been smacked up the backside by some other car.
I finished in one piece!
I filled up Sexy Beast.
 
 I had a light lunch↓
 Off to do some singing 🎵🎵🎵↓
I had a peek in the newspaper↓
  I looked across the fields of fun↓
 
 I left with a red face.
Back on the singing 🎡
 Coffee time↓
 Back out to do 🍭
The car drivers calmed down a bit after this morning.
I finished in one piece.
Back home↓
 Coffee and nibble↓
 I got changed.
Off to Happy Place of Work
With some great music↑
I gets back to a nice tea↓
  Back onto the last job of the day↓
 Back home,
To flop on the bed and be rubbed down by hubby ;P 

 

Sunday 21 July 2019

Using More Blue Chalk!

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do - Walter Bagehot
We had a sort of lie in...
When I woke up, 
After breakfast,
I found someone selling half a tub of blue paint. I made her an offer, and won it \o/.
Now to leave the house↓
 It's getting warm again↓
 We pick up the paint.
 Then off to Aldi for this week's shopping.
 Pity I don't drink↑
 Only the best toilet roll↑
 I got a spare mop too.
Back home for lunch.
Now for day two of snooker.
Off we go
 Hubby's match starts at 3.30pm
 He puts up a great fight but loses:(
Nice table set up↓
Drowning our sorrows↓
Gets back home.
  It looks like its going to rain.
I will leave repotting of the plants for tomorrow.
I caught up with this blog.
Later on one of my favourite films were on:
Hubby got his work things ready..
I just have 2 jobs to do tomorrow...
I have still got to mount the Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡

 

Saturday 1 December 2018

No Kippers But Plenty Of Nets

Never sweep.After four years the dirt gets no worst. Quentin Crisp

Welcome to December!
 I was up early to listen to "The Sounds of the 60's"
We listened to the rest of the show in a nice warm bed.
After getting up and having breakfast.
It was time to upgrade the house a little bit.
Net curtains and tidying up bedrooms was top of the list.
Time for some fresh air!
 
 We managed to get a parking space.
First stop was my Dunelm Experience.
 Picked up net curtains and net curtain wire.
Next stop was to get some top up shopping in Lidl.
Robot vacuum cleaner↓
 
 Much prefer my Henry...↓
 Bongo time!
 Much prefer my Kenny :)↓
 Pops in to see my dad for an hour.
Enjoyed a good coffee↓
Gets back home to continute upgrading the house.
My older son had some nice blue net curtains.
My younger son had some nice green and white net curtains.
We had some nice blue bird net curtains in the small window.
 After we finished tea.
It was time to relax....
 I put another internet order for some more net curtains for the huge stairs window.
(As the nets have not been changed for 8 years!!!)
It was ready for 10 to 6pm.
However I was in my PJ's and the shop shuts at 6pm...
However it was ready at
We bought this particular film a few months ago...

 It was a very good film.
So good, I have ordered the second film...↓
 and another film,
we missed when it came out on the cinema. 
 
I had quick look at the Birthdays...
 Matt Monro: English singer, (Born Free,From Russia With Love) would have been 88 years 
(He died in 1985 at the age of 54.) 
 Keith Michell: American actor and theatre director (6 Wives of Henry VIII) would have been 92.
(He died in 2015)

Anton Rodgers: British actor (Fresh Fields, May to December) died at the age of 74 in 2007.
 John Lennon & Yoko Ono: release
"Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US in 1971.
 
Off to bed, as we are visiting another Country House tomorrow....