You don't stop laughing because you grow old.You grow old because you stop laughing - Michael Pritchard
Welcome to my Saturday 💜
Brew with warm hug.
Breakfast.
Dressed.
It was a lot warmer than it has been.
All the curtains were opened followed by the windows.
Now out for a little ride.
Deliver some cake and get feedback from last night's interview.
New facemask to wear!
Gets newspaper, see Joe and Pete.
Gave them the cake.
Back home for a coffee.
We has soup for lunch.
Hubby wrote out our shopping list.
Our youngest son went and collected next door's shopping list.
While they were out shopping.
I wrote yesterday's blog post.
Done Jukebox on my Twitter.
Hubby and son came back.
In our local Morrisons, some people were not wearing masks, two teenagers were snogging down one aisle!
Unpacked the shopping.
Now for sausages and mash!
Hubby had bought a new film for us to watch.
Good film :)
Afterwards I slipped into something a lot warmer!
Quick look into today's newspaper.
Scott Walker (born Noel Scott Engel) was an American-born British singer-songwriter, composer and record producer. Walker was known for his baritone voice and an unorthodox career path which took him from 1960s teen pop icon to 21st-century avant-garde musician.
Walker's success was largely in the United Kingdom, where his first
four solo albums reached the top ten. He lived in the UK from 1965 and
became a UK citizen in 1970.
He would have been 78 years old 🎈
He died aged 76 in 2019.
Crystal Gayle (born Brenda Gail Webb) is an American country music singer and songwriter. She is best known for her 1977 crossover hit, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." Initially, Gayle's management and record label was the same as that of her oldest sister, Loretta Lynn.
She is 70 years old 🎈
David Harman, known professionally as Dave Dee was an English singer-songwriter, musician, A&R manager, fundraiser and businessman. He was the frontman for the 1960s pop band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.
Slipped on the gardening gloves...
The rhubarb that came yesterday,
got planted↓
Coffee time↓
Some nice soup↓
The blossom looking good↓
The sun is back \o/
Still freezing...↑
Listened to and sung along with some great tunes....
Birthday Time
Doris Day:Is an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist.She was usually one of the top ten singers between 1951 and 1966.
As an actress, she became the biggest female film star in the early
1960s, and ranked sixth among the box office performers by 2012. In 2011, she released her 29th studio album, My Heart, which became a UK Top 10 album featuring new material.
She is 97 years old.
Marlon Brando : Was an American
actor and film director. With a career spanning 60 years, he is
well-regarded for his cultural influence on 20th-century film. Brando's Academy Award-winning performances include that of Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954) and Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972).He would have been 95 years old.
(He died aged 80 in 2004)
William Gaunt :Is an English actor.After minor roles in 1960s series such as Z-Cars and The Avengers, and the Edgar Wallace Mysteries movies The Sinister Man (1961) and Solo for Sparrow
(1962), he gained a role as the super-powered secret agent Richard
Barrett in the 1968 British espionage/science fiction series The Champions.Between 1983 and 1987 he starred as harassed father Arthur Crabtree in the sitcom No Place Like Home.He is 82 years old.
Jonathan Lynn: Is an English stage and film director, producer, writer and actor. He directed comedy films such as Nuns on the Run, My Cousin Vinny, and The Fighting Temptationsand earlier co-created and co-wrote the TV series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. He is 76 years old.
Barry Pritchard: He was one of the founding members of The Fortunes.(Here it Comes Again, You've Got Your Troubles).
He would have been 75 years old.
(He died aged 55 in 1999)
Mary Ure:Was a Scottish stage and film actress. She was the second Scottish-born actress (after Deborah Kerr) to be nominated for an Academy Award, for her role in the 1960 film Sons and Lovers.She died aged 42 in 1975.
The1976 Eurovision Song Contest was staged in the Netherlands and Brotherhood of Man performed the
song, dressed in red, white and black with simple choreography devised
by Guy Lutman. "Save Your Kisses for Me" took the title with an
overwhelming victory.
The sun is coming out!
I forgot my rain mac,
As we had a storm of hailstones!
It still wasn't very warm↓
I was hoping the weather was going to stop dry....
I had two more rhubarb plants arrived.
Gardening Gloves On Again!
Time to pot them with the other two.↓
Coffee and nibble time↓
I had some time on my hands,
So I repaired our front gate.
The new gate is arriving Saturday.
Front of the house is looking nice↓
Goes up to do other job.
No cake until Lent!↓
I came back to coffee and a quiche made by my youngest son at school↓
We nip to Morrisons...
Couldn't resist....↓
Third time lucky for the Gardening Gloves..
It was soon put in the ground.
Now to do a tasty chicken stir fry↓
I have my fingers and toes crossed for tomorrow as Sexy Beast is having his MOT done...
