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Showing posts with label The Hollies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Hollies. Show all posts

Tuesday 22 October 2019

Feeling The Warmth!

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power - Eric Hoffer
Welcome to my Tuesday.
I enjoyed a cuddle and cup of tea in bed with hubby↓
 Opened the curtains to see the sun is back :)
 Gave everyone sloppy wet πŸ’‹πŸ’‹πŸ’‹ before everyone left.
Then it's coffee and blog time!
 Early lunch↓
 Off for a little ride...
 Still not double figures↓
 Nice new CD to sing along with↓
  A quick look in the newspaper↓
  Ray Jones, rock bassist (Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas) would have been 80 years old 🎈
He died aged 60 years old in 2000.
Bobby Fuller would have been 77 years old 🎈
 He died aged 23 in 1966.
 Shelby Lynne is 51 years old 🎈

 Lovely views across the fields of fun↓
 Nice red face once I had finished.
More singing to do on the way home
 It's getting warm↓
 The leggings have to come off!
Off to the Happy Place of Work.
Cake anyone↓
 Once I got back,
I got the tea on the go...
Fish cakes for everyone.
 Now to burn some of it at my next job.
With some good songs to sing a long with↓
 I gets back to carry on with watching The Great British Bake Off.
 I hope we have a dry and sunny Hump tomorrow....

 

Wednesday 22 May 2019

Back To That Funny Hat!

Wednesday is the perfect mix of “wow, it’s Wednesday already?” and “it’s only Wednesday?”
Welcome to Hump of the week 🐫
Another sunny day ahead!
I am hoping for the replacement parcel finds me later.....⌧
It was nice to have a cup of tea in πŸ›
I gave out the sloppy πŸ’‹πŸ’‹πŸ’‹ when everyone left the house.
I meanwhile had to find out the chief's hat for later..
It was nice to get through Hump day with the help from Deadpool!
I watered the crops growing the greenhouse in my back garden.
Some interesting news....
We are having a new roof next Wednesday!
🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾 
Now for some liquid lunch..
 Sunny Hump Ahead🐫
 Those big big sunglasses had to come out πŸ•Ά
 Double figures↗↗↗↗↗↗
Singing along with The Hollies again
Quicl look at the Birthdays↓
 Kenny Ball:  was an English jazz musician, best known as the bandleader, lead trumpet player and vocalist in Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen.
 They reached No. 2 at the end of 1961 on the UK Singles Chart, and in March 1962 on the Hot 100, with "Midnight in Moscow" (Pye 7NJ.2049 – released November 1961).The record sold over one million copies, earning gold disc status.
He would have 89 years old.
(He died aged 82 in 2013)
 Don Estelle:  was a British actor and singer best known as Gunner "Lofty" Sugden in It Ain't Half Hot Mum.Estelle had a powerful tenor voice, and had a Number 1 hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1975 with a semi-comic version of "Whispering Grass" recorded with It Ain't Half Hot Mum co-star Windsor Davies.
He would have been 86 years old.
(He died aged 70 in 2003)
 Richard Benjamin:  is an American actor and film director.
He has starred in a number of well-known film productions, including Goodbye, Columbus (1969), based on the novella by Philip Roth; Catch-22 (1970), from the Joseph Heller best-seller; Westworld (1973), a science-fiction thriller by Michael Crichton;and The Sunshine Boys (1975), written by Neil Simon.
After directing for television, his first film as director was the 1982 comedy My Favorite Year, for which star Peter O'Toole was nominated for an Academy Award. His other films as director include City Heat (1984), starring Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood, The Money Pit (1986) with Tom Hanks, and Made in America (1993) with Whoopi Goldberg
He is 81 years old.
Steven Patrick Morrissey known  as Morrissey: is an English singer, songwriter, and author. He came to prominence as the frontman of the rock band the Smiths, which was active from 1982 to 1987. Since then, he has pursued a commercially successful solo career. Morrissey's music is characterised by his baritone voice and distinctive lyrical content featuring recurring themes of emotional isolation, sexual longing, self-deprecating and black humour, and anti-establishment stances. 
He is 60 years old.
The Beatles' s"Ticket to Ride" single goes #1 in 1965
"A View to a Kill", 14th James Bond film, last to star Roger Moore, also starring Grace Jones and Christopher Walken, premieres in San Francisco in 1985

 Vitamin D time!
 I wore the hat!
I go around to see my dad..
He has now had Lifeline fitted...
I finally got back home↓
 
 I found a card...
I had the day's previous delivery and the replacement!
I phoned up the store to see if I have to send one packet back.
They said "Keep it,as I have had so much hassle!"
Comes back from the other job, to get the evening meal on the go....
Hubby comes back and has a warm hug and a big warm πŸ’‹
Dished up the evening tea....
I wrote out yesterday's blog post,
while my hubby went to see my dad...
Later on, it was cuddle time....πŸ˜‰
Tomorrow it's voting time in the European Elections!


  

Friday 12 April 2019

Getting On Top Of The Friday Feeling

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:it goes on Robert Frost.
That good once a week Friday Feeling is back🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
I break up for my two weeks Easter Holiday today :) :)
Let's celebrate with tea↓
Gave everyone a sloppy πŸ’‹πŸ’‹πŸ’‹ before they left the house...
Sneaky coffee before I got ready...
I got ready for coffee and chat date.
It was still freezing cold when I left the house↓
 
 Not even double figures!
I had a Fiat 500 up my arse all the way to my friend's house.
She was so near to my back end of Sexy Beast, she could have kissed it.πŸ’‹
I had a good yak and coffee before I said goobye..
Off I go...↓
 Gets to work...
Birthdays Time
 MarΓ­a de Montserrat Viviana ConcepciΓ³n CaballΓ© i Folch:  was a Spanish operatic soprano. She sang a wide variety of roles, but is best known as an exponent of the works of Verdi and of the bel canto repertoire, notably the works of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti. She was noticed internationally when she stepped in for a performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia at Carnegie Hall in 1965, and then appeared at leading opera houses. Her voice was described as pure but powerful, with superb control of vocal shadings and exquisite pianissimo.
CaballΓ© became popular to non-classical music audiences in 1987, when she recorded, at the request of the IOC, "Barcelona", a duet with Freddie Mercury, which became an official theme song for the 1992 Olympic Games. She received several international awards and also Grammy Awards for a number of her recordings.
 She would have been 86 years old.
(She died aged 85 years in 2018)
 Ned Miller : Was an American country music singer-songwriter. Active as a recording artist from 1956 to 1970, he is known primarily for his hit single "From a Jack to a King", a crossover hit in 1962 which reached Top 10 on the country music, adult contemporary, and Billboard Hot 100 charts. He had several more chart singles in his career, although none matched the success of "From a Jack to a King". He also composed and recorded "Invisible Tears".
He would have 94 years old.
(He died aged 90 in 2016)
Jeremy Beadle: Was an English television presenter, radio presenter, writer and producer. During the 1980s he was a regular face on British television, and in two years appeared on 50 weeks of the year.
He would have been 71 years old.
(He died aged 59 in 2008)
Andy GarcΓ­a: Is a Cuban American actor and director who became known in the late 1980s and 1990s, having appeared in successful Hollywood films, including The Godfather Part III, The Untouchables, Internal Affairs and When a Man Loves a Woman. In the 2000s, he starred in Ocean's Eleven and its sequels:, Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, and in The Lost City. In recent years he's had a career resurgence in such films as Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Book Club, The Mule, and My Dinner with HervΓ©.
GarcΓ­a was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vincent Mancini in The Godfather Part III. He was Emmy Award- and Golden Globe Award-nominated for his titular role in For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story.
He is 63 years old.
Harvey Ball : Was an American commercial artist. He is recognized as the designer of a popular smiley graphic picture, which became an enduring and notable international icon.
He died aged 79 in 2001
The Beatles "From Me to You" is released in UK in 1963
 Pheasant getting away from me↑
 I was so glad to finish!!!
More singing on the way home↓
 Coffee and nibbles↓
 The flowers came for my friend's graves↓
 Hubby does my dad's shopping.
We have fish with potato wedges..
We catch up with:
 Graham is joined by Hollywood stars Chris Hemsworth and Paul Rudd, starring together in new Marvel blockbuster Avengers: End Game, Oscar-winner Julianne Moore, star of the acclaimed drama Gloria Bell, and Kit Harington, who discusses the final season of Game of Thrones. With music from Brits breakthrough act Tom Walker, who performs Just You and I
Then off to bed to celebrate the Friday Feeling...