Happy 80th Birthday Dad x

 It was on my fifth birthday, my dad put his hand on my shoulder and said, "Remember, son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one on the end of your arm." - Sam Levenson 

Welcome to my Thursday, today is my late dad's 80th Birthday 🎈🎈🎈

Happy 80th Birthday Dad x

Nice big hug with brew.

Breakfast.

Dressed.

I gave hubby a wet sloppy 😘 before he went off to work.

I meanwhile had washing to hang on the line

(Making the most of the sunshine)

Washing machine went back on.

Loaded up the dishwasher....

Coffee time!

Got the kids up to get some fresh air by getting the newspaper for me!

More washing went on the line!

I got the iron out and ironed all my t-shirts!

I had a early lunch...

Then it was time for a bingewatch of Hotel Inspector....

Tea at 3

I put the tea in the oven.

When hubby came home, time for hug and sloppy wet 😘

Tea is served.

Quick read of the newspaper..

(Who shares the same Birthday as my dad)

David Warner  is an English actor, who has worked in film, television, audio and theatre. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in 1966 through his lead performance in the Karel Reisz film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment, for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Warner has portrayed both romantic leads and villainous characters across a range of media, including The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Straw Dogs, Cross of Iron, The Omen, Holocaust, The Thirty Nine Steps, Time After Time, Time Bandits, Tron, A Christmas Carol, Portrait in Evil, Titanic, Mary Poppins Returns and various characters in the Star Trek franchise, in the films Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. 

He is 80 years old 🎈 

 Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen), better known as Mama Cass, was an American singer and actress who is best known for having been a member of the Mamas and the Papas. After the group broke up, she released five solo albums. In 1998, she was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her work with the Mamas and the Papas.

She died on this day in 1974 aged 32. 

Sleep tea time...

The Friday Feeling is back tomorrow \o/ 🎈

 

 

Putting It Together!

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form - Karl Marx

Welcome to my Hump of the Week 🐫

Big hug with brew.

Breakfast.

Dressed.

Quick ride out in Sexy Beast.

Bloody freezing!

Said hello to everyone in the shop while I got my newspaper.

Then on to town to return my Amazon product.

It got scanned, and sent back to sender.

Back home soon afterwards.

Still freezing!

Coffee time!

Kids were woken up.

One son has to clear out his room ready for his new cabin bed tomorrow.

Hubby goes and get some new tyres for his car.

I meanwhile are making a draught proof curtain for the little window by our front door!

My sewing machine comes out....

Having a little go on it...

Hubby comes back with a much needed takeaway coffee...

By the time I sowed the 3 sides of material and put the blind in, there wasn't another material to cover the 4th side....

GREAT!

I sew some different material on the remaining side. Then added the same material to the one side of the curtain!

Lunchtime.

My wool order had arrived!

My son went off for a job interview with hubby.

The other son was trying to attach the curtain to wood above the window.

It at least will stop the draughts from the window!

Now to start writing yesterday's blog post.

Son came back from job interview, the boss will be in touch soon....

I heard back from my late dad's solicitor.

The buyer still has to sign and send the documents back to his solicitor....

GREAT 

I send email to the solicitor dealing with my dad's estate. It is looking more like June before this lot gets sorted.....

Then I won't have to deal with my brothers no more.....

\o/ 

Put the tea on early as kids on delivering leaflets with Joe and Pete later on.

Once kids have been dropped off.

We have our veggie option.

We caught up on Judge Rinder.

No Judge Rinder for the rest of the week due to horseracing.

Next to watch was:

I made some more pom poms

Quick look into today's newspaper.

James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner) was an American actor and producer. He starred in several television series over more than five decades, including popular roles such as Bret Maverick in the 1950s Western series Maverick and as Jim Rockford in the 1970s private detective show, The Rockford Files. He played leading roles in more than 50 theatrical films, including The Great Escape (1963) with Steve McQueen, Paddy Chayefsky's The Americanization of Emily (1964) with Julie Andrews, Grand Prix (1966), Marlowe (1969), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971), The Castaway Cowboy (1974), and with Toshiro Mifune, Blake Edwards's Victor/Victoria (1982) with Julie Andrews, and Murphy's Romance (1985) with Sally Field, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Garner's career and popularity continued through another decade in movies like Space Cowboys (2000) with Clint Eastwood, and The Notebook (2004) with Gena Rowlands. and his TV sitcom role as Jim Egan in 8 Simple Rules (2003-2005). 

He would have been 93 years old 🎈

He sadly died in 2014 aged 84.

Ian Richardson, CBE was a Scottish actor of film, stage and television.

He portrayed the Machiavellian Tory politician Francis Urquhart in the BBC's House of Cards (1990–1995) television trilogy. Richardson was also a leading Shakespearean stage actor.

Richardson's other notable work included a portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in two films (The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles), significant roles in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Brazil, and M. Butterfly, and as the lead in the Broadway production of Marat/Sade.

He would have been 87 years old 🎈

He sadly died aged 72 in 2007.

Gordon Kaye , known professionally as Gorden Kaye, was an English actor and singer, best known for playing womanizing café owner René Artois in the television comedy series 'Allo 'Allo!. 

He would have been 80 years old 🎈 

He sadly died aged 75 in 2017.

John  Oates  is an American rock, R&B, and soul guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer best known as half of the rock and soul duo, Hall & Oates (with Daryl Hall). 

He is 73 years old 🎈 

Sleep Tea time.

My son's Midsleeper bed is arriving early tomorrow. The alarm has been set at 6am...

Going to be fun putting that together! 

Let's hope it's going to be a bit warmer tomorrow and I can stop wearing my thermals!

 

 

 


 


 

 

Counting To Ten!

I'm not a snob.Ask anyone. Well,anybody who matters. 

- Simon LeBon

Welcome to my Sunday 👾

Warm hug with brew.

Breakfast.

Had a lie-in listening to the radio in bed.

After a while, it's time to get up!

I need a few items for tonight's meal.

I'm giving Asda a miss and trying Morrisons.

Taking Sexy Beast out for a ride.

We only needed 8 items.

It was so packed with people, that each till that was open, that was a queue of 10+ people down in each aisle. We were in the queue for the self service. People were thinking it was a  good idea to jump in front of us who were queueing! 

By the time we got to the front of the queue, I had enough of the queue jumpers....

"The queue for this till is at the back of that long queue:"I said.

Pointing to the long queue behind me.

Three people took the hint.

As we unloaded our shopping onto the belt, a couple with their grown up daughters jumped ahead of the queue and unloaded their shopping on the next self service till. The man with the earphones tried to get into the act, until I told him where the actually queue was!

I was so glad to get out of there.

This was worst than shopping at Christmas!

Surely there are limits on how many customers you can have in a store!

I got a takeaway coffee and the woman serving me, told me:

"People were queueing up since 9.30am to get in here!"

Get's back to Sexy Beast, to enjoy the lovely coffee!

Finally back home!

Light lunch without soup today!

Now to start on the dessert for tonight.

I tried not to repeat what I did last week with the lemons....

Once done, let it set in the fridge.

Just in time for Tea at 3. 

I wrote yesterday's blog post 

&

Added some great tunes for my Jukebox on Twitter too.

Tea was served up.

I went to serve up the dessert,

When trying to take off the cling film...

It was crash!

Good job I had spares!

Lemon Posset!

Quick read of today's newspaper.

I missed off a big Birthday for someone yesterday.

(Smack my hand!)

6th February was Dave Berry 80th Birthday🎈

Dave Berry (born David  Grundy in Woodhouse, Sheffield) is an English pop singer and former teen idol of the 1960s. 

On this day in 1983, 

Matt Monro (born Terence Edward Parsons ) was an English singer who became one of the most popular entertainers on the international music scene during the 1950s and 1970s. Known as The Man with the Golden Voice, he filled cabarets, nightclubs, music halls, and stadiums across the world in his 30-year career.

Died aged 54.

 

Albert Finney  was an English actor who worked in film, television and theatre. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s, debuting with The Entertainer (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in the theatre. He maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television. 

He died on this day in 2019 aged 82 

We watched more Kitchen Nightmares from the USA.

With some sleep tea.

Everyone besides me is back on the Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡 tomorrow.

However, it being Monday tomorrow..

Let the coffee flow!