Attempting To Be A Domestic Goddess: Willo the Wisp Intro

Saturday 11 September 2021

It's Coming Soon.....

I like flipping through our family photo albums. It's fun to see what I looked like as a baby, and what my apartment furniture looked like new - Jeff Shaw

Welcome to my Saturday 💃

Nice brew with warm hug.

We listened to the last hour of "The Sounds of the 60s"

Breakfast.

Dressed.

Hubby dropped off son at work.

Then hubby,me and other son went food shopping!

We had a £5 off voucher if you spend £25 in Lidl.

That helped with our shopping bill!

I nipped into Home Bargains, I didn't buy anything in there.

Food Warehouse was different, lots of nice reduced food!

Then off to visit Aldi's

I got some bargains in there.

Pillow Spray knocked down to 29p.

Eye cream was under £5

(The normal eye cream I get normally costs £8 a tube!)

Now back home to unpack the shopping!

Once put away.

Lunch with a much needed coffee!

Now for a ride out in Sexy Beast.

I had some offers at the Co-op to redeem.

Gets today's newspaper.

(Another Lidl voucher in there, All ready to be used on Wednesday :))

Christmas is coming......🎄🎅🤶

Back home to unpack the shopping.

Tea is put on.

Now to write yesterday's blog post!

Halfway through writing it,

Tea is ready...

Chicken with rice, with Black Garlic Dressing.

Finally got the blog wrote and published.

Now to look in to today's newspaper.

Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru, known professionally as Herbert Lom was a Czech–born British actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939. In a career lasting more than 60 years, he generally appeared in character roles, often portraying criminals or suave villains in his younger years, and professional men as he aged. Highly versatile, he proved a skilled comic actor in The Pink Panther franchise.

Lom was noted for his precise, elegant enunciation of English. He is best known for his roles in The Ladykillers, The Pink Panther film series, War and Peace and the television series The Human Jungle.

He would have been 104 years old 🎈

He died aged 95 in 2012

Two passenger planes hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,606 people in 2001.

Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the deaths of 125 people in 2001

Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people on board in 2001.

Well Done Emma!

Sleep tea time.

Now off to enjoy Saturday in a warm King size bed 🛏

Wednesday 30 December 2020

When The Hump Goes Past Cold!

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way - Juan Ramon Jiminez

Welcome to my Hump of the Week 🐫

Brew with a hot hug.

Breakfast.

Dressed.

While hubby walked to get the newspaper.

I took down the curtains from bathroom window.

As there is a cold blast coming from the window.....

So the curtains are having another layer of material added to them!

Out comes the sewing machine again.

I added another layer to the back of one curtain.

Coffee break

I filled the Application Form to be a Councillor for my Ward on Redditch Council. I sent it off.

I will see our friend Cllr Baker about what happens next tomorrow.....

Quick look in the newspaper...

Skeeter Davis (born Mary Penick ) was an American country music singer who sang crossover pop music songs including 1962's "The End of the World". She started out as part of the Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Victor. In the late 1950s, she became a solo star.

She would have been 89 years old 🎈

She died aged 72 in 2004.

Charles Westover , better known by his stage name Del Shannon, was an American rock and roll country musician, singer and songwriter, best known for his 1961 number 1 Billboard hit "Runaway".

He would have 86 years old 🎈

He died aged 55 in 1990.