Attempting To Be A Domestic Goddess: baking

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Saturday 31 October 2020

Time To Mount The Broomstick!

If you don't like the road you're walking.Start paving another one."- Dolly Parton

Welcome to my Saturday 🍿

On this day in 2017,

I had an accident,

Which involved an ambulance ride to my local hospital...

My Achilles tendon had come off the bone.

Plus the corner bone of my foot had gone 6 inches into my foot.

(I had a phone call from by then Lollipop Supervisor the very next day, am I coming back to work?)

I was in hospital for 2 weeks.

I had my tendon reattached and bone glued back on!

8 months off work, I had to learn to walk and drive again!

Had brew with hug.

Breakfast.

Dressed.

Washing machine went on, followed by the tumble drier being put on.

Now for coffee....

Hubby went out with one of our sons to drop off a box of Cds that belonged to my late dad to the Droitwich Lions.

I got out the sewing machine to finish off my face masks...

I got the final four facemasks finished...

Hubby comes back with son.

I had Kenny the Kenwood out for a quick play..

Banged the cake in the oven.

Light lunch time.

While watching

Season 2 of

"Hell's Kitchen"....

The internet goes off....

Great.....

We leave the final of series 2 until later.

Hubby and son has to go out and do the food shopping for us and our neighbour...

After a few hours of the cake being in the oven.

Time to decorate!

While in Lidl, the panic buying of toilet rolls is starting again....↓

At least they have a pack of 4 Shea Butter Toilet Rolls still on the shelf!

I get yesterday's blog post wrote.

Hubby comes back.

They even got a Wonky Box from Lidl.

We had lots of lovely things in our box.

I used the Kale, courgette and aubergine.

Used it in tonight's veggie meal.

Now to tune it to Boris...↓

It's going to be interesting to see if hubby can work from home, from Thursday....

Fingers crossed once my knee gets better, and I can return back to work in two weeks!

We finished watching the final of

Hell's Kitchen season 2.

Then we moved onto Season 3.

Caught up with today's newspapers.

John Candy was a Canadian actor and comedian known mainly for his work in Hollywood films. Candy rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of the Second City and its related Second City Television series, and through his appearances in such comedy films as Stripes, Splash, Cool Runnings, Summer Rental, Home Alone, The Great Outdoors, Spaceballs, and Uncle Buck, as well as more dramatic roles in Only the Lonely and JFK. One of his most renowned onscreen performances was as Del Griffith, the talkative shower-curtain ring salesman in the John Hughes comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

He would have been 70 years old 🎈

He died aged 43 in 1994.

Larry Mullen Jr. is an Irish musician and actor, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the rock band U2. Mullen's distinctive, almost military drumming style developed from his playing martial beats in childhood marching bands. Some of his most notable contributions to the U2 catalogue include "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Pride (In the Name of Love)", "Where the Streets Have No Name", "Zoo Station," "Mysterious Ways", and "City of Blinding Lights". He is 59 years old 🎈

Time to wear the hat and to mount the broom!

Time to shut the door on Hell's Kitchen!

Saturday 3 October 2020

Let Them Have Cake!

Love is the exploding cigar we will willingly smoke - Lynda Barry

Welcome to the Weekend 🎈

We had a nice lie-in.

Dropped of son at his boxing lesson.

We enjoyed a much needed Boost with coffee↓

We got the bedroom tidied up.

I had to sort out my baking hand↓

Once the cake went in the oven.

The washing machine went on.

Then it was time to play with Henry..

Tumble drier back on.

Light lunch time↓

Now to make more facemasks↓

Whiskey and Ginger Cake.

I got the shopping list from my neighbour.

It was still raining, and the wind got up!

Now to do the shopping for the week.

Once we did the shopping in Lidl.

We popped into Home Bargains for some Spring Onions for my neighbour.

The rain was lashing down and a dash of heavy winds!

Gets back home in the rain.

Dropped off my neighbour's shopping...

Put our shopping away.

Quick read of the newspaper

Eddie Cochran was an American rock and roll musician. Cochran's songs, such as "Twenty Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody", and "Somethin' Else", captured teenage frustration and desire in the mid-1950s and early 1960s.He would have been 82 years old 🎈

He died aged 21 years old in 1960.

Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans) is an American rock 'n roll singer and dancer. He is widely known for popularizing many dance styles including the twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B hit "The Twist" and the Pony with hit "Pony Time". In September 2008, "The Twist" topped Billboard's list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1958, an honor it maintained for an August 2013 update of the list. He also popularized the "Limbo Rock" and its trademark limbo dance, as well as various dance styles such as The Fly. He is 79 years old 🎈

Lindsey Buckingham is an American singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as lead guitarist and one of the vocalists of the music group Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987 and 1997 to 2018. In addition to his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has released six solo albums and three live albums. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2011, Buckingham was ranked 100th in Rolling Stone's 2011 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Buckingham is known for his fingerpicking guitar style.He is 71 years old 🎈

Now to enjoy a late evening meal...

Catch up with this week's newspapers..

Caught up with last night's telly programmes.

The Big Hits of 1990.

Compilation of the best performances from 1990 in the Top of the Pops studio, including Adamski featuring Seal, Sinead O'Connor, Primal Scream, En Vogue and Snap!.

I am looking forward to watching Top Of The Pops from 1990.

Here are some songs from that year I am looking forward to hearing again: