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Showing posts with label farm shop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farm shop. Show all posts

Wednesday 17 June 2020

Restarting The Hump Day!

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left - 
George Burns
Welcome to my Hump of the Week🐪
Someone was shuffling across the landing at 4am and it woke me up!
Then the loud snoring from Sleeping Beauty was keeping me awake....
Downstairs I went to escape↓↓↓↓
 Quick brew before I fell asleep↓
  Sleeping Beauty woke me up at 6.10am for breakfast.
 Hug and brew time↑↑↑
I was so tired to get the newspaper.
I went back to sleep in the warm bed.
Hubby had to get up for work....and get the newspaper....
I gets up later on.
Hot shower and a strong coffee to restart the day! 
Quick read of the newspaper↓
 Barry Manilow  is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, musician, producer and actor with a career that has spanned more than 50 years. His hit recordings include "Could It Be Magic", "Mandy", "I Write the Songs", "Can't Smile Without You" and "Copacabana (At the Copa)".He is 77 years old 🎈
 Out for a quick ride in the Sexy Beast↓
 It's getting warm↗↗↗
 Nips into my local Farm Shop.
The women in front of me...spents £90 between them.
I didn't spent too much↓
 In the barrel they get planted↓
 Light lunch time↓

 Blog time....
Tea at 3 time↓
 We get 3/6 on the Tv themes quiz.
Completed my Food Handling Course on-line.
Passes it.
Gets the evening meal done as well.
Nice bit of lamb↓ 
 We watch one episode of:
Off to work I go↓
 
 
 Big tune to start with↓
 Gets home.
I have a nice bowl of strawberries and cream.
Hubby goes to bed as he started snoring while I was watching the newspaper review.
Quick sleep tea...
Hoping I won't be wide awake tonight!
 

 

Saturday 13 June 2020

Being A Bit Of A Gooseberry...

We turn not older with years, but newer every day 
- Emily Dickinson
Welcome to my Saturday🎈
 Brew and hug time.
Followed by 
Breakfast 
&
Gets dressed.
Just checking on my supply of Ear Plugs↓
 A bit of yellow for today.
 Where has the sun gone?
 Temperature going up↗↗↗
 Off to get some reduced stuff
The scanner worked....
However when I loaded up the items in the back of the car, I looked at the receipt and saw they hadn't done a deal on the frozen garlic, 3 for £4.
I will be bringing this up next week.
Next was to visit the local Farm Shop.
 They had run out of Leak veggies to grow.
Off to somewhere else to get them from...
 Burcot Garden Centre↑
I got some \o/
 Back home...
 Repots the leeks↓
 &
The Gooseberry bush↓
 Watered all the plants and vegetables.
Time for early lunch↓
It was nice to enjoy some vitamin D in the garden.
We wrote our a shopping list for Lidl.
Later than 3pm,
Tea at 4.30 instead↓
Off to get the shopping↓
 A good book in Lidl↓
 Those rain clouds are coming in↓
 We gets back....
The rain looks like its coming in↓
 Just gets the shopping in↓
 The rain coming in↓
Time for tea.
&
Hill Street Blues
Caught on all of the newspapers.
 Richard  Thomas  is an American actor. He is best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama The Waltons, for which he won an Emmy Award, received a nomination for anotherand two Golden Globe Awards. He also starred in the miniseries adaption of Stephen King's It and played Special Agent Frank Gaad on FX's spy thriller series The Americans. He is 69 years old 🎈
 Kathy Burke, English actress and playwright (Absolutely Fabulous,Gimme Gimme Gimme) is 56 years old 🎈
David Gray is a British singer-songwriter. He released his first album in 1993 and received worldwide attention after the release of White Ladder six years later. It was the first of three UK chart-toppers in six years for Gray, of which the latter two also made the Top 17 in the United States. White Ladder became the fifth best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK.
He is 52 years old 🎈 
Jimmy  Dean  was an American country music singer, television host, actor, and businessman. He was the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand as well as the spokesman for its TV commercials.He died aged 81 in 2010.
Off to a warm bed with even warmer hands...
 
 
 


 

Sunday 10 May 2020

More Questions Than Answers!

The only difference between a pigeon and a farmer today is that a pigeon can still a deposit on a tractor - Mervyn Evans
Welcome to my Sunday.
I got up far too early for a Sunday↓
 I left Sleeping Beauty in the warm pit.
I tidied up the kitchen.
Once he rose,
We enjoyed a hug and tea in bed↓
 I had breakfast.
Got dressed.
I got the flowers ready to put on my parents' grave↓
 Loaded up the car.
Now for a little ride out↓
 Goes round to see my parents↓
 Goes off to the Farm Shop to get more flowers..↓
Nice pond behind the car park↓
 I get some nice flowers↓
Off to Waitrose to pick up some reduced items.
Made sure I kept apart from people in the queue↓
 
 
 I gets lots of reduced food.
Even a reduced Stir Fry for tomorrow.
Now for coffee and nibbles↓
  Off to do a final shop at Lidl↓
 I picked up a garden windmill for £7.99.
The people in front of us spent £135.
We didn't spend that much!
Back home to unload the shopping↓
 The windmill is on the step↓
 The flowers have been planted↓
 Funny front cover of Private Eye↓
 Then onto the newspaper↓
Graham  Gouldman is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He has been the only constant member of the band 10cc.He is 74 years old 🎈
    Light lunch↓
 I catch up with the blog.
(I write 5 blog posts,
Good job I have a good memory)
I made a Chicken,Leek,and Mushroom pie↓
 
 We watched Boris talk about changing the Stay At Home message to Stay Alert↓
 There are more questions than answers after that!!!!
I have circled 1st of June to go back to work..
We watched the final episode of season 4 of Hill Street Blues↓
 All ready to mount a tiny Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡 tomorrow.