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Showing posts with label lavender plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lavender plants. Show all posts

Sunday 2 May 2021

Making Sure It Still Works!

Do I lift weights? Sure.Every time I stand up - Dolly Parton
Welcome to my Sunday 💖
Hugs and brew to start Sunday off!
Breakfast.
Dressed.
One son is doing his boxing lesson this morning.
The other son is helping out Joe to get elected back on the Council, on May 6th.
Sunshine time!
Big big sunglasses time!
Drops off son at his boxing lesson.
Check tyre pressures on Sexy Beast. 
Puts more petrol in for the week.
Then we swaps cars....
Sun is still shining \o/
Hubby drops off one son to help Joe.
Hubby checks his tyre pressures.
We then picks up a sweaty son from his boxing lesson.
Time to visit my parents to have a chat with.
It will be 8 years this Saturday when my mum passed away :'(
I am using the yellow planter to put more lavender in, as my younger brother removed the last lot of lavender to put the bench on the grave!
I said goodbye to my parents.
Dropped off sweaty son.
Then off to get some Lavender plants.
It was really busy.
Said hello to Joe's husband, Pete who was also there.
Back home with the lovely Lavender plants.
I had washed all the cleaning cloths I use at work yesterday.
All dried now.
Now to sort them out in colours!
Bagged them up ready for Tuesday.
Joe dropped back son and we had a chat about things.
Son is going back later to help fold leaflets.
Light lunch in the garden...
It started to spit with rain,
Back into house we go.
I am taking my basic sewing machine for sewing machine lessons next Saturday.
Blew the dust of it and made sure it still worked!
It all works...
Washing machine back on again.
So is the Tumble Drier.
(Not like last weekend when all the washing dried in the warm sunshine!)
Tea at 3 
Now to write yesterday's blog post.
We caught up on more television programmes from the last few weeks.
The last bit of Dragon's Den
Tea time
Followed by
Police Interceptors.
Traffic Cops
Bargain Loving Brits In The Sun
I set to record a good film on Talking Pictures later on in the evening.
Lesley  Goldstein , known professionally as Lesley Gore, was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16 (in 1963), she recorded the pop hit "It's My Party" (a US number one), and followed it up with other hits, including the hit "You Don't Own Me", and seven further Billboard top 40 hits.
She would have been 75 years old 🎈
She sadly died aged 68 in 2016.
Oliver Reed  was an English actor known for his upper-middle class, macho image and "hellraiser" lifestyle. Notable films include The Trap (1966), Oliver! (1968), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), portraying Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974), playing a Teddy Boy in Tommy (1975), The Brood (1979), Lion of the Desert (1981), Castaway (1986), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Funny Bones (1995) and Gladiator (2000). For playing Antonius Proximo, the old, gruff gladiator trainer in Ridley Scott's Gladiator in what was his final film, Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2000. At the peak of his career, in 1971, British exhibitors voted Reed 5th most popular star at the box office.
He sadly died on this day in 1999 aged 61
 
Sleep Tea time.
 
No Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡 tomorrow...
It's another Bank Holiday Monday \o/



Saturday 4 July 2020

Lean On The Lavender!

One can never be too thin or too rich - Wallis Simpson
Welcome to my Saturday....
Up early again at the weekend \o/
Brew and hug↓
 Breakfast.
Followed by getting dressed.
Today's mask is.....Woody from Toy Story..
I didn't like the look of those grey clouds.
Brought the rain mac as well↓
 Waited in the queue to get in↓
 
 Good cover on Private Eye↓
 Coffee time↓
  Back home to unload shopping↓
 Unpacks shopping.
It was nice to sit in the garden until it starts to rain again.
 Back out for another ride↓
 Goes to our local farm shop for bits↓
 The lavender gets planted↓
 Light lunch↓
 Then a quick look in the newspaper↓
 Bill Withers
was an American singer-songwriter and musician.He recorded several major hits, including "Ain't No Sunshine" (1971), "Grandma's Hands" (1971), "Use Me" (1972), "Lean on Me" (1972), "Lovely Day" (1977), and "Just the Two of Us" (1980). Withers won three Grammy Awards and was nominated for six more. His life was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Still Bill. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. Two of his songs were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Withers worked as a professional musician for just 15 years, from 1970 to 1985, after which he moved on to other occupations.He would have been 82 years old 🎈
 He died in March 2020 aged 81.
 In the meantime, hubby falls asleep for 3 hours on the settee.
I carry on writing my blog from yesterday and keeping busy...
When he wakes up \o/
We have a small evening meal.
Now to off for another ride↓ 
 I put on my facemask and in we go into Lidl↓
 I take round my neighbour's shopping when we gets back.
Unloads ours.
We catch up on 2 more episodes of:
I have my sleep tea↓
 As hubby had 3 hours sleep this afternoon.
He is not tired, but I am.
So off to that warm kingsize bed, while he watches the remake of "Bullseye"
I did remember to add the ear plugs......