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Saturday 17 August 2019

You Got What It Takes....

It may be that your sole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others. - Anon

Welcome to the weekend 🎈

I let hubby have his lie-in..

I had things to do...

Tea and Toast↓

I wrote and published yesterday's blog post.

I listened to the final hour of "Sounds of the 60s".

Hubby wakes.

Nice cup of coffee I take upstairs to get dressed and wake up the kids..

It didn't go down too well they had to get up before 9am!

Once up and changed.

Time to get some fresh air↓

We parked on the college car park like yesterday.

Now off to the School Uniform Bank

I met up with so many friends to have a yak with.....

I had a good yak session for a good hour and half.

Son was trying on new shoes,

Which I will be buying next week..

Even when we were walking back to the car, I bumped into another friend for a catch up!

Dark clouds are coming..

Now to do a few days shopping↓

Birthday card for my friend's son↓

While hubby and son went to fetch some gerbil bedding for our gerbils,

I stopped in car,

As I knew too well,

I would be bringing another pet home with me↓

Back home↓

Late lunch↓

We caught up on the week's episodes of:

Then hubby done the mowing of the lawn↓

He cut back the bush....↑

After he returned from the tip run.

We enjoyed a sucky in the garden↓

I sorted out the paint brushes and pots of paint for tomorrow painting session..

It was time for our evening meal↓

Steak, potato wedges, and mushrooms.

We caught up on some programmes we missed during the week↓

Interior Design Masters

Ten aspiring interior designers on the cusp of turning professional are taking part in the biggest design challenge of their lives. Arriving at a design studio in east London, they nervously meet each other for the first time, before being welcomed by series presenter Fearne Cotton.

Dragons’ Den

back for its seventeenth series, and a there is a new fire breather in town. Crafting queen Sara Davies, the youngest ever Dragon, joins titans of industry Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Touker Suleyman and Tej Lalvani in a den that is hotter than ever.

In this fierce first episode, a spiced rum entrepreneur gets the party started by giving the den a rock 'n' roll makeover. A husband and wife team bring along a four-legged friend to help them achieve their ambition for their pet food business. And a toilet gadget inventor hopes to get investment by talking dirty to the Dragons.

I even got tickets to Grand Designs Live at the Nec in Birmingham for October at a bargain price \o/.

Nice to have a early night in bed 🛏

Sunday 12 May 2019

Leaving A Sunday Trail...

“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

Welcome to a sunny Sunday!

No lie-in for me...

So much to cram in...

At least the sun is shining😎

I go to work with some good tunes to listen and sing along to ....

It was nice to see the sunshine again when I finished↓↓↓

I leave hubby and one of my sons to errect my new greenhouses...

I take the other son shopping...

Big big sunglasses time 🕶

When I finished my shopping, I got a takeaway Mocha using my new cup!

I put it in the trolley, and told me son to make sure it doesn't fall over in the trolley, while he pushed the trolley.......

I went to pay for sandwiches for him and his brother, when I noticed a large coffee trail from when he had been standing to further up the shop to where he was standing........

It was a massive eye roll moment!

One of the staff cleaned up the coffee trail.

I was not happy, I was left with half a cup of Mocha!

I gets home to crack the whip....

No sandwiches for us↓

It was nice to sit and enjoy the garden!

I went round to see my dad.

While there, he had his telephone on loud speaker....

Very interesting conversation with his lady-friend.....

"I could stop over and sleep on the sofa,"My dad said.

"I'm not have your frame ruining my carpet!"She replied to that.

"I have changed my telephone line supplier, the one my late wife signed up for,and it's getting expensive...." My dad said.

She replied, "Well your late wife did make some bad choices.......!!!!!"

I had heard enough, I said goodbye to my dad and left!

I got home to put the evening meal in the oven....

Then to catch up with the Birthdays, while everyone had showers....

Burt Bacharach: is an American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer who has composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists.As of 2014, he had written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. He is considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music.

He is 91 years old.

Ian Dury :Was an English singer-songwriter and actor who rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer of Ian Dury and the Blockheads and before that of Kilburn and the High Roads.

He would have been 77 years old.

(He died aged 57 in 2000)

Steve Winwood: Is an English singer and musician whose genres include progressive rock, blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, pop rock, and jazz. Though primarily a vocalist and keyboardist, Winwood also plays a wide variety of other instruments; on several of his solo albums he recorded all instrumentation including drums, guitars, and keyboards.

Winwood was a key member of The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and Go. He also had a successful solo career with hits including "While You See a Chance", "Valerie", "Back in the High Life Again" and two US Billboard Hot 100 number ones, "Higher Love" and "Roll with It". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic in 2004.

He is 71 years old.

Bruce Boxleitner : is an American actor, and science fiction and suspense writer. He is known for his leading roles in the television series How the West Was Won, Bring 'Em Back Alive, Scarecrow and Mrs. King (with Kate Jackson), and Babylon 5 (as John Sheridan in seasons 2–5, 1994–98).

He is also known for his dual role as the characters Alan Bradley and Tron in the 1982 Walt Disney Pictures film Tron, a role which he reprised in the 2003 video game Tron 2.0, the 2006 Square-Enix/Disney crossover game Kingdom Hearts II, the 2010 film sequel, Tron: Legacy and the animated series Tron: Uprising. He co-starred in most of the Gambler films with Kenny Rogers, where his character provides comic relief.

He is 69 years old.

Perry Como : was an American singer, actor and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for RCA Victor for 44 years, after signing with the label in 1943. "Mr. C.", as he was nicknamed, sold millions of records and pioneered a weekly musical variety television show. His weekly television shows and seasonal specials were broadcast throughout the world. In the official RCA Records Billboard magazine memorial, his life was summed up in these few words: "50 years of music and a life well lived. An example to all

He died aged 88 in 2001.

"Pulp Fiction", directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson premieres at the Cannes Film Festival (Palme d'Or 1994) in 1994.