Made My Monday!

 I was the only director who ever made two pictures with Marilyn Monroe. Forget the Oscar, I deserve the Purple Heart - Billy Wilder

Welcome aboard my Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡

Last Monday of January \o/

Heardle Time.

Heardle 60s:

My answers:

Breakfast and Brew.

Thermal vest goes on as well as lots of layers.

Still got a bit of a stomach upset, which I don't need!

Now to to leave the house.

I gives hubby a sloppy wet one 💋 before I leave.

I have to go the long way round to work to avoid 2 sets of traffic lights.

On goes the winter coat, 2 hats, and winter gloves.

I gets the newspaper.

Now to fetch my big stick...

I go and put on my lights.

Let's go to work...🍭

I just crossed someone over,I saw the small VW 19 plate car that wouldn't stop on Friday when I was in the middle of the road and nearly took my arm off!

I had a few BOINGs to dish out as well.

Nice to catch up with what's been happening in everyone's world!

I finished in one piece.

Back home I go.

The coffee machine goes on.

Loads and puts on the dish washer (twice)

Now to finish putting satin varnish on the toads we painted yesterday.

Left them to dry.

Now for some liquid lunch.

I was getting to ready to go and do the afternoon shift.

I had a interesting visit from the Council worker to look at doing the Pointing (to stop the wall wobbling when I close my back door).

He looked at it and we got chatting.

Half an hour chatting in the back garden,

Then I showed in the front of the house, and another hour of chatting....

I told him about the meeting I had, and piss taking I had from the three in the meeting about how much stuff I had, and hinting I am a Hoarder!

He laughed.

"No way  you are a Hoarder!"He said.

"You have made my day!" I replied.

He then went on to say,"If they say Hoarding again, just mention have they done the Dignity course?

That will should shut them up!"

Now to try to remember the Dignity course...

He then went on about a case of a Hoarder he had to deal with:

"3 level house, top floor hadn't been opened since 1971. All the rooms full on the second floor, the only room that was lived in was the Living room.

9 vans and 7 flat bed trucks it took to take empty the house!"

Then we go on to vinyl and Heardles.

He mentioned Alexa has a game of Spot the Intro. I will have a go on that later.

I said "Goodbye and hope to see you again!"

I looked at my watch and realised I might be late for the afternoon shift!

I had to go the long way around to avoid the traffic lights.

Just got one parking space that was left when I got there! Phew!

On goes my winter hat, winter coat and gloves.

As I turn on my lights.

I got chatting with a lovely friend who makes me laugh and vice versa.He is having a second bout of chemo for skin cancer.

I wished him well, and went and get my big stick.

One of my friends appeared.

He had walked down to the Charity Shop and looked through the window.

Someone went past and shouted to him:

"We know who you are looking for!"

I told him, "Too much yakking has made me late!"

My other friend couldn't come as her daughter had Chicken Pox.

Collected my stick and we went to wait in the square to have a little rabbit.

It was time to say goodbye.

Now to do the afternoon shift.

The low lying sun was a bit of a pain.

A few BOINGs given out for not stopping.

The low lying sun was being covered by clouds which helped!

Finished in one piece.

Home Time.

The No.1 on the Feel Good Chart that Greatest Hits Radio was counting down, turned out to be:

Get home.

The frogs had dried and to put them outside.

Now for a cup of brew!

I didn't have a Stir Fry today.

I am playing safe with a salad instead!

Only could eat half of it :(

Kids finished off their pizzas.

Then they went off to the Town Hall to observe the full council meeting.

I looked into today's newspaper.

UK No.1 on this day in 1964:

The Searchers - Needles and Pins

UK No.1 on this day in 1982:

Shakin' Stevens - Oh Julie

UK No.1 on this day in 1999:

The Offspring - Pretty Fry ( For A White Guy)

US No.1 on this day in 1982:

Daryl Hall and John Oates - I Can't Go For That

US No.1 on this in 1988:

INXS - Need You Tonight

On Social meeting someone was talking about Street View looking back in history.

I looked up my late parent's house.

Back in 2009↓

2012↓

(My mum passed away in 2013)

2015↓

(My dad passed away in 2020.

The house was sold)

2021↓

I had a nice hot shower.

Sleep Tea Time.

I had a quick go on Spot the Intro with Alexa.

I didn't know the first two songs.

I got the third one right, however Alexa shut the game down when I told her correct song!

Oh well, try again tomorrow!

Let's hope for a even better day tomorrow!

 

 

 

A Nice Trim!

Life is a cement trampoline - Harold Nordberg

Welcome to my Hump of the Week 🐫

Nice big hug to start Hump Day with.

Brew with Breakfast.

Then a nice hot shower.

Got dressed.

(Thermal vest on)

Gave hubby a nice sloppy one before he left.

Kids got up.

Now to get out of the house!

I gets the newspaper and my neighbour's magazine.

Drops son near his work.

Now off to visit a good Charity Shop.

Nipped into the nearby Co-op to get some milk.

Now to look at some bargains....

My son didn't realise Ermintrude was a female cow!
Back home with our shopping and bargains.

The coffee machine goes on.

&

Soup maker!

Unpack my bargains!

Nice bit of Frank too!

Got things ready as my friend is coming over for cake, coffee and chat.

My Crystal books arrived.

We had a good yak, coffee and cake.

I said goodbye to my friend.

Now for nice new batch of soup.

Now to get ready to get my hair cut!

I gets down there a bit early.

All ready for the big chair!

I had a good yak, and felt a lot lighter around the head afterwards!

They sung Happy Birthday to me.

I thanked them, and left.

Back home.

Time to put the tea on.

Hubby came back for a sloppy wet one.

Tea is served.

Linguine with pan fried mushrooms, spinach, and garlic, with added garlic bread.

Watched 15 minutes of a good film.

Then onto the music channels for a singalong.

Now to look in today's newspaper:

UK No.1 on this day in 1958:

Michael Holliday - The Story Of My Life

UK No.1 on this day in 1961:

Petula Clark - Sailor 

UK No.1 on this day in 1962:

Frank Ifield - Wayward Wind

UK No.1 on this day in 1974:

Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive.

USA No.1 on this day in 1980:

Queen - Crazy Thing Called Love.

USA No.1 on this day in 1991:

Whitney Houston - All The Man I Need.

 On this day in 1990,

Driving Miss Daisy was released in cinemas in the UK.

Now to finish off Godfather Part 2

Enjoyed some Sleep Tea.

Then off to bed with some very warm hands!

 

 

 
 

 

 

Talk, Talk, & More Talk!

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do - Martha Grimes.

 Welcome to my Thursday 🍄

I had a bit of lie-in this morning.

I gave hubby a quick hug and sloppy wet 💋 before he left to go to work.

I ate my breakfast and enjoyed my first brew of the day.

Today is the 7th anniversary of writing this blog!

Thank you for reading it!

An engineer is coming today to look at why our internet speed is not fast enough.

Now to move to Sewing table out of the way, so he can look at the phone line starts.....

More Gnomes for the garden arrives.

In to the garden they go↓

Now to go and fetch the newspaper.

Has a chat with the woman in the shop.

Then back home I go.

I was looking around for some reasonably priced tickets for Barry Manilow's concert next June in Birmingham....

I found some right near the stage....

Woo Hoo!

I was in the middle of writing yesterday's blog post, when the Engineer arrived.

(Good job I did move the sewing table out of the way in the end)

We got chatting while he was checking the line.

(I bet he was thinking I don't get out much....)

I was telling about the series about 9/11 we are watching.

He escaped up the road to check the box.

When he came back,

I asked "If he ear hurts?"

He laughed, more chin wagging, he kept looking at his watch. He finally tore himself away at 2pm, to get to the next job.

We moved the router about 5 times to see if the speed could get higher. 

Where it was in the first place was the highest speed. 

Late lunch.

Then I chopped up some onions, mushrooms, and garlic.

Fried them up, with the sausages and added vegetables to the red casserole dish.

In the oven it went on...

Belated 

Tea at 3.

Finished writing the blog post.

Oven got turned on.

Watered all the plants outside.

Hubby came home and received a sloppy wet 💋

Casserole was dished up.

Afterwards I had a quick look in the newspaper.

Now to carry on watching about 9/11.

Sleep Tea.

5th episode.

The final episode is on tomorrow.

It's getting quite cold at night...

Topper goes over the duvet now!

Friday Feeling is back tomorrow 🎈