Domestic Goddess

Domestic Goddess

Monday 28 January 2019

Pulled It Off Too Quick!

Today is one of those days that even my coffee needs a coffee - Anon
I'm back on the wobbly work wheel
(after suffering from flu for 2 weeks!)
 It was nice to enjoy tea in bedπŸ›
 That's better!
Gave everyone a nice πŸ’‹ when everyone left.
I meanwhile loaded the dish washer,
tidied kitchen and living room.
Henry had a little play with Hubby yesterday.
Now for some little liquid lunch↓
 Oh dear,
*Pulled it off too quick!*
It's broke off!!!!
Good job I had a tin opener to hand!
 Lovely!
I helped my neighbour with his shopping bags before I left to go back to work...
 Nice sunshine!😎
 I popped into see my dad's before I wemt to work...
He is looking better....
Watching Star Trek..
Now off to work...
Looked at the Birthdays ...↓
 Alan Alda, [Alphonso D'Abruzzo]: American actor (Hawkeye Pierce-M*A*S*H),is 83 years old.
 Acker Bilk: English clarinetist who was part of the traditional jazz revival of the 1950s and 1960s,would have been 90 years old.
(He died aged 85 in 2014) 
 Dave Sharp: Rock guitarist (The Alarm) is 60 years old.
Billy Fury [Ronald Wycherley]: English singer (Halfway to Paradise),dies at 42 in 1983.  
Jim Capaldi: English singer and songwriter (Traffic),dies age 60 in 2005
Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after lift off from Cape Canaveral, with all 7 crew members killed, including Christa McAuliffe who was to be the first teacher in space in 1986.
Wow how many albums from this list have your got in your collection?↓↓
Now into work...


Everyone was glad to see me back!:)
(Even the kids :))
Back home as I have a visitor to look at the oven... 
Lemsip and vitamin C.
My visitor came and said I need a new oven....
I went off to Job 2.
(They missed me too)
I come back for a early tea...
Now to watch some movies...
My younger son commented on my singing time in Morrisons yesterday.
"You don't dance but sing in the supermarket"
I replied,"If there was room, I would dance while I sing!" 
then we watched:
Kids went to bed after the film...
I might have to carry on watching a certain film where I left off  last night....
 I might have to get a snow plough ready for tomorrow.....
 
 
 
 

Sunday 27 January 2019

The Wind Is Going Well Wild!

The wind plays its own music - Bert McCoy
 The wind was banging my wind chimes really loud at 4.10am......
We had a nice lie-in...
 Tea time....
Playing I spy with a toilet tube....↓
 Wow look what the wind has done to my garden!!!↓
 Those dark clouds are coming over...
Now for a good workout with Henry..↓
Feel better after that!
Now for ping time!
 Back out in the wind..
 While in Morrison's
I noticed a good magazine...↓
 
 Then a great tune came on....
I just had to sing along...
(The looks I had.....)
We gets back to enjoy a nibble...
While drawing the curtains in the Dining Room.
I came across a great CD I listened to alot....
 I used to have the film poster as well.
(The film is on my highly recommended list)

I thought I can play the CD tomorrow on the way back to work....
Opened up the CD case, no CD in it...!!!!
Birthdays Time. 
 Alan Cumming: Scottish actor,(Goldeneye) is 54 years old.
 Gillian Gilbert: English musician and singer, best known as the keyboardist and guitarist of the band New Order is 58 years old.
Thomas Crapper: English plumber and inventor (ballcock), dies at 73 in 1910
AndrΓ© the Giant: was a French professional wrestler (WWE) and actor.(The Princess Bride) died aged 46 in 1993.

"Heartbreak Hotel", single released by Elvis Presley, his first million-selling single in 1956.
But first, we are watching a great film all ready for Monday....↓
I'm getting ready to mount that wobbly work wheel for tomorrow.....
 

 

 

Saturday 26 January 2019

Ping Time...

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday Night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you! - Ogden Nash
Woo hoo Saturday is here...
I managed to hear the last 20 minutes of "Sounds of the 60's". 
I heard a good song to start Saturday with...
 We were going to do our food shopping early before it's gets busy!.
 Fresh air time...
 Lidl time....
 Nice bargain price from £29.99 to £29.99↑
One woman picked up a reduced chicken,
I picked up the other one...
I could hear her gums banging together to her husband when I walked off with it! 
We nipped into Home Bargains.
We couldn't visit Waitrose, as the car park was full!
 Next we visited Pets At Home for hamster and gerbil supplies
 Lovely little hamster like our Ruby↑
Pops round to see my dad.
Back home to unload the shopping.
Puts the oven on and it keeps tripping the electric!
Good job we have a microwave!
Now to test out the microwave...↓↓
 We carried on watching series 18 of Hell's Kitchen...
 I caught up with the Birthdays.
 Andrew Ridgeley: English, rock guitarist (Wham) is 56 years old.
Paul Newman - American actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler), racing car driver and charity food company founder (Newman's Own),would have been 94 years old.
(He died aged 83 in 2008)
 Colin Vearncombe: English singer-songwriter (Black), dies after a road accident at 53 in 2016
"Bridge over Troubled Water": 5th and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year, Best Engineered Non-Classical Album 1971) in 1970.
 As the oven isn't working,
A light tea ahead...
Now in for some more Hell's Kitchen....
(Hopefully get the oven working next week!)
 
 

Friday 25 January 2019

I Will Get The Hang Of It Sooner Or Later...

Employers are their happest on Mondays,
Employees are their happiest on Fridays -Mokokoma Mokhonoana 
Welcome to the Friday Feeling!
I'm feeling 65% better than I have been... 
 Nice cup of tea in bed↑
While everyone left the house.
I looked out of the front door...
 Time for coffee and vitamin C boost↓
 I received my on-line order....
All half price....\o/
Loaded and put the dish washer on.
Tidied up the living room.
After all that fun...
Liquid  lunch. 
I caught up with Hell's Kitchen (season 15) from where I fell asleep last night...
  The wool comes out to play with...
 By the time I filled the pegs on my knitting loom, I looked at the You Tube video, and I did it all wrong!
BALLS!
 It had to be unpicked......!
That was a few hours wasted!
 I think its better if I stick to pom pom making, as that is the second craft project to go pants today....
The first project was using...
 It didn't work out either!
Grrrrrrrr 
I sulked on coffee and toast...↓
and watched some great films...
Caught up watching our favourite Judge...↓
 Now for Birthdays
 Dean Jones: American actor (Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, The Love Bug), would be 88 years old
(He died aged 84 in 2015) 
Tobe Hooper: American film director,(The Texas Chain Saw Massacre & Poltergeist) would have been 76 years old.
( He died aged 74 in 2017) 

Andy Cox: British guitarist (Fine Young Cannibals, The Beat),is 63 years old.
Demis Roussos: Greek singer and performer (Aphrodite's Child),dies aged 68 in 2015.
"M*A*S*H", directed by Robert Altman, starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, is released (Palme d'Or 1970) in 1970.
George Harrison: releases "When We Was Fab"in 1988.
 We finished off this Friday Feeling with..
 Hoping I will be feeling fine tomorrow....
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