Domestic Goddess

Domestic Goddess

Thursday 4 April 2019

The Fun Getting A Wet T-Shirt...

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. - Bob Marley
Welcome to a wet Thursday...
No big sunglasses today!
Tea in bed time..
I gave everyone a big sloppy kiss 💋 when they all left
I looked out of the front door...
Good job I don't have to leave the house just yet!
Let's enjoy some coffee...
 Dishwasher gets loaded up..
Now for some nice liquid lunch...↓
 Its pouring down with rain...
Mad dash to Sexy Beast↓
 
 It's freezing...
Good,I left the leggings on...
Nice singing session on the way to work..↓
 Birthdays
Jimmy Logan:Was a Scottish performer, theatrical producer, impresario and director.His film roles included The Wild Affair (1964), Carry On Abroad (1972), Carry On Girls (1973), Captain Jack (1999), and The Debt Collector (1999) with Billy Connolly. His London stage debut came in The Mating Game (1973).
He would have been 91 years old.
(He died aged 73 in 2001) 
 Anthony Perkins : Was an American actor and singer. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his second film, Friendly Persuasion, but is best known for playing Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and its three sequels. His other films include Fear Strikes Out (1957), The Matchmaker (1958), On the Beach (1959), Tall Story (1960), The Trial (1962), Phaedra (1962), Five Miles to Midnight (1962), Pretty Poison (1968), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Mahogany (1975), North Sea Hijack (1979), The Black Hole (1979), and Crimes of Passion (1984).
 He would have been 87 years old.
(He died aged 60 in 1992)
Dave Hill.Is an English musician, who is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist in the English band Slade. Hill is known for his flamboyant stage clothes and hairstyle.
He is 73 years old. 
Hugo Weaving : Is an Australian-English film and stage actor. He is best known for playing Agent Smith in The Matrix trilogy (1999–2003), Elrond in The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) film trilogies, V in V for Vendetta (2006), Red Skull in Captain America: The First Avenger and Tom Doss in Hacksaw Ridge In film, he first rose to prominence for his performance as Martin in the Australian drama Proof (1991). Weaving played Anthony "Tick" Belrose/Mitzi Del Bra in the comedy-drama The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994); and multiple roles in the science fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012). His roles as a voice actor include the roles as Rex The Male Sheepdog in Babe, Noah the Leading Elder Emperor Penguin in Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two and as Megatron in the first three films of Transformers film series. 
He is 59 years old.
Kenny Everett: Was a British comedian and radio disc jockey known for his irreverent, offbeat comedic style and easy-going personality. After a spells on pirate radio and Radio Luxembourg in the mid 1960s, he was one of the first group of DJs to join BBC radio's newly-created Radio 1 in 1967. It was here he developed his trademark voices and surreal characters which he later adapted for TV.He died aged 50 in 1995.
The Good Life is a British sitcom, produced by BBC television. It ran from 4 April 1975 to 10 June 1978 on BBC One and was written by Bob Larbey and John Esmonde. Opening with the midlife crisis of Tom Good, a 40-year-old London plastics designer, it relates the joys and miseries he and his wife Barbara experience when they attempt to escape modern commercial living by "becoming totally self-sufficient" in their home in Surbiton.
   It's pouring down...yet again..
Wet play time!


I dropped Sexy Beast off to have his MOT test↓↓
I had to walk home in the wind and rain..↓
There is a space on my drive now..↓
When will the rain stop???

Nice nibble with coffee..↑
I went up to do my other job..
I was asked,"How are you?"
"I'm fine, u?"
The answer I got was,"Not good."
I replied it with:"Why, what's a matter?"
"You should have said, matter stops in the garden!"
No happy reply to that!  
My car had PASSED! 
I came back with him...
Raining once more again..
Wet t-shirt time!
 I am planning to update the front garden...
It's supposed to be nice tomorrow..
Not quite warm to wear the 👙 just yet...
Nice to enjoy the Friday Feeling tomorrow🍾



 

Wednesday 3 April 2019

Third Time Lucky!

Never rub another's man rhubarb - The Joker.
Welcome to Hump of the week 🐫
The sun still hasn't returned yet.. 
Gave everyone a big sloppy 💋 before they left.
I go outside to get some fresh air...
The sun is coming up at last..
 Last night's frost on the lawn↓
Slipped on the gardening gloves...
The rhubarb that came yesterday,
got planted↓
 Coffee time↓
 Some nice soup↓
The blossom looking good↓
 The sun is back \o/
  
 Still freezing...↑
Listened to and sung along with some great tunes....
Birthday Time
Doris Day:Is an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist.She was usually one of the top ten singers between 1951 and 1966. As an actress, she became the biggest female film star in the early 1960s, and ranked sixth among the box office performers by 2012. In 2011, she released her 29th studio album, My Heart, which became a UK Top 10 album featuring new material.
She is 97 years old. 
Marlon Brando : Was an American actor and film director. With a career spanning 60 years, he is well-regarded for his cultural influence on 20th-century film. Brando's Academy Award-winning performances include that of Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954) and Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972).He would have been 95 years old.
(He died aged 80 in 2004)
 William  Gaunt : Is an English actor.After minor roles in 1960s series such as Z-Cars and The Avengers, and the Edgar Wallace Mysteries movies The Sinister Man (1961) and Solo for Sparrow (1962), he gained a role as the super-powered secret agent Richard Barrett in the 1968 British espionage/science fiction series The Champions.Between 1983 and 1987 he starred as harassed father Arthur Crabtree in the sitcom No Place Like Home.He is 82 years old.
Jonathan Lynn: Is an English stage and film director, producer, writer and actor. He directed comedy films such as Nuns on the Run, My Cousin Vinny, and The Fighting Temptations and earlier co-created and co-wrote the TV series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. He is 76 years old.
Barry Pritchard: He was one of the founding members of The Fortunes.(Here it Comes Again, You've Got Your Troubles).
He would have been 75 years old.
(He died aged 55 in 1999) 
Mary Ure:Was a Scottish stage and film actress. She was the second Scottish-born actress (after Deborah Kerr) to be nominated for an Academy Award, for her role in the 1960 film Sons and Lovers.She died aged 42 in 1975.
 The 1976 Eurovision Song Contest was staged in the Netherlands and Brotherhood of Man performed the song, dressed in red, white and black with simple choreography devised by Guy Lutman. "Save Your Kisses for Me" took the title with an overwhelming victory.
The sun is coming out!
 
 
 
 I forgot my rain mac,
As we had a storm of hailstones!
It still wasn't very warm↓
 
 I was hoping the weather was going to stop dry....
I had two more rhubarb plants arrived.
Gardening Gloves On Again!
Time to pot them with the other two.↓
 Coffee and nibble time↓
 I had some time on my hands,
So I repaired our front gate.
The new gate is arriving Saturday.
 Front of the house is looking nice↓
 Goes up to do other job.
No cake until Lent!↓
 I came back to coffee and a quiche made by my youngest son at school↓
 We nip to Morrisons...
Couldn't resist....↓
Third time lucky for the Gardening Gloves.. 
It was soon put in the ground.
Now to do a tasty chicken stir fry↓
I have my fingers and toes crossed for tomorrow as Sexy Beast is having his MOT done... 
I WILL BE needing my rain mac tomorrow... 
(I won't be need to water my plants either!)