Road Trip To Kidderminster...

“On Wednesdays we wear pink" - Mean Girls

We have reached Hump of the Week 🐫

Another nice day to wake up with a warm hubby.. 

 I wakes up early for a nice cup of tea..

Goes back into a snuggle....

We then gets up at 8am...

Once we get up, 

Time to leave the house!

 Nice ride to Kidderminster...

Popped into Morrisons↓

 

 Wow↑

 A good CD to get↑

Bumped into my hubby's Aunt and Cousin while we were in there.

Then went to see Hubby's dad, gave him his card and presents..

On the way out to the car...

Anyone a nice settee?????↓↓

 Those dark clouds came over...↓

 I just got back home in time to get to work...

 Chocolate cake anyone???

(I have gone off both!)

 It is still raining...

Once we had our evening meal...

We slipped into our pjs and watched another film...

 I had a quick look at the Birthdays.

Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty,): is an American film, television, and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author. An Academy Award winner, MacLaine received the 40th AFI Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 2012, and received the Kennedy Center Honors for her lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts in 2013. 

She is 85 years old.

Barbara  Streisand : Is an American singer, actress, and filmmaker. In a career spanning six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment and has been recognized with two Academy Awards, ten Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors prize, four Peabody Awards,the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and nine Golden Globes. 

She is 77 years old.

Pete Ham : Was a Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as a lead vocalist and composer of the 1970s rock band Badfinger, whose hit songs include "No Matter What", "Day After Day" and "Baby Blue". He also co-wrote the ballad "Without You", a worldwide number-one hit for Harry Nilsson that has become a standard covered by hundreds of artists. Ham was granted two Ivor Novello Awards related to the song in 1973.  

He died aged 27 in 1975.

 Car firm British Leyland launch the Austin Maxi in Oporto Portugal in 1969.

I went to bed really excited,

As we are watching "Avengers:End Game" tomorrow in 3D.

 

 

 

Waiting For The Bird To Sing...

A dad is someone you should look up to no matter how tall you grow - Unknown 

It was so nice to wake up with hubby....

He had the week off work and getting up early was no longer a choice... 

We had cuddles before we got out of the warm bed....

Plus tea....

We got up,

Opened all the windows,

Got kids up....

We did a quick walk to fetch the newspaper

 

That's better!

Then off to see my Dad.

He was having a visit from the Doctor as his chest infection wasn't clearing up....

 Nice cup of coffee↑

 What we used before Internet!

 My brother's Birthday card still unopened...↑

(His Birthday was on the 23rd February)

While tidying up my dad's living room I came across a Johnny Cash tour programme from 1972↓

 While my hubby stayed with dad,

I got ready to go to work↓

 Where has the sun gone?????

 When I got back,

I made a Beef,mushroom pie.

Hubby came back,

His part of the pie didn't touch the sides!

It was a quite a sad day for my hubby...

It was the 23rd anniversary of his mum passing away..:( 

We are going over to see his dad in Kidderminster tomorrow as his dad is celebrating his 74th Birthday...

Another film to watch....

 I had a quick look at the Birthdays...

Roy  Orbison : was an American singer, songwriter, and musician known for his impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. The combination led many critics to describe his music as operatic, nicknaming him "the Caruso of Rock" and "the Big O". While most male rock-and-roll performers in the 1950s and 1960s projected a defiant masculinity, many of Orbison's songs instead conveyed vulnerability. During performances, he was known for standing still and solitary and for wearing black clothes to match his dyed jet-black hair and dark sunglasses; all of this lent an air of mystery to his persona. 

He would have been 83 years old.

(He died aged 52 in 1988)

 Lee Majors : is an American film, television and voice actor. Majors is best known for portraying the characters of Heath Barkley in the American television Western series The Big Valley (1965–1969), Colonel Steve Austin in the American television science fiction action series The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–1978), and Colt Seavers in American television action series The Fall Guy (1981–1986). 

He is 80 years old.

John Miles (born John Errington): Is a British rock music vocalist, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player, best known for his 1976 Top 3 UK hit single, "Music". He won the "Outstanding Musical Achievement" award at the 2017 Progressive Music Awards.

He is 70 years old.

 Sir John Mills, CBE (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills: was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. On screen, he often played people who are not at all exceptional, but become heroes because of their common sense, generosity and good judgment. He received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Ryan's Daughter (1970).  

He died aged 97 in 2005. 

Fatboy Slim releases single "Weapon of Choice", music video directed by Spike Jonze starring Christopher Walken dancing in 2001 

Are we going to have a dry or wet hump tomorrow?🐪🐪 

 

Making Full Use Of Monday!

Give me a treat. or leave me alone.It's Monday - Paige

Ahhh a Bank Holiday Monday...

No time for a lie-in while the sun is shining..

 We were off to get some plants for the garden...

(Buy one, get one free)

 Double figures by 9am!

 Getting nice and warm :)

 Time to be B3↑

  A little bit out of my price range...↑↓

 Nice bit of coffee.....

(Mocha)

Sat outside in the sunshine...:)

 

 

 While I was waiting to pay for our plants..

(£4.78)

I overheard the till assistant behind me say..

"£220 please!"

I follow the couple out of the shop, holding a blue peacock ornaments and some smaller ones..

I was happy with my plants↓

Now for a walk around the gardens...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Finish our walk,

Back to Sexy Beast.

 Nice seat down in the garden in the sunshine.

 Followed by nibbles...

 No one was admitting breaking my lemon grater!

 The bench and seats have been painted↓

 Plants I bought this morning have been potted.

 Someone was flying overhead.

While everyone was adding the second coat of paint to the fences...

I made a Black Cherry,Rhubarb, Crumble↓

 The fence all done and painted.

Once we had finished eating tea...

Another good film to watch...

 Quick catch up with the Birthdays..

Jack Nicholson: Is an American actor and filmmaker who has performed for over sixty years.Nicholson's 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history. Nicholson has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice – one for the drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and the other for the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets (1997). He also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the comedy-drama Terms of Endearment (1983). Nicholson is one of three male actors to win three Academy Awards. Nicholson is one of only two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s; the other is Michael Caine.

He is 82 years old.

Paul Carrack:  Is an English singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist who has recorded as both a solo artist and as a member of several popular bands. The BBC dubbed Carrack "The Man with the Golden Voice", while Record Collector remarked: "If vocal talent equalled financial success, Paul Carrack would be a bigger name than legends such as Phil Collins or Elton John." 

He is 68 years old. 

Peter  Frampton : is an English-American rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and The Herd. After the end of his 'group' career, as a solo artist, Frampton released several albums including his international breakthrough album, the live release Frampton Comes Alive!. The album sold more than 8 million copies in the United States and spawned several hit singles.

He is 69 years old. 

Will Geer (born William Aughe Ghere:  was an American actor and social activist, who was active in labor organizing and other movements in New York and Southern California in the 1930s and 1940s. In California he befriended rising singer Woody Guthrie. They both lived in New York for a time in the 1940s. He was blacklisted in the 1950s by HUAC for refusing to name persons who had joined the Communist Party.

Geer acted on stage in New York and eastern theatres, and in California for film. He is best-known as an actor for his later portrayal of Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton in the 1970s TV series The Waltons.

He died aged 76 in 1978

Marvel film "Avengers: Endgame" directed by Anthony and Joe Russo starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans and an ensemble cast, premieres in Los Angeles in 2019.

We are watching "Avengers:Endgame" on Thursday night in 3D....

I needed sleep.....actually enjoyed a Monday for once...