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... 

 

 

 

 

Playing With My Whip!

There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate - Linda Grayson

We were up early....

To do a Easter Egg Hunt...🥚 

Those big sunglasses have to come out..

Packed a picnic...

With the blue skies....

We go off egg hunting..

 We went on the blue trail↓

 

 

 

The walk was nice and easy...
My youngest son got his egg,
and ate it before it melted!
We walked around the gardens of Hanbury Hall..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 It was getting very warm...23c \o/
We went back home,
Time to use something...

We had our picnic in the front garden....

Then I had to slip in something more comfortable to film my Superhero movie.....↓

 

 With my sidekick called 

Randy...↓

 This nice weather helped....

The finished movie↓

 Got changed,

Painting time....

 

 Once the sun went down...

We had a small evening meal....

We put another Superhero movie to get into the mood for Superhero Day next Sunday..

I had a quick look at the Birthdays.

Robert  Smith:Is an English singer and songwriter. He is the singer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist, principal songwriter and only consistent member of the rock band the Cure, which he co-founded in 1976. He was also the lead guitarist for the band Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1982 to 1984 and was part of the short-lived group the Glove in 1983. Smith is known for his distinctive voice and guitar style and his unique stage look, the latter two of which were influential on the goth subculture that rose to prominence in the 1980s. Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Cure in 2019.

He is 60 years old

Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca known as Anthony Quinn: Was a Mexican-born American actor, painter, writer and film director. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including La Strada, The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Guns for San Sebastian, Lawrence of Arabia, The Shoes of the Fisherman, The Message, Lion of the Desert, Last Action Hero and A Walk in the Clouds. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice: for Viva Zapata! in 1952 and Lust for Life in 1956.

He would have been 104 years old.

(He died aged 86 in 2001)  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon , known professionally as Nina Simone : Was an American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop. 

She died 70 in 2003. 

Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing in 1986.

More sunshine tomorrow...

More playing in the garden....