Enjoying The 80s Music!

I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s.
- Lee Majors

Welcome to my Thursday.....

I had the normal nudge for tea..

I gave everyone big 💋💋💋

I enjoyed a coffee and nibble

Loaded up the dishwasher..

I put out the black bins...

Early lunch...

Now for some fresh air...

 

 It is not very warm, and it keeps raining :(

Let's have a look at the Birthdays.

 Irene Joan Marion Sims, known as Joan Sims: was an English actress remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, including Carry On Nurse (1959), Carry On Cleo (1964) and Carry On Camping (1969). She played Mrs. Wembley, the cook with a liking for sherry in On the Up (1990–92), and Madge Hardcastle in As Time Goes By (1994–98).

She would have been 89 years old.

(She died aged 71 in 2001) 

 Albert Finney was an English actor who worked in film, television and theatre. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s, debuting with The Entertainer (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in the theatre. He maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television. 

He would have been 83 years old.

(He died in February 2019 aged 82)

Glenda  Jackson : is an English actress and former Labour Party politician. A professional actress from the late 1950s onwards, Jackson spent four years as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964, and was particularly associated with the work of director Peter Brook. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Actress: for Women in Love (1970) and A Touch of Class (1973). She has also won awards for her performances as Alex in the film Sunday Bloody Sunday and in the BBC television serial Elizabeth R (both 1971); receiving two Primetime Emmy Awards for the latter.

She is 83 years old.

Pete Birrell (born Peter Birrell): is a former British pop musician.

 Trained as an electrician, he played bass guitar in the group Freddie and the Dreamers, which had a number of hit records between 1963 and 1964.

After the Dreamers broke up, Birrell became the chauffeur to the Lord Mayor of Manchester until he retired.

He is 78 years old.

Paul  Heaton:  is an English singer-songwriter.

Heaton was frontman of the Housemartins, who had success with the singles "Happy Hour" and the number-one "Caravan of Love" in 1986 before disbanding in 1988. He then formed the Beautiful South, whose debut single and album was released in 1989 to commercial success and continued with a series of hits throughout the 1990s, including the number-one single "A Little Time". They disbanded in 2007. 

He is 57 years old.

Roberto Concina  known professionally as Robert Miles: was a Swiss-born Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ. He is best known for his composition "Children".

He died aged 47 in 2017.

Peter & Gordon release "World Without Love"in 1964

 Those rain clouds are still hovering...

 Pops into see my dad after work.

I gets back home↓

 

 Nice hot coffee↓

I had a phone call from the CMS about my maintenance problem.

I knew more what was going on than the man on the phone.

Amazing I am having April's maintenance in the next few days \o/

Now I can sort out our kid's Birthday presents for next month 🎈🎈🎈

Now onto the other job

Anyone want cake? 

 or

 I go and clean in the factory..

They have some 80's tunes blasting away...

I hear,"What's this load of crap?" about a tune being played...
I said "It's not crap...!"
Then I carried on singing....
"Misfit, Misfit.....!"

(The song is at the end of this blog post)

I was brought up on 80's music!

Back at home. 

 Oh dear I missed my Amazon Delivery Driver↓

 I got my Amazon Delivery↓

 We have a lovely pie and mash for our evening meal.

Hubby sorted out the hacking problem of my dad's bank account....

He got a refund of £67.. 

I am getting excited for my Webbs Experience tomorrow..🍾🍾

&

The Friday Feeling 🍾🍾 

 

  

Trying To Get It!

Laugh and the world laughs with you;snore and you sleep alone - Anthony Burgess

Welcome to my Hump of the Week 🐫

This is one day, I am not to forget my rain mac...it's going to rain all day!⛆

But first....tea!

I gave everyone sloppy 💋💋💋 before they all left the house.

I had some quiet time to reflect that 6 years ago today, my mum passed away :'(

A sombre coffee and nibbles↓

Then I got onto the Child Maintenance place.

Over Easter, my ex-plum's employers sent a hugh amount of money to the CMS, with no details how much or to whom it was going to.

I had phoned up 2 weeks ago, saying they had no details as yet, you might have to wait another 4 weeks before you can have it!!!!

So I might get May's money before April.

I have two Birthday lists for June to get with both April's and May's maintenance. 

After that,

I had light lunch↓

 Now for some fresh air in the rain!

 

 It was still cold and damp.

I caught up with the Birthdays↓

 Peter  Benchley : Was an American author, screenwriter, and ocean activist. He is known for the bestselling novel Jaws and co-wrote its subsequent film adaptation with Carl Gottlieb. Several more of his works were also adapted for both cinema and television, including The Deep, The Island, Beast, and White Shark. 

He would have been 79 years old.

(He died aged 65 in 2006)

 Eric Hilliard Nelson, better know as Ricky Nelson :was an American rock and roll star, musician, and singer-songwriter.  In 1957 he began a long and successful career as a popular recording artist. As one of the top "teen idols" of the 1950s his fame led to a motion picture role co-starring alongside John Wayne and Dean Martin in Howard Hawks's western feature film Rio Bravo (1959). He placed 53 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, and its predecessors, between 1957 and 1973, including "Poor Little Fool" in 1958, which was the first #1 song on Billboard magazine's then-newly created Hot 100 chart. He recorded 19 additional Top 10 hits and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 21, 1987.

He would have been 79 years old.

(He died aged 45 in 1985) 

John Fred Gourrier  known by his stage name John Fred: was an American blue-eyed soul, swamp pop, rock and roll, and R&B performer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, best known for the 1967 hit song "Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)". 

He would have been 78 years old.

(He died aged 63 in 2005)

 Bill Legend (born William Arthur Fifield): Is an English musician and former drummer for glam rock band T. Rex during their most successful period.

He is 75 years old.  

 Dave Rowntree: is an English musician, politician, solicitor and animator. He is the drummer for the rock band Blur. He is a councillor in Norfolk County Council, representing the Labour Party.

He is 55 years old.

George Peppard Jr: was an American film and television actor.

Peppard secured a major role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and later portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964). On television, he played the title role of millionaire insurance investigator and sleuth Thomas Banacek in the early-1970s mystery series Banacek. He played Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, the cigar-smoking leader of a renegade commando squad, in the hit 1980s action show The A-Team.

He died aged 65 in 1994.

"Dracula" film starring Christopher Lee as the eponymous vampire, directed by Terence Fisher is the first Hammar Horror film released in 1958

 

 That rain is in for the day.

The topic of conversation:

The Avengers:EndGame

Some people had seen the film some had not.

So I did not give away any plot points whatsoever.

They liked my t-shirt!

I popped in to see my dad after work.

Lots of sorting things out.

Got home

(In the rain)

 

 After I got back from my other job...

Time to enjoy my coffee↓

I made a roast chicken dinner.

I sent some round to my dad.

In the meantime while sorting out my dad's accounts. His bank account had been hacked!

Onto the bank's fraud squad to sort it out!

I  hope this rain clears up my the weekend,

As I need to put one of my greenhouses up that arrived...

It was getting cold again.

It was nice to snuggle up to a warm body again.......🐪

 

  

Gone Off The Sausage!

Doing nothing is very hard to do…you never know when you’re finished - Leslie Nielsen

Back on that Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡

After the Bank Holiday Weekend...

I had the nudge for breakfast in bed 🛏

I gave everyone sloppy 💋💋💋 before they left...

I meanwhile had lots to do....

Dishwasher went on,

Followed by the 

washing machine and tumble drier...

As the sun was shining,

I watered my plants in the garden...

As I had no soup left...

I had to make do with↓

 Back on the Wobbly Work Wheel..

 

 I left my rain mac at home as NO RAIN was forcasted.....

Quick look at the Birthdays↓

 David  Tomlinson: was an English stage, film and television actor and comedian. Having been described as both a leading man and a character actor, he is primarily remembered for his roles as authority figure George Banks in Mary Poppins, fraudulent magician Professor Emelius Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks and as hapless antagonist Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug. Tomlinson was posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend in 2002. 

He would have been 102 years old.

He died aged 83 years old in 2000)

 William Lyle Richardson, known professionally as Darren McGavin, was an American actor. He was known for his portrayals of worldly, often somewhat gruff characters.He appeared in X-files and
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975).

He would have been 97 years old.

(He died aged 83 in 2006) 

Rick West [ Born Richard Westwood],He was the lead guitarist of The Tremeloes from 1961 - 2012.(Altogether without Brian Poole the group had nine Uk Top 20)

He is 76 years old.

Eddie Rabbitt : Was an American singer and songwriter. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974.

He died aged 56 in 1998.

Ray Harryhausen : Was an American-born British artist, designer, visual effects creator, writer and producer who created a form of stop-motion model animation known as "Dynamation".
His most memorable works include: working with his mentor Willis H. O'Brien on the animation for Mighty Joe Young (1949), which won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects; his first color film, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958); and Jason and the Argonauts (1963), which featured a famous sword fight with seven skeleton warriors. His last film was Clash of the Titans (1981), after which he retired.

He died aged 92 in 2013

 Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1 in 1966.

  There was sign of rain whatsover↓

 I was wrong as normal....

Good job I had my jacket on,

Or it would have been a Wet T-shirt competition!

I goes round to see my dad after work.

My younger brother and his wife was tidying up the house!!!!

(Makes a change from me doing it!)

I had to hurry back home as I have another job to do!

 

 A quick gulp of coffee and change of skirt, I went off to work...

My dad's hospital bed was being delivered between 5pm-8pm.

My two kids were there to wait for it.Once hubby had finished work, he too helped setting it up, so my dad could sleep in it tonight.

When all three males of the house arrived back, their evening meal was ready.

I declined to share, as I have gone off sausages.....

Once Dish washer was loaded up, we caught up with:

 &

Louis Theroux on Netflix.

 I stick to gambling with 1p and 2p when we go and play on the slots on the South Pier in Blackpool, when we go on holiday....

Hoping for a dry Hump Day tomorrow🐫