Domestic Goddess

Domestic Goddess

Tuesday 14 May 2019

Not My Type Of Old Tunes!

Just living is not enough,one must have sunshine,freedom, and a little flower - Hans Christian Andersen
Welcome to a sunny Tuesday.
I'm hoping the roller boots won't be letting off too much steam today...
It was nice to see the sunshine.....
(Hopefully I will enjoy it later)  
I had tea in bed :)
 I gave everyone  sloppy 💋💋💋 before they left.
I was slapped all over with some lovely stuff!
 I watered the plants in the front garden...
(They needed a drink!)
Coffee time!
 followed by liquid lunch↓
 The sun was out....
 It's getting warmer 😎
 Listening to lots of great Motown tunes on the way to work....
Plenty of singing along ♪♪♪
Birthday Time↓↓
Bobby Darin : was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor in film and television. He performed jazz, pop, rock and roll, folk, swing, and country music.
He started his career as a songwriter for Connie Francis. He recorded his first million-selling single, "Splish Splash", in 1958. This was followed by "Dream Lover", "Mack the Knife", and "Beyond the Sea", which brought him worldwide fame. In 1962 he won a Golden Globe Award for his first film, Come September, co-starring his first wife, Sandra Dee. 
He would have been 83 years old.
(He died aged 37 in 1973) 
Derek "Lek" Leckenby : was an English musician and lead guitarist, most famous for his work with English pop group Herman's Hermits. 
He would have been 76 years old.
(He died aged 51 in 1994) 
Robert  Zemeckis : is an American director, film producer and screenwriter frequently credited as an innovator in visual effects. He first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of Romancing the Stone (1984) and the science-fiction comedy Back to the Future film trilogy, as well as the live-action/animated comedy Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). In the 1990s, he directed Death Becomes Her and then diversified into more dramatic fare, including 1994's Forrest Gump,for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director; the film itself won Best Picture. The films he has directed have ranged across a wide variety of genres, for both adults and families.
He is 67 years old.
Tim Roth : is an English actor and director. He made his debut role in the television film Made in Britain (1982). He garnered critical acclaim for his role as Myron in the film The Hit (1984), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Among a group of prominent British actors of the era, the "Brit Pack", Roth gained more attention for his performances in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Vincent & Theo (1990) and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990).
He later earned international recognition for appearing in Quentin Tarantino's films, such as Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Four Rooms (1995) and The Hateful Eight (2015). For the historical drama Rob Roy (1995), Roth won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He made his directorial debut with The War Zone (1999), for which he received numerous accolades.
He is 58 years.
Hugh Griffith :Was a Welsh film, stage and television actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Ben-Hur (1959) and received an additional Oscar nomination in the same category for his work in Tom Jones (1963). 
He died aged 67 years old in 1980. 
Riley B. King  known professionally as B.B. King: was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that influenced many later electric blues guitarists.
King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and is considered one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, earning the nickname "The King of the Blues".
He died aged 89 in 2015.
The Adventures of Robin Hood", directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland is released in 1938
 Lots of lovely sunshine to enjoy
 
 
 I went round to see my dad.
He had ate his lunch.
I had a quick coffee and chat..
Gets home and it's lovely to see the sunshine!
 
 A very quick coffee↓
While at my other job,
I found a tape of old tunes...↓
(Not my type of old tunes)
 When I got back home...
Time to relax in the sunshine
 
 I made cottage pie for my dad.
Hubby took it round for him.
He ate it all up!
I did tea for the rest of us.
We caught up on 
 Hubby went to bed during the Sky Papers.
I fell asleep until 1.45am....
Oh dear back to bed I go... 
 
 

Monday 13 May 2019

The Steam Is Coming Off!

Don't let a day of the week have so much power over your happiness.....Monday
- Andrea L'Artiste

Back on the Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡
 Someone's snoring woke me up....
 
 I went back to bed at 6am.
I had my breakfast later on...
I gave some sloppy 💋💋💋 to everyone when they left the house.
I loaded up the dishwasher...
Watered the veggies in the greenhouses.
 Liquid Lunch↓
 The sunshine is back!
 
 big big sunglasses time...
Quick look at the Birthdays
 
 Bea Arthur (born Bernice Frankel) :was an American actress.
Arthur began her career on stage in 1947 and made her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera in 1954. She won the 1966 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for playing Vera Charles in Mame. She went on to play Maude Findlay on the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family (1971–72) and Maude (1972–78), and Dorothy Zbornak on the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls (1985–92), winning Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1977 and 1988. Her film appearances included Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) and Mame (1974). In 2002, she starred in the one-woman show Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends.
She would have been 97 years old.
(She died aged 86 in 2009) 
Harvey Keitel : is an American actor and producer. He has starred in films such as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), The Duellists (1977), Bugsy (1991), Thelma & Louise (1991), Reservoir Dogs (1992), The Piano (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Cop Land (1997), Red Dragon (2002), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Isle of Dogs (2018)
He is 80 years old.
Joe BrownIs an English entertainer. He has worked as a rock and roll singer and guitarist for more than five decades. He was a stage and television performer in the late 1950s and a UK recording star in the early 1960s. He has made six films, presented specialist radio series for BBC Radio 2.
He is 78 years old. 
Paul Thompson : Is an English drummer, who is best known as drummer for the rock band Roxy Music (from 1971 to 1980 and then from 2001 onwards). He was also the drummer for the Oi! band, Angelic Upstarts and the American alternative rock band Concrete Blonde. He is a member of Andy Mackay's project with the Metaphors and joined the reformed Lindisfarne in 2013. 
He is 68 years old. 
Johnny Logan : is an Australian-born Irish singer and composer. He is known as being the only performer to have won the Eurovision Song Contest twice, in 1980 and 1987. He also composed the winning song in 1992.
He is 65 years old. 
 Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff;  was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, her first hit recording being "Sentimental Journey" in 1945 with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.
She died aged 97 in 2019.
The Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black" in the UK in 1966. 
Lots of vitamin D to be had!
 
 I go round to see my dad after work.
I make sure he eats his lunch.
I get home in need of quick coffee↓
 
I go to do my other job.
I come back to start on the evening meal.
I dish up the tea to my kids.
Now to take a meal round to my dads↓ 
 I give my dad his tea.
Then I get home to have my tea↓
 I found out my favourite Doris Day film↓
I had to go and do my other job...
Had some good music to help me along..↓
Hubby had my sleep tea ready for me when I got back.....
The steam was coming trainers...
It's tiring being on this Wobbly Work Wheel!
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