I Need A Bigger One!

Better the chill blast of winter than the hot breath of a pursuing elephant - Chinese proverb

I enjoyed my last lie-in of the holiday!

I was in the need for.... 

 TEA!

Breakfast soon followed...

After I blew hubby a 💋

I got up to load up my Sexy Beast...

All the stuff I need for the very large Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡 tomorrow↓↓↓

 Then it's a quick coffee and nibble time↓

 Armed with a small shopping list,

Off we go↓

 

 Lidl time↓

 Is this trolley big enough???

 My favourite coffee was on offer↓

A couple of jars went into the trolley.

The Blueberries also on offer..↓

A nice rowing machine was on offer↓

 As normal, the trolley was too small :(

We had to get a back up one...↓

My younger brother phoned me up....

And said:

"Our prodigal brother has sold the car my dad gave him!

The reason is, it wasn't his kind of car!" 

Nice bit of profit for him! 

I go round and see my dad.

He thought it was Monday...

I said to him, "Don't use that swear at me using that M word!"

Suddenly a great song on the radio...

I started to do a little dance...↓

 I said to my dad, the prodigal son should give him back the £650 he spent on repairing the car,before he gave it to him...

"He won't do that...!" My dad replied.

I said goodbye to my dad.

Back home to unload the shopping..

Then it was late lunch time↓

 Back out in Sexy Beast to check its tyres↓

 

 Gets back home.

Sorted out the front of the house↓

 At least my house isn't a↓

 Gets blog updated.

The washing is all done, except when my son spills some tea down his coat....

Back in the washing machine it goes....

Tea gets dished up and ate..

 We got a wonky veg box from Lidl this morning

We used the white cabbage that was in ours with our tea.

We watch Dragon's Den..

A quick look at the Birthdays...

Robert  Duvall is an American actor and filmmaker, who is 89 years old🎈

Diane Keaton, American actress, (The Godfather,The First Wives Club) is 74 years old 🎈

Chris Stein, American rock guitarist and co-founder of Blondie (Heart of Glass, Call Me)is 70 years old.🎈

The feet go into the foot spa all ready to mount tomorrow's Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡

 

  

Bargains & Coffee Time!

"Let's try this again, shall we? I have two beans, then I add two more beans.What does that make?" - Edmund Blackadder
"A very small casserole," replied Baldrick - Blackadder 2 

Welcome to my Saturday..

We were up early as had so many things to do....

We listened to the last hour of "The Sounds of the 60s"

Then tea & breakfast.

Hubby phoned up the 111 service and got an appointment for the after hours service at our local hospital.

I then went off to the Happy Place Of Work 

to catch up from yesterday.

 I get home, its a bit lighter :)

 Hubby goes off to the hospital.

I finish my pom pom wreath↓

Followed by coffee and a nibble↓

Hubby comes back with some stronger antibiotics.

We dropped off one son at his boxing lesson.

While hubby got his antibiotics at the chemist.We nipped into↓

 Big big sunglasses time↓

Big heal boots too...↓

I checked to see if my 🍭 spot was still there..↓

 We got some bits from the Charity Shop.

(Cooking books and electronic scales for the chef of the family)

Then off for a quick coffee↓

 Walked back to the car park..

 We picked up son from his boxing lesson.

Back home to unpack our bargains.

 We had a light lunch before we went back out to use a £4.50 voucher at Sainsburys.

Lots of bargains we ended up getting.

Marzipan was 10p a box.

Xmas cake decorations were 10p each.
In the end we got 50 items for £32.

The top of my radiator cover is looking well nice↓

 We had a nice tea....

Back to doing some poms poms for the hats I bought today...

I had a quick peek in the newspaper...

Iain Cuthbertson, Scottish actor (Guilty, Scandal, Rep, Danger UXB, Supergran),would have been 90 years old 🎈

 He died in 2009 aged 79 years old. 

Mark Hollis, British synth-pop musician (Talk Talk),would have been 65 years old 🎈

He died in 2019 aged 64 years old. 

Bernard Sumner [Albrecht], English rock guitarist, vocalist (Joy Division and New Order is 64 years old 🎈

Michael Stipe, US rock vocalist (REM-Losing My Religion, Stand is 60 years old 🎈

Gerry Rafferty, Scottish guitarist and vocalist (Stealers Wheel)Died in 2011 aged 63 years old.

We carried on watching:

 &

 On Netflix...↑

As the normal, I fell asleep and woke up just past midnight.....

It's welcome return to that 16 tog duvet!