Domestic Goddess

Domestic Goddess

Monday 8 June 2020

Play With, Mix It & Sing Along!

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong - Dandemis
Let's welcome Monday with a little singalong↓
 Back on the tiny Wobbly Work Wheel🎑
Time for hug and brew↓
 Breakfast.
Dressed.
Out for our daily walk↓
 
 No sunshine yet↓
 I gave hubby a wet πŸ’‹
as he had to go off to the office.
I have got my table back \o/
First coffee of the morning↓
 Quick read of the newspaper↓
 Nancy  Sinatra is an American singer and actress. She is the elder daughter of Frank Sinatra and Nancy (nΓ©e Barbato) Sinatra, and is widely known for her 1966 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
She is 80 years old 🎈
 Bonnie Tyler  is a Welsh singer, known for her distinctive husky voice. Tyler came to prominence with the release of her 1977 album The World Starts Tonight and its singles "Lost in France" and "More Than a Lover". Her 1978 single "It's a Heartache" reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, and number three on the US Billboard Hot 100.She is 69 years old 🎈
   Next up.
Baking time.
Garden gloves on first...
Getting the garden to give up 
 all the rhubarb out of my garden.
I still needed more Rhubarb!!
I remembered I froze some last year.
Woo hoo found some in the freezer.
Put it altogether!
Kenny out out for a quick play.
The Rhubarb and Ginger loaf went into the oven.
Now to play with rolling pin↓ 
 The loaf was done.
The biscuits went into the oven.
Quick light lunch↓
 The Rhubarb and Ginger was done↓
 &
Lemon Curd & Almond Butter Biscuits↓
 I wrote yesterday's blog.
Now for Tea at 3pm↓
I got 5 out of 6 on the Tv Themes Quiz :)
The carrots I bought at the weekend was replanted.
So was the onions, a tomato plant, and  asparagus.
The Pumpkin plants I grew from seed, needs to go into a bigger trough.
From 3 bags of compost, I'm down to one now...
Got no more room for any more fruit and vegetables!
Back garden is rammed!
Hubby comes back,
Nice wet πŸ’‹ to welcome him home.
Meat free stir fry for tea ↓
 There was a queue to get on the Aldi website↓
The sun was going down when I was going to work↓
 No moon due to the clouds↓
 Lots of good music to sing-a-long with↓
It's still light when I get back↓
  
  We caught up with:
It looks like the bikini will have to stop in the drawer, as the long range forecast doesn't look too good.....
Unless you are a duck! 
 

Sunday 7 June 2020

Trying To Escape?

Life without you was like a broken pencil.....pointless -
Lord Blackadder to Elizabeth 1, Blackadder 2 
Welcome to my Sunday...
No lie-in today...
Off to see Father-in-law and pick up something nice for the Living Room....
Brew and Hug first↓
Breakfast,
Then gets dressed.
Off out for a little ride↓
 New maxi dress on↓
 We went for a little ride...
First to pick up something nice for the Living Room↓
Then round to see Father-in-law.
Hubby stood two metres away from  his dad.
Half the time was under the umbrella as it decides it is going to rain again!
 I sit in the car.
As soon as hubby gets back to the car.
His Birthday request for Wednesday is read out on the radio, closely followed by our son's Birthday on Friday.
(Busy week for Birthdays!) 
We give up going to see my Parents as the rain won't stop!
We get back for a coffee.
I look in the newspaper↓
 
 Sir Thomas John Woodward OBE  known professionally as Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. His career began with a string of top-ten hits in the mid-1960s. He has toured regularly, with appearances in Las Vegas (1967–2011).He is 80 years old🎈
Paddy McAloon is an English singer-songwriter and a founder of the band Prefab Sprout.He is 63 years old🎈
  Light lunch time↓
A little bit of on-line shopping
 Someone was selling 2 lamps from Dunelm for £45↑
(Pity I only wanted one)
A early tea at 3↓
Out to collect my Dunelm order
 
 Picked up my order.
Off to see my parents...in the light rain
 Rain coming↓
 I hope my dad isn't trying to escape↓
 The lamp looks nice↓
 We didn't have no Apple sauce for the pork dinner. We had plenty of mint sauce avaliable↓
I hope the rain keeps off tomorrow.
Washing needs to go out on the line,
&
Some serious gardening needs doing....
We catch up with the final series of "Hill Street Blues"
 Back on that tiny Wobbly Work Wheel 🎑 tomorrow...




  

Saturday 6 June 2020

Ducking The Showers..

You can cover a great deal of country in books." - Andrew Lang
Welcome to my Weekend.
Brew time↓
 Breakfast.
Dressed.
Rain mac on as it just started to rain when we left the house↓
 Not very warm↓
 Gets to Waitrose↓
 I'm straight in.
(Good job, it's starts to rain heavy!)
Gets some bits for the upcoming Birthdays next week.
It was still raining when we got home↓
 Unloaded shopping.
Quick coffee↓
 Back out↓
 Pops into see Joe and Tracy at Omega Therapies.
 Off to Burcot Garden Centre
Had a good look around↓
 
 Off to another Garden Centre..
This time, LittleHeath↓
The hand gel had run out before we went it.There was just enough spray in the bottle to do the trolley......
 
 It starts raining again!!
We washed our hands in hand gel when we got back to the car.
Back home↓
 A late Tea at 3↓
 Back out to do the food shopping↓
 Lidl time↓
 They have flour!
 Chucks it down with rain↓
 Nice Bacon and Black Pudding sandwich for tea↓
 Quick read of today's newspaper↓
 Levi Stubbs was an American baritone singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the R&B group the Four Tops, who released a variety of Motown hit records during the 1960s and 1970s. He has been noted for his powerful, emotional, dramatic style of singing.He would have been 84 years old 🎈
 He died aged 72 in 2008.
We carry on with the final season of Hill Street Blues↓
  It starts to get cold....
Time to get under that 16 tog duvet with those warm hands of mine.....