Let Them Have Cake!

Love is the exploding cigar we will willingly smoke - Lynda Barry

Welcome to the Weekend 🎈

We had a nice lie-in.

Dropped of son at his boxing lesson.

We enjoyed a much needed Boost with coffee↓ 

We got the bedroom tidied up.

I had to sort out my baking hand↓

Once the cake went in the oven.

The washing machine went on.

Then it was time to play with Henry..

Tumble drier back on.

Light lunch time↓

Now to make more facemasks↓

Whiskey and Ginger Cake.

I got the shopping list from my neighbour.

It was still raining, and the wind got up!

Now to do the shopping for the week.

Once we did the shopping in Lidl.

We popped into Home Bargains for some Spring Onions for my neighbour.

The rain was lashing down and a dash of heavy winds!

Gets back home in the rain.

Dropped off my neighbour's shopping...

Put our shopping away.

Quick read of the newspaper

 Eddie Cochran  was an American rock and roll musician. Cochran's songs, such as "Twenty Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody", and "Somethin' Else", captured teenage frustration and desire in the mid-1950s and early 1960s.He would have been 82 years old 🎈

He died aged 21 years old in 1960.

Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans) is an American rock 'n roll singer and dancer. He is widely known for popularizing many dance styles including the twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B hit "The Twist" and the Pony with hit "Pony Time". In September 2008, "The Twist" topped Billboard's list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1958, an honor it maintained for an August 2013 update of the list. He also popularized the "Limbo Rock" and its trademark limbo dance, as well as various dance styles such as The Fly. He is 79 years old 🎈

Lindsey  Buckingham  is an American singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as lead guitarist and one of the vocalists of the music group Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987 and 1997 to 2018. In addition to his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has released six solo albums and three live albums. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2011, Buckingham was ranked 100th in Rolling Stone's 2011 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Buckingham is known for his fingerpicking guitar style.He is 71 years old 🎈 

Now to enjoy a late evening meal...

Catch up with this week's newspapers..

Caught up with last night's telly programmes.

 &

The Big Hits of 1990.

 Compilation of the best performances from 1990 in the Top of the Pops studio, including Adamski featuring Seal, Sinead O'Connor, Primal Scream, En Vogue and Snap!.

I am looking forward to watching Top Of The Pops from 1990.

Here are some songs from that year I am looking forward to hearing again:

I really hope this rain stops...

I need to get back on the walking! 

 

 

 

  

No Walking In The Rain!

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant - Ring Lardner

Welcome to the Friday Feeling 🍿

Let's hope it's stops raining!

Brew and Hug.

Dressed.

It was pouring down with rain.

I will get the newspaper later....

No walking in the rain for me...

I gave hubby and kids all sloppy wet 💋💋💋 when they all left the house.

I tidied up the house.

Wrote yesterday's blog.

It was still raining when I left to go for the ride in Sexy Beast.

Now for some singing in the rain...

It was still raining when I got to work.

Quick read of the newspaper↓

Don McLean III  is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1971 hit song "American Pie", an 8.5-minute folk rock "cultural touchstone"about the loss of innocence of the early rock and roll generation.

His other hit singles include "Vincent", "Dreidel", a rendition of Roy Orbison's "Crying", a rendition of the Skyliners' "Since I Don't Have You", and "Wonderful Baby".In 2004, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In January 2018, BMI certified that "American Pie" and "Vincent" had reached five million and three million airplays respectively.He is 75 years old 🎈

 

 

Mike  Rutherford  is an English guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and singer who co-founded the rock band Genesis in 1967. He is one of the group's two continuous members along with keyboardist Tony Banks.In addition to his work with Genesis, Rutherford released two solo albums in the early 1980s. In 1985, he formed the highly successful band Mike and the Mechanics, which became a chart-topping act and significant live draw in its own right, and earned Rutherford an Ivor Novello Award for the 1988 single "The Living Years".He is 70 years old 🎈.

Tom Petty was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor. He was the lead vocalist and guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, formed in 1976. He previously led the band Mudcrutch, and was also a member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys.He died on this day in 2017 aged 66.

    I looked across the fields of fun↓ 

Done my bit.

Back onto the singing...

The rain had stopped when i got home \o/

Light lunch time.

Sorted out the material to make more facemasks....

Now for Tea at 3 Belated.

I had to change the bobbin again.

After messing about....

I did three facemasks..

It was still raining...

No walk to be done today :(

A light tea.

We watched the final episode of season 10 of NYPD Blue.

Final shift of the week...

With a big tune to start with:

Gets back home.

Now onto Season 11!

Then off for snuggles in a very warm bed!

 


 
 

 

 
 

Toot,Toot, We Got Ourselves A Convoy!

I've learned that you can't have anything at the same time 

- Oprah Winfrey

Welcome to my Thursday!

&

To October!

(White Rabbit)

Brew and Hug.

Breakfast.

Dressed.

Missed out on our daily walk.

Into Sexy Beast we go. 

The newspaper hadn't arrived, will collect it later.

Back home.

There was nice rainbow appearing..

I give hubby a sloppy wet 💋 before he goes to work.

I give my kids the same 💋💋 

I wrote yesterday's blog post.

Nice cup of strong cup of coffee afterwards.

Big big sunglasses time...

Listen to one of the CDs I bought yesterday.

I followed a lorry that was parked down our road last night. I kept my distance, and I had formed a bit of convoy of cars behind me!

I had a quick look of the newspaper when I got to work...

Rob Davis is an English guitarist and songwriter.He was a member of the glam rock band Mud. In 2000, he achieved his biggest commercial songwriting successes. Fragma's "Toca's Miracle"He co-wrote with Cathy Dennis, "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" for Kylie Minogue.In the Grammy Awards of 2004, Davis shared a Grammy with co-producer Philip Larsen (Manhattan Clique) and performer Minogue, for another Minogue single "Come into My World", in the category of Best Dance Recording. He is 73 years old. 🎈

Youssou N'Dour  also known as Youssou Madjiguéne Ndour, is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, composer, occasional actor, businessman, and politician. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine described him as, "perhaps the most famous singer alive" in Senegal and much of Africa^. From April 2012 to September 2013, he was Senegal's Minister of Tourism.He is 61 years old 🎈

I looked across the fields of fun↓

I had a better day than yesterday!

The sun was still shining on the way home.

Good!

More singing to do...

 The sun followed me home \o/

Followed by light lunch.

The delivery driver who was dropping off my food order, couldn't find my house.

"I didn't know there was a house down here!" He said.

"If I had a £1 for everyone said that,I wouldn't be living here!"I replied.

Unpacked my food order!

Belated Tea at 3.

Back onto the sewing.

I made a new duvet cover↓

&

Another face mask.

When hubby came home.

A big sloppy 💋

Then off to do our daily walk...

Then a nice tea!

With a episode of NYPD Blue.

Then off to work.

Big tune to start with:

I couldn't see no moon tonight.

We watched a further 2 episodes of 

We have the last episode of season 10 to watch tomorrow night!

Sleep Tea time.

Back on the Friday Feeling🎈 tomorrow.