Domestic Goddess

Domestic Goddess

Tuesday 27 October 2020

Time For A Carve Up!

 Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head - Ambrose Bierce
 
Welcome to my Tuesday๐Ÿฟ
The further adventures of the knee......
Brew with a warm hug.
Breakfast.
Dressed.
Hubby went off to do the daily walk to fetch the newspaper.
I phoned up to see if I could to speak to a Doctor about my swelling problem.
Hubby came back with the newspaper.
 Simon  Le Bon  is an English musician, singer, songwriter and lyricist, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the band Duran Duran and its offshoot, Arcadia. Le Bon has received three Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.He is 62 years old๐ŸŽˆ
Lou Reed was an American musician, singer, songwriter and poet. He was the guitarist, singer and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades.He died on this day in 2013 aged 71.
 Has coffee too.
Doctor phones.
Sicknote for 2 weeks and more anti-flammables tablets.
Finishes writing yesterday's blog post.
Hubby was doing his 30 minute work out on the Wii Exerbeat game.
Some more material has arrived to make some nice skirts with↓
Catches up with reading while hubby sweats↓
 Light lunch.
Now out to fetch the sickness note, tablets and to drop off the note at one of my work places.
Now for the journey home.
Now for Tea at 3.
Now for more...
Son carved  his pumpkin for Halloween↑↓
Veggie tea time.
2 more episodes of NYPD Blue with 
Sleep Tea.
Hopefully we have a sunny Hump Day tomorrow ๐Ÿซ




Monday 26 October 2020

Back Into Hell's Kitchen!

Boxing is just show business with blood -
Frank Bruno 
 
Welcome back to the Monday Feeling!
No wobbly work wheel ๐ŸŽก this week.
I had a strange dream about the Wild West Books I inherited off my late dad last night↓
Let's kick off this Monday with:
Brew with hug.
Breakfast.
Dressed.
Hubby dropped off son for his boxing lesson.
Hubby brings back the newspaper.
Quick read.
Bob Hoskins  was an English actor. His work included lead roles in Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Long Good Friday (1980), Mona Lisa (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Mermaids (1990), and Super Mario Bros. (1993), and supporting performances in Brazil (1985), Hook (1991), Nixon (1995), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005), A Christmas Carol (2009), Made in Dagenham (2010), and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012). He also directed two feature films: The Raggedy Rawney (1988) and Rainbow (1996).He would have been 78 years old ๐ŸŽˆ
He died aged 71 in 2014.
  Coffee↓
I decided to get some fresh air and see how my knee responds to driving again.
Picked up son from his boxing lesson.
Back home.
Now to put leg up again.
I wrote yesterday's blog.
Lunch time!
Hell's Kitchen series 19 is back on!
We watched the first two episodes.
No binge watching of it, as only two episodes a week is being broadcasted on ITV2.
 Followed by:
Tea at 3
Hubby went out to do some more food shopping.
I received my Hobbycraft order↓
Nice photo of me in all my glory!
I did some cutting up of material.
All cut up ready to make more face masks.
Hubby comes back with the shopping.
Nice Duck Stir Fry for Tea.
We watched some Judge Rinder.
Moved onto some onto some songs.....
I was named after White Plains hit↓
I have this tune as my ringtone↑↑↑
I had a hot shower shortly afterwards.
Carried on watching where we left off:
With some Sleep Tea↓
Back onto the Doctors tomorrow,
As the swelling is going down.....↓



 



 

Sunday 25 October 2020

A Little Time To Enjoy Some 90s Music!

You don't need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
Martin Luther King Jr
Welcome to my Sunday ๐Ÿพ
Might have to try and go to see the Doctor this week about my knee....
Brew with hug time.
Breakfast.
Dressed.
Everyone else gets up,
As they are going for a walk around the lake.
I am resting the knee.
Coffee time.
While hubby takes the kids around the lake.
I get yesterday's blog post wrote.
Now for a little play with Kenny.
Halloween themed of course!
Put the cakes in the oven.
Everyone comes back.
One son moaning about how many were around the lake, and how rammed it was...
Lunch time.
The visit to see my parents was postponed until the rain stopped.
Finished the cakes instead.
Rain stopped.
Now out...
Tidied the grave up.
Nice clouds in the sky..
Nice plume of cloud when we got home.
Puts chicken on in the oven.
Late tea at 3.
 
Roger  Miller  was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor, widely known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs and his chart-topping country and pop hits "King of the Road", "Dang Me", and "England Swings", all from the mid-1960s Nashville sound era. 
He died on this day in 1992 aged 56 years old.
 

 We caught up with the semi-final and final of series 6 of The Great British Sewing Bee.
Now to move onto two episodes of Top Of The Pops from 1990.
I had to fast forward half of the first programme because the music was dire.

Moving on to the next episode...
A bit more fastforwarding....
 

I left hubby to watch this week's Top Gear.
I got other things to do.
Then to catch up with more programmes.
I ordered some more sewing books off AbeBooks website.
Sleep tea to finish off Sunday night.