Pushing The Boat Out!

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them 

- David Reisman

 Welcome to my Hump of the Week🐫

Brew with warm hug.

Breakfast.

I had a nice hot shower, 

Just laid on the top of the bed and fell back off to sleep.

Woke up later to the sound of rain and wind from outside.

Hubby had gone and got the newspaper.

(Good Lad).

Time to tidy up the house.....

I meanwhile had to decorate my Christmas Cake.

Pity I couldn't find any of my Christmas Decorations until I kicked a few boxes out of the way in the Dining room....

Glazed the cake with hot apricot jam.

Rolled out the marzipan. 

Added the fondant icing on the top.

Decoration followed.

Tea at 3

We watched Spiderman:Homecoming 

we taped from last night.

There was 10 minutes cut from the film.

Bought it and the sequel off Amazon.

More Spiderman tomorrow.....

Pasta Bake tea.

Another good film to watch...

Quick look in newspaper.

Frederick  Heath  known professionally as Johnny Kidd, was an English singer-songwriter, best remembered as the lead vocalist for the rock and roll band Johnny Kidd & the Pirates. He was one of the few pre-Beatles British rockers to achieve worldwide fame, mainly for his 1960 hit, "Shakin' All Over".

He would have been 85 years old 🎈 

He died aged 30 years old in 1966.

Honey Lantree (born Anne Margot Lantree,  Hayes, Middlesex ), drummer and singer with the 1960s band, The Honeycombs. She died on this day in 2018 aged 75 years.

 We will be needing a boat soon, as the rain isn't stopping...

Hubby leaves the boat and chances the car....

He got the shopping done, while it was quiet in Lidl and Aldi.

I wrapped up the presents while he was doing that....

Hopefully this rain will stop, and we won't need a boat to get around tomorrow!

 

 
 

 

When The Red Light Starts Flashing....

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures - James Thurber

 Welcome to my Tuesday 👀

I had a nice night tossing and turning on the sofa....

I enjoyed a cup of tea while everyone else was still asleep. I wrote yesterday's blog post.

Sleeping Beauty got up.

Breakfast.

Dressed.

More Christmas wear..

Wrapped up my friend's present.

Out in Sexy Beast...

We drop off my friend's present.

Now to get things to cook with the large salmon tonight.

Once we got the things we needed.

The red light starts flashing!

We get a mocha on the way out..

Not cold as it has been...

Back home.

Lunchtime...

Now to watch a great film..

Tea at 3.

Now for some Christmas music...

Now to get the Salmon in the oven...

Who is going to have the fish head for tea?

Quick read of the today's newspaper...

 Richard  "Ricky" Ross is a Scottish singer-songwriter and broadcaster. He is the lead singer of the rock band Deacon Blue. 

He is 63 years old.

 Joe Cocker OBE was an English singer known for his gritty voice, spasmodic body movement in performance, and distinctive versions of popular songs of varying genres.

He died on this day in 2014 aged 70.

Tea is ready!

Salmon time.

We watched a great documentary about Adam Lambert and Queen on Netflix.

Brilliant!

Sleep Tea follows.

Hump of the day tomorrow 🐪

 

 
 

  

All That Glitters Is Not Gold!

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph

 - Shirley Temple

 Welcome to my Monday 🎈

(No wobbly work wheel 🎡 fot two weeks\o/)

My body clock still thinks it's work time.

Up at normal time to enjoy tea in bed!

I lay in bed listening to the radio inbetween nodding off!

Later on it was time for more brew and hug!

Breakfast.

Dressed.

More Christmas wear...

Hubby went off down to road to see if any of the factories was missing a parcel that was delivered to us by mistake!

I had piles of dried washing to sort out.

He went off to get the newspaper...

 Samuel L. Jackson is an American actor and producer. Widely regarded as one of the most popular actors of his generation, the films in which he has appeared have collectively grossed over $27 billion worldwide, making him the highest-grossing actor of all time (when cameo appearances are excluded). He rose to fame with films such as Coming to America (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Patriot Games (1992), Juice (1992), Menace II Society (1993), True Romance (1993), Jurassic Park (1993), and Fresh (1994).

Jackson has especially been noted for his roles in the Spike Lee films School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Oldboy (2013) and Chi-Raq (2015) and in the Quentin Tarantino films Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Django Unchained (2012), and The Hateful Eight (2015). For his role in Pulp Fiction, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. 

He is 72 years old 🎈 

Karl Denver  was a Scottish singer, who, with his trio had a series of UK hit singles in the early 1960s. Most famous of these was a 1961 version of "Wimoweh", which showed off Denver's falsetto yodelling register. He reached the Top 20 with his first five yodel-based singles.

He died on this day in 1998 aged 67. 

Billie  Whitelaw CBE  was an English actress. She worked in close collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and was regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. She was also known for her portrayal of Mrs. Baylock, the demonic nanny in the 1976 horror film The Omen.

She died on this day in 2014 aged 82.

 Coffee time when he got back.

Hubby then walked up town with our kids to put some Christmas money in their bank accounts.

I meanwhile had a cake to bake!

Raided the brandy...

(Not to drink but to add to the cake!)

I had some glittery post arrive..

When hubby came back.

Light lunch.

Dishwasher unloaded, and loaded back up.

I wrote yesterday blog...

(Hubby fell asleep on the sofa for 2 and 1/2 hours in the meantime) 

Cake was done in over 2 hours.

(Decorating it tomorrow!) 

We had a Beef Stir Fry for Tea.

We watched the final of Hell's Kitchen season 15.

The winner was:

Ariel

This barking cough I have got, is sucking my energy levels.

I went to bed early with my Sleep Tea.

I went straight out like a light until later.

I suddenly couldn't sleep anymore,

Downstairs I went.

More sleep tea,cough medicine,

&

 A date with the sofa!

 

 

Wow, That's A Nice Price!

My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in - Les Dawson

 Welcome to my Sunday 👅

Little bit of a lie in...

Nice warm hug with hot brew!

Breakfast.

More Christmas themed clothes to wear!

Kids were helping to deliver some Labour leaflets for our good friend Cllr Joe.

I declutted the bathroom.

All the empty Body Shops tubs were put in the recycle bin, as our local store has closed down!

Coffee time!

The kids were back in no time.

Now for us to go out for some fresh air!

The Christmas Tree looking nice↓

We got some reduced items.

Funny Private Eye Front Cover↓

There was a nice hunky man on the next magazine I looked at!

We had to go to Morrisons for some mixed fruit.

We picked up a whole Salmon for under £8.

That's being cooked on Tuesday!

Nice large Mocha on the way out..

Back home to unpack the shopping.

Light lunch time↓

There is now a vacancy come up for a Cllr for my ward.The one who was going up for it, as moved to Nottingham. so I have to go for a interview and get the ball rolling.

That should be interesting....

I gets yesterday's blog wrote while hubby does his work out on the Wii.

Tea is served!

Roast Pork with lots of stuffing and veg.

With Crab Apple jelly.

We watch more of Season 15 of Hell's Kitchen up to the final episode.

I have quick look in today's newspaper..

 John  Hillerman was an American actor best known for his starring role as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III on the television series Magnum, P.I. that aired from 1980–1988. For his role as Higgins, Hillerman earned five Golden Globe nominations, winning in 1981, and four Emmy nominations, winning in 1987. He retired from acting in 1999. 

He would have been 88 years old 🎈

He died aged 84 in 2017. 

Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto)  was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor in film and television. He performed jazz, pop, rock and roll, folk, swing, and country music.

He died on this day aged 37 in 1973

Sleep Tea Time

The Christmas cake is being made tomorrow 

(Some of hubby's brandy is being used in it!)