Domestic Goddess

Domestic Goddess

Sunday 20 December 2020

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!)

 
 
 

Saturday 19 December 2020

Don't Add The Fruit This Time!

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us.Pigs treat us as equals - Sir Winston Churchhill
 Welcome to my Saturday 👾
I woke up far too early for a weekend!
I got the toast and brew on the go.
I wrote yesterday's blog post..
Sleeping Beauty woke up later on after I finished it.
We than had brew with warm hug.
Breakfast.
I got back into that warm bed and fell back to sleep.
Hubby dropped son off at his boxing lesson.
I finally surfaced after he came back from it!
On goes the Christmas themed dress.
 Nice strong coffee to wake up even more!
Now out of the house..
Then out to see my friends, Joe and Tracy at Omega
I gets a mystery bag for £10 as my youngest son like all the nice smelling incenses and candles.
Wished them all a Happy Christmas and a better 2021!
Then off to get some meat for a few weeks.
We gets back home.
Locks the front door.
Light lunch↓
Then to catch up a week's newsapapers lncluding today's.
 
Gordon Jackson, OBE  was a Scottish actor best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and as George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals. He also portrayed Flt. Lt. Andrew MacDonald, "Intelligence", in The Great Escape.
He would have been 97 years old 🎈
He died aged 66 in 1990. 
Desmond Llewelyn  was a Welsh actor, best known for his role as Q in 17 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1999.
He died on this day in 1999.He was 85 years old.
 We carry on watching Season 15 of Hell's Kitchen..
Planning our Christmas telly watching...
A good film on tomorrow...
Hubby does the tea↓
No ideas for our Christmas Cake this year.
Just a blank space at the moment..
Or as Taylor Swift once sang....
Watched Season 15 Hell's Kitchen to when the black jackets get handed out.
Over the fortnight I have off,
I am going to get more interesting facemasks made.....
Just need to find the time to wrap up the Christmas presents.....
The clock is ticking down....
 Mince pies need making!
&
Oh yes, need to buy the trifle mix too...
Must remember not to add fruit to the jelly, as I did last year, and the jelly wouldn't set.
The jelly had to be set in the freezer instead!
Sleep Tea time! 
Hopefully will have a lie-in tomorrow....


 

 
 
 
 



 
 

Friday 18 December 2020

In Need Of That Friday Feeling!

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it 
- Dudley Moore
At last those lovely two words can be said with so much love!
FRIDAY FEELING🎈
Brew with a warm hug.
Breakfast.
Another Christmas dress to get me in the mood!
Now out in the darkness...
I gives hubby a sloppy wet 💋
I didn't put on my sexy lumo trousers as it was far too warm and it won't rain that much surely?
My younger brother went past in his van, 
Totally ignored me.
That's fine by me, I have more than enough going on in my life without his starting up!
I had a lovely Xmas Card off one of the parents I cross over.
I spotted my younger brother working in the next close to the car park.
Back home.
In need of strong coffee
Now to change the CD in Sexy Beast.
More singing along to do.
Quick look in the newspaper.
 Roger E. Mosley is a retired American actor, director and writer best known for his role as the helicopter pilot Theodore "T.C." Calvin in the television series Magnum, P.I.
He is 82 years old 🎈
Ray Liotta  is an American actor and producer. He is best known for playing Henry Hill in Goodfellas (1990). His other roles include Ray Sinclair in Something Wild (1986), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, as well as Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams (1989), Officer Pete Davis in Unlawful Entry (1992), Officer Gary Figgis in Cop Land (1997), Paul Krendler in Hannibal (2001), Fred Jung in Blow (2001), the voice of Tommy Vercetti in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002), Chief Gus Monroe in John Q (2002), Samuel Rhodes in Identity (2003), Detective Harrison in Observe and Report (2009), Markie Trattman in Killing Them Softly (2012), Peter Deluca in The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Lieutenant Matt Wozniak in the drama series Shades of Blue (2016–2018) and Jay Marotta in Marriage Story (2019).
He is 66 years old 🎈


I got my homemade mask ready.
I looked across the fields of fun..
The school I am going for the Dinner Job, phoned me about the upcoming interview next month.
Can I attend?
"Of course!" I replied.
I'm so glad I break up for two weeks \o/
I did what I had to do.
 I did a big sigh of relief when I left.
In Sexy Beast to guess the year..
Gets back home.
Both kids have finished school early.
Lunch.
The school I am going for a job for,what's a reference from my current school.
Then I leave with younger son in tow to do my final lollipop job of 2020.
I chat with some of the mums while I am waiting.
My son nips into the Post Office and sends off some Christmas Cards.
(Saves me a job for tomorrow)
I then treat him to a nice hot chocolate.
Then the weather starts to change.
Wind, rain and starts to get dark really quick.
I gets lots of have a happy Christmas from parents and children.
I get flowers and a card from someone I talk to in the afternoon before she goes to work.
And I got a nice present from one of the parents. 
I finished in one piece.
Goes back to the car,and there is my mate waiting with my Christmas card.
I wished him a Merry Xmas
On the way home, we nipped into Greggs.
When we got home.
The kids enjoyed their sausage rolls.
I meanwhile had a much deserved treat!
I got yesterday's blog post wrote.
I needed a warm hug when hubby returned home and he had a wet sloppy 💋
Nice treat of the month.
Fishcake and chips.
Afterwards, hubby and younger son went food shopping (Instead of going tomorrow afternoon)
I had some housework to get on with....
When they got back, son took the shopping around to our neighbour.
Once the shopping was put away.
We watched the final of Season 19 of Hell's Kitchen.
The winner was Kori.
Back to Season 15...
With some Sleep Tea.
Now to enjoy some Friday Feeling in a warm bed 🎈