Stretching The Pins!

There are two things in life I like hard and one of them is eggs - 

Mae West

Welcome to my Sunday 💃

I got up to make a brew.

Unloaded and loaded up the dishwasher.

Sleeping Beauty awoke.

He then went onto make breakfast.

I took the cups of tea upstairs.

Breakfast time!

Bacon and mushroom sandwich!

Yum yum!

Dressed.

I got the kids up with opening all their windows.

My youngest son had to clean the car he inherited off our neighbour.

I hope my neighbour can make it up to his Birthday next month.

(He has been lucky to get this far, as the Doctors only gave him a few months to live in August!)

We do our daily exercise for half an hour.

Felt better for that.

Coffee time!

I started on writing two blog posts.

Hubby goes upstairs and tries to get the grout off the tiles in the bathroom.

I got Friday's blog wrote.

Nearly finished writing Saturday's post, and there was a glitch, and everything disappeared!

Whole hour wasted!

Much need coffee time again...

Back to rewriting the blog post again.

Late lunch.

I finally get yesterday's blog wrote and published.

Trying to find a boxset of films we are watching the first later.

Clothes are dry in the tumble drier.

(First job of Monday to get them sorted out)

Kids had no homework during half term.

The pies get put in the oven.

On goes the film..

Tea is served.

Lethal Weapon 2 is being watched tomorrow↓

Eddi-Rue McClanahan was an American actress and comedian best known for her roles on television as Vivian Harmon on Maude (1972–78), Aunt Fran Crowley on Mama's Family (1983–84), and Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls (1985–92), for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1987.  

She would have been 87 years old 🎈

She died in 2010 aged 76

Ellen Tyne Daly  is an American actress. She has won six Emmy Awards for her television work and a Tony Award, and is a 2011 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.

Daly began her career on stage in summer stock in New York, and made her Broadway debut in the play That Summer – That Fall in 1967. She is best known for her television role as Detective Mary Beth Lacey in Cagney & Lacey (1982–88), for which she is a four-time Emmy Award winner as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. In 1989, she starred in the Broadway revival of Gypsy and won the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

She is 75 years old 🎈

 

William  Baldwin  is an American actor, producer and writer. A member of the Baldwin family, he is the third-oldest of the four Baldwin brothers. He has starred in the films Flatliners (1990), Backdraft (1991), Sliver (1993), Virus (1999), The Squid and the Whale (2005), played himself in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and currently stars in and produces the Netflix show Northern Rescue. Baldwin is married to singer Chynna Phillips. He is 58 years old 🎈

Les Gray  was an English musician best known for his work with glam rock pop band Mud. Gray was also known for his distinctive vocal impersonation of Elvis Presley.

He died on this day in 2004 aged 57

Sleep Tea time..

Kids are back on their on-line learning tomorrow.

Hubby back in the office....

Me?

No Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡 for me yet!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Come With Me To Watch The Box!

 I bought all those celebrity exercise videos. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch them - Dolly Parton 

Welcome to my Saturday 👯

Brew with hug.

Breakfast.

The helicoper had returned.

We went back to bed to enjoy the warm duvet cover.

Now to get up,

Dressed.

Out of the house for some fresh air!

We paid a visit to my parent's grave.

The gravestone behind my parents, was returned and filled the details of the man I chattered last March before the first lockdown.

Then off to pick up some shopping.

I sat in the car while we waited.

Hubby loaded the shopping in the boot and off we went back home.

We put the shopping away.

One of my kids found a 48 year old picture of me with my late dad :)

Lunchtime

&

Read  today's newspaper.

Peter  Strauss  is an American television and film actor, known for his roles in several television miniseries in the 1970s and 1980s. He is five-time Golden Globe Awards nominee.

He is 74 years old🎈

Robert Strauss  was an American actor. He became most familiar in Hollywood films of the 1950s such as Stalag 17 (1953), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. 

He died on this day aged 61 in 1975.

We watched the last episode of "Judge Rinder" on the planner.

Now to carry on watching 2 episodes of Top of the Pops from 1990.

 

Next one.

I started on the evening meal. 

Once done, I put it in the oven.

Movie Time! 

Tea was ready.

Another film to watch.

It is called  Lessons in Love for the UK release.

Really great film.

Malcolm McDowell plays Pierce's dad.

He stole every scene he was in.

Great film!

Sleep tea time.

Now to enjoy that lovely duvet again!

 

Is That You Airwolf?

 Beauty is only a light switch away - Austin Powers

Welcome to the Friday Feeling 🎈

Hug with Brew.

Breakfast.

Hubby goes and fetches the newspaper before work.

I go back to sleep 💤

He brings up a nice cup of coffee later on.

I get up and get dressed.

Gets the kids up as well.

(All their windows are opened)

Quick look in the newspaper.

 William "Smokey" Robinson Jr.  is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson was the founder and front man of the Motown vocal group the Miracles, for which he was also chief songwriter and producer. He led the group from its 1955 origins as "the Five Chimes" until 1972, when he announced his retirement from the group to focus on his role as Motown's vice president. However, Robinson returned to the music industry as a solo artist the following year. After the sale of Motown Records in 1988, Robinson left the company in 1990. Robinson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and was awarded the 2016 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for his lifetime contributions to popular music.

He is 81 years old 🎈

&

More coffee ;)

I then got on with writing yesterday's blog post.

We have had no post since Monday..

I hope to have some tomorrow at least!

Lunchtime!

Finished off the bread.

More bread to be made later!

Writes out list for shopping later.

 Tea at 3.

Younger son gets list off neighbour next door.

Once hubby goes off to the shopping.

I put the dry washing away, and sort out the clothes hung on the back of the bathroom and bedroom doors.

Once they come back from shopping.

Nice easy tea to have.

There are 4 episodes left of Judge Rinder.

We watch 3 of them.

Leaving the last one for tomorrow!

Sleep Tea time.

While we were getting ready for bed.

We had a police helicoper flying over the house...

I felt like being in an episode of Airwolf!