Better Start Digging The Car Out!

Three things have helped me through the ordeals of life: an understanding husband, a good analyst, and a million of dollars - Mary Tyler Moore.

Welcome to my Sunday 💓

I had enough sleep by 7.30am.

I went downstairs to make a brew while Sleep Beauty was snoring.

Opened the bedroom curtains when I got back upstairs. 

Had a warm cuddle.

He got up the make the breakfast.

Breakfast had.

Thermal vest goes on.

Now to go outside in the cold temperatures.

Checked the tyres pressures on Sexy Beast.

Drops back Sexy Beast, and we do the same to hubby's car. 

Then we went on to see my mum and dad.

I got chattering with Mrs Messenger whose late husband was a good friend of my dads, and I worked with at Royal Mail.

It was getting too cold.

I said goodbye and we got back home.

The heating went back on, as it was freezing!

Early lunch

Washing machine was put back on.

Then I had to write 2 blog posts.

The Tiler came to finish the bathroom.

Made him a cup of tea.

Hubby went on the spin bike and the ab trainer.

He had a lovely red glow after that.

The Amazon Echo I bought on Black Friday has failed to arrive, refund job tomorrow.

Now to get ready to make two Advent Calenders for tomorrow.

The Tiler had finished my bathroom.

I thanked him so much.

It's got the WOW Factor!

New Shower Curtain.

Now to put all the stuff back in the bathroom.

Toileties, bath mat, and bathroom mats.

I will turn the things we got in the bathroom around tomorrow.

Next job to do, it to paint the walls blue.....

Sorted out all the dried washing.

Hubby forgot to keep eye on the chicken in the oven....

At least it was overcooked not undercooked!

It's a good job I covered up Sexy Beast, as it now had finished snowing and the temperatures are dropping!

Great for tomorrow!

Quick look into the newspaper...

Bruce Channel is an American singer-songwriter best known for his 1962 million-selling number-one hit record, "Hey! Baby". 

He is 81 years old 🎈

Leslie Nielsen OC  was a Canadian actor and comedian. With a career spanning 60 years, he appeared in more than 100 films and 150 television programs, portraying more than 220 characters.

Nielsen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. After high school, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943 and served until the end of World War II. Upon his discharge, Nielsen worked as a disc jockey before receiving a scholarship to study theatre at the Neighborhood Playhouse. He made his acting debut in 1950, appearing in 46 live television programs a year. Nielsen made his film debut in 1956, with supporting roles in several dramas and western and romance films produced between the 1950s and the 1970s.

Although his notable performances in the films Forbidden Planet and The Poseidon Adventure gave him standing as a serious actor, Nielsen later gained enduring recognition for his deadpan comedy roles during the 1980s, after being cast for the Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker comedy film Airplane!. In his comedy roles, Nielsen specialized in portraying characters oblivious to and complicit in their absurd surroundings. Nielsen's performance in Airplane! marked his turning point, which made him "the Olivier of spoofs" according to film critic Roger Ebert, and leading to further success in the genre with The Naked Gun film series, based on the earlier short-lived television series Police Squad!, in which Nielsen also starred. Nielsen received a variety of awards and was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

He died on this day in 2010 aged 84 

Sleep Tea Time

I have a look outside.

Lots of snow and ice...

Better dig out my garden spade!

It's going to be fun on that Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡 tomorrow....🍭

 

Braving The Snow!

I've several varieties of sex.The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw -

Tallulah Bankhead

Welcome to my Saturday ❆

We listened to "Sounds of the 60s" in bed with a brew.

The UK Singles top three was from 1964. 

3.

2.

1.

Breakfast.

Thermal vest time.

Dressed.

The snow is coming down when we leave.

Drops one son off at work.

Now to carry on to Bromsgrove to have my Booster jab.

Steady 40 m.p.h speed.

Gets to the Covid Centre.

Goes in, gets the Booster.

Sits down for 15 minutes.

Then out I go to see Hubby.

Off to Lidl to do the week's foodshop.

Anyone want a coffee machine?

Big Telly time.

Octopuss anyone?

Another big telly at the till.

We got a bargain wok for £19.99 instead of £79.99.

We then went into Food Warehouse, then Home Bargains.

On the way home, we nipped into Morrisons and we had a cheeky Americano from Starbucks.

Back home.

Unloaded the shopping.

Getting very cold in here.

Draws the curtains, heating goes on.

Time for a warm lunch.

Plus a much needed cup of coffee with a nibble.

We watched a great progamme about Brian Clough.

Then we watched:

I Am A Killer on Netflix.

Time for tea.

We watched Queen at the BBC.

Then.

Freddy Mercury: The Final Act.

The story of the extraordinary final chapter of Freddie Mercury’s life and how, after his death from Aids, Queen staged one of the biggest concerts in history, the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium, to celebrate his life and challenge the prejudices around HIV/Aids.

The film hears from those who performed at the epic gig, including Gary Cherone (Extreme), Roger Daltrey (The Who), Joe Elliott (Def Leppard), Lisa Stansfield and Paul Young, as well as the concert’s promoter, Harvey Goldsmith.

For the first time, Freddie's story is told alongside the experiences of those who tested positive for HIV and lost loved ones during the same period. Medical practitioners, survivors and human rights campaigners, including Peter Tatchell, recount the intensity of living through the Aids pandemic and the moral panic it brought about.

Afterwards we caught up with the news.

Looked in today's newspaper.

Eddie Rabbitt was an American country music singer and songwriter. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974. Later in the 1970s, Rabbitt helped to develop the crossover-influenced sound of country music prevalent in the 1980s with such hits as "Suspicions", "I Love a Rainy Night" (a number-one hit single on the Billboard Hot 100), and "Every Which Way but Loose" (the theme from the film of the same title). His duets "Both to Each Other (Friends and Lovers)" with Juice Newton and "You and I" with Crystal Gayle later appeared on the soap operas Days of Our Lives and All My Children.

He would have been 80 years old 🎈

He sadly died aged 56 in 1998 

Trevor Ward-Davies 'Dozy', British rock bassist (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich), (born in Enford, Wiltshire).

He would have been 77 years old 🎈

He sadly died in 2015 aged 70.

 

Sleep Tea Time.

I had a email concerning the cleaning job I applied for on Monday.

 

That's fine:) 

Perhaps they might want to take the advert down if they are interviewing people....

The Bathroom is being finished tomorrow \o/

Now off to that warm bed...

 

Getting In The Festive Mood (Early)

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year 

- Victor Borge

Welcome back to the Friday Feeling 🎈

Nice warm hug.

Brew with Breakfast.

Thermal vest goes on.

&

Sexy yellow lumo trousers.

It's raining pretty hard outside.

Gives hubby a sloppy wet 💋 before I leave.

The hall where I normally park was closed. I parked around the corner. I got on my big boots, 2 hats and waterproof gloves.

I turn on my lights, and wait under shelter to

Starts my shift, as the rain is really coming down.

Once I do start, the fun starts.

Orange bread lorry, stops in the Keep Clear space, so I have to walk behind it, to stop the traffic. 

On woman in white volvo, gave me a look of hate when I stopped her, and she drove off in the wrong gear....

At least the rain stopped half way through my shift and the sun came out!

Finished in one piece.

Went back to Sexy Beast.

Just took off my winter coat.

It just poured down with rain.

I picked up the newspaper on the way home.

On goes the coffee machine.

Tumble drier goes on.

Coffee time.

Now to update the blog with 2 blog entries up to lunch.

Now to leave early to get a parking space.

Gets the last car parking space.

On goes two hats and gloves.

Puts on my lights.

Mince pie time.

Christmas market time.

The large gusts of wind isn't helping.

I say goodbye to my 2 friends and start my last shift of the week.

Car drivers are trying not to stop.

Until I lower my stick and they have to!

At least I finished in one piece!

Walks back to the car, and the car park is half empty now!

Nice pink clouds!

Back home I go.

Now to fry the beef, onions, mushrooms, garlic in the large pan.

Adds the vegetables to the casserole dish.

Into the oven it goes.

Finishes writing yesterday's blog post.

Gives hubby a sloppy wet 💋when he comes home.

Tea is served.

Now to listen to some great 70s tunes.

Now for some Christmas tunes...

The Flying Pickets - Only You

Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry

Mud - Lonely this Christmas.

Now to look into today's newspapers.

Norman  Milne, known professionally as Michael Holliday  was a British singer, who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

He had a number of chart hits in the UK, including two number one singles, "The Story of My Life" and "Starry Eyed"

He would have been 97 years old 🎈

He sadly died aged 38 in 1963.

We watched "Have I Got News For You."

Sleep Tea Time.

Bed early as I am having my Covid-19 Booster tomorrow...