Attempting To Be A Domestic Goddess: 2021

All the things I really like to do either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

Alexander Woollcott

Welcome to my New Year's Eve 💋

My one and only New Year Resolution...↓

KEEP AWAY FROM ARSEHOLES!

Brew with warm hug.

Breakfast.

Dressed.

Hubby went and got the newspaper.

I got our teenagers up by opening the windows in their bedrooms.

Let some fresh air in!

Then we had to scrape Sexy Beast.

Off out to see Cllr Baker on what will happen next in the process of being an Councillor...

I chatted with Joe's husband and enjoyed a much need coffee too :)

It's going to involved a interview in front of five people on Zoom next week.

Followed by another interview.

At the moment I am the only one going for it.

If anyone wants to go for it, they have until Monday to put their application form.

I wished Joe and Pete a Happy New Year.

At least it was still blue skies when I got home.

Still freezing cold!

Glad I put on the thermals this morning!

Quick read of the newspaper.

Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. , known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, activist, and humanitarian, whose greatest commercial success was as a solo singer. After traveling and living in numerous locations while growing up in his military family, Denver began his music career with folk music groups during the late 1960s. Starting in the 1970s, he was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the decade and one of its best-selling artists

He would have been 77 years old 🎈

He died aged 53 in 1997.

Eric Nelson , known professionally as Ricky Nelson until his 21st birthday when he officially dropped the "y" and simply became Rick Nelson, was an American rock & roll star, pop pioneer, musician, singer-songwriter and actor. From age eight he starred alongside his family in the radio and television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. In 1957, he began a long and successful career as a popular recording artist. As one of the top "teen idols" of the 1950s, his fame led to a motion picture role co-starring alongside John Wayne and Dean Martin in Howard Hawks's western feature film Rio Bravo (1959). He placed 53 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, and its predecessors, between 1957 and 1973, including "Poor Little Fool" in 1958.

He died on this day in 1985 aged 45.

Dean Ford (born Thomas McAleese); was a Scottish singer and songwriter best known for his tenure as lead vocalist and frontman of the beat pop group Marmalade from 1966 to 1974. Ford (credited as McAleese) co-wrote the group's worldwide hit "Reflections of My Life" with fellow band member Junior Campbell. "Reflections of My Life" has sold more than two million units globally, and in 1998 the writers were awarded a Special Citation of Achievement by BMI for attaining radio broadcast performances in excess of one million in the U.S. alone.

He died on this day in 2018 aged 73