Attempting To Be A Domestic Goddess: April Fool's day

Friday, 1 April 2022

Trying Not To Be Fooled!

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind - Patrick Dennis

Welcome to my Friday Feeling 🎈

Nice big hug to start Friday with 👍

Brew with breakfast.

On goes to the thermal vest.

Dressed.

Hubby had the day off.

He was dropping me off.

Now to leave the house.

Gets dropped off.

Gives hubby a sloppy wet one.

I turn on my lights.

Now for the fun to start 🍭

Oh dear....

I had to put up with 4 emergency stops at the very last minute.Even the brakes locked, they stopped that quick!

Two cars had two BOINGS for failing to stop.

Good job I had my two hats and warm gloves on.

As it was well cold.

Finished in one piece.

Hubby picked me up.

Back home to drop off Lollipop stick and coat.

Back out for a big breakfast.

Winners from Dragon's Den↑↑

Marmite on toast.

Hubby had the big big breakfast.

My friend joined us for a coffee and chat.

After we had finished, time for a look around.

Plenty of lovely plants for the garden!

Back home to unload!

Hubby wasn't hungary.

I had some liquid lunch!

Now to leave early.

As we are popping into the Charity Show before I start my shift.

Goes into the Charity Shop.

Got some right bargains!

Back to the car, and to get changed into the lollypop coat.

Turned on my lights.

The hole was partly filled in.

My friends arrived for a little rabbit...

The workmen came back and sealed up the hole now.

I wished my friends a good weekend.

Now to to do the final shift of the week.

Oh dear, cars parking the KEEP CLEAR space, making it difficult for me to cross the parents and kids over the road.

One car parked in lay-by further down the road,

Had it's wing mirror knocked off.

Out came the sello tape!

Finished in one piece.

Now to collect Sexy Beast!

It passed the MOT :)

Back home we go.

Now for a much needed cup of brew.

Unpacked all the lovely things from the Charity Shop.

Hubby went off to do the food shopping early and the younger son doing next door's shopping.

I carried on writing yesterday's blog post.

Helped him put the shopping away when he came back.

Nice and easy tea.

Eggs on toast with garlic and mushrooms.

We watched the new series of

Have I Got News For You.

I looked inside today's newspaper.

Robin Scott is an English singer and founder of a music project he called M. His career encompasses six decades.

He is 75 years old 🎈

William Dale Fries Jr. , best known by his stage name C. W. McCall, was an American singer who wrote truck-themed outlaw country songs. He was also an activist and politician.

He died on this day in 2022, he was 93 years old.

UK No.1 on this day in 1953:

Guy Mitchell - She Wears Red Feathers

UK No.1 on this day in 1974:

Paper Lace - Billy, Don't Be Hero.

UK No.1 on this day in 1986:

Cliff Richard and The Young Ones -

Living Doll

USA No.1 on this day in 1989:

The Bangles - Eternal Flame.

Sleep Tea Time.

Off to that warm bed to enjoy more Friday Feeling 🎈

Monday, 1 April 2019

Too Stiff For Me!

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks - Richard Bach

Welcome to April

April Fool's Day...🤡

Back on the Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡

I started the day off with tea...↓

I gave everyone a sloppy kiss 💋 before they left...

It's Batman t-shirt time 🦇

Earrings↓

Went outside to enjoy the sunshine..🕶

Loaded up the dishwasher

Washing machine.

Now to enjoy 5-day green soup↓

I already to leave the house,

However,

I couldn't lock the front door..

Too stiff for me!

Council repairs department was called.

20 minutes later..

New front door lock...

↓Bye bye to the old one↓

Now onto work

(A little late)

Big big glasses time..

Birthdays Time.

Ali MacGraw: Is an American actress, model, author, and animal rights activist. She reached international fame in the 1970 film Love Story, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. The Getaway (1972) and Convoy (1978) as well as the romantic sports drama Players (1979), the comedy Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), and the historical novel-based television miniseries The Winds of War (1983).She is 80 years old.

Ronnie Lane :Was an English musician, songwriter, and producer who is best known as the bass guitarist and founding member of two prominent English rock and roll bands: Small Faces (1965–69) and subsequently Faces (1969–73). With Small Faces he was nicknamed "Plonk". After their breakup, reorganisation and Lane's losing the band's frontman slot to Rod Stewart, he earned the nickname "Three-Piece".For his work in both Small Faces and Faces, Lane was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.

He would have been 73 years old.

(He died aged 51 in 1997)

Alan Blakley: Was a British guitarist and record producer, who was a member of the Tremeloes from its inception until January 1975, where he started writing for other bands. His credits include writing various hits for the Tremeloes and co-producing the UK No. 42 hit "She's Gonna Win", with Bilbo Baggins.He would have been 77 years old.

(He died aged 54 in 1996)

Robin Scott :Is an English singer and founder of a music project he called M. His career encompasses four decades.In August 2017, Scott released his latest album Emotional DNA.He is 72 years old.

Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; Was an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Gaye helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of hits, including "Ain't That Peculiar", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", and duet recordings with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Diana Ross and Tammi Terrell, later earning the titles "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul".He died aged 44 in 1984.

Steven Bochco : Was a television producer and writer. He developed a number of television series, including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Doogie Howser, M.D., and NYPD Blue.He died aged 74 in 2018.