Soothing A Battered Ego!

If you play with anything long enough it will break - Murphy's Law

Welcome to my Monday Motivation 🎈

No Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡 this week \o/ 

Nice warm hug to start the non-working week with. 

Brew with breakfast.

Hubby still has to go to work.

I gives him a sloppy wet one before he leaves.

I go back to sleep for a bit.

Then it was time to get up.

Both kids are up.

One son has work to go to ....

I leave the house and wait in Sexy Beast. 

I get the newspaper on the way.

Drops one son off,

The other one nips into Lidl.

Then off down to post some letters, and visit the local Charity shop.

First stop, Post Office.

Has a laugh with the Post Office staff, on the letters are for.

"You are gettting them poor inmates all excited!"

"True, and they must like what I am writing, as they write back!"I replied.

 Now onto the Charity shop...

Loads of bargains!!!!

Dropped off the bargains in Sexy Beast.

Quick look in Co-op for more reduced stuff.

I got the veggies for the homemade soup this week!

Now back home.

Coffee machine went on.

Unpacked all my bargains.

8th Minion......

My youngest has worn out the DVD of "Grease" he likes it that much!

My other son hasn't seen "Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", or "Snatch".

The soup and bread maker went back on.

So he has no excuse not to watch them now!

 Coffee Time.

&

Soup.

I did a bit of meditation,

The lavender candle and incense was well nice.

Felt full charged.

Tea at 3 

Then I got yesterday's blog post wrote up to tea time.

Meat Free Stir Fry.

Yum.

The bread from the breadmaker wasn't quite done, back in the oven for a bit longer....

Now to look inside today's newspaper.

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 76 years old 🎈 

William  Baldwin  is an American actor, producer, and writer. A member of the Baldwin family, he is the second-youngest Baldwin 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), Forgetting Sarah Marshall, in which he portrayed himself, and the Netflix show Northern Rescue (2019). Baldwin is married to singer Chynna Phillips. 

He is 59 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.

UK No.1 on this day in 1963:

Frank Ifield - Wayward Wind.

UK No.1 on this day in 1975:

Pilot - January.

UK No.1 on this day in 1976:

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons -

December 1963, (Oh What A Night)

UK No.1 on this day in 1981:

Joe Dolce Music Theatre -

Shaddap Your Face.

UK No.1 on this day in 1998:

Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On. 

USA No.1 on this day in 1981:

Dolly Parton - 9 to 5

The bread is now done!

I have 3 Godfather Books to read.

Outcomes the first one:

With 

Sleep Tea.

Hubby comes back all deflated.

He lost his snooker match and his team lost 3-2.

His has a week away from it now,

(As we are celebrating my Big Birthday 🎈)

He came back with my Birthday present from his dad.

Plus

 2 magic bags from Spar and Co-op.

Now to use my warm hand to soothe his battered ego in bed!

 

 

 
 

 

Crash, Bang, For The Third Time!

The first piece of luggage on the airport carousel never belongs to anyone - George Roberts

 Welcome to my Sunday 👻

Nice hug with brew...

Breakfast.

Dressed.

Now out for a little ride...

First stop....

Coffee...

Hubby picks up his grave ornament for his mum's grave from the pick up point (Argos)

Then it's off to see my mum and dad.

The grave has now been turfed over \o/

We went for a walk around the graveyard.

I went to see my friend's grave, Andy Weaver's.

Then onto Dave Messenger who I worked with at Royal Mail,and he was friends with my late dad since the 1960s.

I went over to my parent's grave to say goodbye and see them next week.

Back home.

Much needed coffee.

Lunchtime.

Then we went out for another little ride out..

Out for five minutes.

Back home.

Now to unpack my goodies...

I attempted to put the dog on the tree for the third time...

I went out of the room, and the space of the 5 minutes, the dog was off and on the floor.

👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻

Hubby had to go behind the TV cabinet to get it out.

Leaving it off the tree in the future!

Hubby starts on the tea for tonight.

I catch up with yesterday's blog post.

I just finish it when tea is ready!

Roast Chicken Tea

Afterwards, at quick look at birthdays...

 Sally Carr  is a Scottish singer, best known as the lead singer of the 1970s pop group Middle of the Road. 

She is 76 years old 🎈 

Chris Barrie (born Christopher Jonathan Brown) is a British actor, comedian, and impressionist. He worked as a vocal impressionist on the ITV sketch show Spitting Image and later starred as Arnold Rimmer in the sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf, as Gordon Brittas in the BBC leisure centre sitcom The Brittas Empire, and as Lara Croft's butler Hillary in the Tomb Raider franchise films.

He is 61 years old 🎈 

Sir Peter  Ustinov CBE FRSA  was an English actor, writer, and filmmaker. He was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. An intellectual and diplomat, he held various academic posts and served as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF and president of the World Federalist Movement.

Ustinov was the winner of numerous awards during his life, including two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, and BAFTA Awards for acting, and a Grammy Award for best recording for children.

He sadly died on this day in 2004 aged 82.

Now to watch a film we haven't seen before.

Really good film 

Sleep Tea Time.

Everyone is back on the Wobbly Life Wheel 🎡 tomorrow....