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Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts

Monday, 4 May 2020

A Good Monday Is Hard To Find....

The cruellest lies are often told in silence - Robert Louis Stevenson
Welcome to Monday!
Let's hop onto my tiny Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡
 I had a nice hug and cup of tea to start the day↓
 I had breakfast.
Got dressed.
Not out for our daily walk↓
 
 Under the bridge↓
 Went past my late dad's house↓
 
We walked 1 and 1/2 miles altogether.
Hubby goes off to work↓


Back home to hang 3 baskets of wet washing on the line.
Quick look in the newspaper↓
Terry Scott  was an English actor and comedian who appeared in seven Carry On films. He also appeared in BBC1's domestic sitcom Terry and June with June Whitfield.He would have been 93 years old 🎈
 He died aged 67 in 1994
 Randy Travis, is an American country music and gospel music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor. He is 61 years old🎈
 Dom DeLuise  was an American actor, voice actor, comedian, director, producer, chef and author. He was the husband of actress Carol Arthur and the father of actor, director, pianist, and writer Peter DeLuise, and actors David DeLuise and Michael DeLuise. He starred in a number of movies directed by Mel Brooks, in a series of films with career-long best friend Burt Reynolds, and as a voice actor in various animated films by Don Bluth.He died aged 75 in 2009.
  I got the saw out to shorten the trellising↓
I will paint it green later on in the week.
I had my Amazon delivery↓
I wrote up the weekend blog posts.
Now for a little boost.....↓
 Hubby followed me so he could drop off his car to be MOT and serviced.
 Gets back in the sunshine↓
 Light lunch time↓
 My new bench arrived↓
 Tea at 3pm↓
 Kenny was sulking and wanted to be played with....
 I made a nice Lemon Drizzle Cake↓
 The youngest son was putting the bench together.
While we went food shopping↓
Some people were not doing the 2 meter rule!!!
The Bench is ready to be christened by my big arse↓
 Unloaded the shopping.
Now to start on the evening meal.
Courgette, Crab, Pork Stir Fry with Mexican Rice
 Followed by tea and lemon drizzle cake↓
 Now off to work↓
Has some great music to sing-a-long with↓
It was nice and dark with a shiny moon when I got home.
We watched the newspaper review.
As no one is eating the bananas I bought at the weekend.Time for a bit of banana cake to be made tomorrow.......
More time with Kenny!
 








 

Saturday, 24 August 2019

Leaving Finger Prints....

I have my faults, but being wrong isn't one of them - Jimmy Hoffa
Welcome to my 3 day Bank Holiday Weekend 
I was up far too early for a Saturday.
 I listened to "Sounds of the 60s".
Breakfast time↓
 
  Now out for a ride in Sexy Beast.
 
 It's getting warm!

 
 I got some nice borders for the house↑
 I bought the newspaper↓
 I dropped my dad's newspaper through the door.
 Now to pick up my Dunelm order.
 
 
 
 
 Back home.
 
 Dunelm items looking nice.
Light lunch↓
 with coffee↓
Now to finish painting the stairwell↓
 It is getting well warm.
Time for a sucky!
 Ran out of yellow paint to finish off the stairwell ;(
It doesnt help with me accidently leaving yellow finger prints everywhere!
Enjoying a tea break in the garden
 
 Hubby put up the curtain rail in the hall window.
The curtains are coming tomorrow,
As well as the border for the stairs.
We had a nice fish cake evening meal↓
Tomorrow the plan tomorrow.
Get more yellow paint!
We finally caught  up on series 16 of Law and Order..
Now to make full use of our bed on this Saturday Night↓