Attempting To Be A Domestic Goddess: Engelbert Humperdinck

Saturday, 2 May 2020

My New Toy To Play With!

Laws are like sausages.It's better not to see them being made." -
Otto Von Bismarck

Welcome to my Weekend.

As normal, I was up far too early for a Saturday.

I left Sleeping Beauty to snore.

Downstairs I went↓

I had tea with toast↓

Wrote yesterday's blog.

I was listening to "The Sounds of the 60s."

The sun is back↓

Sleeping Beauty woke up and came down to say hello.

We had warm hugs.

Breakfast.

Got changed.

Out to to get shopping↓

First stop was to get the newspaper from Tesco Express.

A former work mate from Royal Mail was in there. I said hello from a distance.

(I normally say morning to him when I am doing my Lollipop job🍭)

Next stop, was to see the newly installed gravestone at my parents' grave.

Oh dear, It looks like a bomb has hit it↓

I put everything back the way it should↓

Next stop was the Farm Shop.

Heard the joke about the chicken crossing the road?↓↓↓

A man was starring at me in the car park.

I looked at him and recognised who it was.

He says "Good Morning" to me when I am doing my Lollipop job in the morning.

(He gets his newspaper, and makes a joke about the weather :))

I said to him from a distance.

"Hi, how are you?"

He laughed, and said "Morning,fine thanks."

"Nice to see you again, hoping to see you soon, when I get back to the lollipop job!"

Next stop, was to get some meat for the week↓

There was no queue outside Waitrose.

I went straight in with a newly wiped trolley↓

Back home to unpack the shopping

Coffee and nibble↓

I had the message come throught to pick up the drill from Wickes↓

We did the social distance when I had my order given to me.

"My new toy to play with!", I told the men who was waiting for their order.

Back home for a late lunch↓

I catches up on the newspaper↓

Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey ) is an English pop singer. Humperdinck has been described as "one of the finest middle-of-the-road balladeers around." His singles "Release Me" and "The Last Waltz" both topped the UK music charts in 1967, and sold more than a million copies each. In North America, he also had chart successes with "After the Lovin'" (1976) and "This Moment in Time" (1979). He has sold more than 140 million records worldwide.

He is 84 years old🎈

Oliver Reed was an English actor known for his upper-middle class, macho image and "hellraiser" lifestyle. Notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill Sikes in the Best Picture Oscar winner Oliver! (1968), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), portraying Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973), Tommy (1975), Lion of the Desert (1981), Castaway (1986), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Funny Bones (1995) and Gladiator (2000).He died aged 61 in 1999.

I made a nice Cauliflower Cheese for the evening meal↓

Followed by a nice tasting tea cake↓

I had some reading material to catch up on↓

Time to binge watch more of:

Off to a warm bed with cold hands :)

Thursday, 2 May 2019

Getting Plenty Of....

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real - Cormac McCarthy

Finally made Thursday...

Fingers crossed I am not going get too wet

Tea in bed time!

I gave everyone sloppy 💋💋💋 before everyone left.

I enjoyed the first coffee of the day↓↓

I unloaded the dishwasher

loaded it back up.

Liquid Lunch time

The forecast said it won't rain until 3pm..

Out in the fresh air

Double figures↗↗↗

Birthdays Time

John Neville:Was an English theatre and film actor, who moved to Canada in 1972. He enjoyed a resurgence of international attention in the 1980s as a result of his starring role in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988).

He would have been 94 years old.

(He died aged 86 in 2011)

Engelbert Humperdinck : Is an English pop singer. Humperdinck has been described as "one of the finest middle-of-the-road balladeers around."His singles "Release Me" and "The Last Waltz" both topped the UK music charts in 1967, and sold more than a million copies each. In North America, he also had chart successes with "After the Lovin'" (1976) and "This Moment in Time" (1979). He has sold more than 140 million records worldwide

He is 83 years old.

Lesley Sue Goldstein known professionally as Lesley Gore: Was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16 (in 1963) she recorded the pop hit "It's My Party" (a US number one), and followed it up with other hits including "Judy's Turn to Cry", "She's a Fool", "You Don't Own Me", "Maybe I Know" and "California Nights".

She would have been 73 years old

(She died aged 68 in 2015)

Doctor Robert, [Bruce Howard]: Is the lead singer of the band,"The Blow Monkeys".They subsequently enjoyed a successful career with several hit singles and albums across the 1980s before splitting up at the beginning of the 1990s. Their first hit song was "Digging Your Scene", which hit No. 12 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1986. They had four albums and eleven singles in the UK charts from 1986 and 1990.

He is 58 years old.

Oliver Reed : Was an English actor known for his upper-middle class, macho image, hellraiser lifestyle, and "tough guy" roles. Notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill Sikes in the Best Picture Oscar winner Oliver! (1968), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), portraying Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973), Tommy (1975), Lion of the Desert (1981), Castaway (1986), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) and Funny Bones (1995).For playing Antonius Proximo, the old, gruff gladiator trainer in Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) in what was his final film, Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

He died aged 61 in 1999.