On Another Road Trip....

Ill-conceived love is like a Christmas cracker - one massively disappointing bang and the novelty soon wears off -

Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Welcome to my Saturday fun 👍

I had a lovely warm hug.

We listened to "Sounds of the 60s" in bed. 

The top 3 UK Singles 1963.

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2:

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Breakfast with brew.

Thermal vest goes on.

Dressed.

Shopping trolley loaded up.

Drops off one son at work.

Now onto Droitwich.

We park up, now to explore the fun with Droitwich Lions.

We bought some books and DVDs.

Then we moved onto the nearby Charity Shop and bought a cookie tea shaped like a Gingerbread House.

Back to the car we went.

Moved the car.

Now to look around Droitwich Charity Shops.

Bought a Minion and Churchhill the Dog.

 I bumped into a Governor from the school I used to dish up dinners for in Wilkinsons.

That large bag of bird food looked very heavy he was carrying.

I wished in a Happy Christmas and carried on shopping.

While hubby was in Coffee #1

I got some things from the Works.

Went to see the Salvation Army playing.

Goes back to the car to put the shopping Trolley in.

Nips into Waitrose to get some bits.

On the way to Dunelm we listen to Pick Of the Pops from 1965.

We was a bit miffed that he didn't play↓

Even my younger son was miffed off.

He liked the song!

One great song he did play was:

Gene Pitney was there too.

Len Barry as well:

The Beatles were at number 3:

And at number 2:

At Number 1 is:

Time for a coffee and nibble.

They did have blue milk \o/

Got my linings for my curtains.

Nipped into Lidl to get a bag of carrots.

Next I bought a Christmas Wreath and gave them the bag of carrots for their horses.

Visited my mum and dad and gave them the wreath.

Picked up son from work.

Gets back home.

Unpacks the car with all the goodies..

The 4th door of my Advent Calender is:

The Christmas tree is coming down tomorrow.

So I made room for it, while hubby done the tea.

Tea is served!

Quick look in the newspaper afterwards:

Bernard "Bernie" Dwyer was an English Drummer most famous for his work with the 60s Manchester beat group Freddie and the Dreamers.He was the first Drummer for Freddie and the Dreamers when they first formed in 1963. Since he couldn't do The Freddie (A Dance move made by The Dreamers) during performances due to him being sat down, Dwyer would bob his head left to right. He remained in the band until 1971. 

He sadly died aged 62 in 2002

The Beatles release "Beatles For Sale", their fourth studio album in 1964.

We carried on the four programmes on Live And Death Row.
The Mass Execution consists of four 60 or 75 minute episodes looking at the 8 inmates on Arkansas death row who's executions were pushed forward due to the expiration date on the Midazolam used in these executions.

The we watched Series 1 of Life and Death Row.

Episode 1, Execution:

   With unprecedented access inside prison walls, it discovers what it's like to live with the threat of the death chamber, as well as hearing from victims and their families and the family of those on death row - some praying for execution, some hoping for a reprieve. Each episode focuses on a key aspect of the system - execution, trial and appeal.

For two of the youngest men on death row in Texas, execution day has arrived. Victim Nikki Daniels reflects on her kidnapping ordeal by murderer Richard Cobb and battles with her conflicting desires to forgive him, while the mother of death row inmate Anthony Haynes fights to use the final 72 hours to halt her son's execution for the murder of a police officer.

Episode 2:Judgement.

 This film follows the trial of 26-year-old Guy Heinze Jr, with remarkable access to the jury members charged with reaching a verdict on allegations that Heinze beat his father and seven members of his family to death. As the trial progresses, there is legal manoeuvring while evidence about the brutal killings unfolds.

Sleep Tea time.

Now off to bed as the heating has gone off!

 

 

 

Finally Got It Emptied!

 You can stop almost anything from functioning by hitting it with a large rock - Russell Bell

 Welcome to my Sunday 📦📦

It was nice to have a warm hug to start Sunday with.

Breakfast with a brew.

Opened the curtains.....

Hubby and one son went to have their hair cuts.

While I did various jobs around the house.

The coffee machine was put on, just in time for hubby to come back!

Back to sorting out of the loft.

One big pile for the tip in the back garden.

The big pile for the storage unit.

First trip was to the storage unit...

When hubby came back, we loaded up the car for a tip run.

Lunch when he came back with an empty car!

Then we took time out to collect a magic bag and some free food from Olio.

Checked the tyre pressures on Sexy Beast.

We had the red light fun in Morrisons...

Picked up the Magic Bag on the way out.

Then off to see mum and dad.

Back home in the rain.

Free from Olio.

Some of the things from today's Magic Bag, are going to my Father-in-law tomorrow.

Back to finishing off the loft.

One final trip to the storage unit...

Then a final trip to the tip.

The carpets in the loft will be took down on Tuesday.

The washing machine has been busy today.

I was hoping to do some sewing with my sewing machine this week...

Gets out the sewing machine and the power lead is no where to been seen!!!

FFS!!

Had to order another one off Amazon....]

Good job it wasn't the foot pedal!

Tea is served.

While I was catching up with the blog.

I was watching from afar the second episode of the 20th series of Hell's Kitchen.

Then 9 weeks of Top of The Pops.

One song which they played, I enjoyed and sung along with it....

Bryan Adams was still number 1 with a great song....

& 

He had another entry with a new great song as well...

Sleep Tea time!

Quick look in the newspaper before bed. 

Eddie Cochran  was an American rock and roll musician. Cochran's songs, such as "Twenty Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody", and "Somethin' Else", captured teenage frustration and desire in the mid-1950s and early 1960s. He experimented with multitrack recording, distortion techniques, and overdubbing even on his earliest singles. He played the guitar, piano, bass, and drums. His image as a sharply dressed and attractive young man with a rebellious attitude epitomized the stance of the 1950s rocker, and in death he achieved iconic status.

He would have been 83 years old 🎈

He sadly died aged 21 in 1960.

Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans) is an American rock and roll singer and dancer. He is widely known for popularizing many dance styles, including The Twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B song "The Twist", and the Pony dance style with the 1961 cover of the song "Pony Time". However, his best-known song is the hit "Let's Twist Again", released in the same year; he also popularized in 1962 the song "Limbo Rock", originally a previous year instrumental hit by the Champs to whom he added lyrics, and its trademark Limbo dance, as well as others dance styles such as The Fly. In September 2008, "The Twist" topped Billboard's list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1960, an honor it maintained for an August 2013 update of the list.

He is 80 years old 🎈 

Back on the Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡 tomorrow 🍭