Attempting To Be A Domestic Goddess: Junior Walker

Monday, 23 November 2020

Drawing It To A Close!

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act with out the benefit of experience - Henry Miller

Welcome to my Monday🎈

No Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡 just yet...

Hug with brew.

Breakfast.

The youngest son was hogging the bathroom.

Nice big queue forming on the landing...

Good job we have a separate toilet room!

Hubby fetched my newspaper.

Gave him a sloppy wet 💋 before he left.

Both kids had more sloppy wet 💋💋💋 before they left to go to school.

I had a quick coffee..
&

Autry DeWalt Mixon Jr, known professionally as Junior Walker, was an American multi-instrumentalist (primarily saxophonist and vocalist) who recorded for Motown during the 1960s. He also performed as a session and live-performing saxophonist with the band Foreigner during the 1980s.He died on this day in 1995 aged 64.

I had to catch up with my blog.

Two blog posts to write up....

Once I done that...

I had a early lunch...

With

Now to do a mini Great British Sewing Bee Challenge...

To make the curtain I made on Friday, much wider to fit the window!

And add 3 layers of thermal material to it as well....

On my Christmas list is a metal 60cm ruler,

As I only have 2 plastic 30 cms rulers...

No Tea at 3 as I was hard at work sewing the curtain....

*We turn on all the Christmas Lights at 4pm..*

I finally finish extending the curtain!

Now to see how it looks in the window!

Hubby just comes home when it goes up.

I give him a sloppy wet 💋 and bear hug.

We have a meat-free Stir Fry.

My Amazon driver couldn't find me and went back to the depot with my order.

They will try again tomorrow!

We watch up to the final of season 10 of Hell's Kitchen.

With Sleep Tea of course.

I hope I'm not coming down with something, as I feel awful :(

Wednesday, 13 March 2019

Blowing The Dust Off...

There used to be me behind the mask,but i had it surgically removed - Peter Sellers

Welcome to my Hump of the Week🐫

We still have Storm Gareth still blowing outside,he is giving my wind chimes a good bang!

First cuppa of the day↑

I gave everyone sloppy 💋💋💋 before they left the house.

Blew the dust off the iron...

That didn't take too long...

Quick coffee and vitamin C↑

Worked on Monday's blog post.

Then liquid lunch↓

Just as I leave the house,

It starts to rain!

On goes the rain mac!

The temperature is going up↗↗↗

I had to go to two places to get my newspaper...grrrrr

Enjoyed listening to some 70s music on the way to work...

Are we going to crack double figures???

Now to look at the Birthdays

Neil Sedaka: American singer and songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do),is 80 years old.

Candi Staton: American singer–songwriter,whose hits include,
"Young Hearts Run Free", "You Got The Love" and "Nights on Broadway", is 76 years old.

Geoffrey Hayes: English television presenter and actor. He was best known as the presenter of Thames Television's children's show Rainbow from 1974 to 1992.He would have been 77 years old.
(He died aged 76 in 2018)

Ronnie Rogers:British guitarist (T'Pau).Hits include Heart and Soul, and China in you Hand. Teamed up with Carol Decker in 2013 for a T'Pau 25th anniversary UK tour.
He is 60 years old.

John Cazale: American actor. He appeared in five films over six years, all of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Deer Hunter. He appeared in archival footage in The Godfather Part III.He died aged 42 in 1978.

Junior Walker & the All-Stars were #1 on the Billboard R&B singles chart with the song, 'Shotgun' in 1965.

At Dunblane Primary School, Scotland: 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by Thomas Hamilton who then commits suicide. Results in handguns being banned in the UK. in 1996.