Pushing Me To The Limit!

 When all else fails, and the instructions are missing... kick it -

Anon

Welcome to my Saturday 👅

Nice warm hug to start Saturday with.

Breakfast with Brew.

Now to listen to "The Sounds of the 60's"

The Top 3 is from 1969. 

3:

Diana Ross,The Supremes,& The Temptations-

I Gonna Make You Love Me.

2:

Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To (My lovely?)

1:

Amen Corner - (If Paradise) is Half As Nice 

Thermal vest went on.

Now off out.

Dropped off son at work.

Now to do the shopping.

Just parked the car, when a woman came out of Lidl and just was gawping at me, especially when I got out of the car.

Under my facemask, I said:

"Do you want a picture?"

We done the week's shopping.

My younger son did my neighbour's shopping.

Then the rain came down.

Further visits to Food Warehouse, Home Bargains and Morrisons, I stopped in the car.

Then back home, in the rain.

7 parcels were put under the garden table.

I put the coffee maker on,

As well as the soup maker.

Helped put the shopping away.

Now for Coffee

My Godfather books arrived.

Now for some soup!

Gets all my things ready for the Tarot and Crystal Course.

Gets dropped off.

Learns more about crystals and moving onto doing our own Tarot Reading.

That hour went quick.

Bought something to help to learn what colour crystals I need to use during Charka crystal healing.

Gets picked up.

Back home to drop off my Course Paperwork.

Now back out.

I couldn't get what I wanted anywhere else except for Dunelm.

Got it.

Then went somewhere to look at a new gas cooker.

Oh dear, the Salesman had to deal with an awkward customer, so we had to wait.

I was going to wait another 5 mins before leaving.

Some nice new Kennys

The Salesman finally got that sale wrapped up,just in time.

First he tried to flog the warranty for the cooker to me:

3 years - £186

5 years - £214

No thanks

Then for it to be delivered (£20).

Uninstall the old cooker was extra as well.

 £90 to install the new one and take the old one away.

To unwrap the new cooker, was extra.

I told him no thanks for that.

The Plumber we had 3 times before, only charged £60 to uninstall and install the currant gas cooker.

(He didn't like that)

I was waiting for him to knock some off...

(£20 was added on for delivery)

He in the end, knocked off £50.

I only hope they find my house when they delivery next week, as he scrolled down the addresses for my postcode, and my house wasn't on, but my neighbour was. 

The receipt for my oven was given the previous customer, who had already left the store with it, before I got to pay for it! 

They printed another one off for me before I left.

I had to nip back into Dunelm for something.

Oh dear, one person on the till. The queue was backing up, the till operator was asking for more staff to go on the till, no one came.

One woman in the queue behind us, put her stuff down, left the store. Two people who were in the queue after standing there for 10 minutes, decided to put their facemasks on!

I paid for my purchase finally, and out of there I went!

Back home.

Hubby started on the tea.

Quick look in today's newspaper.

 Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco , known professionally as Lou Christie, is an American soft rock singer-songwriter known for several pop rock hits in the 1960s, including his 1966 US chart-topper "Lightnin' Strikes" and 1969 UK number-two "I'm Gonna Make You Mine". 

He is 79 years old 🎈 

On this day in 1985, 13 million viewers watched the first episode of the BBC1 soap opera, EastEnders. The series was created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland and aimed to rival ITV’s Coronation Street. It was set in the fictional working class London Borough of Walford.

On this day in 1992,
The last episode of the ITV crime drama series, Van der Valk, was broadcast. It featured a detective based in Amsterdam: Simon "Piet" Van Der Valk, played by Barry Foster. There were 32 episodes produced, beginning on 13 September 1972. 

USA No.1 on this day in 1966:

Lou Christle - Lightning Strikes 

USA No.1 on this day in 1972:

Nilsson - Without You 

USA No.1 on this day in 1977: 

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light

Number one when I born.

UK No.1 on this day in 1972:

Chicory Tip - Son Of My Father.

UK No.1 on this day in 1977:

Leo Sayer - When I Need You 

UK No.1 on this day in 2006:

Meck ft Leo Sayer - Thunder In My Heart Again.

We had a nice tea.

I ate it too quick to take a photo.

Oops.

We watched the second episode of season two of Fame.

I noticed one star in this episode, whose name I mentioned BEFORE it was at the credits at the end of the episode.

His name is Richard Venture.

(He appeared in StreetHawk too)

Sleep Tea time.

Lots of letter writing to do tomorrow....

Better rest my writing hand then.

 

 

 

 
 

 
 

 

 
 
 

 
 

Wherefore Art Thou My Bargains?

The difference between light and hard is that you can sleep with a light on - Anon

Welcome to a wet Hump of the Week🐪

*2000th blog post*
 My dad's death announcement in the local newspaper↓

We all enjoyed a rare mid-week lie-in...

Closely followed by:

 Warm hug & cup of tea!

We all got up and out of the house↓

 Quick look in the newspaper↓

Smokey  Robinson, American R&B and soul singer-songwriter (The Miracles),is 80 years old🎈

Lou Christie, is an American singer-songwriter best known for three separate strings of pop hits in the 1960s, including his 1966 hit "Lightnin' Strikes".He is 77 years old 🎈

 It was starting to rain again.

We get to Stratford Upon Avon...

We made sure we got a ticket ↓

 

 Off to the first Charity Shop.

I got 4 1960's CDs for £2!

I got talking about "Sounds of the 60s" on a Saturday morning to the staff.

"I won't be getting up that early for Tony Blackburn!" One said.

Off to visit more Charity shops.

 

 

 I walk into the next Charity Shop,

Then I started singing along..↓

People was looking at me, I carried on singing along.

Once the song finished,

I left the shop.

I moved on to the next Charity shop

and found a great book↓

  They was song, which I had to sing along with↓

Looked around a bit more↓

 

 The water is still up↗↗↗

 

 Lunchtime↓

 Let's have a look in Laura Ashley↓

 

 

 

 I got a bargain↓

 Nice shoes↓

 Nice↓

We then moved onto a great place↓

They had some great stuff↓

 

 

 

 I got some nice stuff↓

 

 We drop it off home.
Then we go round to my dad's house.
Utterly heartbreaking.
The heart has been ripped out :(
The flowers and cards:

Back home for coffee and nibble↓

 I managed to salvage some photos...↓

 My dad with his grandson↑

My dad sorting out the land he just bought↑

 Me opening up a xmas present in the 70s↑

 My late mum on her wedding day↑
Some of the lovely things I bought from Stratford Upon Avon↓

The cake stand I paid £8 (instead of £30) is being used! Nice bit of bling↓

 Then off to the Happy Place Of Work
Tea was ready when I got back↓

  We finished off the banana cake↓

 Off to do more work with some great tunes to sing along with↓

 

Back home to kick off the steaming hot rollers↓

Now to use my warm hands to their full use on hubby!