I'm not a snob.Ask anybody.Well, anybody who matters -
Simon LeBon.
Welcome to my Saturday 👣
Nice warm hug.
Brew with breakfast.
We listened to "Sounds of the 60's"
UK Top 3 from 1960.
3: Michael Holiday - Starry Eyes↓
2: Anthony Newley - Why↓
1: Emile Ford & The Checkmates -
What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?↓
Thermal vest goes on.
As well as some layers.
Now out of the house we go.
Parks car.
Now to look in the first Charity Shop.
There was nothing in there.
Picked up an Americano
(With blue milk)
Plus a cake to eat later on.
Moving on with the Road Trip.
Lots of bargains we got.
Nipped into Waitrose for some bits.
Then back out for a nibble!
On the way back,
Hubby got his car cleaned...
All nice and clean now.
Back home to unpack all the lovely bargains.
More jigsaws for younger son to do.
Lunchtime.
We rewatched the Meatloaf programme again from last night.
Really good programme.
R.I.P Meat Loaf.
Now to put all the Minions together.
I will have to make some trousers for the Hulk teddy.
Younger son already did one Jigsaw that we bought earlier.
I carried on writing two blog posts.
Hubby recovered from his migraine.
(Slept it off)
To do the tea.
Tea was finished.
Blogs were published.
Time to catch up with 2 episodes of Top of the Pops from 1992.
A good song was at number 11.
There would be a new number one for the next 8 weeks...↓
Marcella Detroit was sacked in 1993 from the band.
While unsurprised at the final dissolution of the partnership, Detroit
was distressed by the way it ended and how it was announced. Many years
later, she would comment "I was never in it to steal anyone's glory
away; I just did my job. I was asked by everybody to become part of it
and then everybody wanted me out... I learned a lot about what it means
to be an artist... To put two people as different as we were together –
well, we were bound to have differences personality-wise. In the video
for 'Stay', I was singing to this guy who was dying and she (Siobhan)
was the Angel of Death. We used our personality differences to our
advantage, but it was a little too real!"
Detroit and Fahey had not spoken to or seen each other for 25 years before eventually meeting and talking again in 2018.
They did some good songs together in 2019.
I looked into today's newspaper.
Bill Bixby was an American actor, director, producer, and frequent game-show panelist.
His career spanned more than three decades, including appearances on
stage, in films, and on television series. He is known for his roles as
Tim O'Hara in the CBS sitcom My Favorite Martian, Tom Corbett in the ABC sitcom The Courtship of Eddie's Father, stage illusionist Anthony Blake in the NBC crime drama series The Magician, and scientist Dr. David Banner in the CBS science-fiction drama series The Incredible Hulk. He would have been 88 years old 🎈
He sadly died aged 59 in 1993.
Exactly a week after it aired in America, the first episode of Hill Street Blues received its UK premiere on this day in 1981.
Joan Armatrading releases
"Drop the Pilot" on this day in 1983.
On this date in 1984 "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood reaches number one in the UK singles chart, despite the BBC ban; it will spend a total of 42 weeks in the top 40.
"Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes was the #1 song on the Billboard charts today in 1984. It was the first of two 2 straight weeks on top.
Airwolf, the action drama tv series debuted today in 1984. The series ran for a total of four seasons airing 80 episodes.
Then we moved onto watch
"Dragon's Den"
Then we caught up with the news.
Sleep Tea time.
Now to enjoy a very warm bed with a nice and warm hubby!
If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well - Proverb
Welcome to my Hump Of the Week 🐫
Warm hug with brew.
Breakfast.
Opens the curtains...
Sunshine is coming back \o/
Dressed.
Gives hubby a sloppy wet 💋 before I leave.
It was still a bit cold to put the summer coat back on.
The big big sunglasses went back on.
I put on my lights on.
Now for the fun to start...🍭
Car drivers were going under my stick once it was raised up.
As soon as I dropped it down, they soon stopped.
The otherside of the road just as bad!
As least the sun is out!
I finished in one piece.
I chatting to a man who waves at me every morning.
His son got killed down Alcester Rd, On New Years's Eve in the late 1980's
(The other main road, which is far more busy than the road I do my lollypop job).
He was trying to cross the road, when he was hit at 70 m.p.h by a stolen black Ford Escort Xr3i.
The stolen car was later found burnt out.
He died after 11 days in hospital.
The Police got a lucky break, when they stopped another stolen black Ford Escort Xr3i. They got one of four teenagers that was in the car.
(The other 3 ran off)
The teenager admitted being in the car (In hit and run), and named the other 3 teenagers.
The driver of the car only got 2 and 1/2 years for killing the man in the hit and run.
That is why there is a Pedestrian Refuge Island there now.
I use my Pedestrian Refuge Island to cross people over.
I learnt it was put there as someone was killed crossing over the road!
After the man stopped talking,
I said his late son had the same first name as my husband, and his late wife shared my first name too.
I said if he ever wants to have a chat, he knows where I am.
Then off to the Co-op to get some supplies!
Then picked up my newspaper and my neighbour's magazine.
Back home.
I puts on the coffee machine.
Then I go around to see my neighbour with his magazine.
Has chat for a half an hour.
I got back and my coffee was ready!
My large sewing bag arrived!
The embroidery machine is in the poker dot bag.
Overlocker machine is in the grey bag.
The red and blue bag holds my sewing machine.
What is so strange, I have no power lead for the overlocker, and still can't find the power lead that came with the sewing machine either!
(Good job I bought a replacement one!)
I ran out of time to write yesterday's blog post and hop onto my spin bike either :(
Lunchtime arrives....
At last the sun comes out!
On goes my summer coat!
I put on my lights, and I chat with my two friends before I start my shift!
Now for the fun to start....🍭
Car drivers were again not stopping until I lowered my stick.
I had a man on my right watchng what I was doing.
One parent I crossed over, said to me..
"What a day I have had!"
"Time for a massage,"I replied to him
"Fat chance of that happening!" He laughed.
One car driver found his brakes just in time after I lowered my stick.
The passenger in the car was banging her gums when she went past.
The man that was watching me, asked me:
"Is that in your training? To do that with your stick?"
"Yes, and my four moves are in the Highway Code!" I replied.
He didn't answer that to that, and walked off.
I finished in one piece.
Now to get back home.
I put the tea in the oven.
Now to get down and write yesterday's blog post.
Hubby came back and a warm hug and a sloppy wet 😘.
Tea was served.
Once blog post was published.
Now to look into today's newspaper.
Richard Farnsworth was an American actor and stuntman. He is best known for his performances in Comes a Horseman (1978), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for the Best Supporting Actor, The Grey Fox (1982), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, Anne of Green Gables (1985), Misery (1990), and The Straight Story (1999), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
He died on this day in 2000 aged 80.
Peter "Ginger" Baker was an English drummer and a co-founder of the rock band Cream. His work in the 1960s and 1970s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer", for a style that melded jazz and African rhythms and pioneered both jazz fusion and world music.
