Making Sure It Still Works!

Do I lift weights? Sure.Every time I stand up - Dolly Parton

Welcome to my Sunday 💖

Hugs and brew to start Sunday off!

Breakfast.

Dressed.

One son is doing his boxing lesson this morning.

The other son is helping out Joe to get elected back on the Council, on May 6th.

Sunshine time!

Big big sunglasses time!

Drops off son at his boxing lesson.

Check tyre pressures on Sexy Beast. 

Puts more petrol in for the week.

Then we swaps cars....

Sun is still shining \o/

Hubby drops off one son to help Joe.

Hubby checks his tyre pressures.

We then picks up a sweaty son from his boxing lesson.

Time to visit my parents to have a chat with.

It will be 8 years this Saturday when my mum passed away :'(

I am using the yellow planter to put more lavender in, as my younger brother removed the last lot of lavender to put the bench on the grave!

I said goodbye to my parents.

Dropped off sweaty son.

Then off to get some Lavender plants.

It was really busy.

Said hello to Joe's husband, Pete who was also there.

Back home with the lovely Lavender plants.

I had washed all the cleaning cloths I use at work yesterday.

All dried now.

Now to sort them out in colours!

Bagged them up ready for Tuesday.

Joe dropped back son and we had a chat about things.

Son is going back later to help fold leaflets.

Light lunch in the garden...

It started to spit with rain,

Back into house we go.

I am taking my basic sewing machine for sewing machine lessons next Saturday.

Blew the dust of it and made sure it still worked!

It all works...

Washing machine back on again.

So is the Tumble Drier.

(Not like last weekend when all the washing dried in the warm sunshine!)

Tea at 3 

Now to write yesterday's blog post.

We caught up on more television programmes from the last few weeks.

The last bit of Dragon's Den

Tea time

Followed by

Police Interceptors.

Traffic Cops

Bargain Loving Brits In The Sun

I set to record a good film on Talking Pictures later on in the evening.

Lesley  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 the hit "You Don't Own Me", and seven further Billboard top 40 hits.

She would have been 75 years old 🎈

She sadly died aged 68 in 2016.

Oliver Reed  was an English actor known for his upper-middle class, macho image and "hellraiser" lifestyle. Notable films include The Trap (1966), Oliver! (1968), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), portraying Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974), playing a Teddy Boy in Tommy (1975), The Brood (1979), Lion of the Desert (1981), Castaway (1986), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Funny Bones (1995) and Gladiator (2000). For playing Antonius Proximo, the old, gruff gladiator trainer in Ridley Scott's Gladiator in what was his final film, Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2000. At the peak of his career, in 1971, British exhibitors voted Reed 5th most popular star at the box office.

He sadly died on this day in 1999 aged 61

 

Sleep Tea time.

 No Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡 tomorrow...

It's another Bank Holiday Monday \o/

One Big Upgrade!

 If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it - J.P Morgan

Welcome to my Saturday 🎈

The duvet cover was so warm!!!

Warm hug with brew.

Breakfast.

Dressed

(Thermal knickers worn!)

Now out for a little ride..

First stop was to nip into Sainsburys to get some bits.

No problem in here unlike Morrisons last Sunday.

While hubby took the bits back to the car.

I picked up my order from Argos.

Now off to pick something else up from:

Put facemask on to pick it up.

Picked up a much needed coffee before we went home.

Gets back home.

While hubby is filling up the bird feeders,

My amazon order arrived.
 

At last a new kettle!

We tried to fit the green splash back screen back onto wall behind the oven.

No luck with no nails.

I ordered some stronger stuff from Wickes.

It started to snow when we got back.

No luck with this stronger stuff either!

I ordered a lighter in weight (Not glass)

Splash back instead.

New upgraded toilet seat!

Now for a chinese meal in 2 parts.

Quick read off the newspaper.

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) and The Four Musketeers (1974), playing a Teddy Boy in Tommy (1975), The Brood (1979), Lion of the Desert (1981), Castaway (1986), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Funny Bones (1995) and Gladiator (2000). 

He would have been 83 years old 🎈 

He died aged 61 in 1999.

Peter  Gabriel  is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and activist. He rose to fame as the original lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, he launched a successful solo career with "Solsbury Hill" as his first single. His 1986 album, So, is his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the U.S. The album's most successful single, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and, according to a report in 2011, it was MTV's most played music video of all time.

He is 71 years old 🎈 

David  Naughton  is an American actor and singer known for his starring roles in the horror film An American Werewolf in London (1981) and the Disney comedy Midnight Madness (1980), as well as for a long-running "Be a Pepper" ad campaign for beverage maker Dr Pepper. He also starred in the short-lived sitcom Makin' It and sang its hit theme song "Makin' It", giving him a Top 5 hit on the Billboard charts.He is 70 years old🎈

Waylon  Jennings was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as one of the founding pioneers of the Outlaw Movement. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings's first recording session, and hired him to play bass. Jennings gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight in 1959 that crashed and killed Holly, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens.Jennings also appeared in films and television series, including Sesame Street, and a stint as the balladeer for The Dukes of Hazzard, composing and singing the show's theme song and providing narration for the show. 

He died on this day in 2002 aged 64.

We caught up with Judge Rinder for the rest of Saturday night's viewing.

Off to bed with my Sleep Tea.

Valentine's Day tomorrow \o/

 

 

 

 

What's The Rush????

It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyse our bad ones - Francoise Sagan

Welcome to my Thursday🎈

Those sexy lumo trousers are needed, as the rain is coming in.....

I was in need of a warm hug and a cup of tea↓

 I gave everyone their sloppy 💋💋💋

I left the house in the lumo sexy trousers↓

 

Sexy lumos↓

 Today's tree shot↓

 It stopped dry until 8.45am..

Then the rain came back!

People weren't stopping, just putting their hand up when they went past!

I finished in one piece.

Back home↓

 

 Dishwasher goes on,

& 

Tumble drier.

Now for early lunch↓

 Back out before a lorry parks over our drive..

Singing to do↓

I  have a peek in the newspaper↓

  Oliver Reed, English actor, (Oliver, Women In Love) would have been 82 years old 🎈

He died aged 61 in 1999
Peter Gabriel, English rock vocalist (Genesis) is 70 years old 🎈 

Ralph Waite, American actor, director and political candidate (Cool Hand Luke, The Waltons), died aged 85 in 2014.

I look across the fields of fun↓

 

 

 I had nice red face when I finished.

The clouds are lifting↓

 More singing on the way home↓

The temperature is going up↗↗↗

 

 Quick gulp of coffee,

Back out....

Those dark clouds are hanging about↓

 I had few car drivers who had no patience and carried on driving past my lolly stick while in the middle of the road!

I finished in one piece...just about!

Back home.

Having an argument over text with my younger brother over stripping my dad's house after only a week after my dad's death!

WHAT'S THE RUSH!!! 

Got changed.

Now onto The Happy Place Of Work.

On the way out,

Someone was coming through the gate in a van while I walking through.

I stopped there,  and remained motionless.

The van had to stop.

(I get used to traffic trying to run me over, twice a day!)

 It is still light↓

  Now for the meat free tea↓

Now to burn it off by working and singing↓

 I gets back to jump into a hot shower.

Cup of sleep tea followed..

Friday Feeling 🎈 is back tomorrow