Attempting To Be A Domestic Goddess: Samuel L. Jackson

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph

- Shirley Temple

Welcome to my Monday 🎈

(No wobbly work wheel 🎡 fot two weeks\o/)

My body clock still thinks it's work time.

Up at normal time to enjoy tea in bed!

I lay in bed listening to the radio inbetween nodding off!

Later on it was time for more brew and hug!

Breakfast.

Dressed.

More Christmas wear...

Hubby went off down to road to see if any of the factories was missing a parcel that was delivered to us by mistake!

I had piles of dried washing to sort out.

He went off to get the newspaper...

Samuel L. Jackson is an American actor and producer. Widely regarded as one of the most popular actors of his generation, the films in which he has appeared have collectively grossed over $27 billion worldwide, making him the highest-grossing actor of all time (when cameo appearances are excluded). He rose to fame with films such as Coming to America (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Patriot Games (1992), Juice (1992), Menace II Society (1993), True Romance (1993), Jurassic Park (1993), and Fresh (1994).

Jackson has especially been noted for his roles in the Spike Lee films School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Oldboy (2013) and Chi-Raq (2015) and in the Quentin Tarantino films Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Django Unchained (2012), and The Hateful Eight (2015). For his role in Pulp Fiction, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He is 72 years old 🎈

Karl Denver was a Scottish singer, who, with his trio had a series of UK hit singles in the early 1960s. Most famous of these was a 1961 version of "Wimoweh", which showed off Denver's falsetto yodelling register. He reached the Top 20 with his first five yodel-based singles.

He died on this day in 1998 aged 67.

Billie Whitelaw CBE was an English actress. She worked in close collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and was regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. She was also known for her portrayal of Mrs. Baylock, the demonic nanny in the 1976 horror film The Omen.

She died on this day in 2014 aged 82.