'Ere By Gum...

I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward -

Charlotte Bronte

Welcome to my Thursday 💣
 Hopefully I will find out about whether Monster is stopping here or going back to sender later....

Brew and hug time↑↑
Breakfast.
Dressed.
Out for the daily walk↓

 Gets back.
Watered all my plants.
Put some bread on the bird table.
The mummy blackbird was still looking after one of her babies, by feeding it bread.
I sat outside to enjoy some Vitamin D.
Even my Sweetpeas are growing nicely.

Coffee time↑
&
Read of the newspaper↓ 

Stewart  Copeland  is an American musician and composer. He was the drummer of the British rock band the Police, has produced film and video game soundtracks and written various pieces of music for ballet, opera and orchestra.He is 68 years old 🎈

 Harry Chapin, American folk-rock singer-songwriter ( Cat's in the Cradle), dies in car crash aged 38 in 1981.

I started to write yesterday's blog post.
I still hadn't heard from Gumtree.
I tapped the world wide web....
I had a email back.
Sorry can't help...
Got screwed over by the buyer...
Now being done over by Gumtree!
Great :(
I was trying to search again for another pedal for the Monster.
Two in the USA....
I even got in touch with a sewing machine repair shop to see if they could fix it.
Not heard a dicky bird from them either!
The book has arrived finally↓

 Interesting read ahead.
The bread was done↓

Still trying to find pedal on the World Wide Web↑↑

Lunchtime.↓↓↓

 Let's see how hot it is the USA↓

 I keep missing Las Vegas temp.

It's still hot hot hot.

Published blog post.

Now for Tea at 3. 

 We got 3/6 on the Tv themes quiz.

I chopped the leaks all ready for tonight's meal.

Leaks wrapped in ham, in cheese sauce↓ 

 Yum yum↓↓

 A bit more of

Off to work↓

 Big tune time↓

 Nice and dry when I got back home↓

 2 more episodes of:

With Sleep tea↓

 At least we are going to have some warmth for the Friday tomorrow.....

Not warm enough for the bikini 👙 just yet! 

It's Finally Filled In!

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm - Bruce Barton

Welcome to my adventure of being stuck in house🎈

The alarm went off at normal time.

Nice warm hug with a cuppa↓

 Off to do our exercise in the sunshine↓

Anyone fancy a free chair????↓

At last, the pot hole has been filled in↓↓↓

Gets back to enjoy a read and coffee↓

 James Caan, American actor (Misery, The Godfather),is 80 years old 🎈

 Steven Tyler, American rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie's Got a Gun) is 72 years old🎈

Hubby goes back to work↓

I go up to the Happy Place Of Work.
Lots of eyerolls from me↓

 I said to my boss:

"The 80%  pay scheme, the Government set up for zero hour workers will be based on my wages from February."
"I don't think that's going to happen with you.You will have a meeting with the finance manager tomorrow," She replied.
(This is the same boss that tried to sack me via email,while I had full sick note!!!!!)
I was glad to get out of there.
One more day to go...\o/
Light lunch time↓  

 

 Then washing machine and tumble drier went on.
Loaded up the dishwasher.
Caught up with the blog.
Once tea was ready,
It is Judge Rinder time!

 Then off to do my final job with some great music↓

  Gets back to watch some more Judge Rinder.

At least it's the Friday Feeling 🎈 is back tomorrow....

& 

D-Day at The Happy Place Of Work🙈 

 

 

Trying To Pull!

“Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.” – Lenore Hershey

Welcome to the start of the weekend.

I still woke up early to listen to the "Sounds of the 60's". 

 We had breakfast after it finished.

We had to leave the house early to carry on with some shopping in town↓

 

 I got a new watch battery from the market.

Then off to Poundland.

I got some nice DVDS from HMV↓

 While hubby did my dad's shopping,

I messed about with some tools...

 

 

Now to try and put the wool through the holes...
Even with the new watch battery,

The watch isn't working properly.

 I looked at the newspaper for Birthdays:

 Maurice Gibb and Robin Gibb: Singers (Bee Gees).

 (Maurice  died aged 53 in 2003)
(Robin died aged  aged 62 in 2012) 

 Richard "Ricky" Ross: Scottish rock vocalist (Deacon Blue) is 61 years old.

Joe Strummer: British lead singer of the punk band "The Clash" (Rock the Casbah), dies at the age 50 in 2002

 "The Graduate": American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, is released (Best Director 1968) in 1967.

We watched various television programmes....
including

 Then off to have a nice early night...:)