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Showing posts with label The High Chaparral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The High Chaparral. Show all posts

Saturday 23 February 2019

I Feel Pretty, Witty & Bright!

It is Saturday night, which means that it is time for you to be a hero and rescue some that has been trapped inside a bottle....
Woo hoo it's Saturday!
I caught the half an hour of "Sounds of the 60s"
 It is hair cut time...
We all leave the house↓
 Drops James off at the Barbers.
We park in Car Park 1.
Nice view of the bus station↓
 
 A bus goes up the hill...
 Nice coffee while we wait for James to come back..
 Back to the car as I have my hair appointment
 The sun is out...
 Off to the hair cut time...
Feel a lot better for having short hair!
I feel like I have lost 2 stone in weight!
Sun is shining again!
 Nice bit of lunch to work off ....
 Goes off to do some work...
Singing along like I have to..
 
Felt better after that workout.
 
 Nibble time↓
 I had a email from Littlewoods. It showed a pink and white box in the baking bit...↓
 I found it...
£189.99!!!!
Even my second hand gas cooker isn't go to cost that much!!!
Found a great film to watch later...
(As the director, Stanley Donen has died aged 94)
 Found some good programmes on Netflix
My brother came round and dropped off my gas cooker.
My husband offered to clean it.
I stopped in his tracks...
I pointed out, "If he hadn't tried to clean the last cooker, I wouldn't need to buy another one..."
We had a quiet evening from then on.
More Netflix time:
  I caught up with the Birthdays.
Linda Cristal: Argentinian actress (High Chapparal), is 85 years old.
Peter Fonda: American actor (Easy Rider, Lilith, Wild Angels, Trip),is 79 years old.
Kelly Macdonald: Scottish actress,(Trainspotting, Nanny McPhee) is 43 years old. 
Emily Blunt: English-American actress,(Devil Wears Prada, Mary Poppins Returns) is 36 years old. 
Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson):was an English comic actor, writer, and film director who was part of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy died aged 74 in 1965.
Lewis Gilbert: British film director, producer and screenwriter, who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979) died aged 97 in 2018.
US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture in 1945.
"Trainspotting" directed by Danny Boyle based on the book by Irvine Welsh, starring Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller opens in cinemas in the UK and Ireland in 1996
Hubby went to bed,
I watched one more programme on Netflix....
 Such a powerful programme.
Oh dear better get to bed....↓

Tuesday 29 January 2019

Waiting For The White Stuff...

Tuesday isn't so bad....It's a sign that I've somehow survived Monday - Anon
The snow plough is on order for later...
It was bitterly cold sticking my toe out from under the duvet, until the heating came on...
Now to enjoy tea in a warm bed..↓
 I gave everyone a big 💋 before they all left.
I meanwhile, put the dishwasher and washing machine on...
Nice early liquid lunch↓
 I had to leave early as Sexy Beast needed filling up....
Then the light rain came down🌧
 They didn't have the I newspaper in the petrol station, so I popped into Tesco's Express. I was nearly having to wait for a woman with a trolley full of shopping. I nipped to the self service, and I was out of there...
Around to see my dad, younger brother turned up and done his breakfast for him.
He was watching his Star Trek programme.
Now off to work I go....
*Car full of songs to sing along with...* 
Birthdays Time...↓
 Tom Selleck:Actor (Magnum P.I,Blue Bloods)
is 74 years old. 
 Marc Singer: Actor (V, Dallas), is 71 years old. 
Roddy Frame: Rock vocalist/guitarist (Aztec Camera) is 55 years old. 
 Alan Ladd: American actor (Shane, Carpetbaggers), dies from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol at 50 in 1964
Leif Erickson: American actor (Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront),dies aged 74 in 1986
"Down Under" by Men At Work hits #1 on UK pop chart in 1983 
Into work I go in this horrible rain.
 
 
 Paralympian Darren Harris came into school.
 He was a really nice person to talk to.:)
*Still no sign of the snow we were supposed to have...*
Back home... 

 Time for coffee...
  My hot plate arrived↓
 Went to Job 2.
Nice tub  for me...
Tubes for gerbils↓
 Gets back home to use the hot plate...
  Nice bit of Stir Fry with noodles.
with
coffee....
 The snow may not come today....
But Thursday afternoon, we will be having a dump of..........Snow instead... ⛄⛄⛄