"Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees!" -
Swedish proverb
Welcome to my Saturday 🌟
Brew and hug↑
We had to have crumpets for the time being as we didn't have a enough milk for our porridge.
Dressed.
Now out for part one of our walk↓
We went past my dad's house.
The sold sign is on the board now.↑
Back home.
Back out to drop off son for his boxing lesson.
We go into town.
I went to get my glasses tighted up.
As my glasses like falling down over my nose.
I got chatting to my postie friend.
Once glasses were done.
Back to the car with a much needed coffee.
Picks son up from his boxing lesson.
Back home.
Then back out to get some much needed meat.
Light lunch time↓
Quick read of the newspaper↓
Julie London was an American singer and actress whose career spanned more than 40 years. Born in Santa Rosa, California to vaudevillian
parents, London was discovered while working as an elevator operator in
downtown Los Angeles, and began her career as an actress. London's
35-year acting career began in film in 1944, and included roles as the
female lead in numerous westerns, co-starring with Rock Hudson in The Fat Man (1951), with Robert Taylor and John Cassavetes in Saddle the Wind (1958), and opposite Robert Mitchum in The Wonderful Country (1959).She would have been 94 years old 🎈
She died aged 74 years old in 2000.
Bryan Ferry CBE is an English singer and songwriter. His voice has been described as an "elegant, seductive croon". He also established a distinctive image and sartorial style; according to The Independent, Ferry and his contemporary David Bowie influenced a generation with both their music and their appearances. Peter York described Ferry as "an art object" who "should hang in the Tate".
He is 75 years old 🎈
Lynn Anderson was an American country singer, songwriter and television personality. She is most remembered for her signature recording crossover hit, "Rose Garden."
The song was a number one hit in the United States and internationally.
Additionally, Anderson had four number one singles and 18 top ten hits
on the Billboard country songs chart. She has also been regarded as one of country music's most significant performers.She would have been 73 years old 🎈 She died aged 67 in 2015.
Robert Palmer was an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. He was known for his powerful,
distinctive, gritty and soulful voice, sartorial elegance and for
combining soul, jazz, rock, pop, reggae and blues.He died on this day in 2003 aged 54
I writes yesterday's blog post.
Writes out our shopping list and gets the shopping list from my neighbour.
Time to clear the cobwebs...
Another little walk...
2 miles done today \o/
Now to do some shopping.
No big packs of toilet roll left ↑↑↑
I bagged up my neighbour's shopping.
The only thing we couldn't get was his YUM YUMS ...back here to tomorrow to get them and use up our £10 voucher off more shopping tomorrow.
Nice sunset↑↑↑
Gets back home.
Delivers my neighbour's shopping to him.
We unpack our shopping.
Hubby does the tea..
(Night off for me)
We watch 3 more episodes of NYPD Blue season 10.
With some sleep tea↓
I was glad we had a warm duvet cover to get warm under...
"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you." - Harold Bloom
Welcome to my weekend 🎈
I actually slept through the whole night without waking up!!!!!
I am not holding out that I won't end up sleeping on the sofa in the next few days!
Hug and brew time.
My stronger needles came \o/
We had breakfast.
Got dressed.
Time to drop one son off at his Boxing lesson↓
Wearing my new spotty dress↓
I dropped off a Flintstone's facemask to a good friend.
Then off down to Studley to look in the Charity Shop that had reopened.
We were so lucky.
First Christmas present bought for one son!
Enjoyed a coffee from the Co-op↓
I also got some hand wash and hand lotion↓
Picks up son from his Boxing lesson.
All nice and sweaty.
Gets home to read the newspaper↓
Honor Blackman was an English actress, widely known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers (1962–1964), Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger (1964), Julia Daggett in Shalako (1968) and Hera in Jason and the Argonauts (1963). She is also known for her role as Laura West in the ITV sitcom The Upper Hand (1990–1996).Shewould have been 95 years old 🎈
She died aged 94 in April 2020.
Coffee
&
Lunch
We rewatched the Fear City on Netflix↓
It's so good.....
I will have to watch The Irishman again↓
I gets my neighbour's shopping list.
Off we go to get our and his shopping↓
We come back.
I give his shopping and change.
I will get his Ham Hock tomorrow from Asda
(I hope)
Teatime↓
More
NYPD Blue also↓
With some sleep tea↓
Then off to bed with some new ear plugs that hopefully drown out the snores!
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo" - HG Wells.
Welcome to my weekend🎈
Snoregate again...
Up, up, I rose and went downstairs↓
I took out my earplugs, and I could still hear the loud snores coming from our bedroom.
I listened to the "Sounds of the 60s" while catching up with yesterday's blog.
Sleeping Beauty arises and comes downstairs.
He orders an Anti-Snore pillow from Argos.
I asked him "If he bought two?"
"Why two?"He asked.
"One to sleep on, and the other one on top of your face!"
He went to make breakfast after that crack!
More lovely material arrived↓
First coffee of the day↓
Drops off younger son to help with the uniform bank.
Collects my neighbour's shopping list.
Off to drop of other son to do his boxing lesson↓
Drops him off.
Nice new face mask for me to wear today↓
Hubby goes off to fetch his snore pillow↓
While hubby was filling his car up.
I noticed a ex-worker who I call the Anti-Depressant! Washing his car.
To finish our friendship once and for all, he said the following to me while I was doing my first Lollipop job:
"They don't need you here, they have traffic lights.It should be a voluntary position."
After that, I just ignored him with a passion↓
Next stop was to do my neighbour's shopping at Lidl↓
Once we had finished, we saw Anti-Depressant go past in his car again.
Picks son up from boxing.
Drops shopping around to my neighbour.
Quick lunch.
Let's see how hot it is in the USA↓
Back out to pick up younger son↓
Car Park 4 was still closed.
Car Park 7 was losing some of its parking spaces due to repainting↓
Made sure we got a ticket on display↑
I chatted to a friend outside the church.
He had a lovely brown suntan from sitting in the sun. He was telling me about some of the shops that are moving about in the Kingfisher Shopping Centre.
The Uniform Bank has finished early.
Youngest son got himself some clothes for the new school year.
On the way out I got talking to a friend of my arsehole brother.
He blames the girlfriend for the money grabbing situation.I just said she doesn't help the situation that he is a big arsehole trying to screw me over!
Gets home.
Watches the afternoon session of the World Championship snooker.
Then off to do our shopping↓
They knocked down the last box of sewing threads....↓
In the trolley they go.
Gets back to unload the shopping.
Has a steak tea.
(In a hurry to eat, forgot to take picture!)
Now to finally look into today's newspaper↓
Peter York is a British rock drummer who has been performing since the 1960s.He played for The Spencer Davis Group. He is 78 years old 🎈
Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He has written numerous platinum-selling songs, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park". He has had successful collaborations with Glen Campbell, Michael Feinstein, Linda Ronstadt, the 5th Dimension, Art Garfunkel, and Richard Harris.
Webb was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1990. He received the National Academy of Songwriters
Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993, the Songwriters Hall of Fame Johnny
Mercer Award in 2003, the ASCAP "Voice of Music" Award in 2006, and the
Ivor Novello Special International Award in 2012. According to BMI, his song "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" was the third most performed song in the fifty years between 1940 and 1990.Webb is the only artist ever to have received Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration.He is 74 years old.🎈
