Ping Time...

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday Night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you! - Ogden Nash

Woo hoo Saturday is here...

I managed to hear the last 20 minutes of "Sounds of the 60's". 

I heard a good song to start Saturday with...

 We were going to do our food shopping early before it's gets busy!.

 Fresh air time...

 Lidl time....

 Nice bargain price from £29.99 to £29.99↑

One woman picked up a reduced chicken,

I picked up the other one...

I could hear her gums banging together to her husband when I walked off with it! 

We nipped into Home Bargains.

We couldn't visit Waitrose, as the car park was full!

 Next we visited Pets At Home for hamster and gerbil supplies

 Lovely little hamster like our Ruby↑

Pops round to see my dad.

Back home to unload the shopping.

Puts the oven on and it keeps tripping the electric!

Good job we have a microwave!

Now to test out the microwave...↓↓

 We carried on watching series 18 of Hell's Kitchen...

 I caught up with the Birthdays.

 Andrew Ridgeley: English, rock guitarist (Wham) is 56 years old.

Paul Newman - American actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler), racing car driver and charity food company founder (Newman's Own),would have been 94 years old.

(He died aged 83 in 2008)

 Colin Vearncombe: English singer-songwriter (Black), dies after a road accident at 53 in 2016

"Bridge over Troubled Water": 5th and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year, Best Engineered Non-Classical Album 1971) in 1970.

 As the oven isn't working,

A light tea ahead...

Now in for some more Hell's Kitchen....

(Hopefully get the oven working next week!)

 

 

Still Trying To Shake It Off!

“The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”
― Joseph Conrad 

 I am hoping to get over this flu soon.

A nice cup of tea might help it leave...↓

I'm so warm in bed....🛏

 Once I got up, wearing loads of layers..

The sun's rays were coming through my living window..

 Blue skies....↓

 First coffee of the morning↓

 I wrapped myself in a blanket....

Now to watch some television...

 followed by

Chicken soup time↓

My feeling of no energy is carrying on.Trying to get warm as possible.

Once the kids came home, they played on the Wii.

I went for a lie down on the bed.

After half an hour I came down for some light evening meal.

I caught up on the Birthdays.

 James Earl Jones: American actor (Darth Vader, Exorcist II, Soul Man)is 88 years old.

 Chris Montez [Ezekiel Montanez], American guitarist and singer,is 76 years old.

 "I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow hits #1 in the US charts in 1976.

  Once the kids went to bed,

(Plus hubby went to bed early)

I watched a brilliant film for the first time.

 Such a moving film :'(

 Off to a warm bed at 12.30am....