Trying To Escape?

Life without you was like a broken pencil.....pointless -
Lord Blackadder to Elizabeth 1, Blackadder 2 

Welcome to my Sunday...

No lie-in today...

Off to see Father-in-law and pick up something nice for the Living Room....

Brew and Hug first↓

Breakfast,

Then gets dressed.

Off out for a little ride↓

 New maxi dress on↓

 We went for a little ride...

First to pick up something nice for the Living Room↓

Then round to see Father-in-law.

Hubby stood two metres away from  his dad.

Half the time was under the umbrella as it decides it is going to rain again!

 I sit in the car.

As soon as hubby gets back to the car.

His Birthday request for Wednesday is read out on the radio, closely followed by our son's Birthday on Friday.

(Busy week for Birthdays!) 

We give up going to see my Parents as the rain won't stop!

We get back for a coffee.

I look in the newspaper↓

 

 Sir Thomas John Woodward OBE  known professionally as Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. His career began with a string of top-ten hits in the mid-1960s. He has toured regularly, with appearances in Las Vegas (1967–2011).He is 80 years old🎈

Paddy McAloon is an English singer-songwriter and a founder of the band Prefab Sprout.He is 63 years old🎈

  Light lunch time↓

A little bit of on-line shopping

 Someone was selling 2 lamps from Dunelm for £45↑

(Pity I only wanted one)

A early tea at 3↓

Out to collect my Dunelm order

 

 Picked up my order.

Off to see my parents...in the light rain

 Rain coming↓

 I hope my dad isn't trying to escape↓

 The lamp looks nice↓

 We didn't have no Apple sauce for the pork dinner. We had plenty of mint sauce avaliable↓

I hope the rain keeps off tomorrow.

Washing needs to go out on the line,

&

Some serious gardening needs doing....

We catch up with the final series of "Hill Street Blues"

 Back on that tiny Wobbly Work Wheel 🎡 tomorrow...

  

The Need For No Speed!

Clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Welcome to my Christmas Hump of the week 🎄🐫

Woo hoo Christmas Day is finally here!

I had to wake up in excitement 

or

Just needed a cup of tea↓

 The oven was turned on to get the turkey cooked..

Back to sleep....

At ten am....

With a cup of coffee..

 It was downstairs to open the presents!

 Loads of lovely presents↓

 Hubby's presents↓

 This is my youngest son's present↓

 Nice breakfast↓

 The cake is ready to eat↓

 We go off for a little ride..

 To see my dad and give him his presents.

My youngest brother and his wife is bringing him his Christmas dinner this year.

I gets back to put everything else in the oven,

 Hubby goes fetches his dad.

Once my father-in-law arrives.

Christmas dinner is ready to serve up↓

 Well nice :)

We catch up on some movies to watch:

We had crackers and cheese for tea.

I had to scrape Sexy Beast as the car was frozen!

  I went down those country lanes without any street lights, with only my headlights on and some good Christmas music...

Some car drivers didn't like been stuck behind me sticking to the speed limit....

I didn't fancy finding myself in the hedge if I speeded up on the icy dark roads! 

*Had the same fun coming back.....!*

We put my dad to bed,

As younger brother changed his mind about stopping over night!

The prodigal brother is visiting my dad tomorrow and hoping my other brother will see my dad too! 

Now to watch Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special ...

 Then we watched a programme on BBC News on the Celebrity Deaths in 2019

There was some sad news,

Allee Willis  was an American songwriter and director. She died on Christmas Eve aged 72. Willis co-wrote hit songs including "September" and "Boogie Wonderland" by Earth, Wind & Fire. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for "I'll Be There For You", which was used as the theme song for the sitcom Friends, and won two Grammy Awards for Beverly Hills Cop and The Color Purple, the latter of which was also nominated for a Tony Award. She was the only woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018. 

 Rod Serling, writer and host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery), would have been 94 years old.🎈

 He died aged 50 in 1975.

Kenny Everett [Maurice James Christopher Cole], British DJ and TV personality (Kenny Everett Show), would have be 75 years old🎈

He died aged 50 in 1995

Dido , is an English singer and songwriter. Dido attained international success with her debut album No Angel (1999) is 48 years old 🎈

 Now to drag a hubby off to bed to try out one of "other" "adult" present on him....

 

  

A Little Bit Of ABC....

“Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.”– Tom Sims

Boxing Day

Welcome to my Hump of the Week 🐫
We had a nice lie-in again↓

Hubby's dad didn't have a good night's sleep on the sofa.

I said hello to Sexy Beast, while hubby made to Bacon Sandwiches for all of us..

 After we ate breakfast.

Time to bring along the great CD to listen to while we drop off hubby's dad.

 

I go off to do my job for a few hours.

I came back and finished making the Trifle.

I had the bird tell me the Chicken and Leek Pie was ready..

I looked up the Birthdays: 
 Henning Schmitz: German musician (Kraftwerk) is 65 years old.

Curtis Mayfield:American singer-songwriter and soul musician (Freddie's Dead, Superfly)
dies aged 57 in 1999.

 Dave Brubeck Quartet: formally disbands in 1967.

 We then watch the first episode of:

So good I bought the book off Amazon with £5 off...

Then we watched 3 episodes of "Bullseye".

The first episode, no one won the caravan,

second episode won the speedboat.

We taped the third episode

 As it was creeping over 1am before we went to bed......