Attempting To Be A Domestic Goddess: vs No Doubt

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Tuesday, 8 December 2020

Getting In That Christmas Mood.....

Ask advice only of your equals - Danish Proverb

Welcome to my Tuesday👯

Hug with brew.

Breakfast.

Out comes the Christmas clothes again.

Plus thermal underwear!

Dark and cold outside.

Gives hubby a wet sloppy 💋 before I leave.

Good job I have loads of layers on.

Sunrise↑
The lights looking good↑

Everything went alright with the 🍭 job except for my croaky throat and can't shout!

Finished in one piece.

Back home for a much needed coffee.

Coffee time↓

Nice Xmas Card came yesterday↓

Back out in Sexy Beast to do more singing!

I had a bit of a look in the newspaper.

George Baker (born Johannes "Hans" Bouwens, is a Dutch singer and songwriter who, with his band George Baker Selection, scored two international hits in the 1970s, "Paloma Blanca" and "Little Green Bag." He became a solo artist after 1989. "Little Green Bag" was used as the opening soundtrack for the film Reservoir Dogs.
He is 76 years old 🎈

Peter Blake was a Scottish actor. Probably best known as the character Kirk St Moritz in the BBC sitcom Dear John, by John Sullivan, his other high-profile moments came through his playing of a 'Fonz'-type character in Pepsi-Cola commercials which led to a hit record in 1977 "Lipsmakin' Rock 'n' Rollin", Andy Evol the disc-jockey in Agony with Maureen Lipman for LWT and in an episode of Taggart ("Do or Die") as Sgt. Bill Kent. He also had a long association with The Rocky Horror Show playing Frank-N-Furter over a thousand times between 1975 and 1994.
He would have been 72 years old 🎈
He died aged 68 years old in 2018.
Dan Hartman was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Among songs he wrote and recorded were "Free Ride" with The Edgar Winter Group, and the solo hits "Relight My Fire", "Instant Replay", "I Can Dream About You", "We Are the Young" and "Second Nature". "I Can Dream About You", his most successful song, reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984. The James Brown song "Living in America", which Hartman co-wrote and produced, was even more successful, reaching #4 on March 1, 1986. One of the most successful songs he co-wrote was the disco hit “Love Sensation” recorded by Loleatta Holloway, which has been sampled countless times, most controversially by Black Box who was sued by Loleatta Holloway for failing to give her credit when they sampled her voice on “Ride on Time.”

He would have been 70 years old🎈

He died aged 43 in 1994.

I could actually see across the fields of fun..

Another Christmas Party.

I enjoyed the Christmas song they were dancing to with of course doing some actions as well.

Got me joining in as well...

Afterwards, I got into Sexy Beast to guess the year on the way home.

Back home for lunch.

Back out early to get a parking space.

If I get late, all the mothers of pupils of the three near-by school fill it up!

Got talking to my friend after I finished my shift.

Talking about music from the 1960s....

Gets back home.

Writes yesterday's blog post.

Hubby gets a takeaway for all of us.

More Hell's Kitchen season 13.

I start feeling ill about 9pm.

Off to bed with a Lemsip.

As soon as my head hits the pillow...

I'm out like a light.....

Wednesday, 19 August 2020

Cleaning Down Below!

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose - Bill Gates

Welcome to my wet Hump of the Week 🐪

At least the garden is being watered!

Hug and Brew time↑↑

Breakfast.

Dressed.

It looked like rain...

Off out in Sexy Beast..

On the way back,

It started to rain.

Lucky escape!

I gave hubby a sloppy 💋 before he went off to work.

I had a quick coffee,

Before writing yesterday's blog post.

You Tube or my computer was now letting me see the videos I wanted↓

Quick look in the newspaper↓

William Howard Ashton , known professionally as Billy J. Kramer, is an English pop singer. In the 1960s he was managed by Brian Epstein, who also managed The Beatles, and he recorded several original Lennon–McCartney compositions.He is 77 years old🎈

My friend was coming for chat, coffee and cake↓

Friend arrived.

Time for a good yak↓

Black suit trousers arrived for my son.

He now has at least 4 suits for 6th form. \o/

I also had a nice delivery of more funky fabric↓

I said goodbye to my friend.

(We will meet up next week)

I missed the temperatures in the USA...

(Normal service will resume tomorrow)

Now to use some nice material↓

Cut out all the material to make some face masks..

A quick Tea at 3↓

Getting back onto sewing with my sewing machine↓

One face mask made.

Onto the second one and the bloody needle breaks again↓

Plus the bobbin was making a noise too.

(I have to use a bigger bobbin says the book that came with the machine.)

Takes the machine apart...

To clean below↓

I bought this one with the last of my redundancy money.

(Not off Gumtree either!)

Once I gave it a good clean downstairs.

Fixed another needle, and put everything back together!

Time to use a bigger bobbin↓

Left it after putting the bobbin in the bobbin holder.

I put the tea in the oven.

Now to thread the bloody new needle again....

Hubby came back and asked how it went this afternoon...

I didn't have to say anything...

My face it all.

Finished number 2 facemask except for the pleats, which I will do tomorrow.

Now to dish up the grub!

Yummy,lots of brown sauce!

We watched another episode of:

Then off to work I go...

Great tune to start with↓

Plenty of singing to do....

Back home in the dark↓

I surprised myself knowing the lyrics word for word to one particular song I was singing when I got in.

Even my two teenagers were surprised, I even did the hand moves↓

We watched the episode of NYPD Blue when Jimmy Smits character dies....↓

Bobby Simone

(Hubby was getting upset as it reminded him of his mum passing away in hospital.)

At least Jimmy Smits won a Golden Globe For Best Actor in A Drama Series in 1996

& Outstanding Performance award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards↓

Sleep tea drank↓

One of my son's has his GCSE's results tomorrow. \o/

Tuesday, 18 August 2020

On The Edge!

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! - Belva Plain

Happy Tuesday 🎈

No hot temperatures for us in the UK!

(Fan stops in box!)

Hug and Brew time↑

Followed by breakfast.

Gets dressed.

Left it a bit late to walk to fetch the newspaper.

Into Sexy Beast once more↓

Gets back, the sun has vanished.

Gives hubby a sloppy 💋 before he leaves for work.

I have a little play with Henry....

Now for a peek in the newspaper↓

Nigel Griggs is a musician who played bass guitar in Split Enz. He is the brother of Paul Griggs from the 1970s vocal group Guys 'n' Dolls. A professional musician since 1963, Nigel Griggs played in a number of bands, notably The Cortinas and Octopus, 1963–1971, with his brother Paul, Carmen and Steve Hillage's Khan.He is 71 years old 🎈

Tracy Tracy [Cattell], Australian musician (The Primitives).

She is 53 years old🎈

Tony Jackson was an English singer and bass-guitar player who was a member of The Searchers.He died aged 65 in 2003.

With the first coffee of the day↓

Now to start to write yesterday's blog.

I don't know whether my computer or You Tube was playing up. I couldn't put a lot of Belinda Carlisle's pop videos on as a lot of her videos were unavaliable.....

Even a mash up Talk Talk/No Doubt/Michael Jackson's It's My Life video was unavaliable .....FFS

(I only listened to it yesterday!!!)

(It's now back on!)

I was having emails about the start of the new school year.

I might have to find out and dust down my suit to wear at dinnertime↓

One for my Lollipop job↓

When it takes me about an hour to write a blog post, due to having problems with putting the videos on, it took me a further hour and another cup of coffee!!! Grrrrrr

I was glad when lunchtime came round!