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Saturday 13 June 2020

Being A Bit Of A Gooseberry...

We turn not older with years, but newer every day 
- Emily Dickinson
Welcome to my Saturday🎈
 Brew and hug time.
Followed by 
Breakfast 
&
Gets dressed.
Just checking on my supply of Ear Plugs↓
 A bit of yellow for today.
 Where has the sun gone?
 Temperature going up↗↗↗
 Off to get some reduced stuff
The scanner worked....
However when I loaded up the items in the back of the car, I looked at the receipt and saw they hadn't done a deal on the frozen garlic, 3 for £4.
I will be bringing this up next week.
Next was to visit the local Farm Shop.
 They had run out of Leak veggies to grow.
Off to somewhere else to get them from...
 Burcot Garden Centre↑
I got some \o/
 Back home...
 Repots the leeks↓
 &
The Gooseberry bush↓
 Watered all the plants and vegetables.
Time for early lunch↓
It was nice to enjoy some vitamin D in the garden.
We wrote our a shopping list for Lidl.
Later than 3pm,
Tea at 4.30 instead↓
Off to get the shopping↓
 A good book in Lidl↓
 Those rain clouds are coming in↓
 We gets back....
The rain looks like its coming in↓
 Just gets the shopping in↓
 The rain coming in↓
Time for tea.
&
Hill Street Blues
Caught on all of the newspapers.
 Richard  Thomas  is an American actor. He is best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama The Waltons, for which he won an Emmy Award, received a nomination for anotherand two Golden Globe Awards. He also starred in the miniseries adaption of Stephen King's It and played Special Agent Frank Gaad on FX's spy thriller series The Americans. He is 69 years old 🎈
 Kathy Burke, English actress and playwright (Absolutely Fabulous,Gimme Gimme Gimme) is 56 years old 🎈
David Gray is a British singer-songwriter. He released his first album in 1993 and received worldwide attention after the release of White Ladder six years later. It was the first of three UK chart-toppers in six years for Gray, of which the latter two also made the Top 17 in the United States. White Ladder became the fifth best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK.
He is 52 years old 🎈 
Jimmy  Dean  was an American country music singer, television host, actor, and businessman. He was the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand as well as the spokesman for its TV commercials.He died aged 81 in 2010.
Off to a warm bed with even warmer hands...
 
 
 


 

Sunday 17 May 2020

Turning My Fingers From White To Green!

Ducking for apples.Change one letter and it's the story of my life - Dorothy Parker
I made sure of no long lie-in today.
The alarm went off at 8am.....
Tea with hugs time↓
 Breakfast.
Got dressed.
Nipped out to get the newspaper↓
 Tesco Express was closed for stocking the shelves until 10am.
We went further down the road to get the newspapers.
We then sat in the garden to enjoy the sunshine and coffee.
 My plants are flowering really nice this year!
  My good friend couldn't find any self raising flour anywhere.
I filled up a large jar with a little bag of Baking powder.
We left a good 2 meters apart when he came round to collect the flour.
We had a good chin wag.
He left.
We had a important meet over some things for the garden....
Woo hoo the bargains I got...
The plastic shelving unit is now in the back garden...
 &
The plants will be put in the garden later↓
 Off to do this week's shopping from Lidl.
We were only a handful wearing face coverings in there...
I was glad to get out.
Back home to unload the shopping.
Light lunch time↓
Gardening gloves time!
 I made room for the plants under the Cherry and Apple Trees.
 Dunelm store is only open for call and collect.
I have ordered something to fill the space at the back of the garden.
Collection tomorrow.
I found out what the bush is called in my garden↓

Goat Willow
 We had a teabreak at 4pm↓
 Once I had planted everything.
(I have room for more plants.....
I will have to get more compost tomorrow!)
I was in the shower first...
It's going to get hot hot hot up to Wednesday.
Plenty of time to enjoy the garden.
Now for our evening meal...
Gammon with well done sweet potato chips.
I caught up with this weekend's newspapers...
 Tracey Bryn, pop singer, co- founder of Voice of the Beehive.The band had five Top 40 singles from two albums in the UK. Their biggest commercial success came with the singles "I Say Nothing", "Don't Call Me Baby", "Monsters and Angels" and "I Think I Love You".Tracey is now  a teacher in Laguna Beach, California. She is now 58 years old 🎈 
 More of season 5.....
I will probably find out if I will return to my school jobs soon (June 1st).
Better make the most of my reminding time I have off!
(More baking and gardening)
Speaking of work....
Back on that tiny Wobby Work Wheel 🎑 tomorrow.