COKE THROUGH A STRAW

Bought a big bag of fresh cut rocket to add to my cheese and meatball pizza and hot and spicy pizza .i also bought some fresh chicken chili pieces also to go on to my pizzas or in my flat bread panini's I now longer have fries with my pizzas which is a good thing i am never going to be a healthy eater i also bought three jars of my favourite coffee , you can tell when Bob's been its paid .

I am also bidding on some blue tooth headphones i am currently the highest bidder just know i am going to win them unless the bidding gets crazy .

I did not win the headphones I though that they were new but they had been used so I stopped bidding on them , luckily someone out bidder me .

Working the bank holiday Monday that will be every one this year so far .

Went to the Wetherby Whaler near to where we live on the way back from the hairdressers Helen was having her hair coloured blonde again i had  been sat in the car playing Zombie Frontier 3d which is as good as Dead Trigger .I had a extra large fish i was Hank Marvin I also had coke instead of coffee thats the drink not the drug although i did use a straw .

Our friend Charlie is coming over to quote us for a fence we want concrete posts and gravel boards i am hoping we can get the post and gravel words in and buy the fence panels next payday.

THINGS AND PRINCE

Sign O The Times and Purple Rain are just two of the albums I have loaded on my music player in memory of Prince .The first video I bought back in the day was Prince live tour Purple Rain the first cassette tape that I bought was by David Bowie both are now dead. I have also got Graffiti Bridge the film to watch , it was rumoured that he began penning his memoir hope his last writing words get published .

This Saturday or Sunday either i would like to go to see the KAWS exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park not sure how long it is there for i guess a while we only live five minutes away my Nephew went and it looks amazing i have been on about a return visit since we moved here last June.

Helen is still working on the garden we have know got potatoes growing in some bags hopefully we will get a crop she also bought a new patio brolly and some matching seat covers and bunting .

Made a wicked shepherds pie last night with minced lamb and a great stir fry the night before , when i get paid will stock up on sauces and noodles i may also get some chilli paste , if i do then plenty of pear cider.

CHEER UP

Watched the Witch and thought it was total drivel worse film i have ever seen on par with Noah nothing really happened you're  waiting for it to kick in and the credits roll so glad i did not pay money to see it on the big screen it is not worth watching pity i wasted my time .

Took Helen to the garden centre she bought four hanging baskets and enough plants to fill them all plus another three bags of combo roll on hotter weather.

She also bought some green plastic hanging bags that will hang over the fence either side and the flowers plants will cascade over the fence panels .

My friend at work who had the stroke Friday is not good although he has now opened his eyes and he can understand certain things or so it seems it will be a very long time before he is back to normal worse thing is the weather it is really changing for the better summer is on its way and he is stuck in hospital life is rarely fair.

I phoned my twin up the other day she thought i sounded feed up the day after she put me twenty pound in to my bank so i could get something nice for dinner which was totally unexpected what a truly nice gesture .

We are or Helen is ordering to parasols for the garden table and bench in fuchsia pink she says will go nice with the green van dam in doubt .

Need pear cider need more ice doing and i need to get more solar powered lights for the garden think i will go to Costco it has been years since i  have gone shopping there used to get freshly cooked baked potatoes and chili or pizza slices .

My sister who put the  £20 in my bank account told my other sister that I was feed , she message me saying she was putting £50 in my bank so I could get some aftershave or something nice , what great sisters I have.

Cant believe Prince is dead such talent , hopefully they will be new albums released it is a great loss R.I.P Prince .

LITTLE GREEN SHACK

We can finally connect to I Cloud a free wi-fi internet service at work , and seeing has my mobile connection is so shite then this is going to help out enormously with my web browsing capabilities You Tube and other sites .It is about time rumour has it also we are going to get computer upgrades , I pads and new os we are currently running xp not good.

Helen as had a  very good week with her readings and has had a very productive week which is good because I am piss poor yet again.

The weather this weekend is crap it is at best going to be grey and wet with rumours of maybe some snow which seems hard to believe seeing that  we are half way through April .

My son still has not phoned or text  me he has not bothered to contact me since the end of January he is still being ignorant , i would not have dreamed acting this way with my father i had too much respect obviously my son does not realise what respect is he needs to learn some before his time expires .

A colleague and friend at work had a stroke they took him to resus in A&E  then for a  Ct scan I had only been talking to him a few hours before it was lucky for him that we work in a Hospital as it more than likely saved his life .

SATURDAY
Went for my quarterly hair cut i could not get in to my regular salon so i tried one i have passed want times but have never frequented , it had one chair a fire on the back wall and a really old wooden framed mirror that had seen better days and to be fair I received a great hair cut , I might even go back there next time .

BEING BORING

I need to go to the coast its been ages hopefully soon as it is warm enough we will visit Whitby and the surrounding bays and beaches.
Helens bought more grass seed i have lost track of the amount of boxes she has thrown down it would have been cheaper to buy artificial lawn least it be green all over , no need to water feed or cut.

I have a couple of Guy Martin books to read not sure when i will start them i have to finish a couple i am reading now before i start any more .

Helens brother John has a kidney transplant today , he is estranged from Helen so we don't have much to do with him , but we do wish him well his wife is donating one of her kidneys and  he is theatre early Friday morning .He had a kidney removed when he was young and the remaining one is not functioning correctly it is down to 15% capability and will only get worse so he had no choice but to have surgery and a  transplant.

This week has been totally boring i have done nothing interesting its work eat and sleep repeat seem to be getting more weeks like this it is frustrating .

I thought about buying a drone with camera so i could do ariel photos and film of the moors at Saddleworth and do an ariel shot of where we live until i found out the average fly time is 5 minutes which is rubbish , so it has left me in a quandary is it worth it .

Listening to Patti Smith "Horses"

Watching - "London has Fallen"

TWO IN THE TREE NOT THE BUSH

The weather is shite , work is shit ,  skint pissed of and life ticks bye tick tock .
Bought a Filofax journal and have not got a clue what to put in i have put some stuff i want to buy on my to do list .Want a decent summer and today that even looks doubtful the way it is dull and grey with a burst through of sun every few hours just to tempt you what you could have had just like life.
Oh well it half past twelve time to get ready to go to work least it is mid week here i am wishing my life away .

THURSDAY
Took down the two bird boxes from the oak tree  outside of the van , i had to get the ladders out , i took them down so i could  fix dowels on to the face of the boxes below the entry hole so if any birds decided to take home then they can land before entry .The two boxes are different and of course i put them back the wrong way round the high one ended up lower down and the one that was lower down higher up as if the birds care .

The grass seed Helen threw down is  still not showing any sign of taking root and  I am doubtful we will have any more green stuff then what we have atm .

FRIDAY
THANK FCUK ITS FRIDAY.
Always good on Fridays got parked at work big bonus and it did not drag to much getting home M1 closed junction 42 to 41 had to de-tour got home late about fifthteen minutes oh well its the weekend .

SATURDAY
Did nothing read a bit Patti Smith M Train  , we went to the garden centre Helen bought some plants I bought a pork pie and a Bavarian slice .Watched the Grand National although we did not have a bet.
We also watched "The Boy" and "Hush" both good films  but i did  prefer "Hush". Erin stayed over  we cooked a roast chicken would have preferred beef or lamb or even pork.

ERECTED UP AND HAMMERED

This weekend I built a poly green house 1500 x 1500 . I wanted to build on to a wooden frame 50 x 50  to match the size of the green house , drive some pegs in to the ground fix the frame to the pegs then fill the inside with sand and flags and then fix  green house to the frame easy peasy  ,  Well Helen had other ideas guess she just wanted it erected and up ,  it is tied down with four string ties on each corner  that i screwed to the fence and staked in to place using metal tent pegs that i pushed in rather than hammered in to situ , oh well fingers crossed .

Erin came over it was her birthday we had some home cooked pizzas and fries all in all that was my weekend.

Had worse a lot worse but had better hopefully now the weather is getting better we will get out and about more .

My son has still not had the decency to call me guess he is in no rush well son neither am i so I guess it's a waiting game.

The cats between them are killing on average a bird every two to three days not sure about the mouse count but between them they are killing plenty of birds which we feel guilty about as we put nuts seeds and suet balls out for our feathered friends at each side of the van .

Good new Nick Blackwell the British fighter whom fought Chris Eubank Jr  is out of the nine day induced coma and is doing well which is great news .

NO GIRLS

Helens middle son Kris his partner gave birth to a baby boy they are calling him Oakley Noah both mother and baby are fine thats two of her sons and my daughter who have all had boys so where have all the girls gone .

I bought a cherry red Filofax for a few pounds and a load of inserts for it including plastic wallets and a hole punch so I can add my own pages which makes sense as I want it more as a journal then a diary , all bought from good old eBay .
Still waiting the delivery of my two usb memory sticks so i can take some movies off my mac book pro.

I seriously want to change my iPad but not sure it i want to stick with the mini or go bigger or even get the smaller iPad pro and pen , which would the ultimate Filofax , to get the pro option i would have to save be nice to save up each month and get it on my birthday in October if i can wait that long .

Will be putting up the plastic green house that  Helen bought from eBay ,  this weekend went out today and bought two packets of  10inch metal tent pegs 12 x 450 x 450 paving slabs and 6 bags of sand to use to lay the slabs on .

Reading  - Graeme Obree "The Flying Scotsman"

Watching - Graeme Obree "The Flying Scotsman"

Listening to the -  The Pet Shop Boys  "Super"

BEING BORING

Happy Easter Sunday -  I have had one chocolate egg today , but for Easter tea we are having the finest steak with breaded garlic mushrooms fries and  battered onion rings I have bought a jar of farm made horseradish sauce .
I won a cherry red Filofax on eBay I am not sure why red but it looks brand new I am waiting for a few things being delivered they should start coming next week fingers crossed .

Need to catch up on some films i have yet to watch  "Stealing Cars", "Identical's" and "Go Get A Job".

It is upsetting to hear about the British fighter Nick Blackwell who's fight against Chris Eubank jr who is also British . His father Chris told him stepped in to the ring to advise his son to stop hitting him to the head and finish him using hits to the body , Why Nicks own corner did not stop the fight i have no idea .
The referee  finally stopped the fight  in the tenth round after advice from the ring side doctor and Nick was then stretchered out of the ring and  took to hospital where the doctors surgeons  decided to put him in to an induced coma  , due to bleeding on his brain ,  I really do hope he pulls through , His father also had similar issues with his fight against Michael Watson who's career was stopped due to his injuries . So very sad and highly upsetting.

BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY - Another storm we have had enough wet weather to compensate i hope we get a really long hot summer we deserve it .
I went to work it was boring loads of people off and it was quite and it drag i was glad when ten o clock came round and i could fuck off home . Listening to the  different versions of the Pet Shop Boys Being Boring

TRIM YOUR BUSH

FRIDAY - I would really like one to these wallets they are quite expensive but i reckon unless you lose it will last you a lifetime http://www.fusionwallets.com

Today it is a bank holiday Good Friday i am working it is very sunny and cool it is a glorious day i will not have a busy day and tomorrow its good old Saturday life is good .

I bought some more Sharpie pens for Helen in pinks , turquoise and purples i also bought her some blank cd's and clear plastic wallets . I bought two metal Kingston 3.0 16gb usb flash drives and a Pilot disposable fountain pen for myself .

SATURDAY - Drove over to the  garden centre at Tong  and we bought three black metal obelisks for the garden one of them  had a basket at the base so plants and flowers can be planted ,  I spent a total of £85 on metal work I also spent £30 on tomato plants and a round box hedge that is trimmed in to a ball be fun keeping the bush trimmed  gardening is a very expensive hobby .
Had meatball pizza for tea washed down with a nice ice and pear Kopparberg cider the wind is howling and the rain is lashing down not nice for a bank holiday weekend Easter tomorrow back at work Monday.

MACBOOK WOES

Back at work i will also be working good Friday and bank holiday Monday double time and days off in lieu plus parking will be easy which is always a big bonus.Watch the weather be blistering hot whilst i am stuck at work.

Downloaded El Capitan on Helen's mac book it totally fucked it up the download must have been corrupted some how and  it would not install itself , neither would it load Yosemite so  i had to reboot using cmd + r to get in to disk utility i and to copy a ghost image of Helen's mac book hard drive  then i had to use the hard drive with the saved image and reinstall it using it as the  image to the destination of the mac book pros hard drive a pain it did it but it meant losing all the stuff i had saved on my external h/d i did try to do a Internet back up using cmd alt and r keys it wanted to install mountain lion which was the o/s before Mavericks but because a newer o/s was installed would not let me do it , all in all a pain in the arse but had no choice if Helen wanted to keep all her files and work she had stored , her laptop was never backed up using Time Machine , this was done with the help of Apple support and over 24 hours but got there in the end .

Got a wage increment at work which I was not expecting until Aprils pay cheque so that was a nice surprise be even better when may tax changes in April and we get a 1% wage rise which is piss poor .

Working both bank holidays this good Friday and the following bank holiday Monday two days easy parking hopefully no managers around and double time .

James ' Girl At The End Of The World  ' knocked Adele of the number one spot in the U.k album charts Tim Booth has one great voice .

LOTS OF SENSE

Ultravox , Sting , Terence Trent Darby , Spandau Ballet , Soft Cell , Erasure , Culture Club , Fine Young Cannibals , and Simply Red are a few of the cd's i used own in fact they were on cassette tapes and not on cd discs at all . Had a Akai tape deck and a matching Akai  amp and equalizer combo and a massive pair of stereo speakers it was a cool set up and cost me the best part of a £1000 which at the time was a good months wages. I also had a really great pair of cans i cant remember the make but they were  a reasonable quality .

Having no Internet back in the day i listened to a lot more music in house than i do now and i use to spend more on buying the  latest releases depending on how much over time i did and what spare cash i had , we did use to copy tapes using a double tape deck pirating still went on back in the day.

The new smaller  iPad pro with quad speakers and 256gb of storage would be a nice investment the biggest iPod classic 160 gb storage has finally been blown out of the water for a mobile portable device how many films books and albums could you load up would be an amazing feat.
 Tech is getting cheaper and better each year that passes the Apple SE phone makes a lot of sense once you get your head around it , especially with the current  trade in deals Apple are offering you are getting the same spec as a 6s for a lot less cash so anyone who currently owns a iPhone 5s , like me , well it makes a lot of sense .

CLEAR UP

Moved the garden boarder at the front of the van by another couple of feet , which is a  good idea because the grass w head sown last year had not really took there that well and was very baron and patchy . i removed more stones we will need soils but it should improve the growing quality , i hate gardening , i like flowers and plants i don't mind watering them either , it is all the hassle of maintenance.

I also removed  the rest of the dead leaves left over from Autumn using the garden vac including all of the ones under the decking .
Helen has planted up loads of pots with  seeds wand bulbs which should be good in a few months time and has reseeded the patches of lawn which are still bare hopefully this time it will take .

We need to hire a skip and have a massive clear out of garden waste and rubble which we piled up last summer it is hidden by the out building and needs dumping a decent size skip will be a hundred quid plus .

Well tomorrow is Friday my last day of leave i have the weekend then its back to the grind this week went too fast.

Watching - "The Forest"

GARDEN SHED HEAD

George has been back out and is fine after his ordeal on Sunday   so far he has not climbed any trees hopefully he has learned his lesson , he has to be careful with his other eight lives.

Helen successfully bid for on Ebay and won a wooden cabinet with wire mess doors very shabby chic one of the doors want easing Helen wants to put it in the gardening building on top of the worktop we have to pick it up from York .Helen is getting right shed head .

Fixed another two brackets for hanging baskets on the out building wall opposite ends , we also have four new half baskets screwed to the wall which are either side of the door and windows and there is a larger window basket underneath the main window , be nice when they flower .

Bought some more fresh beef goulash soup and some chicken balti and a loaf of tiger bread .


Watching - Dark Tide staring Halle  Berry.

Listening to - Jhene Aiko "Sail Out and "Souled Out".

SILLY PUSSY

George our ginger tom cat got stuck up the oak tree , that  i fixed the bird boxes to a few days ago , we guess that he decided to chase a squirrel up which was the easy bit  he ended up around thirty  foot up the tree unable to get back down .

i strapped two sets of aluminium ladders together and rested them again the trunk of the tree and rested them on top of a green wheelie bin , he wouldn't come down even though the ladders was near enough to him .We even tried to hose him down with water from the water pipe to entice him down the ladders that did not work either in fact he climbed further up.

I saw a van drive into the cup de sac behind us with a triple extending ladder i called round the gentleman agreed to help us out and drove the ladders round he put them up he even climbed up them and with the help from a broom got George to exit  the tree he hit a branch on the way down he tried to hang on but dropped then hit the top of the fence and  bounced off and finally landed on the soil paws first he rang off he came bace ten minutes later it appeared that he was fine .The man with the van ,  i dropped him and his girlfriend off at the pub in Denby Dale  believe it or not  it was his birthday .

                                                       My two cats George and Minnie

Going to watch both of the Point Break films the newest one and the older one to see if it is as good as the original with Patrick Swayze which released in 1991 .

SOUPED UP

Midweek all down hill after today till Friday I am then off for ten days next thing it will be Easter a quarter of the year already gone it is going too fast.
Helen is now going to use the out building has a potting shed which makes better sense she is after buying the top half of a dresser to fix to the back wall she got one from Ebay we pick it up Saturday morning FROM Huddersfield  ,
We will also at some point paint the inside walls and re do the outside walls and the window frames need glossing the door is fine it is white  pvc and it is all fully alarmed .

THURSDAY
Boring day only thing good about today is tomorrow is Friday and i watched the latest episode of Happy Valley and i had a wicked bowl of tomato red pepper and lentil soup don't let the lentils put you off it was gorgeous nearly as good as the beef goulash soup i had a few days with cheese on top and tiger bread bliss .

TFIF
Getting feed up waiting for summer winter seems to have last forever to say we have not had much snow w have had plenty of rain hurry up summer and lets get outdoors rather than spending an eternity indoors . Break up tonight for ten days I cant wait .

Below Holmfirth village we do miss it there is no other place like it .

SPRING FORWARD

I fitted the two bird houses to the tree it was only one screw and the houses just slotted into place , they do say build them homes and the wild life will come so fingers crossed we will wait and see.

I also planted three bushes that we were given to us  last week we dug three holes at the back of the van and placed them in , we also have load son seeds and bulbs to plant March is a busy month .

Four more shifts then nine days off which suits me fine parking at work is getting a nightmare i could not get a place to do i had to leave it with the risk of getting a parking fine was able to move it an hour later and had i  not been ticketed,

GOOD FEW DAYS

I bought an  imitation Beats type pill blue tooth stereo speaker ages ago from Ebay and  it is still going strong I take it in my back pack every day . I had it on at work yesterday playing Ed Sheran " I See Fire "  I usually wait until everyone as gone home for the day .Three people out of four are now buying one from Ebay they cost under £7.00 amazing so cheap yet so good .

SATURDAY
Went to the Trinity in Wakefield bought a nice zipper jumper for my Grandson along with a book and T-shirt Helen also got her Grandson a similar jumper we also bought tissue paper and gift bags cards and her mum a Mary Berry cook and recipe book .

I also bought tubes of super glue hair gel and aluminium foil and freezer bags which we where short of .

We called in at Burger King for a mid afternoon snack i was pissed they did not have any milkshakes the machine was down not impressed I had to have Coca Cola .

In the evening our friend Erin called we went for a pup supper to a vintage Inn the Hare and Hounds it is the fourth one we have been to we mainly go to the Sovereign , we all ordered the same a mixed grill it came with ham , lamb , steak , chicken ,black pudding and a  Cumberland sausage,  tomato ,  fries and onion rings and egg  i was the only one to eat it all

SUNDAY
Was out most of the day first off we went to Tong garden centre bought Helen a couple of bird boxes to fix to the tree near our van .Then went to see Hellenes mother and dropped the book we bought yesterday she had already received  her card from there then we went to see Helen's son Steven and  his baby who is also one year old the day after my daughters baby whom is one today .
Liam Helen's youngest son also called round with his girlfriend in his new car after a hour we went to see my daughter and my Grandson Jenson in Allerton Bywater we stayed a few hours and had chili and rice and cheese cake yum yum all in all a good day .

GORILLA ON THE ROOF

I need to get on to the roof of our van to do an essential repair the gas boiler flue is leaking from the roof seal  I am guessing that  it needs the aluminium tape that needs replacing , to make it water tight again  I will also get some sealant just in case.

I put the ladder up and took a roll of Gorilla tape up on to the roof the roof is solid sheet metal moulded to look like tiles it is very rigid and smile the Gorilla tape is water proof heat proof and highly sticky i taped it , and over taped it and over taped it again ,  I will see how it goes .

It was snowing today quite heavy and it was laying  just when we think you are out of the woods , it didn't stop until around half past eleven ,Then it started to rain  and the threat of more snow was always looming but it never happened , and the main roads were  soon clear , in-fact by the time i was going to work most of the snow was already disappearing fast  .

I have a full week off I work the rest of this week and next week then I have the following week off yippee lets be honest we all work for time off and money .

My Grandson is a year old this Sunday it is amazing how quick twelve months has been and gone I have no idea what to get a one year old baby I will have to Google it .

LEAP YEAR

Well, we have the ingredients for another Chinese sir fry this time we are using chicken fillets Helen is in bed it is quarter to seven in the evening we went out came home we had sandwiches beef and ham and egg mayo had a drink and off she popped to bed with George the cat and Pip the dog , I am left to my own devices .

My lead for my book arrived so i tried it out it is made in China it cost me only £18.99 and is excellent it is like a laptop lead brick and power lead that separate it charges my Mac book up fine it is slightly slower than the Apple lead but works great.

Finally Helen got up we did not cook our Chinese dish i had mini kebabs onion bhajees and popadoms.

SUNDAY
Vac washed and waxed the car it has been a while since I cleaned her black always shines up well it took me a good couple of hours which was hour more than i wanted to spend doing it but at least the sun was out .

MONDAY.

Its leap year and Helen did not propose to me , so she blew it for another four years. She missed the boat yet again , hehe I am only joking we are happy as we are for now.

Went for a test drive in a Citroen C1 1.2 it was ok greta drive quite nippy all in all it was good the fold back roof was emitting some noise but all in all i was impressed , we are hoping to order a 1.0 automatic in white if we can organise the fiancee we will see over the next few days if it a goer or not .
I want to keep our Suzuki swift for myself rather than financing another car which makes sense and Helen will use the C1 once she has passed her test both threat and practical. She will start taking lessons again asp .
I use to have and drive a brand new Citroen C2  , a certain Ex wife took it in the divorce proceedings haha.

At work I helped move the premature babies back to the Neo natal ward ,  there was a break down in power supply over the weekend caused by water leakage which blow out the mains supply which affected the power to the ward . Yesterday afternoon it was fixed and the power was back up and running so we moved them all back with all the equipment which was attached to them keeping them alive , it was a nice afternoon seeing all the tiniest infants  of all races beating all the odds and surviving makes you wonder why as adults all we want to do is go to war and destroy life it don't make sense.