Conservatory update no work was done Monday or Tuesday work commenced on Wednesday all the windows and doors went up on Wednesday along with the boxed guttering wall side of house and the work on the roof began Thursday all of this was done by a two man team
i think they will complete on time once its all water proof can start putting furniture in and look at leather settee corner unit we have had a couple of sofas and settees from Argos in the past and to be fair they have always been a good quality might look at Argos for price and quality before all these so called designer outlets and stores doing offers all the time

No kids cats OR dogs just a X-box 360 , my I-pod , Dvd and t.v and a cold bottle of Magners please and a perfect sky just bought The Skin Gods by Richard Montanari its set in Philadelphia in cheap motel showers and seedy night clubs along with seedier porno films and serial killers with chainsaws great bed time reading think its sounds like the Nicolas Cage film 8mm along with jigsaw form the saw movies so if the wife goes missing you all know wher i got the idea from hehe

Here are some views on my way to work it changes with the seasons and i think i appreciate walking rather than driving straight to and from work i had the car for a week and a day whilst the kids where on holiday and it only took twenty five minutes max to get home but i did miss my walk into and from town especially if there is anything i need from W.H.Smiths or Borders etc
i which i had a job just constructing wooden brides like this one on new developments i would really like to live near water and all this looks deep its no more than a foot deep and attracts frogs ducks and dragon flies and in summer is usually covered with water lilies you can just see Leeds Parish church on the skyline


All of the dock side development i have seen built and the changing landscape around taking shape in the last six years a basic 1 bedroom apartment with the worlds smallest balcony are on the market for 185k not including parking that comes at a 20k extra or so i have been told.
The royal armouries is on the left off the picture below

My mother passed away one year ago today , so to a dear MUM God and his all his Angels be with you hope you are at peace now and chillin out with Dad and all family friends and relatives that have passed away before us .

My Mum had a hard life her Mother died whilst giving birth to her and her father passed away before she was 2 years old so hopefully they are all now reunited where ever you my be all my love hugs and kisses your loving son Robert xxx

Finished work yesterday and i headed for home my Sister and her Husband was there on his Suzuki motorbike
He took my son out for quick spin on it whilst I had a quick coffee .

Then my son jumped in the car and I headed for the cinema at xscape in Castleford wanting to to go to the 4.20pm showing of Hot Fuzz we both walked up to the kiosk to purchase two tickets when I was asked how old was my son i replied 15 the girl at the kiosk than asked for proof I told her I am his father and that I was vouching that he was of 15 years old.

still no joy with out the proof no tickets i asked what if my son stood out of view and she just sold me two tickets for Hot Fuzz no joy she wouldn't the jumped up little jobs worth she ruined are Sunday afternoon out just because she could.

It is now a mission to get in with my son and watch Hot Fuzz hehe watch this space will try next Sunday instead we had a couple games of air hockey and went to burger king then trotted of home to watch Shaun of the dead on dvd.

The brickwork is now all complete yippee and the floor joist's are in position the rest should start Tuesday all being well got to pay the remainder 80% of the price the final installment when we are happy that there is nothing left to do including any snagging or finishing off.

Finally finished reading James Patterson's Mary Mary i don't know why it took me so long as its a really good gripping read and i am already wanting his newest novel which previewed at the end of Mary Mary and should be out in the next few months.

Going to the pictures tomorrow with my son to see Hot Fuzz cant wait,will go after i finish work at 4.20 p.m going to xscape to see it might even buy the coke and over priced popcorn wont be the same taking our own hehe.

Got Johnny Depp chocolate factory to watch on dvd and the wilderness might have to wait to watch them a bit to busy atm watching C.S.I tonight and primeval.

Found out today peoples jobs are to go through out the Council because the contract for new deal as not been awarded last year.
they are asking people over 50 who are in the pension if they want v.r volunteer redundancy with 6 and half years added on for those under fifty including myself its severance pay depending on how long you have worked there i have 15 years in.

Last year a friend of mine got offered and left with 24k under his belt he had more years in than me but was on a lower grade and he as not really looked back he is in Europe atm in his mobile home a kon - tiki swift he as emailed me photos and its well cool but not sure it will do more than 15 mile to the gallon he and his wife are just following the sun he did also sell his house for added finance and had other investments like isa's endowments etc he had to cash in for more funding he is a few years younger than me as well .

But at the time i did admire his guts to become a traveler a nomad, hippie or whatever other tag fits his bohemian life he is living atm .

I am not saying this is for me , well it is but the wife would never agree to live this type of life style and we do have children at school age and the dogs , cat etc etc.
to fit in with our plans as well he did'nt it was just him and his good lady.

so its a total different ball game for us anyway but leaving the job i have done for the last 15 years would be life changing in a lot of different ways.

I could keep the weekend job as a regular pay check i would even earn more because my tax allowances would be towards that jobs wages so it would be around £30 a week increase about £150 after tax for 15 hours work .

my superannuation would be frozen from my old job for when i am retired when ever that will finally be.

I could try and fit and install kitchens on free lance basis not unlike like a business or similar work i am a trained city and guilds joiner with cscs card which would sort out the rest of the week Mondays to Fridays i used to fit kitchens all over England for MFI as displays in all the stores showrooms which was nation wide .

if i don't get a kitchen every week so what the eck i still got the weekend job and the severance pay to fall back on i can also get other part time work or full time work as long as it don't interfere with my weekend job life should be sweet life ain't that easy though and will have to give it big thoughts as to what avenue i walk down

All the brickwork is now complete along with the first fix for the electrics lights and five double sockets which we hope is enough but no doubt there will be a couple of trailing extensions in use once its all up and running.
the gas pipes for the central heating either side of the French doors are ready for the radiators and valves to be fitted got to use a freeze pack to freeze the water in there radiators to avoid having to drain down the whole system which will save time , as i have never seen this done i am quite intrigued.

The sleeper walls for the joists are in place and i think the joists will go in once the build is weather proof to the outside elements, the plastic and glass starts is to be fixed this Tuesday , i am not sure how long this will take but i cant it seeing be too long as its more of just fit and fix and it is all pre-made in the factory as long as the measurements are ok then it should all fall in to place.

There is the box guttering to do and the roof is all in sections and should be pretty straight forward the rest of the brick work on the porch will done tomorrow as long as the weather holds.

The concrete foundation is already in place and half the cavity wall is built to the finish level of the existing windows as pictured left had to move the outlet for the dryer but was no big deal i reckon another 3 to 4 weeks and we should be all done and back to normal .

Not much has happened the last few days no building work as happened over the last few days.
i think they are still constructing the conservatory in the factory and i reckon that will be at least another week the brick work should only now take another two days if the weather permits the laying of bricks and mortar.

would really like a job at Ikea , doing the kitchen and bedroom displays it would have to be mainly in the Leeds store,
why iam not too sure i use to do similar for MFI years ago fitting out displays all over England and really liked the work i would like to do the same but without the traveling.

it would mean leaving my job of 15 years and it might be all a pipe dream i do think i am at a stage when i am just board with the way things are panning out and want to make changes and wipe the slate clean and start again also i would have to drive to and from work each day which beats getting the bus it would be about a 30 min drive,

another big plus is i do love the Swedish meatballs they serve in store and the hot dogs so dinner tea and supper would be sorted hehe and also by trade i am a qualified joiner , i bet the money and over time would be decent there is no over time in my present job and i could also pack my Hospital job that i do on the weekends which would make life more sweet.

will phone up tomorrow and inquire if they have any vacancies and take it from there...........

Been bugging the wife would really like a x-box 360 for various reasons , i can get one flashed plus ten games for a really good price of £270 nearly giving it away and i do like gaming when the mood takes me , i don't go out drinking or gambling or chase loose women, also i have stopped smoking two years ago in March i work seven days a week and i don't ask for much.

apart from tech stuff sush as pc's with wireless connections and broadband connections ,dongles card readers and memory sticks (well cheap now anyway be a fool not to have two or three knocking about the place), bluetooth essential with mobile phones , psp's and i-pods digital cameras etc etc etc .i have not even mentioned getting vista upgrade for windows xp yet save that one for later on lol.

I take £2.50 a day to work i have a metro card for the bus so all i have to buy is food when i want a magazine a book cheap dvd cd etc i get it on the debit card.

all in all i don't moan we will have quite a few quid left when the extension is paid for and is fully furnished which my wife will have carte blanch on just about which i again i don't mind.

But yet all i ask for is a x-box 360 is this so unreasonable i do have a ordinary x-box so why she asks do i want want yet another one , i say that principle only applies to f --cking wifes hehe and not to technology god bless her ..................................

The Brickwork part of the build should be completed by next Tuesday had to alter some gas pipes so they can go under the joists along with the wife o/j no one call the police lol the plumber is charging £25 a hour or part hour worked he want at least £50 if we wanted the wife rid off hehe , i hope he don't scratch his Porsche taking out his pipe bending machine and the rest of his money making machine hehe as long as he don't blow the house up and want paying for his dinner breaks hehe.

Its been forecast on the council internet site that its a 60% chance we are getting snow by Thursday so i guess a heatwave is heading its way up north to Leeds i hope so can,t wall bricks if its too cold.

Had an important meeting at work and i totally forgot to attend it, talk about snubbing the main man rather a bit like a devout catholic giving the pope the finger he might get over it by Christmas the boss not the pope that is.

The fact is he is never at our base anyway and he works the other side of Leeds but he was in early on this morning because i saw him and wished him good morning why then the pillock could not have reminded me about the so called drop everything important bloody meeting with lashings of ginger beer the Pratt the man bloody still wears ultravox trousers yeah the ones with the zippers on the pockets so his tissue dont fall out with his blackberry organizer strapped on to his belt...........beam me up scotty , the tosser and basically I'm getting a bollocking for not attending a meeting because i was out getting a £2500 job outcome the meeting i was to attend is to discuss the outcome of is extra duties i do and nothing in common with my main duties iam contracted to do or outcomes i have to achieve,

Worst part of it all is i missed the meeting i was out just driving about Leeds listening to Galaxy and just basically tossing it off i called in home to pick my mobile phone i had put it on charge the night before and i didn't pick it back up silly me.

I also went to a butchers i know along the way where the pork pies are outta this world or as good as they get i also got an apple slice as well and was in no rush to get back to base not exactly pedal to the metal unless where talking break and it was only when i got back to work i found out my error oops they can only sack me once hehe everyone else thought i was cool hehe after they all had pissed them selfs laughing at my expense. the wife didnt see the funny side i explained it help if you had a sense of humour to start with, the words was lost on her hehe.

Atm been listen to Primal Scream albums dirty hits and screamadelica vanishing point and riot city blues i didn't realize what a wicked group they are anybody out their not really listened to them got out and get scremadelica.

Had today off work as a flexi day did nothing washed the car and watched the Sentinel on dvd with Michael Douglas and Keifer Sutherland and Kim Basinger overall it was ok did fall asleep but i normally do if i get too comfy.

They Started on the electrics
on the extension just primely running out the cable deciding where the sockets are going which amount to five double sockets the floor is going to be joists and timber instead of concrete which i do prefer.

Got work tomorrow at the Hospital so all I'm doing now is cooking my wifes tea taking my dog out and jumping into the bath .Have a few bottles of Bud and bed

Things are going alright with the build and the brickie john whom is training to become an electrician he goes to college on a Friday is up to sill height and is progressing along nicely no major problems have occurred and no work as of yet as begun on the porch.

booked Friday off got to see if i can book the car in for its initial 1000 mile service think they lend us a c1 which will be fun to take for a spin want to go to spicemania and to sports world to get some black Diadora polo shirts for work which will make the wifey happy as she does not have to iron them need another half dozen,
i also need to buy some navy blue t - shirts for my hospital job as the ward is too warm when i have to wear the heavy duty polo shirts they supply.

considering getting a x-box 360 already flashed with ten games for £270 want to play gears of war and extreme condition not sure why these two games appeal to me they just do must grow up one day hehe and go on a diet and take more exercise etc etc .

Was my Daughter's 16th birthday last Saturday she and her girlfriends went out for a curry no parents and no inviting her younger brother who's 14th birthday is tomorrow .i was pretty pissed of i thought she could have invited him but she wouldn't no way,she we took him to the Toby carvery and had a pig out we both had the gammon with roast parsnips swede and roast potatoes i like my parsnips covered with honey which they don't do and then for desert he had ice cream sundae with all the trimmings plus 2 flakes and i had the fudge cake with pouring cream as always if nothing i am predictable.

Sun day after i had finished my shift at the hospital i took him to xscape at Castleford and went to Cineworld to see Rocky Balboa the 6th rocky film Sylvester Stallone as aged well but if it was made another couple of years down the line it wouldn't have been that believable it was as good as any of the other rocky films and it was a good film to close the Rocky saga.

2 cokes and a large popcorn for £7.90 am i getting like my dad complaining to my son ain't that dear compared to what you can get else where unlike my dad i was stupid enough to pay the price he would have gone without.

i can remember my dad not buying coffee in a cafe because the price they was asking he could have gone out and bought a full jar of the stuff Nescafe as well and supped it at home.
the bungee jumping at xscape cost £4.00 for 5 minutes he as four people on most of the time thats £192 a hour he is making if my maths is right ,i bet he is jumping for joy.

The builder didn't come yesterday but came today all the rubbish was cleared and the footings was dug out the front of the house looks like a building depot all the bricks was dropped off and two bags of building sand hopefully the concrete will go in for the footings tomorrow then i think they will have a day off for the concrete to set before they start laying any bricks for the cavity walls .

Have got to admit so far so good and they are working really hard and causing us minimum mess and distress and hopefully this will continue through out the build and it will run without any major problems or delays fingers crossed watch this space

They started dismantling the conservatory today one man came and commenced to demolish it unaided hopefully in a few weeks we will be smelling fresh paint the weather will be the biggest headache until its a sealed unit again we might be lucky and not have that much bad weather once the footings are in and the brickwork up the rest should be plain sailing fingers crossed.

The sale of the conservatory as fallen through so we tried to sell it on eBay no joy so it looks like it will end up in the skip we even tried to give it away to our next door nieghboughs they didn't want it and its in very good condition with sandersons blinds the full Monty.

It is being dismantled tomorrow and the work on the new one should start weather permitting anyway its all systems go.

Went into town at dinner time still pissed of with the job,bought some cheap films on dvd From Virgin and Hmv.
saw 1, the Usual Suspects , Torque ,Speed 1 and The minority report.

The dearest was £4.99 and the cheapest only £1.99 bought some umd films for psp fast and the furious 1 kiss of the dragon and Aliens 1 all £4.99 each and a Capcom arcade game which as the top 25 arcade style games on the one disc which was £14.99.

Bought a new dvd player from curry's for £17.99 made by matsui the sales assistant then tried to sell me a scart lead for £15.99 hehe of course i bought two not.There was not one included in the box.

Anyway for the price it ain't half bad its got a remote with it batteries not included the sales assistant cant haver known this because he didn't try and sell me any. it will play most dvd and cd formats and its half the size of a standard dvd player.

The building work is not going to start monday after all,what with the Christmas holiday and the weather the builders are running behind schedule so hopefully it will give us a extra couple of weeks to sort out lighting indoor and out the central heating and other stuff and to get more prepeared in general

the bathroom has just cost over £2000 and after the extension is paid for the money we made on the rented property we sold is going down faster than the England cricket squad..
didsell the old conservatry on to a work mates son for a £1000 along with the blinds flooring he as to collect and hopefully he will get it to his house without any hitch which should cover the cost af a half decent tv plus a new dvd and x-box 360.

Got my old pc which is not bad spec i upgraded it last year so i'm planing on using it as a media centre got over 50 gig of music and i will install a few of my favorite films.just upgraded my wife's usb wireless adapter she as already bought a worksation for herself good old Ikea at least you cant beat their blue carry bags for 25p each next time you shop there by half a dozen they are well handy

Back at work and hating every minute,cant get back into the swing of things and i'm clock watching most of the day .

yesterday went up to Rothwell Park and then to Roundhay Park so it was a nice few hours driving around and taking in the scenery and out of the office away from the desk and the mundane tasks involved in the day to day grind.

The bathroom re-fit is almost complete a bath panel left to do and there is quite a few tiles that will need replacing and i suppose i will have to fit this work into my busy schedule of things to do hard when i work 7/7.

The extension was suppose to start next week the builders which are doing the brickwork are behind with other builds due to the Christmas period and bad weather so fair dues cant kick of on one as long as its built right why worry give us time to get the bathroom back to spec will need the flooring sorting out as well and a few other fittings new light mirrors towel rail toilet roll holder etc etc.

New issue of Stuff magazine should be out now need to call in to Borders to pick up some reading materials as its taking longer on the bus these days it can take well over hour to get home a hour then i have the wife bitching i have been to the pub i wish , would be cool being in the pub than waiting for bus that dont turn up , think i will have to start taking my son's psp watch to watch a movie on the way home or play underground need for speed carbon the only game we have atm .

Kicking arse on Prince of Persia getting a level done every couple want splinter cell chaos theroy next can pick it up from computer exchange for £4 if it anit throwing it down at dinner time might have a walk in to town and pick it up its always too busy on a night when i leave work.

went on Evac training which is using a chair that can be operated by one person to enable a disabled person usaly who is confined to a wheel chair to be safely removed down any number of corridors and staircases to safety of the outdoors etc.
called into computer exchange and got the splinter cell game chaos theory i was after called into Ainsley's and got a danish pastry for coffee break.

the works canteen had chicken curry on the menu for lunch which i shouldn,t have had it with half rice and chips got to say was the best meal they have done in weeks.They recently have had a refit which got rid of the mouse's nesting under the kitchen unit plinths beggars beliefs, still knowing what i know i really should take sarnies.

Started back at work today after the Christmas break had to happen had a long time off ,still had not a bad weekend took lad up to Bumpys at Morley which was ideal for any young person wanting to start out motorbike riding it was £25 for a one hour lesson that includes everything from the bike a Kawasaki 125 helmet boots the lot both my son and myself was well impressed by the commitment of staff to the general facility's of the place.

my son had never ridden a bike without an automatic clutch before and he was quite nervous but he was fine and only stalled the bike once and didn't once part company with the bike we are definitely going back you can join pay for a years subscription i think it costs around £15 then you only pay £5.00 every time you want to ride providing you have your own bike and need no tuition.

sunday finished ripping out the garden sorted the bathroom out getting a new bathroom suite put in starting today hopefully will only take two days three days tops will have some tiling to redo which i can manage myself .