Friday
went over to Ikea Helen bought some more plants and another three wicker baskets for the coffee table a white net canopy to suspend over the bed head a solid wood chopping board and a throw for penny to chill out on in the living room , had hot dog coke and a chocolate doughnut once we got through the checkout a lorry had broken down so getting out was a nightmare dropped Helen at house the went to work.


Saturday
went to work alone Helen full of cold and flu like symptoms she ain't well at all which means i only work until one o clock after finishing work i walked into town i had to go to pay the mortgage on the house i left my wife and kids in bought a Nike bag to replace the bag i bought cheap false economics went to Boots the chemists bought some simple linctus and Sudafed for Helen then went home went to find a soft furnishing shop Denhelm in Bradford after driving around for ages we found it just before closing time , Helen bought six padded seat cushions for the dining table chairs we went back to Ikea to pick up a Aspelund three door wardrobe for the spare bedroom had three miss calls that i noticed it was my son Guy he wanted to know if he could sleep again i told him that i was at working in the morning till one again and if he stayed Helen would be home to look after him but that she was poorly and he was to let her sleep not that he be up before midday anyway so he agreed so after dropping the wardrobe of we picked my son up got fish and chips on the way home for supper.

Sunday
Finished work at one got home assembled the wardrobe and Helen rearranged the bedroom around and it looks a lot better i moved all my clothes into newly built wardrobes and Helen has now got the triple wardrobe in our bedroom and at long last she can organize her clothes and get them on hangers i also put up the canopy over the bed head whilst Helen baked a strawberry pie she had been promising for ages she would have ago at baking one for me i told her my mum use to make them and once it was cooked between Guy and me it must have only lasted a hour we had it with ice cream it was just too nice after eating all the pie (unfortunately Helen did not get any oops sorry) and it was has good as i remembered i have not had strawberry pie in over 35 years thank you Helen .... we dropped Guy off home at around half seven after giving him our DVD player which is more or less brand new because he had mentioned the one he has in his bedroom no longer works he does spend ages watching films in his room so i felt it was right that he took ours.
Went to the Polash Indian restaurant at Pudsey for supper Helen had her usual extra hot chicken korma and i had chicken Rogan josh.

Thursday
Guy got up at half eleven it was quite warm and the sun was out so we decided to get the bikes out and go down to the canal and cycle the Liverpool way last time me and Helen did this direction we only did a mile and it started to rain so we did a u-turn this time it was different we made it all the way to Shipley we stopped at a mobile cafe take away van and got a sandwhich and drink before we headed back home we it took just over an hour by the time we got home it was more or less time to drop Guy back home seeing that i was working at five Helen came with us for the ride but it was too late to drop her back home so she stayed with me until i had completed my shift.

Friday
Helen not too well today having back ache and she felt like she was coming down with something last night she had a sore throat and feeling hot and clammy we was planning on going to Whitby but the weather is dull cloudy and rainy so we would not have gone anyway.

Wednesday
After getting up yesterday went over to a gun shop in Pudsey and bought a co2 air pistol which he wanted he put £40 towards it my son does attend a club in Fairburn to target shoot also bought some stainless steel bb's and 15 gas canisters.

All of us went over to xcape at Glasshoughton went to Burger king yum yum whom now don't do any milkshakes of any kind which is only what i use to go for , then dropped Guy off back home he asked if he could stay over again tonight we said yes and that i would pick him up after i finished work at nine o clock,which i did we had pizza's for supper doner kebab meat and barbecue chicken and fries from a local take away and watched 30 days of night on dvd.

Got up early we both left the house at 8-30 am we taking Penny our Jack Russell to the vets for her immunisation injection after this one she can walk out side this time next week.she had it no problem didn't even flinch going to get her micro chipped in June.

Started reading John Twelve Hawks 2ND book the dark river which is following on from his first book The Traveller

The cheap bag i bought is already knackered the zip has gone and opens apart on its own so looks like i will have get a Nike backpack after all and sod the extra cost.

Phoned my son up he would like to stay over at our house in Rodley this is a big break through its the first time he has asked if he come round never mind sleep over and stay and it would be the first time that he would meet Helen a hour later i got a cal saying he changed his mind then i got a call back saying he wanted to stay i picked him up and he did stay he meet Helen and he likes her which i knew he would he liked the house and the way we have it arranged so all in all it went smoothly he had supper with us pork chops and played with penny and just generally chilled out,Helen made him feel more than welcome and did everything to make him feel happy and at ease she couldn't ave done anymore.Guy brought theCanon printer from home which i had left so they could print there homework off , and hooked it up to my pc so he could down load cover art for his dvds that he had backed up we spent a hour printing covers

Sunday

We both finished work i cleaned the house Helen prepared some food pizzas quiches dips and nibbles and sandwiches.
We have a friend that is staying over tonight Keri she now lives in Bristol.And she is holding a psychic party at our house , and is doing card reading using tarot and rune stones.

Helen's Mother is attending with her sister Doreen along with her cousin Sharon and her friend Julie plus my twin sister and older sister Anne and Irene.
I had my cards read and i was impressed with what i got told obviously time will tell for some of the statements to be proved right or wrong but i felt the reading was exact and right.

Monday
Bank holiday and i am at work doing 7.00am till 1.00pm shift at least its double time i left Helen tucked up in bed nice and warm i love waking up with her by my side its difficult sometimes going to work i was going to write hard but thought better of it lol.

Went to over Harrogate didn't get there until four thirty walked round then drove over to Pool to the White Hart we both had lamp chops with fries with a side order of cabbage onions and peas for desert i had white chocolate cheese cake and Helen had apple and strawberry crumble with ice cream .

will be working again this weekend seven till three o clock . We are or Helen as arranged a psychic party for this Sunday for family and close friends at our house in Rodley roughly six people should turn up for there cards reading and other activities both my sisters are going to be there as well reloaded my i-pod i have it playing through my i-pod dock at work when everybody have left for home and i am by myself atm have got some T-Rex ,
Be Bop Deluxe , Elton John , Lupe Fiasco , Usher , Radiohead , REM , The Cure , RHCP , Razorlight ,The Killers , Coldplay , Snowpatrol , Manic Street Preachers but to name a few would like to get a few good eighties compilation albums
Have a few films to watch Leon , The Hitman based on the computer game , Beowulf , and AVP ,Ferris Buellers day off , and Risky Business .

Need to buy a new backpack for work the one i have is totally gone ripped torn plus Penny has been giving it a chew to help it on its way and the zip as come away from the rest of bag the top and sides are completely open don't want to spend a fortune as long as i can get in all that i need to carry with me and its black is all that i am really bothered about , what need to in is the i-pod and dock power lead , my uniform essentials such as coffee and sugar , pens a notebook , reading book the odd newspaper and bits of shopping that i buy on the odd occasions.

Back at work after being off sick for three days, and its dragging i walked into town at dinner time a trip to Debenham's to buy some Estee Lauder 05 foundation for Helen at £22.50 its costly to look good glad i don't have to wear it , it must be costly being a woman with the cost of make up , lipstick , eye liner etc etc and other perfumes lotions and potions.

Messed up the council tax thought i had paid Aprils only to discover i had paid March's i thought i didn't have to start payments until April my error so now i have two months to pay instead of one got to be paid before the 2nd of June which i will have to do or they will want the full amount paying £900.

Have got five days off next week Monday to Friday but not the nights off i will have to go to work for five i have booked the 4th and 5th July from my nights job and a whole week of nights the first week in July.

Bought some more plants for the garden and a hanging basket for the front of the house need some more containers and pots for the window sills.

Not been to work for the past two days hopefully be back tomorrow i think i have got a kidney infection or some sort of virus always something doing the rounds constantly feel drained and tired with pain in my lower back i do have next week off so will have to try and get better for then .

Helen went to see the spiritualist Stephen Holbrook at Morley town hall he is going to appear at the Hilton Hotel Leeds on the Saturday 6th of July i think we are going to see him there together be my first time at such an event all reports and feed back from his shows are good so i would like to see for myself and get my own opinion of him also we are also supposedly going to see Colin Fry at the Leeds Town Hall on the 4th of June which is a Wednesday that's if i can get the time of work.

Hopefully got all next week off not sure what nights i can get off but my day job i have time off from although i am working the weekends which is a bit of a bind if the weather is going to be hot.Hoping to get some serious miles in on the bike along the side of the canal be interesting to see how far i can do.

Still need to sort out a wireless router the one Ste bought was a bag of shit and only 54mps which is pointless if we are going to be running two laptops of it and we want to access the whole of the house including outdoor areas now that we have the patio table and chairs.

Penny our Jack Russell pup is doing fine she still not proper toilet trained but we are or Helen is persevering with it and we Will get there in the end she has another injection next Tuesday then a week later she can walk outside and go to the canal with us which should help matters a lot

We do need some more lights and maybe some out side candles but to when we first moved in the garden is unrecognisable to what it was and its mainly down to Helen planting bushes bulbs and flowers and tidying up what was already there.

Helen got her patio furniture that she had bought and just finished paying for but had to leave it at her house it as took some getting here and i thought we would end up buying some green plastic chairs and table , but it was a nice surprise and set out on the patio when i arrived home from work at nine all it needs is a coat of teak oil to bring it up looking like new.We have a cream parasol to set up and a new barbecue to put together and set out hopefully for this weekend also Helen brought over a log burner which her father had made with logs and some more garden ornaments including a hedgehog butterfly and some pot ware. Hopefully the weather will be decent enough and warm enough to get the food cooking also might buy some more lights and some perspex place settings from Ikea or Asda .

it will be nice change to sit out on a evening to eat tea or supper in the garden or just down a few alcoholic beverages and just to chill will set up i-pod and dock for some music and hopefully get the wireless Internet connection which is on going and still trying to be configured without any success up and running and buy a cheap laptop for surfing the web out of doors weather permitting.


will also get some parasol lights if we can find any nice ones that are plain white lights and not the multicoloured lanterns . Checked the BBC weather forecast and it should be sunny for Saturday we are both working until three o clock so not doubt it will be fine and sunny until we leave work.

Had yesterday off got up decided to go to Morrison's for breakfast before going for Helen's hospital appointment pigged out and arrived at the LGI on time and we was in and out in twenty minutes the scans have showed that there something is there but they don't think it is a bad diagnosis we wont know for sure for another ten days when Helen's GP will have the final results,
Did some shopping i town bought a Diesel t-shirt and Helen got some girlie things from Riverisland went to Primark and bought another two navy t-shirts for work at the Hospital and another couple for knocking around the house and for wearing on the bike rides also bought some trainer socks and ten pairs of white socks just because i am sick of wearing black socks with white trainers.

finally got home after going to see Helen's parents for an hour we got the bikes out and went out on the Canal pedaled to the Abbey Inn just had a half each and crisps and headed back home the gel seats made a big difference and the fact i had pumped more air in to the tyres also made riding easier.

Sorted some stuff out in the garden that needed doing hammered in some nails with lead fasteners and run garden twine around these to fasten it place to support the climbing plants and sweet peas we have growing.

Went to my Nephews house at Greengates for his 40th birthday my twin sister Anne was there with Alan her partner , my other nephew Andrew marks brother was there his partner could not attend and my other sister Irene who is marks mum and her partner Ged was there and marks partner sue of course was there who ordered all the food from the local Indian restaurant for us all and did all the starters of samosa , pakoras and bahjees in the oven prior to food arriving.

Helen once again has forgot to pay her o2 phone bill she she as been cut off again hehe but can receive text and calls but cannot send or call out.

Need to bye some blank dvds and cds we also need to get Helen some headphones for her Samsung phone.

Decided we are going to have our first barbecue this Saturday i want to get some duck for a change see what it tastes like charcoaled cooked do some nice kebabs get peppers onions chicken cherry tomatoes other salad stuff and new potatoes , will have to get some plastic plates and bowls and take the kitchen table and chairs out on the patio until Helen brings her patio set from her house

Helen goes back to the Hospital tomorrow to the breast clinic for another mammogram hopefully this is just routine and once again she is giving the all clear.

i have got the whole day off including time of from my evening job , so i will spend all day with Helen , we going to my nephews Mark to celebrate 40Th birthday on Wednesday night his partner Sue she is ordering loads of Indian food and takeaways to feed everyone so it will turn into a double celebration .

we bought a barbie from Asda (that's summer over then) also bought two gel seats for the bicycles to make riding more comfy and a foot pump and one puncture repair kit just in case.

So hopefully can pig out come barbie time loads of kebabs and cider , and then ride the calories off at the side of the canal 127 miles to Liverpool i don't think so.

Helen brought two sun loungers from the house that she bought last year but never used they are still in the cellophane wrappers and a cushion for the metal bench we have in the garden.

Saturday
Helen not worked the weekend she is worried over the breast clinic appointment this coming Wednesday . so i finished my shift at one o clock after i had covered her ward she works on so that was nice , picked Helen up from the house and we drove over to Castleford then went to Glasshoughton Centre to the Carphone warehouse retail shop there where Helen bought a new Samsung J700 on pay as you go for £59.99 and its working fine with her sim card which escaped the water damage , she ordered a 2 gig memory card of eBay for her music and photos to fit on.

Sorted out pc problem i ran AVG antivirus i downloaded from work and it got rid of a load of Trojan's spyware and virus threat and i have got to say did the trick PC now running fine .

Sunday
finished work at one called in to Leeds city centre bought some camouflage shorts and a pair of khaki ones hope the hot weather lasts.

Went over to Flockton to see Sharon and Steve took Penny with us her first proper trip out since we got her .Had a barbecue pigged out had a couple of lagers stayed till around seven thirty drove home .

We finally did another bike ride , went back down to the Canal this time headed towards Leeds it was half eight when we started so we did not have daylight hours on our side but we still managed to do about seven miles we both need new saddles and must get a foot pump for the tyres need to get a day off just so we can have a relaxing ride and day out on the bikes.

Got computer troubles at home something has hijacked FireFox searching using Google just not happening taking ages to find and search run A2 , and spybot found loads of spyware and stuff which i deleted but a day later its just as slow will run anti virus but if its spyware it might not detect what needs removing .

Helen got mobile phone problems she accidentally dropped her phone down the toilet apparently her Sim card is still working but the phone is dead which is on a eighteen month contract but without insurance to cover a replacement phone , she went round to our next door neighbours to use there land line to call me as she couldn't email me at work due to the problem that is written above.....she as asked if i can buy her a Sony Ericsson k800i on pay as you go so she can put her contract Sim card in to it and resume where she left off but keeping it well away from the bath and toilet etc. she is suppose to be baking me a strawberry pie today fingers crossed i just hope she remembers to wash her hands after fishing her phone out from the toilet bowl .

I am downloading a free version of AVG anti virus putting it on pen drive and taking home to try and sort out my PC worries hopefully i will try Helen's Sim card in my phone if it works will then get a new phone for her tomorrow.

A good freind at work gave me his mountain bike its virtually brand new but does have some rust in some of the cables but nothing that a spray of wd40 wont sort out.

Helen got a letter from the hospital saying she as to go back for another Mammogram scan after already been giving the all clear just a few days ago ... this is worrying , i think they are being careful rather than worried that they messed up the previous test.

Helen and i took Penny to the vets for her first injection this morning she never made a whimper don't think she even noticed what was going on thick skinned or what.got leaflets for pet plan insurance the first six weeks are free then you are then giving the option of joining or not once the paperwork and fees are sorted out it will be up to us if we go with them or not there is no money up front so if we don't like the cost then no obligation and we will look round else where for a cheaper quote .

Whilst we was at the vets got a phone call from the landlord the heating engineer was at the house to sort out the boiler and the hot water which was not running as hot as it should have been told him we was ten minutes away we was just in the process of leaving the vets we got home and the heating engineer was waiting for us to let him in obviously he noticed the dog , i thought he might have let the landlord know or let it slip so i made my mind up to come clean...... and i phoned our landlord up to explain the dog situation we need not have worried as he is more than happy with the way we are looking after his house and knows if we have a dog that its in a pen when we are not with it and wont be let to run around the house unattended so he was more than happy.... what a result .

Got into work just before 9.45 thank god for flexi at dinner time walked into town needed to buy a couple more navy t-shirts to wear at work on a night so went to Primark no joy none left how many people require navy blue t-shirts i ask myself.
Went to fish bar near market and just bought a scallop for my dinner nearly got a Muller light there was a promotion on in Leeds city centre and they was giving tubs out free to Jo public but for some reason i didn't bother do like the apple flavour the most and i think it was a new type they was promoting .

Finished work early because i started twenty minutes ahead of time so i still got all the work completed.Got home had curry rice and nan bread for tea plus a couple tins of Carlsberg with lime...........Helen is going to make and bake me a strawberry pie hopefully tomorrow she as already bought the custard

Back at work and its too hot hot and tedious got a pen for the Penny of eBay a Friend bid on it for me and i picked it up to day , its her new home hope she likes it is very big so she will have plenty of room to move around.Helen bought a chain and corkscrew fixing device so she can go out in the garden in the nice weather that we are having at the moment and hopefully will last .
Helen also bought her some pigs ears and some chewy sausages for her to munch on she is settling in fine and is already got a personality all of her own and has become part of the family all we need now is to clear it with the landlord and tell him all bout the new family member hopefully he wont be up in arms about it i will sort this out very soon

The sun is shining and the skies is blue i got to go to work at five till nine tonight what a bummer
it looks like summer as finally arrived at long last . least got most of the day off its my last day off foe a few weeks , i picked Helen up after she had been back to her hair dressers to get her highlights and colouring put right they missed colouring out and it was showing dark in places ........went over to Crown Point to Argos and bought a metal gate so we can have the conservatory door open but keep Penny behind bars well and safe.
Helen also bought a metal rose archway for the garden which we assembled and we fitted in place.
finished work got home at nine just chilled and relaxed did nothing but go on pc and watch tv back to work tomorrow on 14 hour days and its still worth it even more so.

Today woke up quite late Penny slelpt through out the night and did not wake us once aftet Helen had made some scrambled eggs for Pennys first taste of eggs for breakfast ,i took some short video clips with my camera of Penny playing around in the conservatory with Helen .

after one o clock we went to over to Roundhay park to walk round the lakes and to feed the ducks but there was that much bread floating around the water we decided to bin ours we then walked over to the tropical world to go round the gardens and see the wildlife bats and insects but people was queuing out of the gate to get in so what else was there to do but to go over the road to the Roundhay fox for a pint sat out on the wall .

Then we walked back to the car and drove over to Yeadon to the fish restaurant Murgatroyd's for a late dinner.

After pigging out neither of us bothered with desert big surprises .......we called in to a nearby garden center at Guiseley to buy some plants to go in doors plus the planters and saucers got a money tree which we both need hopefully will bring us some in a Yucca every house should have one and a Aeonium canariense instead of a palm which was nearly £45 also we bought it because it looked different and hopefully they will all live grow and bloom although i did manage to damaged the Aeonium canariense re potting it but hopefully it wont have any major effect on the plants longevity also re potted my bonsia which still lives and is doing fine

sat out in the garden and chilled out till it got too cold had a few bottles of cider and ice and listened to the birds sing their evening song which we could never have done in the apartment we lived in.

No work again for me i also have Monday and Tuesday off i am working Tuesday night till nine o clock..........Got up to take Helen to work the dog our jack Russell was crying as we left the house we did feed her and hugged her and let her run around for twenty minutes and made a fuss over her before we went out.

Picked Helen up went to buy Penny some more toys a bed and other bits and pieces , penny went on her first house visit went up to Helens parents to show off the dog she was minus the new skirt.

Sunday evening went over to the Whitehouse at Roundhay for dinner the vegetables raw ouch hardly cooked just blanched just how i hate and detest them , if they are not roasted then they must be boiled for at least 40 minutes if not longer or i consider them raw so seeing i was pissed off to say the least i just had to have a desert to make up after asking the waiter if he knew of a good fish and chip shop locally for when we left but it was lost on him never mind...........so had cheese cake apricot and almond with new jersey clotted cream which no doubt clotted the old arteries up even further all washed down with a pint of strongbow Helen had her apple pie and custard ..

Penny slept all night did not wake us during us going to bed and waking up in the morning.
i have the weekend of dropped Ellie of work bought two morning papers made a extra large cup off coffee and chilled.Penny asleep on Ellie's pink heart dressing gown tucked up nice warm and safe in the conservatory as i type this.
she woke up and was in a playful mood took some photos of her messing around and getting up to mischief.

Picked Helen up at three went to the pet shop ended up going to Colton Helen bought a pink collar and lead i bought a black collar and extend able retractable 8m lead guess which one i will be using when i take her out.Helen also bought her a pink dress hehe hopefully just for the house lol.

Last night went for a drink to the Barge first time we have been since we moved in sat out on the benches it was quite a warm night just had a couple bottles of Magners then went for a Chinese take away had duck in plum sauce chicken and mushrooms onion rings chips and fried rice.

Phoned up yesterday morning to arrange and go view a long legged Jack Russell from a farm the other side of Wakefield , finished work early went to go pick Helen up and set of with directions i printed out with the help of Google maps finally got there after stopping top ask for directions then farm was down a dirt track that went on for half a mile we viewed the dog it was the last bitch of the litter and agreed we want it we paid the money and took the dog home with us back to Leeds and our home at Rodley .

we stopped on the way and went to Tesco Helen bought it a blanket ,a teddy, some worming tablets , shampoo Johnson's baby shampoo and a bottle of flea treatment , poo bags and doggie cleansing wipes , food treats and tinned puppy food and dry puppy food , feeding and drinking bowls, it has a name Helen is calling her Penny ,this morning we heard her barking just after four o clock Helen got up to go see to it i heard her talking and chatting away to penny it was heart warming to hear to say the least , have ordered it a pet cage of eBay got a email saying it is on its way one hour after paying for it so hopefully penny will have her new house very soon Helen is out buying stuff for it she said to me that she wants to get it a pink bed and collar well after all it is a girl i am not working this weekend so i can baby sit and look after the little one and of course chill out .Helen is working this weekend hehe i will get up and take her to work then i will go back to bed.

Got home last night after hospital shift at nine at night and Helen had baked a pear and apple crumble with custard for desert yum yum .

Finally got Ethel back she is out in the back garden i bought her the day my mum(Ethel) died she would approve trust me she did have a sense of humour she also said she would come back to haunt me she has too hehe ... when i did leave home i had no choice but to leave it at home seeing it was way to heavy to take at that time.

Phoned a farm that breeds jack Russell's dogs which is near Barnsley and according to Google maps should only take 40 Min's so better take sandwiches and a flask as Ellie will be reading the map .....so i am finishing work early whilst its daylight so i will be picking Helen up from the house , so we can both go together and view a female long legged jack Russell they are being sold for £150 and are tri- coloured and are seven weeks old.

hope it doesn't eat Button the rabbit hopefully not.
will need to buy a bed and other dog items and needful things we are not informing the landlord which might not be a good idea if he finds out he has already agreed in principle to us owing a dog so if he did i dont think it would be the end of the world he knows we are looking after this house and a dog wont be allowed the freedom of the house so damage should be very little if nothing.

last night i finished work before my official end time of nine o clock i sneaked out early i had finished all of the work and i was not going to do any more left at 8.40 but in my defense i did start ten minutes early.

As soon has i got home Helen had tea ready some barbecued chicken pizza with home made chips
after got the drill out and fixed wall unit to the wall only after i had been round to ask next door if it would be ok to start drilling as i know they have two young kids , i was given the all clear the unit fixed in place i repositioned the pictures and fixed the rustic key and the wire heart and a magazine rack also on to the wall. removed some speaker stands that was fixed on the wall filled the holes and found some matching paint in the cellar and did a quick repaint looked finished job looked ok it was dark though.

Helen bought three ad papers to look for a long legged jack Russell puppies as a result got a few to phone up in and around Leeds.
Helen had sanded the unit down and waxed it , cleared everything away swept up then we just
Chilled out watched some Enigma videos on you tube had a few whiskey and cokes and a bottle of cider got to bed at half one .