Yesterday went to the open air museum at Beamish which shows what life was like in the 1900 and 1800 in the north of England , we have been meaning to go for ages and never made it . we got there just after eleven in the morning the entrance fee was £16.00 each, which for a full day out is good value,we visited most of the house's that the miners lived in they was given free rent and free coal and a decent wage to live off , but a big minus was that they was no pit baths they had to go home dirty and change their clothes at home as a result the houses where covered in coal dust from shaking out the dust from the miners clothes and boots, the village school and church next door was next on call ,took one of the many trams and we visited the dentist's surgery in the town centre and some of the tools on display they still use to this day , for a tooth filling it was 16 shillings the average weekly wage was 15 shillings or for the tooth pulling it was only 2 shillings plus two and a half shillings if you wanted nitrous oxide , in the solicitors office not a Rolex watch or Porsche in sight , we visited the sweet shop and saw the sweets being made by hand you was given samples to try , and the local co -op was a bargain if only the price's remained the same , the masonic hall was the least interesting place once we had come out of there we headed for the sun inn public house which had sawdust in a channel around the front of the bar which the miners used for clearing their chests and spitting out whatever they brought up out into the sawdust , our drinks we had in plastic beakers so we could take them out and drink them over the road at the park.

Today made appointment for my solicitor to go through the next steps of my divorce which is next Tuesday at twelve o clock.got the cheque for the bond which came in at £389.95 which is £135.05 less than what i original paid but better then the £167.09 they estimated is what i would owe when everything was sorted out.

I have got every night off this week took Ellie the westie to the vets for her first vaccination she never whimpered she was also wormed and weighed we was also told she as a small hernia which will be fixed when she gets spayed.