We went to the Doctors this morning and saw a lady doctor she is written to make an appointment to see a gynecologist so that they can explain the risk the success rates and all the other factors involved about a reversal operation to unclip Helen's tubes once we have all the information we then can make an appointment for the operation to take place . Also to day we got the delivery date for the sofas that have been ordered they are coming week commencing the 8th of December both a two and three seater.We are going to have a busy run up to Christmas and a hectic new year we are both over then moon and both of us want or life's sorted out and back on track asp , to say Helen first lived with me or moved in with me was only the 18th of December last year when we was booked in at the travel lodge hotel for three days before we got the keys to our apartment at Clarence Road dock on the 21st of December and got moved in for our first Christmas together.

Helen and i have in the past discussed about the joys of having a baby especially a girl , she had her tubes clipped to prevent pregnancy a over ten years ago. we have made an appointment so we can to discuss it with her Doctor about a reversal operation and the chance of her than conceiving , we also need to know what the risk would be to her if she did get pregnant.
The probate has now been completed and the money from Helen's divorce should be arriving in the next week or two we should be able to complete and exchange contracts before Christmas and move in .

Bought first Christmas presents today went in to town at lunch and made a start buying two items obviously i cant list them here i don't know how regular or if Helen still reads my blog so just incase.Its also Helens birthday on the 28th of December so will have to think what to get her for her birthday as well as Christmas .

MONDAY - took the morning off work Guy had slept over went to work at dinner time Helen looked after Guy at tea time she took him in to Leeds to Burger king , and the German Christmas Market Helen bought me a stollen slice yum yum , they then came over to where i work at the Hospital and waited for me to finish my shift at half past eight .

TUESDAY - The house is still going through the gentleman who owned it has gone into a rest home and has since died R.I.P , his son is selling the house to us and has power of attorney we have to wait now for a Grant of Probate which will add a few weeks before we can exchange contracts , Which our solicitors now have .

Saturday worked from seven in the morning until three in the afternoon got back to the car and i recieved a parking ticket for £15.00 the first one i ever had so i cant really moan , after work we went to B&Q bought nine black builders buckets ninety nine pence each to transport plants we have planted here to our new home when we move there in a few weeks time. Went over to Castleford to the New Wheatsheaf Restaurant and pub had two really good meals you can choose from the pub menu , the carvery menu or al la- carte menu. We had beef and tomatoe soup to start followed by for Helen Lasagna and chips , the side salad and other veggies you help your self from the carvery i had a lamb shank with chips, mash, parsnips, and roast potatoes also taken from the carvery all in all it was good value and as always it was great to be out with Helen .

SUNDAY
Did not work dropped Helen off then went home called in at Asda at Owlcoates which is the first place i ever meet Helen outside off work , bought some braising steak and giant Yorkshire puddings for tea along with other bits and pieces.
Picked my son Guy up he was staying the night and had him with us for a few hours before bedtime.

Friday - i went back in to town at dinner time and had my ear re pierced a lot higher up, it didn't bleed as much as the one i had done the other day but hurt twice as much.I also had a new ring put in the old one i had was totally unsuitable and should have never been used in the new piercing so hopefully the new old hole should heal up and leave little or no trace and the new new hole should be infection free and cause no trouble if that makes sense .

Helen is a Angel i cant describe her as anything else apart from adorable, lovable, cute, pretty, beautiful, and sexy and the one woman that means the world to me.

So i cant wait until we move in to our new home and we can put down roots and build a home that we will both love to be in regardless of other people , hopefully it will be our haven and a bit of heaven where i know that i am guaranteed of at least of one angel always being present and close to me.

Burst water main yesterday shut down work and we was allowed to go home at twelve o clock due to the fact we had no running water to any part of the building . So it was a case of shut up shop and sod off what a nice surprise.

Went home to pick up Helen and we went in to town i am now considering a new tattoo i have always wanted a Celtic arm band, and i am now seriously looking at designs after 20 Min's everyone starts to look the same as the last i also visited a local tattooist to check out designs and his studio.

Went to the Wetherby Whaler fish restaurant in Pudsey for a early tea late lunch then headed home still had my evening shift at the hospital to do which is from 4.30 pm - 8.30 pm.

After work picked Helen up and went over to Flockton to visit Sharon stayed a good couple of hours before we went back home another early morning before we got to bed.

Think i might have to get my ear re done it could do with moving up which i did request when i went for it doing , but was told it would be better nearer to the middle rather than the top of the ear, so i agreed and went with the decision i was given but have since decided i should have had it where i wanted will have to wait a day or two before i can have it done again.

This dinner time went into town and had my ear re pierced i have had the original piercing done in my left ear well over twenty years ago when i was working away as a shop fitter doing kitchen displays for M.F.I . in London . I had it pierced in the lobe at the bottom of the ear the new one is higher up in the middle region i have used my original ear ring and had no wish to have a stud put in , it only cost a fiver i think i paid a similar price when i first had it done all them years ago which included the cost of the stud .

Got up this morning just after seven , Ellie our westie was in her bed but got up to say good morning to me then climbed back in to her bed to go back to sleep she seemed OK apart from being tired .

Picked Helen up at dinner time she had received a phone call from our solicitor requesting that she called in to his office to sign paperwork at paper a write a cheque for a court fee to release the money from the pay off she is receiving from he ex for her share of the house that she jointly owned .

The sale of the house is going through we are ready to sign the contract but we ant exchange until we receive Helen's share of the equity from her house which is being used to pay our 10% deposit.

Finished work early went home for tea at around seven then we went to Tesco bought some v-necked jumpers seeing has i don't own any and its nearly winter and the temperatures are supposed to be dropping sharply.

Ellie is fine and acting normal her stitches so far have not bothered her and there has been no side effects from her operation she goes back to the vets for a check up on Thursday

Dropped Ellie off at the Vets this morning with Helen before i went to work , she is getting spayed today at a cost of £110 hopefully the operation will go without a hitch. To get Bobby the cat spayed the cost is only £46 i don't know why the big difference in price for a cat and dog but we should have told them Ellie was a cat with a sore throat hence the growl, picking her back up at around four o clock.

When we returned at four Ellie looked totally feed up and drowsy effects of the anaesthetic and painkillers she had some scrambled eggs for her tea and later on some chicken and rice we put her bed at the side of ours but later on during the night at around three o'clock Helen took her back to the kitchen where she normally sleeps she wasn't settling in unfamiliar surroundings.

Helen did a wicked bread and butter pudding to go with a chicken dinner that she cooked for tea when i got in home from work at the Hospital at supper time .

No work this weekend for Helen or me ,Saturday morning went up to my old house collected my tool chest and some more of my joinery tools and my power washer which i have only used once along with a few more reading books , saw Guy said we asked him to stay and arranged to pick him up later after loading the car with goodies , we went back over to Bramley and Picked Helen's mother up and went over to Aberford interiors and then drove over to Country Baskets bought some more Christmas decorations and a large glass and wood hurricane lamb.
In the evening went to pick Guy up and the three of us went to Burger King for tea.
SUNDAY
Went over to Batley to look in the Mills for ideas on furniture saw a nice dining table and six chairs table made from a hard wood called acacia on the way over to Ikea passed another pine shop which Helen could spend her next ten years salary there without any problem and they sell rocking horses , my son wanted to know why we was looking at furniture he does not know of our plans to buy a house we told him the landlord was moving his furniture we are using in to his own house and we was buying stuff to replace it , we will tell him when the sale has gone through until then he doesn't need to know.Got to Ikea Helen bought more twigs and we pigged out on hot dogs doughnuts and coke .

Finished work last night at eight thirty got fish and chips for tea on the way home Helen had made a home made rice pudding first time i have eaten rice pudding with out opening a tin and emptying it in to a saucepan.

Went to Asda Helen bought me a bottle of pear cider we was put late to drop a birthday card of at Helen's former house , it was her son's 21st it was well after half past midnight when she posted it through the letter box .

Helen phoned me at work during the morning and told me that her son was only 20 and not 21 never mind he did ok out of it.

picked Helen up at just after 9.20 pm go get something to eat and ended up at the China Red restaurant at Rawdon near Yeadon Leeds we ordered of the set menu for two which included the following to start with chicken ans sweet corn soup which was followed by spring rolls , prawn toast , spareribs and crispy seaweed followed by special fried rice and one portion of duck with green peppers in a black bean sauce and one portion of crispy duck with hoisin sauce.

We have a new bed ready for collection for when we get the keys and we have two new settees on order from DFS a three and a two seater which we have bought on their current deal of interest free credit nothing to pay for the first year guaranteed delivery in time for Christmas which Helen ordered a few weeks a go.

I don't know at what stage we will start packing . we will have to buy bits and pieces and will need lots more candles and candle sticks and various oil and incense burners and other artifacts and decorative items both oriental , ancient as well as shabby chic items .

we will need a lot more wooden photo frames of different sizes for a selection of sepia and black and white photos of us and other family members some that lived in a different era which we will have scattered throughout the house on various walls shelves i would one of me and Helen for over the mantle piece or wall opposite we will also have hallways and landings to decorate.

Back at work back working at both jobs after my two days of sickness it did seem a really long day, when i finished at half eight i picked Helen up from her parents house, and we called in at Tesco . Bought another two bags of scampi which was still on offer , along with two packets of sausages they too was still on offer and a large family sausage and onion pie which was reduced in price a large bag potatoe croquettes and a dozen frozen Yorkshire puddings which was our tea sorted.
Got home at around nine thirty we had a letter from the Leeds Building society with written confirmation of the mortgage offer and we can now go ahead and buy the house there is no condition attachedto the mortgage concerning the wall ties and damp proof course. We can now instruct our solicitors to go ahead with the purchase of the house ASP and it is now looking more than likely that we will be moving in well before Christmas which as always been oor aim.

Still poorly with cold and sore throat it gets worse as the day goes on,had a phone call this morning from Gil our lady that is arranging or mortgage it is confirmed that we do have the mortgage its all going through we will have written confirmation in the post over the next few days .
So we have done what we set out to do and can now buy our house and hopefully it will be ready and completed to move in before Christmas touching wood.

Helen went to her solicitors to sign her decree nissi her absolute should be around February time next year.
Her Husband solicitor has told him not to transfer any money to Helen before its all final. If this is the case we wont have the deposit for the house and there is a good chance it wont go through .We both think it will go through and he will pay it accordingly has he is getting a real good deal and as already the money to pay out , but as always other people are controlling our destiny and we will just have to wait and see.

Finished work yesterday felt really lousy full of cold sore throat and hot sweats have phoned in sick at both jobs going back to bed have plenty of fluids and remedies

Its raining again and i feel crap i have got a bad case of the runs been up twice during the night Helen is OK , and i guess today is going to be a long day i really should have stayed in bed but thought better off it , Should find out more about the house and our mortgage some time today we still looking at moving in before Christmas and now the interest rates have dropped we don't know if this will be passed on to us because the mortgage that has be agreed still only in principle is fixed for three years at a lot higher rate then the current rate which if was passed on to us would save us quite a lot of money .

Back at work its boring as ever want a interesting job most of all i want a job i don't hate going to every day and i wish i could pick who i would want to work for then going to work wouldn't be such a drag.

Slave to a wage there must be a way out of this place if its the last thing i ever do only joking living with and being with Helen keeps me sane most of the time just ask my psychiatrist.
Finished work went home had a coffee then we went over to Asda to buy a Christmas tree its 7ft with 200 combination white lights all ready wired on to the branches all for £45 we also got some baubles and other decorations .

We do plan on going to Lincoln market and will get other trimmings from there .Last year we had very little in the way of decorations we had some Christmas cards a 10" tree and a string of lighted stars and that was it.

We have other two additions now residing in the fish tank , Helen bought two white goldfish so now we have a total of eight we might get another two a chocolate one and a black one which are in quarantine and are available on Sunday.

Yesterday i didn't work had the whole of the day off, got out up at around half nine went to Greengates to look for new boots for Helen no joy.
went over to a couple of garden centres that are now selling Christmas decorations trees and all other Christmas thingies bought some festive mugs for Irish coffee or , Irish tea if your called Helen.

Drove and parked up in Leeds city centre we went to Barrett's shoe shop and Helen bought some black leather boots then we walked up to Next for more retail therapy and Helen bought two pairs of pump like ballet shoes.I called in to Whittards and bought a hundred grammes of caramel flavored coffee.

Was passing the number one Chinese buffet as we walked back to were we had parked the car so we called in for tea , we pigged out but didn't over do it we have not been to eat at this restaurant since we lived at the apartment at Clarence Dock. So it was like going down memory lane as we talked about the days we spent living in the city centre.

For bonfire we went to Bramley park they lighted the stack of pallets and wood at seven o clock and at half past started the firework display , i have not been to a proper bonfire for the last twenty years the last one being at Roundhay park , Helen went to the same venue last year whilst we were living apart and sent me video clips of the display via my email at hotmail.......but this year we was watching them together whilst holding hands and hugging to keep warm .Went to her cousin Sharon's house where Gary had cooked us all jacket potatoes pork pies and peas which we ate after he had let some more fireworks and rockets off in the garden.

Went to get another haircut this dinner time it seems to grow way too fast so this time i opted for a grade two cut on the back and sides and it cut short and chopped in to on top, hopefully will last more than a few weeks until i need another visit to the barbers .Got tomorrow off the whole day so will be fireworks going off yet again in my life yippee .The mortgage is going through no news to report hopefully we are still looking at completing and getting moved in for Christmas hopefully not on the 25Th .Finally got letter that i had been waiting for the last twelve days it was being posted to my old address, so went to pick that up when i finished work at nine o clock i saw my son Guy, i do miss him i hope he realises its is mother i don't want in my life and not him he is due another sleep over will have to see when i have a weekend off.

SATURDAY
Woke up went down to the kitchen a mouse was caught in the trap i had baited using milky way bar which was placed on the top of the work top near the cooker it was a clean kill. Two traps in the cellar had trapped nothing.

Dropped Helen off at work there was no available shift for me so i headed in to Leeds city centre

Went down to Clarence Dock took some photos of the canal the Royal Armories and other buildings and bridges near by.Bought a sausage egg mac muffin from McDonald's then over to Starbucks for a white chocolate mocha coffee have now got a nice large Starbucks coffee mug , bought some more fresh coffee grounds .
Called in to Primark bought two black and two grey t-shirts and 10 pairs of black socks.Finished up at the Bar Ha-Ha had a pint of Magners before i went to pick Helen back up at three o clock

Sunday
Both of us worked until three o clock went over to Flockton to visit Sharon and Steve had a Chinese take away of duck in plum sauce, boiled rice , fries and onion rings.