Happy Birthday Helen which was yesterday i hope you had a great day you are now a big 40 you are still are very much an ANGEL , and you will always be loved by me what ever age you are because my love for you is timeless xxxx.

Helen bought me TomTom one for Christmas so we will never get lost again or go down any roads that we don't want to travel .

The bed we ordered from Argos arrived today its for the spare room. My Son Guy has been sleeping on the floor for the last three times that he has slept over, i will assemble it tonight when i get home and get it made up ready for his next visit.

I have new years day of and the following day too so i break up again Thursday yippee
We have just spent our second Christmas together and will be seeing the start of a new year for the second time , there is no other woman i would rather be with.... she truly rocks my world in this concert called life and i cant thank her enough for her being the remarkable woman that she is.... i couldn't or wouldn't have got this far without her.

We don't yet have a Internet connection at the new house yet so i might not be able to update as often as i would like, what i am going to do is keep a pen written diary again and put it all down on paper like i did in the old days before this blog , we are looking at getting sky in the next few weeks and i will use others computers when i can to keep this up and running.

Washing machine and dishwasher both in black to mach the fridge freezer , microwave etc in need of plumbing in hopefully very soon .

Old fire place number two which is going to be the kitchen dinner one day we want to open up the chimney breast and put a gas range in there

The table clothe hides the fact this is the table that we is what we had in the garden on the patio at least its hard wood and does us fine for now their is a hole in the centre for the umbrella

never had a tv so big will have to get a x-box sorted out or a PlayStation will ask my son to bring his next time he stays

Stairway to heaven we are thinking of opening the banisters up and fitting new spindles in time which we will paint cream

The Grandfather clock we won off Ebay at travelled down to Essex for we can hear it chime when we are in bed , it looks well in our hall way

With the microwave and two ring hob we wont starve we also have an electric deep fat fryer and a slow cooker we wont ever starve

Brand new bed and mattress with double electric blanket fitted due to having no central heating and only secondary double glazing

The lamp in the corner is one Helen had over at her old house she has been wanting to take it for ages , and finally got it she walked from the Whiterose Centre and struggled to get it home, it and it meant a lot to her so i was pleased to see it in our new home.

The black fridge freezer we have a black dishwasher and a black washing machine we need a wall taking out to open both rooms in to one and make a kitchen dinner

New plasma tv actually watched a bit of telly over the festive period and i have Cold Feet on DVD which i started to watch

The old fire place which at night when its dark and the room is lighted by candles it doesn't look that bad . Everything in this house is ours and we will add to it as the months roll bye .

We have moved everything out of the house we were renting and informed the landlord he has a vacant property .He was not expecting it i though someone would have seen us move over the last few days we have been back a few times to get all our stuff out and telephoned him but no one did . He has all the rent owing our lease was up at the beginning of February was our last month so he has not lost out he has a months rent as a bond which he will keep


Our new house is pretty much in order and not lots of stuff is in boxes its all more or less unpacked and in it place .We bought a new microwave and kettle in black.



My Son Guy stayed over one night already we have ordered a new bed and mattress for the spare room mainly for him to sleep on but it wont be delivered until the 29th of December



The living room looks great with the Christmas decorations settees and plasma TV and new curtains Helen as really worked hard and ha the interior of the house looking like its been done by a interior designer



Went to the works do last night at the Royal Armouries had lovely food apart from raw vegetables the mushroom soup to start was thick and creamy i had two bowls the desert was cheese cake which was very filling i was drinking snakebites and Helen peach schnapps even danced although i was not that drunk got home just after two o clock .

The house is looking great we now have food in our freezer and milk in the fridge and clothes in our wardrobes. We have candle sticks and candles in every room and ornaments throughout the house the spare bedroom is in a bit of a tip but apart from that everything is cosy.
Helen as worked hard and its been two three o'clock in the morning when we have finally got to bed.

The fish have been collected from our rented house along with the rabbit we have all our garden furniture apart from the umbrella for the patio table , most of the plants that we put in buckets a few weeks a go have gone to our new home.
The kitchen is all sorted and looks fine we are using the teak hard wood patio furniture as a dining table and chairs and with a table cloth on top looks fine.
I need to easy two doors one on the side and one is catching on the bottom and we need to buy new keys for all the doors.

we have set up the hifi and pc although we don't have a Internet connection at the moment we will have to look in to a new isp.
i start a new job in the new year with a local college i don't know how i will be fixed for using the Internet to update my blog , i might have to go off line for a while.

This time last year we was living out off suitcases , living in Travel Lodge hotel and eating out at a kebab house under the dark arches near to the railway station.
We have done immense things in the space of twelve months and one thing that i knew then and that i know now is that i cant life without Helen , she is my world i love , adore and cherish her and she has made my dreams come true and , what was a fantasy six years ago , she as turned in to reality, i honestly say that i cant live life without her so , thanks to a ANGEL.....

Helen as been working really hard to them in through the doors and in to the living room both the three and two seat settee's , did which was a great relief i could her detect Helen's tension in her voice when she phoned to tell me that the delivery van had arrived with them we had to cancel Monday's delivery , and the relief in her voice when she phoned to say they had got them both in place and unpacked.
Picked the Samsung 42" plasma TV up at diner time from Comet and got that unpacked tuned in and working along with the free view channels .
Took delivery of the dryer, washing machine , fridge freezer and tumble dryer which lives in the cellar with the chest freezer .Helen and i went out to Tesco and bought a black microwave oven another essential piece of kit and some frozen meals beef stew and dumplings and some lasagne's to put us on .
We have the Christmas tree up in the bay window like we planned on and it looks great couldn't wish for a better looking tree its perfect and definitely makes up for the lack of decorations we had last year.

What a day yesterday we got the keys and went to the house , no electric had to phone the electric suppliers the main fuse had blown when the electric supply was switched off we got to the house an hour before sunset.We moved quite a bit off stuff with the land rover until my sister bought a van from work to move the rest off the stuff it was a big help, to say we only had candle light and torch light to guide us . All i need to move form the rented house now is a 15 inch panel TV , hi-fi , large TV , my PC, clothes, a book case , drawers and some tools .The Electrician came and sorted the electric supply out and got the power back on .The last thing we went back for and moved to the new house was Ellie our Westie.

We never moved in to our new house yesterday the money was still not transferred and we are now looking at completing today. As i type this we are waiting for the money to go into Helen's account then to our solicitors account then for him to put the cash in to the sellers account so we can collect the keys and move.The sofas and the rest of the appliances are coming Wednesday .
hooray we have now had a phone call and we can go pick the keys up from the estate agents the house is now ours we are the new legal owners .

The house should complete today the wire transfer for the money was left too late and the money never went in to Helen's bank in time last Friday , but hopefully fingers crossed it will all be finalised today .Everything all our worldly goods are in boxes and blue Ikea bags ready to move,we have two new sofas coming sometime today later the better and a fridge freezer , dishwasher , washer and dryer should be coming mid week .

This is what we have been working hard to obtain over the last few months we first saw the house on the 1st of October. All the subsequent forms running around chasing up we had to do to get us the mortgage to get us keys and get us through the door of our new home.Will have been worth it .

Hopefully by the end of today we will be the new legal owners .

Helen wants to take the vacum and cleaning stuff around when we go and pick the keys up from the estate agents so before anything we can give it a dust clean and vac , i don't think we will start moving our belongings in until tomorrow. But if i have to return to the house we are moving from go to back to our new house and home then why leave with a empty car no doubt we can out in a few boxes odds and sods .

Have tonight off work and also Saturday but i am working on Sunday and yet i wont mind one bit , we have a house of our own and there is bills to pay and things to buy. I want Helen and me to have a great house with nice furniture and pleasant decorations and ornaments, flowers, plants, and art to decorate our home top to bottom and to eventually get a house better than what we both walked out of to be together around this time last year.

No news is good news and hopefully the good news will be we can start to move our things and belongings this coming Saturday. We will be going to the ATM tonight with Helen at midnight to see if the deposit as been made in to her bank account if there is then its one less obstacle.We should be able to complete the buying of our house.

Half past three today i got a phone call from our solicitor saying the mortgage money as been released by the building society and is now in place to pay for the house all £103,500 of it or there about we now are even more on target to get moved in this weekend fingers still crossed .

Went home at four i have got the next two nights off work from my second job at the Hospital.

Helen was out went down to the canal walked a mile or so saw a few barges and narrow boats moored up there was ice in parts , and two swans swimming under a bridge, I went for half a cider at The Owl at Rodley got a text from Helen asking to pick her up.

Went over to her parents house after leaving there we went to Farsley for a take away pizza. Her parents called later and we started filling empty boxes with our belongings ready for the move .

We are both hoping that Friday is the day the house goes through and we can get the keys and get sorted out and start to move into our new home at long last .Both solicitors are working to Fridays deadline

D.F.S have not yet phoned with delivery dates for the sofas they was suppose to call back on Monday this week to arrange a date and time for delivery they have given us a window of two days Helen was going to ignore their call but so far they have not rung her , obviously we want them to get delivered to the new house but cant if we don't have the keys.

The House i used to live in with my ex has had estate agents round to view it and value its going on the market the first valuation has come in at £125,000 there is another two coming over the next few days hopefully it be nice to put it on the market for £130,000 the extra 5k would pay estate agents and solicitor fees which would leave around 50k to split between us .

We need boxes, we need to start to pack ,we need to know when we are going to get the keys to the new house and home,we need to get organised there is 101 things to do hopefully 99 of them will be straight forward and only a couple of little obstacles along the way which wont be anything major. The copy of the condition of probate as landed at the solicitors finally after waiting a good fortnight and seeing both solicitors are based in Leeds , a tortoise could have made the trip with this important piece of paperwork and got it there quicker , anyway fingers crossed we should be signed ,sealed and delivered for this Friday .

We have been living in rented accommodation since the 21st December last year both Helen and myself had joint mortgages but in less than a space of one year we are hopefully within the next few days back on the property ladder i still believe every body no matter what their circumstances or income should be some how be able to buy affordable housing on an affordable mortgage scheme i think this is a basic human right no body should be forced into renting they should be able at some stage own there own house if they so wish to. to be able decorate it alter it and garden it the way they want to , with out the restrictions imposed by a landlord.

Bought of eBay the other day an electrical hot plate two hob cooker unit to sit on top of the kitchen worktop in our new home , we need this and its is going to put us on and do all our frying breakfast and teas and stir Fry's and should have no trouble cooking our fry ups on this . At least until we can get the kitchen sorted out and get something better in its place , we are after buying a range once we have a date that we can move and get the keys ( hopefully this Friday ) we can have items delivered , another thing we need and will have to go out and buy when we do get moved in is a microwave , at least with this combination plus a kettle we wont ever starve the is also plenty of take aways within walking distance. Life for a while will be different but it will be fun and we will be happy and contented and what we need we will eventually get .

SATURDAY
Went to work finished at one o clock we took Guy home later in the afternoon he had stayed Friday night.
We drove over back to where we lived and bought a couple of fish and bread cakes we then we picked two friends up Linda and Dave and set off to Lincoln, we was going to visit the Christmas market which part of it is held in the castle grounds. We missed the turn off so came of the motorway at Grantham then backed tracked to Lincoln going through all the little villages on route we then got to Lincoln and followed the park and ride signs to park up we finally got to the market just after seven. Hot Mulled wine and a chili burger with cheese i bought from one of the vendors inside the castle grounds mainly to warm me up as it was quite cold.


I bought the stone head pictured above for £6.00 its the size of half a football and its going to be called Ted after my late father , to go with Ethel the Gargoyle which represents my mother. Helen bought a hurricane lamp and some circular mirrors to go in the garden all in all it was a good atmosphere the market closed at half nine and we went back for the bus to take us back to the park and ride .


SUNDAY

Woke up and the sun was shining, decided to go over to York and visit there Christmas market .
Stopped at the red Bus cafe on the A64 had a full English breakfast sitting on the top deck got to say it was one of the nicest breakfast that i have had for a while it was spot on as Helen says.
also used the park and ride and got in to York city centre just after one o clock bought some Christmas rum truffles and had tea and coffee at the Earl Grey Tea Room, bought a calender a Christmas angel and tea lights one of a Santa and one of a snow covered cottage.
It was very similar to Lincoln most of the shambles had Christmas trees jutting out from the walls on brackets at a angle which where all light up once it got dark both cathedrals are very similar got to say Lincolns market is one of the biggest markets in England and cannot be compared to York's in anyway shape or form.

MONDAY
Went to the Doctors with Helen to discuss our options regarding having a child and what is available for us to choose from regarding reversal or ivf treatment cost and time scales and guarantee's if any .
Went to the solicitors and signed all the paperwork regarding the buying of the house to get us back on the property market again , it should complete this Friday fingers crossed if not early next week twenty years time and we will be mortgage free it will fly by all i know is a lot is going to happen in the next few months what twenty years is going to bring i cant predict as long as it joy and happiness i wont complain.

Finished work picked Helen up from her mothers house still ice and snow about but nothing too bad.

Went to Pudsey Owlcoates and called in to Marks and Spencer's just to browse .Afterwards went to Pudsey town street and bought fish and chips from the Wetherby Whaler ate them in the car then then went home.

It was my Mothers birthday yesterday had see still been alive she would have been 87 years old so we decided to do the Ouija board in her honour at around midnight last night and got some interesting questions answered concern us buying the house also to do around love and emotions and new beginnings and babies once against the board spelt out answers to questions Helen did not know the answers to and the board was correct on numerous occasions.

Found out to day that my ex wife to be has missed the last two mortgage payments , as a result she has decided it is unrealistic that she can afford to live there and to put the house on the market and sell it for as much as we can .
Today had an appointment with my solicitor which was pre-booked last week and told him what has just occurred.
We have a pre court hearing on the 12th of Jan 2009 to discuss the finer points of the divorce like who gets what.
I don't know what back lash is going to come from my two kids my son is sixteen in January and my daughter eighteen in January my son would be more than welcome to live with us if he wished to.
All i want now is for everything to be finalised done and dusted my solicitor himself said our divorce should have been straight forward but thanks to my wife actions it has dragged out over a year .
four days running we have now had snow , i do hope its a white Christmas going to Lincoln this Saturday to the visiting the Christmas market .

Three days in to December and we have seen snow on each day so far and it looks like we can expect more snow during tonight .

If Helen wants her sterilization operation reversing and her clips removing we will have to pay to go private , the NHS who performed the operation FREE OF CHARGE to sterilize her wont reverse it , its seems so wrong that this country of ours will help you terminate a child more easily then the help you to create one.Helen works and pays her national insurance i work two jobs and pay national insurance and taxes on both incomes and to cap it all we both work for the NHS.

We see people in Hospital from drug over dose and abuse other people receiving treatment for liver damage from years of excessive drinking , from the effects of smoking and at this time of year in particular injury's and deaths from drink driving they all get operations and nursing that they need , which i agree that they should too they still all deserve care and a bed and any operation medication and a full nursing staff to help them live because all live is precious and because hopefully they too at some stage have paid there national insurance contributions so then why does this rule not apply to us.

Worked Saturday finished at three o clock went to crown point looked at electrical appliances washer dryers fridge freezers and gas range cookers the V.A.T dropping to 15% will make a small difference in price and we are buying because we need the said items not to save on the vat.
SUNDAY
Went to work we both worked until three o clock we got home made a coffee and went to bed for a couple of hours.
Got up showered and changed and picked Helen's parents up and we went to the Kings Chinese Restaurant Driglington , where we had a set meal for four people usual starters Helen had chicken and sweet corn soup i opted for the shredded duck soup, which was followed by spare ribs, prawn toast, spring rolls, and shredded seaweed .Main dishes included duck in plume sauce , king prawns with cashew nuts, chicken with honey and lemon sauce and pork with oriental vegetables with a large dish of special fried rice.Drove over to the Whiteheouse at Oakwood for drinks which has got to be on of the nicest pubs both in its exterior and interior in Leeds.
MONDAY
Made an appointment with the solicitor for Thursday lunch and paid the ex wife the money towards the mortgage and it snowed the 1st of December and it snowed i do hope we are going to have a white Christmas.