Saturday, November 28, 2009


finally getting the Laura Ashley wall paper hanged on the chimney breast and opposite wall also bought a new light fitting all we need now Will be a new carpet or floor covering.was up until two o'clock painting and stripping getting everything prepared so we could paper today Helen's mother kindly offered to paper hang for us i am totally useless and Helen ore then likely just as bad as i am we just do painting .
We was supposed to be going out to to get pissed this was before her mother offered to hang the paper for us so we will have to put it off till next weekend,its been ages since hit he town.
i had to go to Ilkley to get an extra roll just in case we don't have enough to do both walls.
her mother finished just before nine we manage to get everything back tidy the room and watched a hours TV before we went of to bed .
will take the roll of wall paper back tomorrow we have two rolls that forty quid saved .

listening to Alison Moyet the singles
watching the :- surrogates

Wednesday, November 18, 2009


finally got the fire insert and mantle in place its been hard work and its not finished yet had to reform the opening and replace the hearth which we have tiled black it still needs a good clean and of course the fire fitting which should be tomorrow or Friday hopefully the bag of coals we got are fine and we wont need to replace them .

Listening to :- Erasure the best of

Saturday, November 14, 2009



went to Boston Spa today to pick up a fire surround and tiled insert which we won on eBay for £82 the other night , also sold a dishwasher we have never used for £210.
hopefully the new fire surround and fire will all be in and working this time next week .We can repaper the walls Helen bought some Laura Ashley wallpaper ages ago hopefully get it done in time for Christmas , we will have been in the house nearly a year and on the 22ND of December we will have been living together two years at three different addresses and for the first three days one hotel .

Sunday, November 01, 2009




Saturday
went to local Tesoco and bought two pumpkins for the windows Helen carved on and i did the other and various sweets for trick or treaters .
invited my sisters and there partners round and and my Nephew Mark and his girlfriend Sue round for Halloween supper. Did a large pan of chill jacket potatoes and garlic bread and grated a slab of red Leicester.

CROSS AND TIRED

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