I had to get the car mot'd today least it passed at the cost £50 also road tax was due so i had pay that with the reminder i got from the dvla did it only for six months at a cost of £134 up from £118 car insurance renewing gone up from £54 to £65 its still on hp at a cost of £160 a month with another two years to pay on hp so far this year i have paid over £600 on repair bills and i spend on average £30 a week on diesel so far this year i have had two parking fines and a speeding fine another £160. i keep thinking of the phrase "the joy of motoring" wheres the fcuking joy? unless your a motor mechanic , petrol station or a traffic warden on bonus.

LISTENING TO :- THE CURE - DISINTEGRATION

My Daughter flies out to Turkey tonight for a weeks holiday , of course i am jealous sick of working and getting nowhere near foreign shores white sand and blue seas , saying that i hope you have a safe journey and a great time abroad .

last weekend and this weekend we have been doing my Aunt's garden. it was way over grown the grass was almost knee high and the hedges needed attacking badly, there was weeds growing down the side of the house and the edges off all paths .
we filled the brown wheelie bin and around eighteen bin liners with hedge and grass cuttings .
we used a hedge trimmer and a strimmer and my aunt didn't bat a eye lid she didn't hear anything .

She is ninety seven years old carers come in get her out of bed , to sit her in her chair all day they leave the tv or cd player on for her ,she needs someone to feed her give her drinks she has no idea who i am , she has no idea we have cut her grass or done the wedding, she has no idea what year it is, what day it is she has no idea about anything only that her name is Ivy its sad all i know is - I DON'T WANT TO GET TO NINETY SEVEN.

My sisters constantly look after her and do her shopping but her what she needs and if her alarm goes of to say she has a pressure pad on her bed it suppose to go off if she has fallen out of bed, they round traveling late at night to sort her out always its a false alarm , the pad is way to sensitive , not once has she been out of bed , they never know that until they get there ,they go ever time one night it went off three times.

Helen is well sun burned her face is peeling her lips are swollen she has over done it this is someone who used Nivea hand cream instead of sun tan lotion she might have well used Flora .
we still went to Saddleworth bought some factor ten sun tan lotion whoa total protection




Listening to :- Vampire weekend - Contra

Helen and i at her brothers wedding evening reception last night , we took loads of photos,and i actually appeared on a few myself and quite a few with Helen which is always a bonus this one being my favorite shot , i am not always that photogenic specially when asked to smile it always looks too rehearsed .

I have been real busy working , had no free time been working on my nephews seven bedroom house loads of work needs completing throughout plus there is a two bedroom gatehouse which has been modernized and has its own spiral staircase leading to the bedrooms the toilet and shower is down stairs abs as a decent fitted kitchen and sitting room the garden is massive and they are planing an allotment for a part of it there is decking to the front and rear there mortgage is one hundred pounds more than what we are paying scandalous good for them but pissed me off at the rate we are paying toed in for another eighteen months.

went to Bolton Abbey was once again red hot took some bread and feed the ducks went for tea and coffee to the little cottage , there was a wedding on at the abbey church the main doors was open and you could see the couple at the alter getting married .

Went back to saddle worth moors not been since it snowed another red hot day was too warm rested for an hour had a picnic , Pek and egg mayo somethings never change .

Today went over to the North Yorkshire village of Malham i have not been back to Malham since i went youth hosteling from school remembered doing loads of walking and eating crap food and sleeping on crappy beds.

It was hot and tiring we took no water as we walked up the four hundred steps to the top everyone had bottled water felt i was in the desert with no canteen made it up to the top where the limestone pavement is , some of the rocks moved as we walked across them "they could do with pointing" i said to Helen like the peregrine falcons flying above us my remark went straight over her head



ABOVE THE LIMESTONE PAVEMENT




finally made it back down to the Buck Inn had a ice cold pear Magners with ice and Helen had a pint of coke , they are no ATM machines in Malham if you no cash everywhere charges you 50p to use your debit card every time .



Got home bought a disposable barbecue from Tesco two for a fiver and some pork steak beef burgers and sausages and we had our first barbie at this house that we lived in since 2008 just got the kitchen done well more or less and we are eating in the bloody garden typical why bother hehe got to laugh.