Took Pip over to Uppermill again today she was well behaved in the car and slept most of the way , parked up at Dovestone It was beginning to rain so we had a coffee and headed back to Leeds.On the way home we stopped at Marstons chicken shack you can smell the chicken well before you get to the actual shop depending on the wind today we stopped and bought some fried chicken and chips which we ate once we got home very tasty better than kfc , Pip and Harvey both approved .Visited Helens grandmother grave Helen took a single pink rose cut from our garden and left it on her grave.

saturday
Well its the first time ever i have done a full week at the hospital , i worked on a ward where a lot where in due to bowel cancer one man had been in hospital for the last eight months , in a side room with no real view it a sentence and how he copes is beyond me no going for fish and chips going to the take away going shopping in to town or the supermarket cant even walk out to the news agents to buy a magazine or a morning paper.So i am not going to moan again how shit life can be , i shouldn't moan or grumble loads of people worse off then i , got to be thankful for what i have and not dwell on what i haven't got.



Bought the above monitor from CCL at Tong it was £81 inc vat its 22" and so far so good the power supply cable that came with it was one of those new weird leads every one seems to be using with two round pins on the end as a plug lucky i had another monitor lead that fitted other wise i would not have been able to have it running , its is to replace my old monitor which gave up the ghost for some unknown reason

The bathroom is now completed the flooring is down we opted fora slate looking lino we also fitted two charcoal blinds its took longer then we expected but we are both happy with the end result , no major hiccups and no hassles on the way with new windows and with a double radiator bath time in winter should be a lot better than the last three years we have been living in the house , also we have had radiators fitted in each of the three bedrooms upstairs previously only ever had the one small single radiator in the bathroom which had a single glazed window so hopefully we will be able to be warm providing we can afford the price of the gas to fuel it .

On the job front i have been working all week at the hospital working on a ward from seven till one in the afternoon as well has doing a extra half hour i worked a sunday previously and i am working monday and tuesday next week with a following saturday so although i have not found a new employer it looks like we wont be starving just yet.

Thursday
Harvey went back to the vets for his post operation check up he was fine no problems and he has made a full recovery , no little Harvey's will be ever running around the neighbough hood.

Saturday
walked pip a good few miles today Helen was doing a a craft stall down at Rodley nature reserve so i took Pip down just before dinner time today was a first day out of the house on the lead , we bought a body harness for her to wear and she was very well behaved she walked most of the time at the side or in front of me only a couple of times did she get under my feet .

Sunday
Went to Saddleworth with Pip , once again she was well behaved she didn't suffer from travel sickness and once again she was well behaved on the lead , went up to Uppermill every body who passed commented and stroked her , she impressed everyone she meet on route .

Saturday
picked my daughter up from her house after she had finished work at her hair salon at around four o clock , went to the Crown buffet for a chinese meal pigged out .she was eager to see our new pup Pippa.The house is in a bit of a mess due to having the old bathroom demolished and a new bigger bath room created as always with building work dust gets everywhere , of course she adored Pip and spent a few hours in the garden with her.Bought a new high gloss white mirror and white bathroom cabinet.

Sunday
Called over to see my Nephew Mark who has spent the last three weeks in the States traveling around , he has also recently been made redundant after leaving there we went to the Red Bus which is a double decker and is located on the A64 the road to York , this was for breakfast but it was well after twelve o clock when we got there dropped my daughter off back at her house , early evening started to do the tiling in the bathroom whilst Helen painted the tongue and groove cladding , skirting boards and boxing in.Its still work in progress but should be completed in the next few days

It has been a miserable week not only weather wise i was told one of the theatre sisters is retiring early due to being diagnosed with cancer which has returned for the second time ,Pip as a ear infection and we had to take her to the vets , Harvey the cat is being very tolerant of her and is making allowances for her puppy behavior he has hissed and smacked her a few times but on the hold he has been very laid back.
Also have been watching the wide spread riots unfold throughout the country until the common man and women are elected as members of parliament , until the working class and those living in urban decay and council estates areas, until there is a control on immigrants for those gaining entry to our shores , massive hand outs to other countries and funding wars we have or should have no interest in, and until there is the right for people wanting to own there own homes to be able buy affordable housing and until there is jobs for everyone , until gas and electricity stop increasing their prices every time its winter when the said companies and utilities are making billions of pounds in profit there are always going to be riots when people feel they have hold of the shitty end of the stick there are always going to be riots when every government lies and are governed by greed and overloaded expenses accounts have ignored promises have changed policies once elected have no care for the ordinary folk there will be thank you always riots.

well over a week since i bid farewell to my full time job , applied for five jobs but no interviews , have increased hours slightly at my part time job not substantially enough to order my over finch just yet , but might make the difference from eating or not eating . I also paid the next six months mortgage repayments up front which will take us off your fixed term agreement . and had the car mot'd and serviced. Also bought a few items of clothing from Bench which where in the sale and up to 60% off the original retail price other than that nothing earth shattering to report , Helen completed her reiki level two qualification last sunday , whilst i worked at my Hospital job.

Well i cant claim job seekers allowance from being made redundant from job number one ,basically because job number two i work at on a evening five nights a week is over sixteen hours , and is twenty hours a week and i cant claim tax credits because job number two is not thirty hours ,on one its too much the other not enough bloody typical.So the fact that i have not been unemployed for the last twenty years and for the last ten years have been working two jobs and paying two lots of tax and national insurance contributions count for sod all i basically have just £550 a month coming in which wont even cover the mortgage, never mind council tax, water rates, gas and electric and even food , one good thing when the house is reposed i wont have to worry about the council tax every cloud. Fact is my country does not need me now i am unemployed , and now i need my country i can more or less go away and starve . well fuck you.

Not entitled to JSA because i work twenty hours part time CAN NOT CLAIM TAX CREDITS BECAUSE i dont work thirty hours so all i have to live on is 80 hours wages which is around six hundred a month so after twenty years working i get fuck all after paying twenty years national insurance income tax get nothing for working two jobs and paying double national insurance paye i get nothing no tax credits no dole no rebates no help with council tax nothing big fat zero BRILLIANT.

FRIDAY
Finished work friday we all went for a curry to Aagrah on Clarence Dock i received a set of wireless headphones which are brilliant and totally unexpected bottles of pear cider and some packets of mars bars , straight after work picked helen up and went over to Blackpool to see Dereck Acorah at the north pier he was very good it was a small audience which i guess didn't help but on the whole cant criticize afterwards he did a signing of programs and allowed people to be photographed with him him , we stayed at a friends mother guest house for the night helen did a couple of readings.

SATURDAY
7.30 AM i was up on the beach taking photos of the central and north piers the ferris wheel and beach front.drove over to Southport on the way there saw a sign for jack russell pups shouldnt have but went to see them i have missed my dog bandit and have always wanted another jack other dogs are really not for me Moby was too hyper and easily knock helen over plus she felt threatened by him and he did snap at her on various occasions, westies to be honest are not my favorite dogs.







SUNDAY
Evening went to Chilli White my daughter was supporting her hair salon and close friend Abby who was doing the hair for for the models that was appearing in her fashion show it was a great venue all went well