HALLOWEEN

Well it is Thursday already got the parking fines sorted well i have been told it has been taken care off time will tell.

Helen has decorated the cottage with a few hanging skulls and stuff and is still taking driving lessons on a weekly basis and is looking good.
I am looking forward to the weekend we are going to Manchester city centre and hopefully i have Monday and Tuesday of next week too.

Still playing Tomb Raider i am on 57% so half way through got to say i have been enjoying gaming again it is a great stress buster going around annihilating bad guys with shoot guns and machine guns i do wander around exploring great sets and graphics two other games i want is the new Batman and Watch dogs which is not out till next year.

STORM COMING

Some bastard as keyed my Nissan Juke down the passenger side doors , i have some black wax crayon and black coloured polish hopefully it won't rust , i might get some black stripes but down the sides to cover it cheaper than a respray , don't know what the lease company will say i have only had it a few weeks , thing is it as not really pissed me off i did not even get that upset  about it i guess if it was deliberate which i am guessing it was , then karma will get them in the end as what goes around comes around and fingers crossed they will get theres ten fold.

Stuck on Tomb raider getting my arse kicked by a load of mercenaries trying my best to kill them all well out numbered.

Looked at getting a new metal strap for my watch from Fossil wanting £75 for a dark steel bracelet having a giraffe or what will stick with the leather on that is on at the moment.

might buy a second hand iPod Nano or a iPod touch with the money i got from the sale of the camera .

One of the fish is biting the Discuss fish we bought at nearly thirty pound each fish we have to look after our investment the fish causing the hassle as been removed.

Saturday
This morning we went back to the Fleece in the Holme Valley  for breakfast they opened up especially For us all the food on our plate was alk locally sourced.

Bought a new daylight bulb for the tank and a gravel cleaner.

Whilst I was out I downloaded Maverick on my Mac book pro and installed it when I got back home,going to buy pages and install it as well



Photos above Dovestone reservoir Thursday 
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Sunday
Back at work tomorrow sick and pissed off today Helen cooked a Sunday dinner we went to the garden center looking at Christmas decorations and lights, bought a pumpkin to carve for Halloween night.
A storm is on its way apparently it could be bad

BUSY WEEK

Sunday after walking miles round a reservoir over hills down hills through fir trees and  woods , we called in  at Argos and  bought a Sony 500 GB PS3 console and a spare wireless controller along with two games "Tomb raider' and 'The Last Of Us, really in to the latest Lara Croft adventure last console I owned was a Ps1.

The graphics are of course loads better, the fact you can go online and watch free movies is a added bonus and Sony play store easy to register and use.

Downloaded for only  £3.99 Medievil™ it was first released in 1998 ,  it  took fifteen minutes to d/l and install its well dated but iconic I played it with my kids  like she did with her kids years ago.

Yesterday Wednesday was my birthday getting older we went to Meadowhall to Game bought 'Underworld' Tombraider .I received a Apple App gift voucher to redeem online my very first .Bought a few bottles of Koppaberg pear cider been full of cold the dreaded man flu virus strikes again my eyes are streaming and nose like Rudolph's .

 Thursday
I am up this morning sitting out in  the small paved garden at the front of our cottage with a second cup of coffee , in the sun wearing just a plain white T-shirt , i can feel the sun on the back of my neck and it,s October its bliss .

Anyway no gaming till later we need food and another reservoir to walk around on such a beautiful day  we found one a few miles away  after we had done a lap round Dovestone we went over to Langsett Reservoir , We dropped Pip off back home and went to the Farmers Arms inn had slow cooked blade of Beef with porridge and mash potatoes.

Friday we bought new fish for our aquarium five Harlequins and two Discuss and  pleco to clean the tank we also bought some blood worms and two pigs ears for Pip.
Sold my Samsung  camera for £157 i lost cash on it  but  as i i don't use it anymore it is losing cash just sitting  in my drawer collecting dust .

ROLL ON TUESDAY

Two days off then two days at work then five days off again sounds good to me  roll on Tuesday.

It is my birthday survived another year another nail hammered into the coffin lid it makes you wonder how many more around the board trips in the game of life there is , twenty , fifteen , ten or maybe less?.

Went to Penistone in Helens Beetle after taking it to the hand car wash it was sunny we just ambled around the center of town sent to a antique shop did not buy anything went to Halfords looking at Parrot hands free kiits and new blue tooth enabled stereos with iPod docking.

We found a toad in one of the planters it was full of a water and s toad was swimming on top , if you want to pick a tosd up you need yo wet your hands first or you can hurt their skins.

For supper we drove over to uppermill for pizza Italian it was fully booked up so we drove back over to Holmfirth and picked up a Chinese take away curried duck noodles fries onion rings and mushroom fu yung was first time we had been there it was mediocre at best.

WEEK SO FAR.

Why does Monday come too fast when Saturday comes too slow. I really hate Monday I hate midnight on Sunday evenings because my freedom is no longer mine as  I am a slave to a wage packet.
Again the first day of the week it is raining and grey which does not help me, to get up and go.
To top it all I got a parking ticket because I was twenty minutes late moving my car from a two hour no return in four hours  parking zone just a way for the council to print money , least its Tuesday now.

I have not really been taking my Nexus tablet to work but I just might as it kills boredom specially late into my shift when I have done what I am going to do , loads of episodes of breaking bad to watch.

Helen had her third driving lesson yesterday  she might get her test done early in the new year , I will be a passenger for a change when we go out can't wait it is not often I get to stare out of a the passenger window it has only happened three or four times in the last five years ,be great rolling along taking photos as I am being chauffeured around.

Pip our Jack Russell is adapted well to cottage life she as fitted right in with living in a small house we are one up one down living  , and we only have two doors one on the toilet and bathroom and one on the front door .

BEING BAD AND MANCHESTER

SATURDAY
Went to Red true barbeque in Leeds city I had the pulled pork nachos , Helen had a burger and onion rings chips and side salad some of the meat takes 22 hours to cook.
The meat was really tasty and the size of the portions fair ,but the chips and onion rings where too hard but i guess for thirty pounds with drinks , I had an organic wlyd wood cider at 6.6% over ice was nice with the pork Helen had  a coke with ice and a slice .

Bought Kat Von D latest book "Go Big Or Go Home" if you like tattoos and like Miami ink and L.A Ink it is a good book to read.

SUNDAY
Took Pip out down the lanes instead of going to the pond it was too wet again wearing Crocs don't help some days .
Drove  to Manchester city centre parked up in a multi storey car park bought a Dalvey umbrella with maple handle and stainless steel fittings on handle and boss  it always rains in Manchester.
Helen bought some damson coloured knitted gloves from the Superdry store , we called into Fossil to get her watch strap altered on the one she bought a couple of weeks ago and to order a new stainless steel bracelet for the watch that  i bought her four five years ago they are ordering a new one for £40 and fitting it so we will have to return to Manchester once it arrives.
Got back to Holmfirth went to the Ford Inn for Sunday lunch Yorkshires and beef  and we was bad we had deserts i had a triple layered chocolate fudge cake with pouring cream Helen had the jam roly poly and custard.

                                               Jam roly poly and custard made with suet

FRIDAYS HERE AGAIN

The weather is changing apart from the leaves falling off the trees it is now a lot colder .
It is the first time on a morning that i felt the need to put a coat on to walk Pip my Jack Russell the old faithful Levi padded jacket came out of the wardrobe along with a old pair of fingerless gloves that where hiding in the coats pocket.
I also have a thermos cup for when it is really cold and are contemplating getting some short of hat wear either Russian or the Swedish knitted tea cosy type with ear flaps and chin strap.
I do need foot wear too as Crocs and snow or damp grassland don't really cut the mustard.

I have three days off week after next has it is my birthday and i have vowed never to work on my birthday again so i break up on the Tuesday night which cant come fast enough.

Was up at seven this morning to take Helen to the doctors , i have been having trouble with my debit card it is not being read correctly at some of the ATM machines the one in our village reads it fine the ones at work and near to work can't read it therefore i cant with draw actual cash but can use it to pay for items in supermarkets  petrol stations and in shops as their machines read it fine weird , so i drew £100 out as its the weekend approaching the car is nearly running on empty and the larder is bare .

Not exactly sure what we are doing this weekend but most weekends mean spending money.

Need to get the car washed was going to go this morning to the hand wash but as it was raining it seemed pointless.

Watching - "The Rise"  a British made film and " Smash and Grab" true story of the diamond thief's aka  the pink Panthers.

Listening to - The Police & Sting.

Loving it - Change of seasons and Apple tv.

Needing - To loose weight and to do more walking .

NEVER TOO OLD

Well it,s midweek already how the time flies when your having fun.
It is Helen,s Father's birthday today he is seventy two years young , and sometime next week he takes delivery of a Lambretta 150cc scooter , he had one in the sixties that's 1960's not his sixties.

We bought him a mixed selection of different beers from Rhythm  and Booze and a bottle of Famous Grouse not a great idea when you need both feet firmly on a scooter hopefully his balance and coordination won't be effected.

SEX AND CAKE.

Hate Tuesdays as well hate any day that includes having to go to work , I have never had enough time off where I miss it that much that I crave to go back.

Unlike pear cider , sex and chocolate fudge cake work is something that does not ignite my spark to be honest I can do without it ,its the money not that I crave that we need money is the root of why.
Why I don't say stick your job where the sun don't shine.
Why I rush to be on time each day.
Why I work until two in the morning when by three in the afternoon I have had enough.
Why I pretend that I give a monkey.
Why I have had ones day sick in nearly two years.

Two blogs I am currently reading they are others that are on the same lines , there are loads of people out there that are taking time out from the mundane , wish it was me.

 http://www.liamandc90aroundtheworld.com

http://franksbigwalk.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-max=2013-09-25T14:43:00-07:00&max-results=7

Well I am off now for a large ice cold cider a big price of cake whilst having sex before I go to work at two.

BORING WORK HATE MONDAY S

Yesterday we did not go to the Ford for dinner we went up to Uppermill and had posh pizza well i didn't i had hock pasta washed down with pear cider and a side order of chips Helen had the same with a side order of freshly baked bread and butter.

We parked up at the garden centre and walked down the side of the viaduct and canal to Uppermill village the weather was warm we crossed the river using the stepping stones.

They all generally liked the cottage and and loved the interior as well as the pond and grassland to the back of our home.

i fitted the exterior coach light outside to the porch that we bought a while ago . th
The wires were already there but no light there was four wires to a three wire connector block one live on neutral one earth and one for the switch i worked out the live wire the rest i guessed after turning the power off when i turned the supply back on it worked fine could not believe it i touched the light to make sure it was not live no shock guess it's good then.

This morning we got up and went to Meadowhall shopping center Helen went to Fat Face to buy a jumper and scarf for winter , I bought another charm from Pandora a pixie with wings
We had dinner from Harry Ramsden's fish and chips by the time we got back home it was gone half twelve I had to get change and go to work for two.
Hate Mondays hate work but it pats the bills and the car.
I moaned about my shit job at the council but this is worse and its less money.

GERMAN PLANE

Typing this with Apple wireless keyboard the cap light is not working on my  mac book it lights  up green on this there is a light but it is not lighting up then i tried it on my Mac book and it worked fine the only thing i don't like is the on off light it only stays on for five seconds and nothing tells you that the keyboard is off apart from it wont work if your trying to pair it with a device its hard to know if it is on or of the light should stay on , iam not sure if you can pair to two devices simultaneously i have had it working with my Nexus and will see if i can pair to the Apple tv at the same time .

i bought a shot down Messerschmidt world war two aircraft for the tropical  fish tank it was priced at  thirty four pound but it had the wrong price  ticket on it and i got it for a third of the cost at only twelve ninety nine naughty i know but it helped  towards the cost of the  Apple keyboard which was fifty eight pound , a nasty looking cheap plastic one was thirty eight pounds.

We went to get two oil filled radiators but the have not got them in stock yet be the end of the month this weekend has been sunny but it is getting lower temperatures on a evening so one up stairs and one down stairs should keep us warm , got the first gas bill for six weeks it was £35 we was spending that a week in the other house so it is a massive saving.

My sisters and partners Alan and Ged are coming over to day to see us it be a one off when we lived in the same city the never bothered in five years they came once but never both together , i think they want a nosey of our live here a snap shot of how we are living then it be crossed of their list of things to do or they are bored and nothing better to do .i think when they see our cottage and location they will understand our logic if they are not happy for us i be amazed.
We will more than likely take them to the Ford Inn after they have viewed our cottage which will take all off five minutes for Sunday dinner.

Two of my favorite coffees at the moment are both Nescafe Alta Rica and Azera made add semi skimmed milk brown sugar and vanilla syrup and squirty cream on top i bought two jars of each i am addicted.

It will soon be Halloween then bonfire then Christmas i cant wait to see the houses at Dobcross and our village all trimmed out and light up then there is Hebden Bridge also nice at Christmas , just as well i have bought another battery for my camera .

Listening to - Lorde

Watching - After Earth.

READY FOR WINTER

Well the season is changing leaves are falling from the trees and birds are flying off to escape the colder weather that is coming.

I will have to wait and see how bad the snow gets the biggest problem is snow blowing off the upper fields on to our road below therefore blocking all the cars from leaving the street,on the plus side the photo opportunities will be great.

Will have to make sure I have enough milk , brown sugar , vanilla syrup and Azera barista blend coffee ,and a bottle of Irish then who cares what the weather is doing.

Need a couple of oil filled radiators a couple of throws and the complete box set of breaking bad to watch then we be set for the snow which will only last four days tops scary are winters are not .