DRAGGING

To say Monday was a Bank holiday and i did not work it this week has fcuking dragged which really takes the biscuit really would love a job i love doing in stead of the one i am in .

On a better note we have a wedding to go to this Saturday we are invited to the church to witness the Bride and Groom tie the knot , its the first wedding i have been to since i attended  mine , so that should be a good day out.

Alfie our little ginger Tom cat is suffering with breathing problems he is very wheezy and although he is eating drinking and running around yesterday he just snuggled up on the sofa next to Helen , we have been told by the vet he can take time to get over his bout of cat flu but it is well over three months , the little one must be totally miffed off bless him.

I am getting to eat more hot food wraps rather than cooking a big meal when i come in i am just having a wrap last night i had chicken mushrooms and onion with sour cream its done in ten minutes and extremely nice and 8 wraps for 75p is very good value usually with a months best before date which means i can buy a few in at once .

Still waiting for my payout not sure what is happening will give it another week before ringing them least it is payday this Friday i need to get my haircut and need to buy a leather belt and some loafers if i have time , before Saturday.

Helen did a reading yesterday and had another driving lesson in the automatic car looks like she is sticking with having no gear change which is ok if she passes her test she won't be able to use a stick shift but will still have the freedom that comes with having a car.

Hopefully we are meeting up with my son again this coming Sunday and the weather forecast is for some sun fingers crossed .

Listening to - Jason Mraz.

Still Reading - Richard Montanari .

Watching - Inbetweeners 2

BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY BLUES

Tomorrow Tuesday is my last day off work , in one day i am going back to work , well all good things must come to end , why i don't know but apparently that's the way it goes seeing that we have not won the lottery.

Went food shopping today bought some Mexican burgers and tortilla wraps and some fresh chicken pork and fish , yesterday we went shopping at Meadow Hall , i looked at some Bose headphones , bought two dress shirts and a pair of trousers for a wedding that we are going to this Saturday , i saw some great leather and suede  loafers i use to have three pairs when i was in my twenties but have never thought  about buying anymore , now i want some i forgot how great they look either with trousers or with jeans plus i don't have to mess with laces .

The weather this bank holiday again  is wet and grey just like i feel , at least its one day less i have to work until its the weekend next bank holiday is Christmas .

I am even getting bored with the Internet and watching films i am also getting sick of listening to the same music i need something different but finding something unique vibrant and different to my normal playlist is difficult i have been listening to music all my life and its all the same like life at the moment in need of change . I have started reading more which is a good thing .

Watching - Netflix

NEW FISH AND INDIANS

The cat and dog are getting on great together if anything the cat is more a bully than the dog and its a quarter the size of the dog.

My Daughter is now in Greece in Lindos on Rhodes island she as also gone for a week .
I wish i was jetting off to a Greek island summer seems to be almost over for this year a depressing thought indeed.

I will more than likely be returning to work Monday which will be a slog but inevitable after two weeks on sick my return is looming .

Still waiting for my payout from the RTA we was in last March i might need to get some new wheels of my own , Helen is taking driving lessons again after a few months off , she has a new instructor and is learning in an automatic transmission car which means she will trade in her Suzuki Swift which is manual transmission which in turn means i will need a motor of my own to get me to work and back as i can't get to work any other way .

Bought another dozen fish for the tank along with a new air stone some plants and a new filter we cleaned the tank out this morning and decided to add more fish mainly because we only had three left and the pleco .

Just remembered that this coming Monday is a bank holiday in the U.K so i will not be going back until Tuesday.

South American Indians at York

Watching -Elysium

Reading - Richard Montanari "The Stolen Ones ".

Listening to - The Antlers.

Wanting - Headphones and a I-pod Classic.

IN GENERAL

Helen had another two readings last night i have been off work all week and not looking to going back on Monday  , basically i don't want to work there anymore its totally depressing the amount of work we have to do and we are more of a managerial role than a supervisors and for the money they pay they are taking the piss.

My Son made it home safe from Greece sound like he had a wicked week he hired a quad bike for the week so covered most of the island we are meeting up with him today , will pick him up and head over to York its dull grey and wet as i write this think summer is over the good weather gone until next year sad thought .

Finally watched the last episodes of Breaking Bad it has taken a while and i was up until two in the morning watching the last one on Netflix on my I-pad , i thought the twists and turns in the last few episodes was compelling going to miss it bitch.

Have loads of books to read on my iPad James Patterson , Vince Flynn , Andy McNab ,  and Richard Montanari , have decided to do more reading .

Went over to York with my son we went to the Punch Bowl that has been a inn since the 1600's and is allegedly haunted all the times that i have been to York and been in the Shambles i have to my knowledge never been here before we all had dinned and we all ordered the same lamb shank roast with veg but no mash.

The purple man is still riding his bike thought he might have gone yellow for the Tour De France .

WORSE THAN

Thought i had linked my Nectar card to my gas and electric payments i make each month for some reason i was not receiving points i phoned them up and hopefully my points will be back dated to April this will show on my account within the next few days end of the day my supermarket shopping  and petrol fill ups are all rewarding my account with points and it all adds up , not to a life changing amount but it all helps in times of need,

Still watching Breaking Bad watched another two episodes seven left to watch by the end of the week hopefully i will have watched the final one .
I have downloaded all the ost from Breaking Bad  from each season  , so i have the music now on my iPad minis hd to listen to at my leisure.

The cat loves jumping on to and in to things specially once your back is turned it is worse than having a small child , worse than having two small children  , and he constantly torments the dog whom is exceptionally tolerant

THIS WEEK UPTO NOW

Sunday
Did not get up until twenty to ten this morning , it was nearly half one Sunday morning that i got home after picking Helen up after she had finished doing her readings.
The weather is dull and raining we was going to go to the coast again this time to Whitby but it is regatta weekend and with the weather  being what it is be a waste of petrol
We went out for dinner to the Fountain Inn at Ingbirchworth  it has been refurbished since our last visit and it seemed the food had also been refurbished from the last time we was there six months ago if not longer  the mash was cold the belly pork was tuff and the roast potatoes reheated all in all a 4 out of ten I should have finished with the starter which was chilli nachos which where ok anyway our friend Charlie paid he was not impressed as well .

Monday
Did not go to work had i have lower back pain but  hopefully a few days off will help , what i don't want is for it to get any worse so a few days off work won't make it any worse will it .
The kitten Alfie went for his first vaccine and Pip our Jack Russell went for her booster jab as well as both receiving a flea treatment , they both got matching red collars to boot , the kitten never flinched at the needle going in i don't think he even realised , Pip squealed she had to have two she squealed twice bless we bought her a pigs ear out of guilt for making her cry.

Tuesday
Got to see my Daughter Tuesday she looked well she is taking great care of Harvey i suppose its no longer our cat its hers now , it  be wrong for her now not to have him.

Wednesday
Had a full English breakfast and fish and chips for tea caught up with some episodes of Breaking Bad season 5 .

Listening to - Disclosure.

Watching - Transcendence.

Reading Richard Montana "Skin Gods"

LAST FEW DAYS

Some times doing stuff on a Mac is a lot more complex than using temperamental Windows specially sometimes when i am using I-tunes all i am trying to do is  remove movies from the library well i am finding it impossible i can uncheck or check to add them to my device but i can't manage to delete them out of the library frustrating , and drop down boxes that are on the top are all  greyed out more frustration , another irritation is converting wma to mp3 because I- tunes won't play them  , and the fact it won't let me store items on my 1tb external hard drive that i used as a windows drive unless i format it then lose everything on not fcuking viable.

On my I-pad mini i can't run Utorrent and on blogger i can't add photos unless i download the blogger app and pinch and zoom won't work on Facebook either but   i could do both of these simple things on my Nexus 7 so i guess i need to invest in a Nexus 7 and a cheap windows laptop.

The cat is driving Helen mad nice kitty and the dog i tolerate it and love it i can't stop that when i pick it up i inconstantly kiss it until it gets feed up its so cute and ginger its a little love and it is still wheezy from the cat flu it had when we got him his eyes and nose are no longer running but his breathing is not great he is still full of life eating and drinking and playful.

I have had an offer of compensation for the accident not sure when it will get settled and they are still not admitting liability so why make me an offer its baffling me i do understand legal jargon and terms just put it in plain English like here's the amount if you want to cash in sign here simple as.

The weather is still looking good although we have had some rain but on the hold its still great weather i would like another Barbecue this weekend if at tall possible.

Not heard anything from my Son in Kos but i was not expecting to hopefully he will fall in love with Greece and with traveling and he will eventually go back in future years.

Saturday
Took my Mac to the genius bar at Trinity in Leeds it was booked in for half past two they run various tests and they all passed but they kept it for an hour whilst the adjusted the track pad .
while they did this we went to the Giraffe on the upper level and had lunch i had a steak sandwich with fries Helen had a brunch which is basically breakfast in the afternoon still the food was excellent  and it passed on a hour whilst we waited for my mac book was been readjusted i won't say repaired because it seem to be working fine anyway as always i was happy with the service from Apple .

Apple outlet Trinity Leeds 

Giraffe at Trinity Leeds 

Helen hd 12 readings to do in Sowerby bridge around half an hours drive away i dropped her of at seven we had only been home half an hour before going out again.

Kos

My son Guy and his girlfriend are boarding a flight to Kos in Greece they are going for a week from looking online it's a beautiful island I am extremely jealous I wish I was on the seat next to them waiting for take off.
The Mediterranean Sea and coast is my favourite place and it's a short flight and quite cheap to get there hopefully we will be in Greece next year and do some island hopping , just need to renew my passport.

The food is excellent the swordfish and local dishes are the best cooked at local tavernas and beach restaurants also they are many ancient sites and ruins to visit and plenty of water front harbours all in all a ideal place to visit for any amount of time .

BAY TO BAY

Sunday morning showered and shaved going to pick up my Son Guy and hopefully head off to a place on the east coast , yesterday was raining today the sun once again has his hat on.
I would  like to walk on the piers and get some photos of  the lighthouse with my 5s that's if we go to Scarborough there is also a castle there and a life boat station .

Well i picked my Son up and headed on the B roads to Scarborough we parked on Marine Dive and had about a fifteen minute walk along the coast to the South Bay , the weather was fine sunny and windy the best combination and  it was nice seeing the sea again and hearing the Gulls , as soon as we hit the start of the sea front you could smell the cooking of doughnuts waffles ,  fish and chips , i have been going to Scarborough since being born it was a regular haunt my Father use to have a Bedford van and we use it as a day camper there would always be a flask of coffee cooked chicken and cake , now no campers can park on the front after seven at night which is pathetic which is way the U.K is such a boring place to live.
We had freshly caught Haddock and chips and Guy bought freely cooked well fried doughnuts  and we ate them on the sea front near the pier.

From there we drove around twenty miles to another favourite destination Robin Hoods Bay this use to be a smugglers haunt and the walk down to the sea is quite steep the fisherman cottages are small and quaint and it would be a lives ambition to own one although small they cost a lot to buy.

We all went into the sea only to paddle the beauty of owning Crocs Pip really liked the sea and was out up to her under belly walking around the sea weed.

Not the biggest Ferris wheel in the world but its been a main  sight on Scarborough pier for fifty years or more.

The Harbour Scarborough 

The tide came in and got Guy's Boots 

Wouldn't like to risk it in this totally useless for smuggling 

Think this tractor as done well against the salt corrosion 

The walk down to the Beech Robin Hoods Bay 

The Pub looking out to the sea also at Robin Hoods bay 

All the above photos taken with my new i-phone 5s quite happy with the camera on this phone .

TWO OUT OF THREE

Went over to Meadow Hall at Sheffield today i went to my phone providers shop and upgraded my two year old I-phone 4s to a 16gb 5s at no extra cost , i then went to the Apple store and traded in my old white I-phone 4s for money off on a I-pad mini i also got 3% discount off because i work for the NHS so with the £120 that  i got for my old phone it was a very good saving , i got both devices in black and slate grey , so my main three devices are all Apple well that was until my track pad started playing up on my Mac book Pro so one down the warranty is still valid so i have booked it in to the Genius bar at the Apple store  Trinity Leeds next week , i have an Apple Mouse so all is not lost.