SKINT

The cat has eaten into the cable of my mac book power lead and it is no longer working we do have another one but i will need to buy a replacement  just in case , to buy an original costs a whacking £65 as a result the cat is now in the dog house .

With the clocks going back Sunday morning it is really dark at five o clock , winter is on its way we was lucky last year we got no snow is this year going to be the same hopefully yes , it won't be long before we are putting up the Christmas decorations and throwing a turkey crown into the oven  .

Have started to watch "The Walking Dead" again starting at the very start hopefully i will catch  up to the present day pretty quickly.

Really broke its been an awful month , five weeks between pay days is a killer .
There is a new Lidl opened in Holmfirth we bought some fresh baked bread sticks and ham for sandwiches we will go back when i get paid and stock up on goodies and hopefully save some money as well , i will need wraps ,  brown sugar and sweet chilli sauce coffee not sure if its cheap coffee i don't normally go there to they do sell pear cider which i am willing to try but decent coffee is a must.

THE VISIT

Thursday
Went to Motorman cafe Helen had breakfast as it was nearly midday  i had steak pie mash potatoes only one scoop  and baked beans and gravy  i think the pie was home made it could have been a bigger piece me being a pig i thought they would be a individual pie  .

Later in the evening i dropped Helen off at her friends car in Lockwood they where going to spiritualist church i went home to chill ,  i called my son he wanted to drive over to see me .
So my son came to visit me on my birthday which was brilliant and he stayed over two nights , he had trouble with the engine management warning light on his loan car and he was not able to drive it back home  , and they could not get a replacement car out to him until Saturday morning so one night  ended up two nights sleeping on the sofa  .His friend who knocked him off his motor bike has now admitted the 100% blame for causing the accident which means my son should get weighed in a lot quicker and an interim payment should be imminent .

FRIDAY
Took Helen for her appointment at the Hospital concerning  her heart ,  she has two small holes in her heart which never closed correctly when she was born this does not effect her hearts ability to work and will not need anything to be done , her electric circuitry that controls her heart rhythm is out of sync for the time being they will monitor it , Ablation surgery is an option but at this stage is not deemed necessary at this time  .

SATURDAY
The replacement car arrived just after eight a.m he was given the use of a brand new Citroen C1 it only had 5 miles on the clock  , he drove it home 55 miles , i took Helen to Leeds she had another two readings , I packed up and watched a film on my I-pad , on the way back we had chicken from Marstons chicken shack .
Rest of the day did nothing life can be boring .

SUNDAY
The clocks went back by one hour we get an hour extra in bed but i was up before eight anyway when the clocks go forward i am absolutely knackered when they go back i am always up bright and early .
It is very grey and dull Sunday morning with high winds,The little cottage is dark we need food for breakfast but a reading Helen had booked in cancelled and are coming Wednesday which as left us skint and as i need petrol to get me to work totally peppermint yet again , oh well we do have food in the freezer .it is going to be a boring day .


Reading - Angelina by Andrew Morton

Watching  - Sinister and November Man.

Listening to - Jamie T - Carry on the Grudge

Needing - Payday,

AMAZING

Tomorrow is my birthday how i got to be this old God only knows he has done a great job of getting me this far and it is appreciated and i am we are extremely grateful , when i was born years ago my twin sister followed she was born ten minutes later , the time of our birth is on our birth certificate and we was baptised at our delivery by the hospital Chaplin as we was not expected to live  , as we only weighed just under two pounds needles to say my twin sister and i we both made it.

So what ever we get what ever we do we are both happy regardless of where we are what sort of day it is October not being the best month weather wise ,  i be happy to have a glass of cider and walk on the moors and maybe watch a film or two sorted .

I know our parents will be looking down on us and be amazed at our lives , by my next birthday i will be a Grandad something i never thought would happen life is truly amazing .

DOWNHILL

A day this week i was sat on the main reception desk  at work i was sat opposite Costa coffee shop in the Rotunda or foyer and for four hours I helped people with their enquiries who was lost or had appointments and did not know where to go , and the best bit I was also was people watching for most of the time in between it was the best four hours I have spent this week at work , sad when your more happier doing what technical is not my job to do than doing your normal role .

My son thought that getting his new car was going to be a breeze through his naivety unfortunately life aint' that simple just when you thought it was plain sailing there is a hitch , and  in his case a massive hitch he does not have the funds at this moment in time to buy the car in a couple of month he will or even weeks he will have  the money today he found out he is like the rest of us ,  he might have thought he could capture a dream only to realise it eluded him in the end  , one thing for sure he will get a car he wants it just won't be yet .
If THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH he had a second knock back after attending an interview this afternoon he found  out he did not get the job , so i am really feeling for him there is nothing i can do which pisses me off i just speak to him on the phone telling him to keep his head up hard  advice to take when your on your knees praying for a lucky break .

Any way one day at work two days off then three days work four days of sounds good to me money or not i won't be at work a three day week  and being paid for five suits me fine .

To cap it all the Euro Lottery jack pot is 143 million pounds sterling that's some serious spending  power , i buy a penthouse apartment and a country estate and maybe even a private island like Richard Branson or UB40  own I build a retreat on to get away from it all ,  it  it's good to dream.

SATURDAY
Spent four hours sat in the car our little black Suzuki swift  in a supermarket car park whilst Helen did her readings , I watched a film on my iPad "Lucy" which was entertaining  and tethered to the Internet using my phone looking on Ebay for cars.

I have downloaded Yosemite but yet to install it on my Mac , on the way home had American fried chicken fron Marstons  chicken shack it was full as always the food was worth the wait.

Not had any of the following items for absolutely ages :-

White chocolate mocha from Starbucks with cream
Chinese food duck curry and noodles
Chocolate fudge cake with pouring cream .
Koppaberg pear cider ice cold
Read a decent book one you pick up and can't put down.
Bought any new aftershave  Prada,
T3 or Stuff Magazine .

Thing is i could do all the lot for the cost of around £90 the dearest item being the Prada aftershave.
Its my birthday next Thursday but pay day the Thursday after could always wait .

SUNDAY
Installed Yosemite on my Mac Book Pro looks to be operating fine would close down saying Safari was open when it was not other than that no issues .

My Son Guy called to see us at the cottage again  today he drove over from seeing his sister in Leeds he still as the loan car until his insurance is settled , we went for a walk with one of our neigh-boughs Charlie and his border collie Mollie just locally around the lanes and roads in a big loop taking about an hour , it threatened rain but kept dry until we had finished after getting back home we cooked some fish rice and fries and watched Denzel Washington in "The Book OF Eli".

MONDAY
Working three days only this week i decided some time ago that never again would i work on my birthday , i might not get anything but least i will have the day off .
After my birthday the rest of the years seems to  be all down hill its Halloween , bonfire night ,  Christmas and  new year end of 2014 hello 2015.

CLIMBING MOUNTAINS

Saw my Daughter at the Hospital i work at yesterday she was having her second pregnancy scan , she found out that she was having a baby boy i think she had her mind set she was having a girl , the baby is doing fine its growing fine and increasing in size , so everything is looking good for March next year.

its my birthday next week on the 23rd and as always i am totally skint  , to top it its a five week month and i am stoney broke , i have Thursday off work next week which is my birthday and the Friday as well so i will at least get four days of work to relax and chill which will be a present to myself oh well life goes on .

Still playing Limbo the gam i downloaded for the iPhone and i pad its dark and moody but i do enjoy the game even though it can be frustrating it kinds of lets you work it out the more times you try a certain puzzle.

I f i have to sell my I-pad i will get the newer model as soon has i have some cash which should be released to day to be honest having finger print unlock on the i-phone its a pain not having it on the iPad , i also want a Android tablet so i can have the new o/s Lollipop i will get the Nexus 7 2nd gen which i had but also ended up going to Cash Convertors who knows a third ten might even be out by then , anyways i still have my 5s and Mac book pro so i can't moan too much ,life certainly is too and fro and up and down but tomorrow ia another day Everest was not climbed in a day mind you some days i reckon i rather be climbing Everest i seem to be climbing mountains all the time .

BORING TWO DAYS

The Kodak printer which i bought in 2011 and drank ink and was never that brilliant in the first place is not printing jack shit anymore  it as given up the ghost , but honestly  i will never buy another Kodak printer in my opinion they are inferior quality machine compared to a Canon the next printer i purchase will be a Canon.

I have been trying to purchase Limbo the game app i had a remainder of £3.02 in my I-tunes account so i thought i would use it up and buy Limbo for £2.99 it took ages it kept wanting to update my debit card details to verify the payment after nearly an hour including chatting online to an Apple advisor i sorted it out at one stage i typed are you a bot and i got the reply no i am a person i was still not convinced , anyway i got there in the end the game is very dark but looks ok after you figured out the controls another mystery solved just i have to say it is a compelling game i have put it om my iPad and iPhone should keep me amused over the coming dark winter nights .

This weekend we have done nothing of great interest i have spoken to my son a few times  and he is after buying another Mazda mx5 the silver one he was after has been sold he was supposed to be taking the deposit over Saturday and the person he was buying from had sold it that morning my son was totally pissed of to say the least but such is life.
He has now found another one  for sale in a Vin Rouge colour its high mileage at 101k but saying that it has all the paperwork to document the work that it has had done to it over the last couple of years the price for this is £2999

I have from the trailer i have seen  a great sic -fi film to watch called Automata it looks as good as Blade Runner with a bit of I-Robot thrown in to it's mix .

Playing Limbo its a weird game but quite enthralling i like that its done in black and white and greys its had to see what is going on if you play it on your phone but i am still enjoying it , not as good as Dead Trigger 2 but its a total different format .

Well cooked pork sausage with onions and chorizo sausage in a tortilla wrap toasted very tasty its a five week month which i hate , next year as from March we are getting paid on the 27th of each month yippee .

TIME TO MOVE ASS

Still waiting for my time to come for my salvation it seems things might be improving and hopefully over the  next few months things will start to change and life will get easier.
We can't stay living in this cottage for numerous reasons its too small which at first was cute and quaint now its feel restricting and claustrophobic  , the cooker is not brilliant the grill is unusable it smokes too much the washing machine leeks water and knocks the kitchen units side to side when it spins the fire and central heating system do not put out enough heat there is no heating in the bathroom ,but saying that i think we will be here for a little while yet but i hope we don't spend another summer here  in this cottage as we should be long gone before then  .

My son is putting down his deposit for his Mazda x5 convertible today once he gets paid out for the bike accident , hopefully in a month or two he will pay the remainder off and own it out right ,my claim is still out there i have had no more news in the last few weeks i think i will call them Monday to see what is happening , i don't believe in the no news is good news crap .

Helen is doing events with a friend of hers and hopefully she will be doing more readings which will be good for her and her friend Jasmine i hope they between them get lots of bookings.

I need a decent coat for winter i want a three quarter tweed fabric overcoat and some grey jeans and some gloves to boot , i am also running out of aftershave i need a spicy smelling one that is a musky christmas smell , i also need to decide what to put in my hip flask i came across it the other day .

Listening to Alt-J

Watching - Stretch

Reading - Gone Girl by Gillian Ryan

Eating - Chicken and chorizo kebab wraps with sour cream .

GONE TOO FAST

My son's Suzuki Bandit motorbike has been written off by the insurance assessor he valued the bike at £3000 and if my son wants to he can keep the bike and they will knock the salvage value off the total they would pay him which is £750 so he will get the balance of £2250.

 Which will pay for the car that  he wants with enough money over to get the bike fixed and back on the road , plus he will have the full amount of compensation for his injuries to spend on what ever else he wants result .

SUNDAY
My son came over in his lease car we had cooked him a Sunday lunch with roasted sweet potatoes and mash and Yorkshire pudding , he had brought Bandit my Jack Russell that i had when i lived with him years before , after lunch we drove us over to Dovestone we took the dogs Pip and Bandit and walked up to the reservoir it was quite hot when we got back to the cottage it was after seven , he asked if we could go see my Nephew Mark who lives in Leeds it has been a few years since he last saw him  i agreed and took him over we could only stay an hour or so before we had to get back home to Holmfirth so my son could pick his car up and make the journey back home .A s always the weekend once again as gone too fast.

WET DULL AND GREY

REST OF WEEK

Well after six days off its back to the grind it's also October now which means it's all down hill to Christmas.
This will be the second Christmas in the cottage and more than likely the last as we plan to move on sometime in the following year maybe just after April , to pastures new .

My son has been given a courtesy car a brand new Vauxhall Corsa until his bike is either written of or repaired there is no money in repairing it if his bike is worth 2k and it cost £750 to repair if the insurance company sells it on for 2k then they give the money to my son that its cost them nothing if the repair it its cost them £750 it logical they will write it off which is not what my son wants if he buys it it of the insurance company it will cost him another £750 he is out of pocket so what is the point .

Regarding my offer of 75/25 in my favour the jury is still out on that one i would settle for that at the end of the day it be either the solicitors to sort out or a judge my guess is the solicitors will sort it out and it will not reach court.

Still hating work a position has come up working nights from ten pm until six am monday through to friday my rate for the whole shift would be at time and a half so in effect it would be like getting a 50% wage rise it is for six months in the first instance .

SATURDAY

Its raining weekend and its wet its eleven in the morning and Helen has took herself back to bed a boring day ahead , i have bee out with Pip our Jack Russell and has i type this my ginger Tom Alfie is on my shoulder watching the letters appear on screen with great interest , his radiator hammock arrived the other day and he loves it he slept in it most of yesterday he is still wheezing and his nose is more wet than running but he has still not made a full recovery .

Two  films i want to see at the moment are "The Equaliser " and " A Walk Among The Tombstones" the later one i have already got a  copy to watch  i also have StephenKings " A Good Marriage " and "Sex Tape " to watch , basically  i will need a full day of watching movies , if it is as bad tomorrow weather wise i might get some snacks and do nothing but catch up on films .

WANTING
A shell case for my Mac.
Bluetooth keyboard for ipad mini.
Prada aftershave lotion.
Beatles coffe mug .
Ink cartridges and fountain nibs for my pens.
Headphone.
Overcoat.
Silver bracelet.
Black leather bracket.