SUSTAINABLE

FRIDAY
Went to Sainsbury and bought two Chicken Kathi wraps fcuking gorgeous and some mince pies , got a double points nectar voucher for fuel so i filled the car up with unleaded petrol to the tune of £36.00.
Paid my phone bill that was outstanding so know i am reconnected to the network i still think i owe them more but the phone is back on so not for me to ask the reason why .

Early evening went over the moors to Uppermill Saddleworth the fog was bad on the drive over , we was checking out a garden centre for Christmas decorations , it was dark when we left and the fog was a lot  worse on the way back it was rolling in of the moors , we stopped at the fish and chip shop after we had put the Euro Millions lottery on fingers crossed .

So far Helen has clocked up 200 mins on the psychic chat lines and is still waiting for the weekend callers.

SATURDAY
Another dark foggy morning hopefully the fog will lift we might go to a garden centre and farm shop where they do gorgeous pulled pork and sweet chilli wraps .

On season 4 episode 11 of "The Walking Dead" its gripping stuff can't stop watching it extremely well writing , enjoying as much as "Breaking Bad".
Helen is feeling run down she got up i cooked her breakfast made her a tea she had a cig and went back to bed .
Bought some Steeplewood pear cider not had it before but its quick nice not the best but ok chilled with ice.

Helen had another three phone readings to do tonight her hours over the next few days are seven  until midnight hope it all worth for her .

SUNDAY
Glorious day a lovely winters morning the sun is shining and the aid is crisp makes you want to go out and explore different places be a great day for going to the coast .
Went to Blacker Hall Farm bought some chicken parcels , tomato and pork sausage and fresh vegetables including white purple and orange carrots , sweet potatoes , and other veggies.
We went to see our friend Sharon she had a cottage in Flockton but split with her partner and was forced to sell her home , she now lives on a caravan park near to her old home she has bought a plot for £10,,000 and put a £22,000 mobile static home on it . Its all wired up and and the water and drainage connected so for £32,000 she is living mortgage free she as amenities to pay for and ground rent of £65 a month most of all she is happy .

We went to see this one on the same site , we want the catch is i can't cash my money in until April next year i am talking to the Sister of the late owner who passed away in hospital hoping we can negotiate a way of renting until we can buy .

The white pvc boarding needs a good scrub and i put a gutter on the front for Christmas lights to hang of and have some decking maybe .

The living room is better than we have now it is more spacious more head room and a way lot lighter

The amount of natural light is amazing where we live now is like living in a cave .

The kitchen dinner is ideal with a decent cooker and sink and  we can eat from a table again , the door in the corner leads to one of the bedrooms .

Corridor leading to the bathroom a small dressing room and the bathroom and another bathroom .

The bathroom is about the size we have now there  is no window wish is a minus but compromise is some times inevitable.Most of all this way of life is sustainable.

ALL IN THE STARS

Helen starts her telephone reading tomorrow today  her first shift starts at  13.00 until 15.00 then she artist again from 19.00 until midnight she is some what nervous although she as been prepping all day for it .
Her first payment or wages will be on the 5th of December  , and hopefully it will have all been worth the effort and who knows we might have the best Christmas yet , which is now only a month away .

Within a minute of logging on she had received her first caller which lasted over thirty minutes she seemed relaxed , and did not seem to falter or dry up  and she kept the reading fluent i know she was glad to get the first one out of the way as it was bound to be the hardest one , the ice breaker she seemed happy as the reading progressed and the other person seem to be positive with what was being told to her  , Helen had another two  phone readings to complete  all went well , she will be back online at seven till midnight .

Tonight Helen logged on and had her first call after an hour and half of waiting which helped because she felt a bit run down mainly due to lack of sleep.

Went to the Doctors surgery Helen has a trapped nerve in her shoulder causing her arm to go cold and hurt, someone left latest issue of Stuff magazine sorry to say i took it home to read later .

Not had one  mince pie yet  , had no stollen either or even a slice of Christmas cake  , still its not December yet so still got plenty of time .

My Mac book pro the Finder side bar played up today a folder i created disappeared after searching my hard drive it was still not found which is highly annoying it was also not appearing in the finder preferences tab i also had not backed up to external drive silly me .

DRINKING COFFEE

SUNDAY

Helen went on to the moors at midday with her metal detector and with the  policemen who lives at  the end cottage of our row of five , they are looking for the body of Keith Bennett , its a million to one chance they will find anything but never say never .A least the weather is reasonable and not too cold i choose not to go hopefully the will find some old gold coins if nothing else .

Helen again had three numbers up on Saturdays  Lottery which netted her a cool £25 half way there again ,  another three numbers and the payout would hopefully be in the millions of pound bracket  .
She is waiting for a call this coming  Monday from Sally Morgans team to finalise her working agreement and arrangements we need extra cash for Christmas so fingers crossed .

Went over to Allerton Bywater where my Daughter lives we went over to the Three Horse shoes for dinner Helen had to send hers back the pastry on the steak and ale pie was still doughy it had not been cooked right , we got a refund , my Daughter had paid in advanced prior to eating .

MONDAY
Went to Penistone bought some pork chops and a vanilla cheese cake for tea and had a lazy day took Pip out but did nothing apart from surf the web drink coffee and watch tv.
Another four days till payday.

2 PAY DAYS

Helen as been added to Sally Morgan's website as one of her psychic readers which is truly amazing she is under the name of Helen Jane which is her first and middle names , hopefully she will start giving readings by next week and earn loads of money , we then can get a bigger house with a garden  and patio.

I do have the next nine days off work we won't being doing anything great i have two Nick Drake albums to listening to and i will try and make time to catch up on some reading  i also have loads of decent films to watch along with catching up with the final episodes of "The Walking Dead" , so hopefully bored i won't be.

Have been looking at a promotion video for the company Jolla which are in the process of making a new tablet ,  from the look of it its pretty good  they are also manufacture a mobile phone which looks interesting too both using Sailfish operating system can also use Android apps i might have to wait and see wouldn't mind Santa bringing me one  , dear Santa would also like a Navdy heads up display for the car. A bottle of Redbreast Irish whiskey for my hip flask.

Might get a Turkey crown when i get paid and a joint of gammon and freeze them form Christmas dinner only two more paydays before Christmas scary need to buy goodies.


Listening to - Keane and Nick Drake .

Watching - Predestination.

WOMEN AND CARS

I am going to see if i can book next week off work as i have four weeks annual leave to take before the end of March , and the fact it would save net having to fork out for  petrol money were skint again , Helen had a party of five readings booked for  last night but they cancelled in the morning which has knocked us back.

I called my solicitor regarding the car accident was involved  in March , the other parties solicitors seem to be dragging their feet and at this stage  of proceedings it is still scheduled to go to court which if it does will be in Leeds , they can't give me any indication of a time scale  it will be when when ever its really annoying.

My son has got a job not sure how good the pay is but at least it will be a regular wage , now he has wheels he is going to need a steady income of money , as  he had his first flat tyre today and as always it was at the most inconvenient time,  such are cars , like told him two things that are always going to cost you are in no particular order women and cars , because thats life i told him if you don't want the expense of owing one don't have one  , and thats on both accounts.

Bought two trays of chicken thighs and two bags of fries along with two packets of tortilla wraps and a chorizo  sausage i am sorted till pay day , i also bought a bottle of dilute peach drink .

A Kingston 16gb usb pen drive got delivered to day by the post man i bough tit of Ebay mainly for loading it with films and watching them on my bedroom tv.
Half way through season three of "The Walking Dead".

DID NOWT

Boring day nipped out this morning just after ten when the shops opened ,  Sunday trading laws are crap bought a double pack of smoked bacon and a baguette breakfast sorted .
Bought chicken rice and curry sauce apple crumble and custard for tea sorted

Watched a documentary on Netflix  called Craigslist to survive 31 days living on the with no money surviving eating and getting rooms and lifts via Craigslist.

After watching thus we then watched "Wake up" about a man Jonas Elrod who claims to see Angels demons and ghosts a interesting documentary .

FOGGY

SATURDAY

I dropped Helen off in Leeds just after ten in the morning it was foggy . She had four readings to and a past life regression also to do.

I sat in the car i bought a sausage and tomato sandwich from a local shop  with the  money that i won for getting two numbers on Fridays night Euro lottery i won a whopping   £3.50.

 I sat in the car down by a nature reserve at Rodley not far from where we use to rent a house after we had moved out of the apartment we had at the Docks in Leeds city centre . I had nothing to do but watch around five episodes of 'The Walking Dead" on my iPad mini , i am now well through season three .

Spent an hour on the phone talking to my son he phoned me up it help to kill the boredom i was getting cold i put my quilted Levi jacket on and some fingerless gloves.

Helen was finished at four a good six hours in a car watching "The Walking Dead" on a foggy Saturday could have been worse i guess i had a bottle of coke i had to go to the local supermarket to use the toilet.

We went to Pc World for a land line phone it is a speaker built in so you don't have to pick the hand set up  to talk as long as you are by the phone or within shouting distance , Helen bought  it to use for her telephone psychic work that hopefully she will be doing shortly ,  it also as a built in timer £24.99 its in white .

Went to Compo's cafe come restaurant come take away  for a late tea i had the home made steak and onion pie with chips and baked beans and gravy Helen had the scampi .reckon it is going to be a bad winter if i get snowed in be good i have four weeks of holidays left to take .
We went to drive across the moors tonight it was way too foggy it was rolling in  unless you had to drive across it was too dangerous and pointless so we turned back ,  the further you get across the moors the high you go and the worse and thicker the fog becomes , i didn't want to meet any walkers seeing as i had  left my cross bow at home.

Ebay purchase -  Kingston 16gb usb memory stick.

THORN IN MY SIDE

Well its Wednesday already half way through the week my son's car seems to be ok he has cleaned it waxed it and polished inside and out , i have never been that much in to valeting cars i have perhaps cleaned Helen's car more than i have cleaned any  another car i have ever owned maybe the next car i get it will be different .

Dreading Christmas totally unprepared it catches us out every year we always say next Christmas will be different but it never is well maybe next year.
The Christmas lights get switched don Thursday night and the German market will be opening its doors once again time once more  for the twelve year running for a slice or two of marzipan  stollen.

Work up this morning had a really bad pain in my hip joint it does ache but this was different hopefully as i move around it will disappear at the moment its like a thorn in my side ,  if it continues i might  have to look at having some sort of surgery which is the last thing i want to do.

It is raining for the third day in a row the cottage is really dark it is kind of strange feels like night but it is day time.
I feel i need to take a couple of days off specially in December and go to over Trafford centre and maybe Manchester  city centre to see all the Christmas lights and decorations might go to Meadow hall as well we will need to go through out  the week as  it  will be way too busy on a weekend .

ANOTHER WEEK BEGINS

Helen had a phone interview for a job being a tarot /Angel card reader via either Skype or on the phone she can select the hours she wants to work , and can make her self available any time she wishes has it is a worldwide audience , her interview went ok she is now waiting to see if she has been selected fingers crossed that she will be.

Alfie our ginger Tom cat is still breathing problems , and his little nose is still stuffed up ,  i feel so sorry for him as he has never known any difference since we got him he has had cat flu , he is still lively and he is a proper little character , i hope one day he will make a full recovery be nice to hear him breath normally . on a night he jumps on the bed for you to stroke him he bites you if you don't , his bite is always gentle he never breaks the skin , i have woke suddenly a few times when he lands on top of you.

For the second night running i cooked chicken fries and chirizo a tortilla wrap with sour cream and washed down with a ice cold pear cider happiness don't come cheaper than this.


Watching - "The Walking Dead " nearly finished all the second season episodes . Have already got five episodes of season three on my iPad in readiness.

Listening to -  "Queen Forever" a brilliant album it was a sad day when Freddie Mercury died and the end of a great band there is a few tracks on this album that i have never heard before like all musicians that have passed they live on through their music.

Reading - Peter Freestone - Freddie Mercury .

NEVER FORGET THE FIRST

Well my son has bought his first car it looks ok it cost £1500 and  its a Vauxhall Corsa black 1.2l 16v sxi with alloy wheels and low profile tyres its done 75k , and he as insured it for the year and taxed it for six months.We picked him up this morning and drove over to Pontefract to look at the car it had a few minor scratches and a couple of dents that was minor the paint was still intact , the interior few issues the steering wheel looked shabby along with the hand brake handle and gear stick , it had a massive pair of parcel shelve speakers and a decent alarm fitted.

 .He has used most of the pay out he got for his bike being written off ,  i think he has a few quid left to fill the tank up a couple of times and maybe a drive through McDonald's fingers crossed

.He is still not been paid out for his injuries he sustained hopefully he will get best part of five grand  i do  hope the car is ok until then or until he can get a full time paid job.

It would be nice to think it will last that long ,i f not then i hope at least his repair bills are small and he has trouble free motoring and of course  that he is accident free hopefully he will be.

When he gets paid out for his injuries i think that  he needs to get his motor bike road worthy once again so if nothing else he can sell it should  he ever need the cash to keep his car road legal.

My first car was a red mark two Escort i bought of my Foreman at work it was bright red and i had the bottom half painted black ,  it was the car i learnt to drive in and i even  took my driving test in it which i  passed first time , i don't think you ever forget your first car i traded  it in after passing my test for a  few month old Mark 5 Escort which cost me £3800 back in the day.I wonder what my sons second car will be and how much it will coast him .

SUB IT

Was shown today at work how to gown up and wear ppe , so we can  go forth and clean infected rooms with patients who have been diagnosed with the dreaded Ebola virus , it was a joke  from start to finish from the hair net down with the full head cover  with a removable visor that was flimsy , and a all in one suit and face mask that just made you sweat and itch the last thing you want to do is scratch or wipe sweat away wearing two pairs of thin latex gloves then encased in a full theatre gown would make made it impossible to work if we had to to clean an infected room  , how we was then shown to disrobe was a unbelievable we had to stand in two bin liners and undress .

Here is how to do it sub contact it out to a firm who knows how to do it  right have the right equipment and knowledge to work in any contaminated area and are not making up as they go along , and also know how to remove ppe and dispose of used ppe , because what we was shown today was farcical , i for one won't be doing any cleaning of Ebola infections any side of Christmas  and the five other people that accompanied me said the same , its a outbreak waiting to happen .

Below is American personal cleaning up an infected apartment which was totally opposite what we was given to wear , with these suits there is no way you contaminate your self as you are in a all in one suit including your  head you can not physically touch your face with our shitty suits you can , Get me one of these suits and pay me £1000 a clean  and i will do it  gladly until then fcuk off.

ENGAGEMENT ANNIVERSARY

Last two days i have been on training as a manual handler assessor boring , i have been getting up at six in the morning and not getting home until eleven at night all i can say is i was glad it was only over two days , its the only overtime i have had for ages.

I got engage to Helen on bonfire day in 2011 four years ago how the time flies we always said if we were skint then at least  they would always be fireworks , well we are still going strong but life is no easier now then it was back then in some ways its even harder , but we are still together battling on one month at a time. We just both wish life was just that bit easier .i do wonder what we will be doing in four years time  as 2019 seems in another decade it is weird looking ahead that far but it will be here in the blink of a eye .

Taxed the car today online i set a direct debit up it is just over £11.00 a month , with the new changes you don't have to pay for six months or a year you can pay for it each month , but  your not even given a tax disc to display at least there is no big lump sum to pay out which has to be good.

Anyway Christmas is around the corner the German market will be back in Leeds city centre yet again and the Christmas lights will be switched on i am guessing by next week it is usually on a Thursday.
Leeds does look pretty good all light up it is very festive the German market just gets more expensive each years yet loads of people go , guess they have more money than us .

SEEING RED

900,000 Ceramic poppies each individually hand planted around the Tower of London to pay tribute to the  British and commonwealth fallen heroes  the first of the poppies was planted in June and the last of the poppies will be placed in the ground on November the 11th which is Armistice day , later the poppies  will be sold of for £25 each raising over 11 million pounds for charity . I guess you can't argue with the gesture but it still  makes you think the price that was ultimately paid by a lot of people who should not have died it was not worth it then it is not worth it now yet the killing and dying continues we humans will never learn and we humans will never live together in world peace.
My sister has gone to London to see the poppies for her self and some other London sites .

My son had his face painted by his girlfriend Charlotte for Halloween they went drinking around the centre of York and apparently got some good comments it took her quite awhile to do their make up and face painting i am presuming she applied her own ,  i didn't know my son could sit still longer enough.

We got invited to a bonfire party we cooked a big pot of Chilli to take round we mad it a bit too watery but it was edible even if it was not too spicy. the host had cooked jacket potatoes and pork pies it was windy and was getting colder as the evening got darker thank god for Charlie's bottle of 50 year old malt whiskey and Rogers honey and strawberry mead made by monks in their monastery in Portugal had a right kick to it , would strip paint .

SUNDAY
Went to a farm food shop called Blacker Hall Farm i bought a pulled pork chilli wrap , hand made pork sausages and 100% meatballs and two chicken parcels all sourced from the finest local produce we also bought stake and ale pie and a couple of quiches .

Went to visit our friend Erin she is laid up in hospital she as dislocated her ankle at the gym doing jump squats and it is quite bad injury she is flying to Australia in six weeks time and it is highly likely she won't be allowed to fly needless to say she is pissed off.

CHEQUE SENT

My son has been paid out for his bike and has banked the cheque i think they will let him keep the loan car for another seven days after the cheque as cleared the banking system so he can organise the purchase of another motor , he is looking at a Corsa 1.2 i 16v injection which i a staggering 75 bhp but its only done 50k mileage and as a body kit and alloys and looks mint , well it would its a peppermint green colour  ,  but it should be good little run  for his first car hopefully he should get it next week if they will hold it whilst his money clears.

Me well i still not heard dick about my claim i am not pushing if i get paid out before Christmas be good if not hopefully in the new year will go towards us moving again in April when i get a lump sum of cash .

This week as been uneventful been watching The walking dead in to the second season its an amazing series.
 At work we are handing out to staff writing information and instructions of what protocol to follow if we get patients needing treatment for Ebola the reckon they will walk in to A&E Department for treatment .
 if they die they are double body bagged with fabric material in between the two bags and labelled with special stickers , they are then transferred to the mortuary by staff in full protective equipment  including suits face masks and gloves , if they are alive they are put straight in to isolation with security staff on the doors to stop other visitors and staff entering the area , they are feed by nursing staff only until the are transferred to a high infectious establishment , the room is then cleaned with chlor clean and then a hpv treatment is run which uses Hydrogen peroxide in a  liquid form which is then  turned in to a vapour and the room is gassed , we set up and use this system now for C-diff positive Noro virus etc  this apparently for Ebola  is overkill a bit like using a bazooka to kill a mouse , i do hope so.

Trying out a brand of Pear cider i have not had before Woodgates its available from Lidl its £1.99 for four cans well times are hard can't drink champagne all the time , all i can say is its not that bad its refreshing and takes ok its not a patch on Koppaberg or Rekorderlig but it goes down specially ice cold with ice .