ROCKING A NEW PAD

FRIDAY -A week today we should be out of here I should have some cash  in the back and a 35% share of a £180000 house .We should be living next to reservoirs and moor land Hade edge and Winscar both within a two to five minute drive of our new home .

Summer should be great evening and weekend walks egg mayo sandwiches and a flask of coffee in a hopefully with  hot summer days.

Next Friday and the weekend is going to be extremely busy we need a new kingsize bed and mattress a upright fridge freezer for the kitchen it comes with a cooker and extractor fan thinking of also maybe getting a slim line dishwasher .

We also need a new tv of maybe two not sure we have the option of fibre optic broadband which will make streaming very good .

The two  bedrooms will also need  furniture , as where we are living now it is all fitted and the free standing wardrobe is staying with the new owners of our home .As we will have two bedrooms we need two beds so people can visit over the weekend and stay .

If for any reason we cant move into the new house we will go live with my nephew for a few days until we can move into our new abode we need the cash paid and hopefully we are out of here and living once again  a proper stone built house .

MONDAY - Our solicitors seem to be making it difficult for us , they emailed me and are now refusing payment from the buyers solicitors for the purchase of our static and saying the buyers solicitors  must pay the money to us  or me and not our solicitors and then for me  to pay our solicitors the money just for the new house and then their fees  , estate agents etc . Hopefully this will be sorted out tomorrow and we will be back on track the dead line is looming .

I have been to the tip with loads of rubbish , I have given our fish tank away with the cichlids fluval filter and programable  lights , I have also given our chest freezer away , I had hired a van for three days I pick it up Friday morning at a cost of £225 , Helen paid a retainer fee for the new house of £300 we need the house that as been agreed to us by this Friday fingers crossed we are rocking a new pad

STRESS WHAT YOU MAKE IT

SUNDAY- Liam Helen's youngest son cane round with his girlfriend Somiya she was very petite they had a late Sunday lunch with us we did not know they where coming it was totally unplanned roast pork shoulder with sweet potatoes and Yorkshire puddings ,carrot and swede  .

MONDAY - Break up this coming Friday for another nine days annual leave and I can't wait .The amount of  people either that are on sick or holiday is stressful and we don't have the staff to cover the available shifts which is not good.

TUESDAY - Food shopping again I bought a packet of chicken Kievs and fired chicken thighs and drum sticks as well as chicken baltic pasties and a massive meatball pizza keep us going the rest of the week .

WEDNESDAY - House buying and selling property is all paperwork and waiting for solicitors and estate agents to get their shit together , as our future as always is in the hands of others we have dead lines and things need to happen . we have sent a constant stream of emails which helps with transferring documents across instead of posting them or hand delivering them . We have also made numerous phone calls but hopefully it will all pay off .

TRIP TO VETS

They say the two most stressful things in life is moving house and getting divorced or is it married or having kids , i rarely do stress I don't really get impatient over the years I have learned to wait usually if you wait you get what you want.
I really want to move in to the house we viewed I have never moved in to a newly built house I know they have their drawbacks but new paint work top to bottom and  a kitchen that as been never cooked in and a bathroom never used and new carpets through out is a dream that hopefully is about to come true over the next few weeks .By the end of March we should know for sure and fingers crossed and prays answered should all moved in living the dream .

Helen is already putting list of essentials that when we get our new home what we will need .
A new king size bed for us our current bed will go into the spare bedroom for people staying over .
a corner settle for us both to chill out on and watch t.v .A 60 " smart tv for the living room the two t.v's that we have now will go in the spare bedroom and the dining area.

Might be my last week of doing 18.00 - 02.00 will have to see how things pan out  the person on sick whom I have been covering , her sick note runs out on Feb the 14th which of course is Valentine day . She  another twist is that she as put her notice in  to leave will she come back for the remaining fortnight or stay on sick. And once she as left do i get more shifts until the post is covered , I do hope so .

SATURDAY - I had a text message from my line manager asking if I would do another week of 18.00  to 02.00 of course I agreed be silly not to ,The week after this I am on annual leave for a week .

Took both Bailey and Pip to the vets for worming and flea treatment plus for cutting their nails baileys are black and its hard to get it right one wrong cut and they can be painful and bleed  , Bailey likes going in the car he looks on it like a treat and gets real excited .

YOU TUBE AND COFFEE

SATURDAY - After walking the dog Bailey I cooked a massive breakfast for Helen and I . A full English with mushrooms and fresh tomatoes beans and eggs and hash browns . As well as bacon and sausage and of course toast we ate just after ten a.m set us up for the rest of the day.

SUNDAY - Howling high winds and torrential rain  was constant in the early hours we was both wide awake  the van was rocking  and moving as you would expect but as always we survived intact no major damage Some things outside got blown over , at the hight of the storm i put on my Bose noise cancelling headphones as they say silence is golden .
Some trees went over in the park stayed in all day watching tv and you Tube drinking lots of fresh made coffee with the heating turned up feasting on snacks I was not complaining .

TWIN PEAKS

Sometimes you hear things that can't be true then you discover that they are . Life is always about trying to find solutions to find ways out when you hit a dead end or having to change paths to get back on your original path such is selling property .Will find out more tomorrow what cause of action is available we have a meeting tonight with the site owner we have found out he is selling up as we are selling our van we need to know what the  implications of this is likely to be if any.
New owners will put the site fees up without a doubt the purchase price is £200,000 a few people are going to be pissed of big time if the people buy our van think we are selling because of this we might loose the sale .

FRIDAY - Going to view a house which is part buy and part rent hopefully one of the houses we see we will want to move in to  both are new builds and are both two beds  both close to one another it will just be preference of which type house we buy one is on the end of a row of houses the other you have property only to one side , we will have to decide if we gamble and put down a retaining fee down to hold the property until our sale goes through , if the sale falls through we are out of pocket but guess it is better to loose £300 than £85,000 nothing ventured nothing gained we go to view at 15.30 this afternoon .
We have paid a retaining fee for a end two bedroom house it is stone built the only way we are not getting it is if our buyer pulls out which is unlikely we complete in six weeks we should be moved out and moved in to our new final home

The house has two gabled roofs which is only on the end house the others just have one , might have to call it Twin Peaks Cottage.

NO NEED FOR SPEED

Training  at work to suit up and wear pep protective clothing to go into side room cubicles etc to clean rooms infected or suspected infection by patients admitted with coronavirus.
To be honest we don't get paid enough money to do shit like this they should have specialized teams on stand by 24/7 just in case , I won't be attending the training as I won't be there , can you refuse I don't know what the outcome would be .

My son moved out of the house he had been living in with his mother and step father it has been over a year since his mother passed away .He is now living in a house with his girlfriend , with her fathers partner .He is not working he needs to get a job as quick as he can , another issue if he ever falls out with his girlfriend then the chances are  he will be making himself homeless .

TUESDAY - Attended the speed awareness course , had to ne thee for 07-50 after four hours sleep I got their on time and passed the course the most important thing I learned from the course is if your going to speed make sure they are no speed cameras no only joking reducing speed does save lives including your own specially in built up areas , killing or permanently change the lives of others is unjust and wrong just because your late or the road allows it anyway hopefully lesson learnt foot of the gas .

Helen sold he Cameo Silhouette 3 ob Ebay on the second attempt she got a buyer it went for £250 but loss out on the postage she asked for £10  and it cost over £14. oh well swings and roundabouts .

Since buying the coffee machine I have not had a normal cup of coffee and not had to buy any jars of coffee buying plenty of pods and it is costing more money but I am trying to drink fewer cups .

SMOOTHIE

SATURDAY - Got back from work at 03.30 was awake  at 08.00 and finals got my arse out of bed to make a coffee before setting of to the chiropodist .
The lady who does nights is leaving she has put in her notice to leave in a months time might be a while until they get someone else hope I get a few more months doing 18.00 - 02.00 if I can mange them until I go to New York will help me with spending money for the trip, fingers crossed .

Cooked a full breakfast apart from we had run out of baked beans not good and we did not have proper sliced bread we also run out of cooking oil and washing up liquid need to go to the shops .

Sat in the car with fish and chips whilst Helen did her spiritualist work which was from 19.30 until 23.20 a full four hours manage to watch two films one about Frank mad axe Mitchell a gang member of the Kray twins who escaped from Dartmoor prison another a world war one film .

SUNDAY - Went to the supermarket Helen spent £135 on groceries we bought all sorts  including meats mince pork and meatballs , two baking trays and two  cushions for the settee , ice cream , Doritos , chilli cheese , dilute peach for me to take to work , Dolce Gusto coffee pods for my coffee machine , bananas , salad , bread including wraps and thins , money just keeps spending and we only had a small trolley God to think how much a large trolley would cost we did spend £30 on cat and dog food and no way have we enough food for a month maybe a good eight to  ten days.

Made my own smoothie using two bananas a full teaspoon of peanut butter a big chunk of ice cream and some ice , thrown into the blender with a drop of vanilla extract it  turned out pretty good was impressed with my recipe don't know what the shelve life will be 24 hours I guess .