FULLY GASSED

 MONDAY - Took Bailey to the dog groomers for a shampoo and cut it takes around a hour fifteen minutes .I parked up on the trading estate and did some shopping fo r a few essentials .Going home would waste petrol and by the time I would get home had have time for a coffee before setting of back to pick him up .

TUESDAY - Got some petrol on way home from work tried to filling stations no joy went to one of the major supermarkets and they had fuel you was limited to thirty pound spend I only needed twenty quid to fill to the max . Before people bitch I do over seventy miles a day just getting to and from work at the NHS . I finish at two in the morning even if I did a normal shift getting to work via a bus from where I live would be a nightmare if not impossible. I would need a car to get to the bus stop we are in rural location  .

WEDNESDAY - Two more shifts ten five days off am I happy yep no driving proper sleep chill out time and then going back to a short week will do for now .

BEE

 SATURDAY - Ordered a wireless charger off eBay for my Apple Watch and iPhone XS Max as the charging port on the phone seems not to be working , but its fine when I plug the lighting headphones in they wok fine so I don't understand the issue guess its fcuked .

Helen picked up her new glasses this time the lenses are correct for her eyes she will be able to read books again .

Went over to Penistone to Tesco bought some groceries that we need bought some part baked bread and pulled beef for tea .

SUNDAY - Painted the downstairs toilet light grey it took a few hours after we wentto my daughters house for Sunday dinner . The amount of petrol stations saying no fuel was surprising there was a lot saying no fuel .This country is going to the dogs of course everyone went out and filled the fuel tanks to the max We got to my daughters she had gone out that morning and bought a new puppy for £1200 its  Cockerpoo  its small and cute and its called Bee .

TOO LITTLE

 TUESDAY - At least its not Monday .We have some Pampas grass growing outside the front door it never  flowered last year if that is the right term put its looking well good this year .Apparently its a sign to others that your swingers .Also dried stems of Pampas grass is around £20 a stem so we have a little gold mine in our front garden good job we have cctv . The heads of grass has doubled in around two days in another few days they should be bigger still  .

We get our back pay this from the 3%rise we got working for the NHS our wage slips should be online anytime soon as soon as they Arte will see what vast amount I have walked away with this is six months back pay we will pay more tax more pension and more national insurance guess a lot of people will be totally pissed off when they see what we are worth I certainly will .I finally got to see my wage slip I am worse off by around thirty five pounds not really a rise then is it  I paid £505 into the pension £285 was arrears .

The world is fcuked including the U.K apparently we are now running out of c20 gas which will stop the production of chicken and pork and other food products the knock on effect is prices for food will go up .

Gas and electric are going up petrol prices continue to rise food is immersing every time you go shopping the basics essential items get dearer every month people at work are cancelling their pension because they need the money now to survive never mind in old age , its sad its annoying and frustrating .

DECLUTTER

 FRIDAY - Moved the furniture around the room is looking tidy it needs some of the other items rearranging and some others getting relegated to the bin all in all it looks good by the time its paid for will be ready fora change again its a never ending circle till the day you die constant improving upgrading getting new .

My iPhone stopped charging the same day Apple announced its new line up of iPhones 13 luckily it had debris in the charging port and I cleared it and its fine the issue is I cant live without a phone , for photography , music , films , online banking , Apple Pay , as well as phone calls face time and messaging .

I would have had to have gotten a new iPhone having no choice it would have had to be the 12 couldn't wait for the 13th launch .

SATURDAY - Raised the new sofa swapped the feet over got some four x two painted it dark grey screwed it to the bottom of the sofa its raised it another two inch and its a lot better .

SUNDAY - Bought a stone lion and another Buddha picture and another white porciian artichoke .We have declutter and the house is looking a lot tidier and cleaner .

Went to my sisters house we have not been over for ages she has remodelled her garden with raised beds and a seating area she is also looking at getting an extension done and he bathroom should make a big difference .

MONDAY - Why does the weekend fly by its work already .

NEW AND OLD

 SATURDAY - Got home from the ghost hunt at around half twelve it went ok a lot of orbs on camera a few sounds but noosing concrete . Meet up with a few other teams which which is always nice the drive home was quite came off and went through Wakefield , whilst listening to 'The Killers " new album.

Went to B&Q Helen bought some more paint had it mixed to a Farrow and Ball colour its to paint the main wall in the living room .That I painted with actual Farrow and Ball paint we bought some masking tape cutting in brush a roller and tray with three roller selves .This will be the third time the wall has been painted in eighteen months .

MONDAY - Ordered some Ikea flat pack furniture and a new two seater sofa got interest free credit over two years roughly £55 a month .Bought a white coffee table , a white two drawer dresser a white side board  with two drawers and foor doors also in white , with a two seater sofa  in dark grey . two pairs of curtains and a round dining table al is next day deliver.

TUESDAY - Smashed the corner sofa into bits took all he cushions everything to the tip took two trips got home and assembled the two seater sofa before going to work .Helen painted the wall a off white grey .

WEDNESDAY - Assembled the round extending dining table was ok its heavy sold th one farm house table white looks good then I did the sideboard and then the coffee table before going to work Helen second coated the wall that she painted yesterday .

THURSDAY - Assembled the last flat pack the  two door dresser was the most complicated out of the lot reading the instructions and trying to see is a nightmare finally did it before going to work .Helen painted the grandfather clock and the corner unit in a dark grey .they look better than new .

THE RAISE THAT WASNT

 3% Payrise for NHS Staff who I work for , our  national insurance  payments are to go up by 1.5%  to fund the covid pandemic so that is half your rise gone straight away because of the increase to Paye tax and the increase to your pension scheme what's it really worth guess we be lucky to get what we are being paid now.then they are trying to get it so all staff are mandatory vaccinated against covid and the promise of a third wave on its way with the MU variant which the original covid vaccine does nothing to protect you anyway thanks for the raise .

Anyway the sun is still beaming down on our little village and  I am healthy living  in a nice house with a my great partner Helen and to boot  in a great part of the U.K I am extremely grateful for everything we have including fresh water and food life is not perfect but for what we have people some people would gladly swap .

THURSDAY - Rain is back never mind , I have tomorrow Friday so there is a ray of sunshine we re going on a ghost hunt at a haunted location at Knottingley I will have more to report once we have been .

FRIDAY - The Buddha resin picture came today hung it on the wall looks quite good to say it didn't cost a fortune really happy with it .

PANCAKES FOR BREAKFAST

 FRIDAY - Boring weather boring day Helens snoring on the sofa its quarter to two p.m and I am bored looking forward to tea and that's about it . Had a spam and egg sandwich for breakfast which Helen cooked which was the highlight of the morning ,Looked at some You Tube videos on how to build a SLS Camera using a X-Box Kinect and a tablet .

WEEKEND  -  Chilled out played on the x-box went for walks got the slow Coker out did some braising steak prepare for monday back at work the week has flown bye roll on more time off ,

MONDAY - The weather is gorgeous its hot with a breeze its like summer was just teasing us spirits uplifted even going back to work doesn't seem that bad well maybe I am stretching the truth just a little .

TUESDAY - Sorted the garden out power washed all the plant pots and did the patio its looking brand new put some Jeyes Fluid down let the sun dry everything out .Twelve bags of gardening waste to take to the tip going to be a car full at least it will only be one trip .

WEDNSEDAY - Helen cooked us pancakes for breakfast how American we had Canadian maple syrup not sure what the difference is to American syrup if owt , makes a change from a full English .

THINGS REVISITED .

 On September the 16th my blog will be sixteen years old cant believe I have lasted that long to say I don't really have a interesting life I am not well travelled or have a great hobby or even have a interesting job it is very basic life I lead.And the blog is my diary and was only ever meant for me to read the fact anyone else reads it is beyond me although the people that are currently reading it or not are dropping .

THURSDAY - Forgot to mention yesterday I went for my hair cutting my daughter was not free to do it so I went back to Terrys's he has a shed that's set back off the road and he cuts hair there I have been before .

The shed has been there since 1935 and has not changed much sure its the original mirror .Terry the barber that is there now has been working there since 1983. The mirror that faces you when you are sat in the chair must have had many faces both young and old looking into it over the years it came with the shop and is believed to be the original mirror form the 30's

Another thing I revisited  was some gaming as I  fired up my x-box its been a while continued to play "Resident Evil" got back into it and made quite a bit of progress .

Cooked bangers baked beans and mash for tea classic food sausages burnt just right , the right amount of butter and milk in the mash and the baked beans not over cooked perfect if I do say so .

BELLAS BACK HOME

 BANK HOL MONDAY - Cleaned all day I did the kitchen dining living room and bathroom .Did all the kitchen unit tops washed all the pans and dishes that where on top of the units . Cleaned the cooker took all the curtains down and washed them in every room in the house .Vacuumed all of the carpets washed out the bath and shower screen toilets and hand wash basins we put clan sheets on our bed and washed the dog beds .We was at it all day nn stop . For tea I  cooked us both a pork mince rice bowl we need to make some Ketjap Manis its a sweet Indonesian soy sauce .

TUESDAY - We went back to York to drop some stuff off for Helens  parents and to help with his mobility scooter lifting it out of his car they go to Wales tomorrow .

We went to Sand Hutton a few miles away its where the police are searching for the missing chef Claudia it was closed of we saw the chemical factory Fera but that was about as far as we got we thought about parking up and walking through the cone barriers but decided not to .

Stopped off at Asda bought a giant bag of scampi I did them with some gastro chips and freshly baked  a sourdough baguette Helen had a load of salad with hers I had some piri mayonnaise sauce if nothing it was filling not overly keen on scampi prefer it deep fried rather than cooked in the oven .

WEDNESDAY - Took Helen to see a psychic friend who lives in a magnificent house in Wakefield a few miles away past Cawthorne .We spent a good couple of hours there she had our Bella doll after doing tests to see if there is an maleficent  spirit attached to the doll .As it says words and sentences it is not suppose to say it is not in it vocabulary. The speaker which is inside of the doll  it is basically the same as a spirit box and the dolls is programmed with over two hundred sounds and words which young children can talk to it and the doll interacts with them through movement of its eyes and head and arms . So phrases like "fuck off"" I hate you" and "go die" should not happen anyway we took the doll back home its in the boot of the car we need new batteries for it .There are loads of people with these dolls that have got rid of them because they believe they have demonic spirits either attached to the doll are they are using the doll to communicate with the living in a bad way .We have heard our doll say "Spooky",  "Scared" and "Don't Like It".Once we have bought new batteries we will see what its like now its back home.