These photos where took inside the Exhibition
of original blown up photos of John and George. Helen is at the side of John.

This morning the kettle came that Helen had
bought of eBay the week before last its cream coloured and its old fashioned and whistles when it boils wonder how long we will use the whistle.

My mother used to use similar kettles on the gas ring at home back in the sixty's and seventy's.

Also the new metal wrought iron bed was delivered by Argos which i shall put up as soon as i get home for obvious reasons. This is also old fashion in design.I
ts nice to know that in a modern world that is run and ruled by technology ,computers, games consoles, i-pod's and mobile phones that some things last the test of time, and there is a place for things that are not ultra modern in design and that came from a different era and style period just like the Beatles and there music i guess a point of further proof.

I went into town at dinner time spent over twenty quid on feet products from Boot's . I purchased 2 x Scholl cracked heel repair creams buy one get the other half price , a new pair of Scholl toe nail scissors nearly ten pounds and scalpel type knife for the removal of hard skin and a packet of extra blades for around eight pounds .

Also called in to Zavvi formerly Virgin's and bought a hard back book that is a photo illustrated biography of John Lennon's Life.
Had a chicken pastie and a almond danish from Ainsley's for dinner and just got back to work before the heavens opened .
Finishing work at four o clock every night this week, i am on holiday all week from my hospital job.
Went over to Methley to see her Helen's Brothers new house it was also his wife's Karen's birthday Helen bought a card and a indoor plant on route at a late night opening Marks and Spencer's.

SATURDAY
My son Guy stayed with us Friday night.We picked him up with Helen just after half past nine Friday night.He likes staying over, although i was working Saturday he still wanted to stay.
We dropped him off home after we had taken him to Asda ,they have a coin changing machine, which counts you money, coppers and silver and give you a voucher for the final amount. you than take to any till and get the amount back in notes, he had over £25.00 .


After dropping Guy off home Helen and I went to Lawnswood crematorium, to visit and say prays for my Mother Ethel (Micky) and Father Ted , my uncle Jack and my cousin Paul.

After leaving there we stopped at a near by Co-op and bought a loaf of bread a couple of sandwiches, two bottles of pop and two chocolate eclairs. We had decided to go for picnic and feed the ducks at Golden Acre Park.
On the way back Helen wanted to see where my mother used to live . So we went the short distance over to Harehills to the street i grew up on and my mums old house where she lived until she died well over fifty years , i took Helen to visit jean my mothers best friend who had lived in the same street has my mum for fifty years as well and has known me all my life.

She said my mother knew i wasn't happy in my marriage and Jean was genuinely happy i was with Helen.

SUNDAY



Drove over to Liverpool to visit the Albert Docks, took with us the obligatory egg mayonnaise sandwiches and the tea and coffee flask's no day trip is complete without them.


We got there just after mid day and first place we went to was the Beatles Exhibition and tour of their work music and life it was over priced i thought but we did both enjoy it and is a must for any Beatle fans .

It took about an hour and half to complete we could have made it last longer but we had seen enough.

This lead us out in to Starbucks and it has been a while since i have had a white chocolate mocha got Helen a tea which is the first time i have been in to a Starbucks and ordered a tea .

We also visited the Maritime Museum which is free entry and the Slavery Museum which was also free. Did a complete circuit of Albert Docks then drove home back to Leeds.

Got back just after six o clock we was both ready for a drink i felt the need for a nice cold pint of cider so we went to the Stansfield Arms whilst we was drinking our drinks we decided to order Sunday lunch.

We had a half a hours wait before we got a table we finally got seated and both of us had lamb shank with Yorkshire pudding mash and potatoes, i had mine with hand cut chips Helen had vegetables.

Followed by treacle sponge and custard for Helen i had white chocolate and blueberry cheese cake FOR £9.95 each on there early bird deal.

In this post i can honestly say i am with the person that i want to spend the rest of my life with.
She is one of a kind and is irreplaceable, i have always had feelings for her starting six years ago when i saw her for the very first time, and my heart went BOOOOOM . I love her more each day i just have to look at her smile and i melt. I have not ever known any other woman that has captured my heart mind and soul the way she has . She does stuff to me and gives me feelings and makes my heart beat faster just by being herself.I want my world to always include her,and i would never leave her for anything or anybody, and i will always put her first but above all else i want to make her feel loved and be happy regardless of money and wealth. I will not let her down or desert her or ever abandon her........... i couldn't she is now apart of me she lives in my heart and soul.Thank you Helen for being you for having faith, keeping it real, and for being a Angel that lives with me.

Last night went to my old home to drop two framed photo's of my Mother. I took them from the dresser in the kitchen this , was Tuesday night ,wheni went i went to see Guy, he was stressed out over his sister being in his room whilst he was staying with us.

She had messed his room up and he had been into hers and messed hers up, nothing major that could not be tided up but he text me to phone him and he was distraught and wanted to come and stay with us that night.I went round to see him at around half eleven.

So whilst i was there i took a few bits and pieces nothing major a wooden sun , a Buddha's head and a wooden cross that my mum had in her living room and i always saw when you visited her,a photo of my Dad whilst he was in the Royal Air Force during World War 2 , and the photos of my Mum was included with the stuff i took.

My Daughter text me last night at eight o clock distraught saying thanks , she now has no photo of my mum, and she would forget what she looked like. I felt bad and it made me upset that she felt like that , so hence the visit home last night after i finished work, at around half nine i returned the photo's.

Back at work today after having yesterday off we always get two days of when its a bank holiday, apart from mayday.
Helen is skint and i know its bugging her, she worries she gets paid a day late because of the bank holiday Monday.At least it only have to last six days , She has bought a lovely cream old fashioned kettle of eBay its one to use on the gas ring, and it whistles when its boiled,and a new feeding bowls for the cat which was quite expensive. I am not as skint because i earn more than she does but i do need to save some cash as well.
We have decided to go on a saving spree and only buy what we need and not what we want, just get the essentials and no extras no take aways (including fish and chips , Helen lol ) Helen's home made fish and chips are better , or any other impulse buys of eBay, for at least for a month or two.
If i can work this weekend, i will try and find out tonight, i will have done five weekends in one pay month, and i should get net well over a thousand pounds , as well as £1400 from my other job, it always looks good on paper, i need to get in front with some bills council tax, gas, and electric this will make it easier for the Christmas period, and once it comes September , it will fly by as it always does.
We have decided when we can and this might not be until next year , that we want to buy a little country cottage ,with a garden and porch and open fire place , that is some where close to Leeds but away from the city centre , this is both our dream and plans and hopefully when are divorces are final , we will be in a position to to make this happen and to buy a home again and to get back on the property ladder.

Bank Holiday Monday
Dropped of Guy at the Royal Armouries,then Helen and i went over to Selby e also took Ellie our westie with us ,we went to visit the market we only bought some bulbs for pots planters and the garden.
Picked Guy up he had bought me a Buddha, hope its a lucky one and a shopping trolley token key ring , and Helen a circle of life pendant that is inscribed with the word Angel.He was giving £20 by my sister when we went to visit the other day, he also bought his mother something , i know not what .He should save his cash he does not get that much , (thank you Guy) ,
That night we loaded the wood burner up with rolled up newspapers, kindling wood, and slow burning logs , it lighted the first time without the need of any petrol or paraffin the wood burner was ignited .
It did put out a load of smoke to begin with but it settled down, and we ended up playing connect four,for a couple of hours at one point it did try to rain but it held.

Friday
Got up to take Helen to the doctors this morning for her half past eight appointment for a blood test and a ECG test. Went to Fred's for lunch again near to the Corn Exchange, in Leeds City Centre.Had a slice of spicy beef and a slice of Mexican chicken buy one full price get your second slice for a pound.Bought second item of eBay,some white JVC Gumy ear phones for my i-pod


Went to LaSensa before pigging out on pizza ,Helen mentioned she had tested some of their new perfume range and that she liked it,so i thought with all the trial and tribulations at the Hospital and Doctors surgery this morning and her big phobia over needles and blood samples and just for being brave, to carry on smiling and joking and because i love with her, i would get her a bottle.
Got a phone call from Helen in just after one,in the afternoon , she was on the floor on a bean bag at the computer and she couldn't get up, she had been trying to ring me but had trouble with her phone, she never seems to get a signal in our house.Eventually she did get through,i left work and got home in around twenty minutes , she was still on the floor in a lot of pain and crying .It was a good job she had not locked the door and left the key in , otherwise i would not have got in .
I got her up and made her a tea and swapped phones she has now got my LG and i have her Samsung, which works fine out of our house

Saturday
Finished work at three o clock ,picked Helen up from the house then went over to pets at home for some rabbit food and straw, and wild bird food peanuts and seed , also bought two sucker fish to help clean the fish tank.Then we went over to Swillington to collect my son Guy.He wanted to stay over again with us.
Sunday
Worked until one,went over to Ikea bought a mattress topper for the existing mattress ,as the new bed frame is being delivered this coming Monday. Also bought some low voltage lights to go around the inside of the conservatory and a new duvet cover and pillow case.s.

Left Helen tucked up in bed seeing it was raining again it is the best place to be .Registered my Virgin credit card for on line banking, previously the only way i was paying my credit card bill was via a paying in slip. I had to go in to town and pay at the Co-Op bank once a month, i now can make various payments online when i have extra funds available.
Changed my contracted hours cleaning at the hospital, from five till nine to half four to half eight.
Which is the hours i have been doing for a while now , off my own back but now its official .

Helen slipped on the wet decking at home when she went to feed the rabbit just after one o clock , she landed on her knee.So i left work early to take my son back home, and on the way back we called in to A&E.It was well after one o clock by the time we had been to the x-ray department been assessed and treated. We left with a pair of metal crutches and a black Velcro fastening leg splint soon to be advertised on eBay.... o/j.

Two o clock in the morning we arrived back home, opened a tin of Stagg chili heated it using the microwave and did four rounds of toast and butter, it which wasn't that bad Helen had fried egg sandwich's.............we went to bed.

I left work at dinnertime, picked up my son Guy from the family home ,he is staying over again tonight with us at Rodley .Then went to pick the kitten up form the re homing centre.It had been inspected by the vet and been given a clean bill of health, also she had been wormed and treated for flea's.
First introduction to the dog went ok, the cat was in her carry case and safe from harm .The kitten did not hiss and the dog did not bark, Which was a good start .There is now more females in the house then males and still cant get a hot meal or a shirt ironed ,O/J Helen i know she reads this.
Got home after work just after half eight Helen had put the cat in the bathroom out of the way with food and its litter tray. It came down to the living room and played jumped and climbed in and out of furniture, climbed into the yucca plant pot and hid under the sofas.
It slept all of the night, in its cat carrier and didn't make a sound all night.
Bought Guy two DVDs from Asda "The Hills Have Eyes" 1&2

Joined EBay and signed up for pay pal yesterday and i have already bought my first item a Brown Faux Leather cat Igloo basically a bed for our new kitten hopefully it will arrive in a few days time the igloo that is , not the cat hopefully picking the kitten up tomorrow at around dinnertime. Meeting up with my Son Guy this lunchtime set off to meet him just before twelve o clock , he missed his stop off the bus so i had some walking to do to catch up with him but 20 minutes later we eventually got to the Royal Armouries we had limited time i had to be back at work for one so we went to see the Lord of The Rings and the Narnia collection of weapons and armour used in the recent films they are on show only for a limited time , I have previously seen it a few weeks back when i went with Shayne again one dinner time from work , we only had time for a quick visit and he asked if i would walk with him back to his bus stop which i did via a quick detour to Ainsley's for pastie and pizza before i made it back to work.

Went to Argos and bought a cat scratching post.Went to Asda bought 3 box's of kitten food , biscuits and and two bags cat litter and some deodorizer for when things get smelly.Already bought a cat enclosed cat litter tray , and i bought a buy it now igloo cat bed , my first buy on eBay should soon have one star.

SATURDAY
Worked until one o clock Helen looked after Guy until i finished my shift have some Rag Doll kittens to view at over at Adel,Took Guy to JGB to buy him some new traineers he settled for a pair of Nike with Velcro strap fastenings also got a couple of Nike t-shirts and a pair of Adidas track suit bottoms.Guy asked if he could stay over again tonight we said he that he could this happened last time he wa ssuppose to saty one night and eneded up staying four nights .Went over to the Ponderosa dog and cat sanctuary to look at some kittens we saw a lovely dark chocolate black female kitten for £50 that was waiting for a new home and family it was almost closing so we said we would think about it and sleep on it .
Went to Burger King again we all had something to eat Helen ordered a chicken royal , i always think of Pulp Fiction when i hear chicken royal being mentioned , Guy had his usual ham burgers and i had a double bacon cheese burger.Went to see the kittens they are only two weeks old and cannot leave there mum for another eight weeks they are gorgeous and they are being sold for three hundred pounds and they come with a pedigree , we have discussed and agreed that a cat in our opinion has to go out exploring and not be confined to the indoors and where we live it backs on to Fields. I don't think a three hundred pound pedigree cat fits the bill. At night went to a Engagement Party at Millford Sports and Social Club , which was not that great had a pint and a half of cider some buffet and we left just after half past ten.
SUNDAY
Went to work finished at one o clock again we decided to go and buy the chocolate and black Kitten from Ponderosa they was a bit vague on the phone and we are not sure if the kitten had been sold or not they was saying it had for some reason i thought she was getting it mixed up with other cats they had in the woman who originally showed us the cats was not there , so we thought it best to drive over to Allerton and seeing first hand if the kitten had been sold or not , dropping Guy off home on the way back , we got there and discovered it had not been sold so we left a deposit of twenty pounds and we can pick it up this Wednesday after eleveno clock this is after its been checked over by a vet on the Tuesday. Just as we was leaving loads of other people turned up to view the cats and kittens and no doubt if they had seen the one we had just bought someone would have snapped her up had we been any later she we wouldn't have got her was it fate or not .
Dropped Guy of home said he would visit us again really soon decided to go get some stuff for the new cat wen to DOGS4US purchased a cat collar and some Whiskers cat food went over to the Range at Hunslet and bought a enclosed cat litter tray , feeding bowls a brush , play balls and worming and flea solutions .
Received a phone call of Guy he was bored and on his own in the house so we decided to pick him back up and take him for Sunday lunch to the Toby Carvery at Oulton pigged out Guy had gammon with veg and Irish roast beef with veg and two Yorkshire's had deserts treacle sponge for H and warm chocolate fudge cake and a jug of single cream for Guy and myself.dropped Guy of back home my X-Wife had returned with her new partner Graham so at least he wont be on his own .
Went back home Helen's brother John visited , i have never meet him before and its been over a year since Helen had seen him , he stayed around a hour had a tea and Helen gave him a guided tour round the house, After he had left we took Ellie our white Westie dog out for the first time we walked her down to the Canal , she was fine and walked on the lead really good.
MONDAY
Set my Son up an email account with Yahoo so now we can keep in touch via the Internet which i am pleased about , i have already sent him a email and i have had one back from him , I text to his phone his email address and password and he replied using his new email Addy hopefully correspondence will continue at least on a every other day basis if not on a daily basis.
Finished work Helen's phone off again for not paying her O2 phone bill when i got in she was watching the Wizard Of Oz on the pc with Ellie .

Dropped Helen of at the Doctors this morning on my way to work she was given another sick note for another month making three months of work in total she is also going for more blood tests and heart scan.
I received a phone call just before four o clock asking if i would work both the Saturday and Sunday shifts at the hospital i agreed , finished my evening shift and went to pick my son Guy up from my old abode he is staying the night i didn't think he would visit us again i know he has been getting stick from my x about the house the divorce etc etc , Took him to Burger King he ordered had a couple of ham burgers and a coke , Went to Asda bought two fresh chickens and two pork joints and two trays of chicken thighs , some frozen oven chips and some garlic mushrooms for the freezer .
It was late when Helen returned home so we went to pick up a Chinese take away from the North Sea Restaurant Stanningley Road Pudsey for the two of us Guy was not hungry we ordered 1 portion of crispy prawn meat parcels fried rice shredded duck in black bean sauce and a portion of fries.
Helen would like a cat to add to the household we have both had cats previously we will start looking for a cool cat we can buy or adopt.

Started reading the second novel by John Twelve Hawks the "Dark River" the story line follows on from his first book "The Traveller" and is as good.

It's raining again just for a change its now getting depressing , Ellie or Westie can go out next week we would like it to be sunny for a few days in a row so we can get down to the canal.


Not working this Saturday but going in Sunday for double time we might be having my son staying over Friday night its been a while and i know he is getting the brunt of my wife's emotions at this time and its getting him down.

He is only fifteen and she shouldn't be stressing him out with threats of crashing the car and ending it all , at the end of the day she is only worried herself and about having to leave the house AND NOTHING ELSE .At the end of the day its only bricks and mortar and yet she wont consider living anywhere elsewhere. she is also is telling him that they are going to be homeless on the street and will end up living on the wrong side of town.But only if she doesn't get her act together, and get a better paid job and start working more hours , other than the few hours that she works part time each day , she could also sell the car and buy a cheaper second hand run around and have cash in the bank.

Broke the ear piece of my i-pod earphones will have to replace them wont be buying the Apple replacement ones they not worth in my opinion the asking price and i think the quality could be better might by the Ross Gummy gel ones again for £7.99.

Woke up and at least its not raining as of yet , Helen got up too and made me a coffee before i set of for work i loaded the new album by the script last night on my i-pod and listened to it this morning whilst driving to work through my cassette player in the car.

Found out from my son his mother and my soon to be hopefully x-wife , is looking in to selling the house we own to a company that will buy it from and then rent it back to you , they pay between 80% and 85% market value of the house , will wait and see .

Helen did some shopping at Asda and went through the self scanning checkout , only to discover that when she tried to pay her using her debit card that she had insufficient funds to pay the amount requested hehe don't you just hate it when that happens , so went back after i finished work to get the shopping she wanted.

Back at work and its pouring down with rain feels like a Monday but its not , all the roads are really bad and water logged. I left home and Helen in a nice warm bed .... who ever invented the concept of work and a eight hour working day a five day working week and who decided on holiday entitlement and why did we agree.

Will get home tonight around half past eight p.m , i usually leave at seven a.m i work longer hours and i don't mind THAT'S BECAUSE i have a better life than what i had , its better loving and more of it..... i have more laughs hugs and cuddles and i kiss a certain lady endlessly....i email and text Helen more than any other person i know and i have sent her more messages using all the technology available in the last year then i have sent to everyone else i know in the last ten years.

I love this woman and in this my concert of life she is still centre stage and she still rocks my world...... i would be totally gutted and devastated if she ever left me hopefully that wont happen.... what ever happens we fight on together we have made a new life together and it gets better all the time.... no other woman as ever done anything close as to what Helen has done for me..... she has put all her trust and faith in me and she as given to our relationship all she as had to give and more and i will never forget that.
Certain people might think this makes me a bad person that's there f - - king problem not mine.

Saturday
finished work at one picked Helen up from the house then drove over to Meadow Hall Sheffield bought some jeans from River Island , had fish and chips from Harry Ramsden's at the oasis food hall bought some oil for the burner some tin hearts to go on the fire surround.
Sunday
A YEAR A GO TODAY I GOT HELEN'S MOBILE NUMBER and i started contacting her the following Monday and all the rest followed.... Finished work at one o clock again and picked Helen up from home no idea where to go and w eended up some how at a little village called Ripley very quaint from there went to Patley Bridge then decided to go to the White Swan at Aberford had a plate of lamb chops and chocolate fudge cake Helen had apple pie with toffee Cinnamon crumble and custard
Monday
Took Ellie to the vets for her second injection she can go out and about in a weeks time she never flinched . we booked her to get spayed this wont be until 11th November when she is six months old.Went to Tropical world at Roundhay Park hence the picture of a meerkat then to the dentist for an inspection and clean . Parked up in Leeds city centre went in to Primark and bought a white shirt , Helen bought black shirts and black coat and new knickers and bra's , went to the Town Hall to get a copy of Helen's marriage certificate for her divorce after completing a search they don't have it on record , she as to go to the church she got married at and get a copy from there it appears they have not sent them in this was over five years ago.We finally got the ironing done last night , it had been piling up so between we worked until it was finished and everything got ironed Helen taught me how to iron and i am OK at t-shirts and jeans but need more practice

Landrover as been returned to the garage it is losing water and last night the temperature gauge was on red and was slow to drive.i filled it up once the engine had cooled down and in the morning it had dropped below the level i had filled it to anyway no messing they had it in and it was a leaking hose. I had the rest of the day off after i had dropped the car in just after half past nine.
Just chilled out with Helen the rest of the day , the pillows and duvet came from Argos which was just left in the front garden down by the cellar window.
went to my night job which was a pain in the arse and got home just after eight thirty had a full English breakfast for supper.Looked at some more caravans on Ebay.

Ordered a new bed last night online from Argos its a double black cast iron bed frame to go with this we have also ordered a sprung pocket with memory foam topping mattress and four duck eiderdown pillows and a matching duvet quilt.

Helen bought whilst we was in living in the apartment bedding from Laura Ashely which cost well over two hundred pounds including pillow cases duvet cover sheets and throws and other pillows , the new bed will replace the one that we have now and we are using when we rented the house the same when we rented the apartment it will be nice to have a bed and mattress only slept on by us.

Helen sent me a eBay link for a two berth touring caravan starting bid six hundred pounds with a side awning this would be ideal and would be its worth in gold and we would get our moneys worth out of it visiting the great outdoors.

Went to Argos and bought a new parasol to replace the one that snapped during the storms and high wings a few months back hopefully we can still get a BBQ sorted out sometime in the coming few weeks that remain of summer

Yesterday was off work did not feel too good due lack of sleep felt full off tension and a headache i woke up at five in the morning which did not help any , i did not do anything all day i tried to watch a DVD and TV and couldn't do that without falling asleep , Helen cooked us tea and did some ironing mainly my work shirts she is a Angel bless her i love her more and more every day.
Today Helen had her hair recoloured and re styled how you improve on perfection i ask her she thinks i am mad i dropped her of at her mums before i went to work and she was going to the hairdressers from there. i told her to text me a photo of herself when she had finished at the salon.......it makes my day when she sends me photos of her self rather than just a plain text message , mobile phones do have there uses.

Went to see my solicitor regarding the divorce my wife wants to sell it to a firm that buys it of you for 80% - 85% of market value then rents it back to you i have no objection to this as long as i get the full 50% of 100% of the full market value in reality i don't think this is ideal or workable but my wife has 14 days to come up with the goods otherwise a different approach will have to be made.
working tonight until half past eight , i am back cleaning after a weeks break another reason i need money from the sale of the house i am sick of working and we have discussed maybe buying a three berth caravan for weekends and holidays away in Scotland and Somerset especially Cheddar and other coastal towns , we can have it store near the canal at Rodley close by to where we live for a yearly fee of a few pounds.

Saturday
i worked until half two Helen came down to work due to her sickness and to have a review meeting with the line manager Denise , and we left earlier than three 0 clock my finish time.
We went home and decided to chill out at home then go see the new Batman movie "Dark Knight" over at xscape at Castleford , We chilled out a bit too much fun as it was we eneded up running late and didn't get to go to the cinema until the 9.20p.m showing which was a lot later then we wanted to get there for , we enjoyed the film but i thought they had dragged it out a bit , by the time we had got out from the pictures it was well after 12,20am Sunday morning and well after one o clock when we got back in to Leeds we where both starving so we had a take away pizza i had calzone kebab and Helen a chicken calzone of Kirkstall road and it was well after two when we got to go to bed.
Sunday
Went to work didn't sleep in i felt like saying sod it i did get there on time and i finished at three , the day went pretty fast when i got home i just chilled out with Helen i hugged and kissed most of the afternoon and the night she is so kissable and tastes so sweet i just cant resist her , and it helps that i am totally and madly in love with her too.

Everyday Monday to Friday Helen use to come down here from her home on the bus and in to town without fail rain or shine hot or cold waether.

She did this so that she could meet me on the middle of this bridge for my dinner hour from work. She was seldom late and always happy to see me , i use to be giddy all morning knowing i was going to meet my true love , i was buzzing all afternoon because i got to kiss her lips and hold her hand and see her smile , Helen went home to her husband and i went home to my wife ,and i was happy on an night walking my dog with my i-pod on listening to snowpatrol and coldplay knowing that tomorrow i would see her again and that kept me going .

we use to go here to the Aire bar and i would get half a lager and lime and i would have a bottle of Magner's.

We would talk about the future and about us our relationship and about lone day living together and leaving our partners setting up house and living of fish finger butties our love for one another and music , we would sit out on the balcony so Helen could smoke and the hour use to fly bye .

Before we discovered the Aire bar we used to spend dinner times together here in this pub which was just a little bit further to walk and the decor a little bit more dated and it was more out of the way less chance of being spotted .The result was the same we was happy anywhere just to talk kiss and be together.

These early days where great fun i don't think we ever got spotted by anyone we knew , the days now are even better and still exciting and hopefully the days to come will be better still.

I,am more in love now than i was when i first meet Helen six years ago at work i did love her then but it was a forbidden love and i thought it was a no go situation.

I never realised i had a chance..... if i had any idea we could have had six extra years together we would have been in a different situation Helen wouldn't have been married i kissed her at her evening reception it was the only reason i went , and i would have had more financial security but everything for a reason i believe in fate and i believe in love but most of all i believe in HELEN , we are getting there we have a nice home and one day we will have a mortgage to buy our own little palace. Its nearly been one year since i meet Helen outside work and started seeing her this will be our second Christmas in a house instead of the apartment we will have a proper tree and lights and decorations i cant wait it be here sooner then we want it to be hopefully things will have moved on and things Will have been sorted out or near to get sorted out regarding the divorce and the sale of the house a new year will be around the corner and hopefully 2009 will be the start of a new era.

didn't go straight home after work had to kill a couple of hours till six o clock so i went to Castleford i dropped a work mate off home which wasted one hour so i then went to the canal at Rodley i parked up and walked down the canal bank to the railway pub for half a cider , the reason being Helen had her youngest son round at the house and her husband was picking him up so i stayed away a bit like oil and water we don't mix.
when i did go home i showered changed and the went with Helen to the Owl for tea had lasagne and Helen had the scampi called round to visit my nephew mark he was at the kerb saying by to his girlfriend Susan who was driving down to wales to see her parents , made plans to meet up Sunday

Last night we went over to country baskets Helen bought a black wrought iron three sided fire guard to stop Ellie putting her face in the fire , its gas with fake coals at the moment all she is doing is getting her face black because we don't have it fired up but come the colder weather it will be a different story we don't want a hot dog ,Helen also bought some silk roses in cream and pink and some kitchen place mates and some cream and black kitchen earthen wear a spoon rest and gravy bowl to go with the rest of the items we have already own.
Went to Murgatroyds for fish and chips , we was both starving we both had the Billy Murgatroyds special Helen with mushy peas mine with baked beans as always we left full up.
On the way back Helen showed me where she use to live in Farsley behind the CO - OP

Helen cooked lamb chops and mash potatoes and roasted vegetables for tea,we both ended up watching the pirates of the Caribbean, Ended up driving over to Wetherby via Harrogate last night we didn't leave home until 8-30 went to the Black bull pub just had the one pint of cider,was originally thinking of going over to Fewston Reservoir if we had got out earlier in the evening , drove home through Thorner and did some late night shopping at Asda Pudsey branch, bought milk sugar mars bars and cigs.

Another dull rainy cloudy day in July cant believe the weather we are having at the moment hope we do have an Indian summer i prefer if we did every year.

leaving work at four we are going out to a little country pub after tea but not sure where i feel the need to go somewhere green and leafy with water close by might go over to York and hunt a pub out that way.But all depends on the weather and and at what time we eat.
dinner time went to Leeds market for a tray of Donner meat and chips with garlic mayo and red onions from the metro takeaway.
work boring went and did two lines on the lottery fingers crossed waiting for home time so i can be with Helen.

Yesterday went to the open air museum at Beamish which shows what life was like in the 1900 and 1800 in the north of England , we have been meaning to go for ages and never made it . we got there just after eleven in the morning the entrance fee was £16.00 each, which for a full day out is good value,we visited most of the house's that the miners lived in they was given free rent and free coal and a decent wage to live off , but a big minus was that they was no pit baths they had to go home dirty and change their clothes at home as a result the houses where covered in coal dust from shaking out the dust from the miners clothes and boots, the village school and church next door was next on call ,took one of the many trams and we visited the dentist's surgery in the town centre and some of the tools on display they still use to this day , for a tooth filling it was 16 shillings the average weekly wage was 15 shillings or for the tooth pulling it was only 2 shillings plus two and a half shillings if you wanted nitrous oxide , in the solicitors office not a Rolex watch or Porsche in sight , we visited the sweet shop and saw the sweets being made by hand you was given samples to try , and the local co -op was a bargain if only the price's remained the same , the masonic hall was the least interesting place once we had come out of there we headed for the sun inn public house which had sawdust in a channel around the front of the bar which the miners used for clearing their chests and spitting out whatever they brought up out into the sawdust , our drinks we had in plastic beakers so we could take them out and drink them over the road at the park.

Today made appointment for my solicitor to go through the next steps of my divorce which is next Tuesday at twelve o clock.got the cheque for the bond which came in at £389.95 which is £135.05 less than what i original paid but better then the £167.09 they estimated is what i would owe when everything was sorted out.

I have got every night off this week took Ellie the westie to the vets for her first vaccination she never whimpered she was also wormed and weighed we was also told she as a small hernia which will be fixed when she gets spayed.

Last night went to a BBQ at Katie's and Martins over at Crofton with Ste and Faye and decided all to meet up in Whitby so as a result of that today we are going back over to Whitby i have not been to Whitby for years then in the space of weeks go twice,made some egg mayonnaise sandwiches a flask of tea and coffee and Helen also had cooked some chicken legs that morning . Had to park up near the Abbey as the town centre was parked up solid and with queues at all car parks.Visited all the shops again plus some that was shut last time we visited, bought some bits and pieces and ornaments for the house one of the things that Helen bought was an enchanted fairy door , hopefully our life is enchanted any way ( i do believe it is) but we can always do with the help of the little ones if the wish to come and visit us in to our house then they have a means of entrance .Finished in Whitby an drove over to Sandsend a place i never been to not much happening but it was scenic so went on to Robin hoods Bay walked down the hill to the beach it was very misty ideal smuggling weather i guess , the tide was out strolled up to some boats that where resting on the sands until the tide comes back in to re float them ,photographed Helen wading and paddling in the sea with the mist Rollin in they are my favorite photos that i have took over the the last few Weeks .Viewed some very nice cottages to stay in , hopefully we will return and get to stay a long weekend sometime this year and chill out . Finished in Robin hoods bay and drove just over 18 miles to Scarborough for fish and chips, there was a few more people there since our last visit we got our meal on the sea front ate our fish and chips on the benches opposite the harbour , the harbour and docks was also covered in mist and fog like Robin hoods bay we got back home just before midnight.

Received a courtesy phone call from LS1 agents whom i leased the apartment off guess what i will finally be receiving my bond back that i paid in December 2007 repaid to me via cheque which i should be receiving sometime next week in the post fingers crossed its took them long enough to sort it out . Got to go up to my sisters house sometime to drop of some opera in the park tickets for the concert this Saturday night.
The newest dog is answering to Ellie so it might be that's what Helen will decide to call her so doesn't recognise the name molly so we will see,need to sort out her first injection so we can take her down to the canal.

finished work picked Helen up and went over to Crossgates to eat out at Sorrento's an Italian restaurant (really liked the fake plastic fish in the tall fish tank next to our table) all the other diners were gone apart from a family of four which left after fifteen minutes of us getting there , i had a doner meat kebeb pizza with chili i know it is not exactly Italian but its what i like Helen had Tagliatelli carbonara ordered a side order of fries and bread roll .

Had yesterday off from my day job , i had arranged to drop the land rover of at the dealers i bought it from at 11.00am to have the squeaky brakes sorted out and adjusted , hopefully will be all fixed ready for four o clock when i have to go to job 2 at the hospital.

Passed Urban man a local barbers shop that is situated in Farsely just up the road from Rodley and decided to nip on in and get my hair chopped up and re-spiked,resulting in short on the sides and messed up on the top with some gel to fix it all in place and keep it messy cost for the hacking £7.00 with a one pound tip.

TODAY :- this evening i wont be starting my night job at the hospital until around six o clock give or take ......i am going to take Helen over to Crofton for her psychic class its every fortnight and today she is having trouble getting there so i am leaving work and driving home to pick her up her driving her over there then driving back to Leeds so i can start work , i will finish my shift and then go and pick her up at half past ten.

Hopefully i will have next week off i have the time of from my evening job not 100% sure what i am doing about the day job as of yet.

At dinner time paid £140 of my virgin credit card Richard Branson once again will be dining out tonight on the strength of that payment going through have a drink on me , anddont forget to leave a tip at least £140.

bought some new tooth brush heads for my Braun electric toothbrush should last three months and two large tubes of Coldgate and two pearl drops for Helen . had another Ugo chicken panini for dinner didn't taste as good might not bother getting another one .

Took Ellie back to Dogs4us getting a refund and just keeping Molly who is a lot quieter and easier to manage the neighbour's i think was pissed of with hearing her bark and as we at the moment live in rented accommodation we have to be careful

Took Helen over to Crofton at tea time then went back to Leeds to go to my night time job started at six o clock an hour late , had duck green peppers in black bean sauce before i went to pick Helen back up at half past ten.

Helen baked strawberry pies again yum yum did one like a Cornish pastie which i will take to work , she phoned me up totally stressed out that the dogs was not getting on together and where fighting so she had separated them , i phoned dogs4us up and was told them the situation they said that they would take the dog back but that if we would loose £200 from the cost of the purchase price , Helen text me and rang me saying she was worried then asked me to leave work early and

To be honest when i got home and put the dogs together they was getting on fine they was playing and tackling one another and wrestling but where not vicious all in all just being puppies i told Helen that they where only play fighting and they was not hating the sight of each another.

we let them out in the garden and they got on and played together they slept in the dog basket together although molly did get out and slept at the side so we put a blanket down for her next to the basket , they both paper trained and the new dog does not bark she at the moment does not woof which i don't know if its a blessing molly is 17 days older then Ellie the first dog and weighs more than Ellie

It is looking like that they will become the best of Friends when they have settled in together which i reckon will only take a few days at the most.
They did sleep last night together ok until they woke up this morning at half past five Helen bless her did get out of bed to go and feed them then later came back to bed.

Monday morning at 9-30am i went to the building society before i went to work at Hunslet to withdraw the rest off the over draught money out from the joint account, seeing as i can not close the account or freeze it due to the fact it is in joint names the building society wont suspend the account whilst its in the red or put it in to a single name , so i transferred out £1250 and deposited it in to my savings account , seeing that my x wife as already spent £1740 out of the limit of £3000 which i will be responsible for paying half hence the reason behind my actions.
I did telephone my wife after wards to warn her what i had done and to stop any direct debit payments that she as still set up she took it very well and it seems she is acknowledging the fact the divorce and the sale of the house will go through sooner rather than later it is in her own interest to walk away with as much money as she can from the sale of the house.
transferred the mortgage to interest only which as reduced the monthly payments from £600 to £385 but no capital is getting paid of but at least this will stop the house from getting reposed until it is sold .
I also from speaking to her found out she is starting another job next month which is a step in the right direction and might make life easier for her i hope it does.
Picked molly up from Dogs4us today at dinner time today we took her home and Helen is settling her in and introducing her to Ellie our other westie the first signs are promising and they look like they should get on with each other they are both female , i did take a few pictures before i had to return back to work.

WEEKEND
Saturday worked until three o clock Helen another four weeks on sick uneventful nothing major happened wife into the over draught so i have decided to take action and draw the rest out and bank it to stop her fritting it away and me getting lumbered for half the amount.cant do this until Monday morning i don't know how much she is into it but we have a £3000 over draught that we could use when we cashed the endowment in it was paid of the account was not closed because she had direct debits to sort out she asked for a few weeks to makes changes and i agreed time went by and i forgot all about it until now.
SUNDAY
Went to work afterwards at three o clock went to visit the pup Molly at Dogs4us after i had
picked Helen up from home when we go there Molly was one her own the rest of the litter had all been sold off.
Helen's mother and father called i went with her father and took some photos up the road near to where we live of a tree growing from the pavement , the roots had lifted all of the tarmac which she had fallen over a few months earlier and broke her wrist and foot in the fall that occurred the photos was to send to her solicitors regarding a claim for compensation.
once they had left had Sunday dinner roast chicken and roasted vegetables with Yorkshire puddings and stuffing.
Later that evening went over to Crofton to visit Martin and Katie had a look round there caravan which was clean and cosy we also trimmed the fur on there loin head rabbit.

Alarm went of at half past six as normal for a week day , i got up washed shaved and brushed my teeth , then went back to the bedroom reset the alarm on my mobile for eight o clock and got back into bed , i snuggled up to Helen and went back to sleep could have stayed there until dinner time no problem and fcuk work altogether.

I got into work at eight forty went to Tesco Express which is just around the corner from the office i work in , did two lines on the National lottery for this Saturday's draw and bought a four pack of current t-cakes to toast for breakfast ,When got to my desk checked my Private emails that was after after i had made a coffee and toasted a current t-cake which i had with marmalade on , i sat at my PC and read a few other peoples blogs that i regular read on a day to day basis and chilled because:- Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right.. Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it. (this was extracted from a email Helen had forwarded on to me........and are not my own words but i do agree with what it says) .

I went home at dinner time to visit Helen had been to the vets with Ellie and she had been given a injection of antibiotics and some tablets and should have no lasting effects and be a.o.k ,whilst Helen was there she looked at another set of westies pups and wants more then anything to get a play mate for Ellie i went in my lunch to go view the dogs , obviously we are picking the new pup up next Friday she is eight weeks old and will be called at this early stage Molly but as we know that could change Helen paid the fifty pound deposit which holds the dog a week for us they marked its belly with a x in permanent marker pen to signify its been sold they are already micro chipped and we have the chips number so we know when we go back to collect her that we know we have the right dog.

There is no more Ugo's at Tesco express at the moment every one in the office is eating them well a few of us have been indulging in them resulting in they have all been sold out supply and demand bet when they a restocked they are no longer on offer.

Paid two months council tax £199 and paid £35 towards gas and electric the rent £665 comes out tomorrow will pay my O2 monthly mobile bill tomorrow as well which is £47 spent £110 at Asda on groceries i got paid yesterday its a good job i have another wage from my second job on the 25th i need to make sure that the first months car payment is covered.

Tuesday,Wednesday and today been having ugo's deli cafe panini chargrilled chicken with mozzarella cheese and pesto sauce on offer at the moment £1.79p for my dinner.


Ellie is still passing small amount of blood in her poo she as started to winch slightly when she goes to the toilet we have an appointment to take her back to the vets at dogs4us tomorrow at 11.15am , to get her fully checked out and hopefully to discover what the problem is and what course of treatment will follow.
Finished work after doing another training course last nights course being cancelled because due someone having it away with the laptop that was being used for the power point presentation.

Helen cooked a gorgeous beef bourguignon with dumplings and Yorkshire puddings and bubble and squeak had it with a bottle of pear cider.
booked Ellie in at the vets tomorrow at 11.15am to get her fully checked out and to make sure is in good health , she as her first injection this coming Monday then two weeks later her final one then a week after that she can go walking outside down to the canal and out and about.

Helen went to her G.P's yesterday and got another sick note off him for another four weeks , her back is playing up she as a slipped disc and suffers from sciatica also.This means that Ellie our westie pup wont be left on her own on the weekend's for at least another four weeks which gives her more time to settle in and adapt to living with us.


This morning at seven o clock she was being bathed in the kitchen sink by Helen she had used her training mat through out the night and had manage to stand in it there was no blood present which was a good sign , whilst i cleared the mess up in the conservatory Helen bathed Ellie. We have special shampoo for white dogs and when you use it the dog goes blue until you rinse it off which i am going have to get a photo off.

I have been signing a few petitions via the Internet that are forward to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street the one's i have put my name to are :- regarding guns and knives , vat on vet bills , bringing back the death penalty and to reduce the price of petrol and fuel. to view all current petitions and to sign your name to the ones you have sympathy or agree with then visit this link there is hundreds to choose from and some are quite amusing http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/list.

Looks like the westie is going to be called Ellie and not Megan i do prefer Ellie for obvious reasons.

Last night was on refresher training doing food hygiene which took a hour and a quarter to complete especially when it was on the other side of the hospital i have other training every night this week apart from tonight so this week working my night shift should fly by .

Helen goes back to her Doctors tonight i think she will be given another sick note which will help her get the puppy better settled in if she does not have to work weekends for a few more weeks.


At lunch time went with a work mate and i did a quick visit to the Royal Armouries and the recently opened exhibition for summer if we ever get one "Arms & Armour From The Movies" these artifacts are being displayed until the 16th November and and entrance is free and covers films such as The Lord of the Rings and Narnia are all weapons and costumes are made by Weta workshops which are in New Zealand http://www.wetaworkshop.co.nz/.
Been nearly falling asleep all day its so boring i have decided i want to do a job that i am going to enjoy going to every day that i don't dread getting up for that is differnet does not involve sitting in a office every day , will wait and see what happens regarding my divorce and see what money i walk away with then decide on who with what and where i want to work.

The westie Megan is doing OK today her poo is looking a lot better and the blood is clearing up Helen got up with me this morning and was back cooking scrambled eggs for dogs once again , Helen text me whilst i was at work to say that we had mice , so i text her back to say no way that we was going to get a cat.
I then called her to ask where she had seen them Helen is not that keen on the little four legged squeaking critters , she told me she had witnessed them outside in the garden between the flowers beds and bushes , bless her no doubt they are attracted by the rabbits food which she as kicked out of her cage on to the floor below.
Got a very nasty text then a phone call of my daughter which to be honest disgusted me and was uncalled for i doubt if she will be contacting me again for a while or if ever , hopefully when she as time to ponder on her actions words and phrases she will regret her use of words but i doubt that wont be for a very long time if ever.
Breaks are badly squeaking on the landrover and its very noisy and annoying been told it maybe a bit of rust or damp on around the pads seeing it has been stood on a forecourt and washed three times a week this may rectify its self and i have been told by the garage to give it a week to wear them back in and if it persists after that they will have it back in to sort it out.

MY WEEKEND :- This weekend worked until three o clock both on the Saturday and on the Sunday as hard as it was.

Helen was extremely upset over Penny leaving us , we ONLY get rid of her because she was hard work training her and her temperament , not because we didn't want dog , she originally did from the start want a westie but opted for the jack Russell i think mainly because i had one when i lived with my wife which stayed in the family home when i moved out.
So after work on Saturday i picked Helen up from home she was extremely giddy and excited , Helen and i went to the newly opened Dogs4us which had only been trading for that week , and sells everything dog related including different breeds of puppy's which are already micro chipped and vaccinated for worms and fleas they had two litters of westies and a total of only two bitches in the seven dogs they had which was one in each litter , Her name is going to be a choice between Ellie and Megan which means pearl at the moment it looks like Megan is favorite .I have got to admit i would miss having a dog about the place if we never had one again and i do think life is boring without one.
By Saturday night she seem to have settled in was eating her dinner and checking out her new surroundings.
She already goes on her training pads when she needs to go to the toilet and she sleeps through the night undisturbed .
She as been passing a small amount of blood over the weekend when she goes to the toilet this we have been told could be due to her getting rid of worms and should clear up.
SUNDAY

Sunday went over to Crofton and then on to Flockton had a Curried Duck and duck in plum sauce rice and chips for supper from a local Chinese take away in Horbury , we left the westie on her own when we got back she had been good and gone on her training pad every time she needed to go , cooked her some boiled rice and added bran to sort her bowel out .

Last night I finished work at six o clock then i picked Helen up from our house at Rodley and drove her over to her brothers house at Crofton where she gets picked up from for her psychic development class.While she was there i went to to a local Chinese take away and got curried duck and chips which i ate in the car and got on my nice clean white t-shirt which i reversed once i had finished.

drove over to Pugneys country park mainly because i have never been before had a brief walk round looked like it was about to rain again so much for summer so i drove over to Asda bought tow bunches of flowers and two bottles of green goblin cider and a bar chocolate after my brief shopping trip i visited two pubs the Three Houses and the New Inn I had half a cider in each.
after ten picked Helen up and called in to Asda again this time for bread ,bacon ,eggs and other bread rolls and bread cakes and bits we needed this was well after half past eleven,no rest for the wicked.

Today PENNY left us and our home we are one less , we was both very emotional and upset Helen was in tears by the time we got to the dogs home where we was dropping penny off , she is in our thoughts and prays that she does gets a nice new family who will look after her and treat her well.

Picked the Landrover Freelander up this afternoon drives ok and its bigger than it appears but drives really well its the first diesel car i have owned plus its the first black car i have had , and guess what came with hardly any juice in its tank , so i first went to the garage and filled it up with unleaded o/j i did put diesel in to the tank but will have to remember for a while that it is not unleaded , i only just put twenty pound in to gauge how long it will last hopefully longer than fuel did in the Laguna .

Got Penny in at the Dog Trust to get her re housed and a new home . Helen and myself just haven't got the time to train her and give her the attention she needs she is a difficult dog and me working the hours that i do a lot of it is left to Helen to train her clean up after her.

Helen when at home as to have her with her all day with her and her ankles are constantly attacked and bitten although its done in a playful manner and she is not aggressive but having a dog attached to your leg all day is not funny and it does wear you down.
Another factor the Landlord only agreed to us having a dog if it was properly house trained this is proving difficult and we have been getting no where quick we have had training pads down and she is allowed in the garden it is totally enclosed and safe but she destroys all the flowers and plants , we will go out for walks yet she will come back and do her wee pooh as soon as she returns home she knows she is doing wrong yet continues to do so , the laminate floor is all lifting in the conservatory and will have no doubt soaked through to the felt underlay and we feel that before we got evicted we would get her in with another family through a organisation dealing in unwanted animals cats and dogs .

we both discussed this and has hard as it was to decide we feel the choice really was made for us and we will both miss her and be sad to let her go we both hope and pray she goes to a good home and will have a happy long life .

Helen went to Toy's r us and came home with a packet of Farley's rusks they are her favorite biscuits and the best way to eat them is to butter the flat side and eat had one and to be honest they are not that bad.

Helen went also to Ikea bought some more plates dishes and a new rug for the living room and two chocolate doughnuts one each.

woke up before the alarm went of at half past six reset it for half five past eight decided to go to work late cuddled up to Helen be so easy to phone in sick and say stuff it but i didn't but when you think how short life is why do we spend the time we do at work would having less make us more contented happy and gives us more time to see and taste life before it passes us by if only.

Helen sent us a photo message at 10.30 this morning that she took of herself she had just finished washing her hair she had a towel wrapped around her head and she was wearing a white v necked t-shirt that will make me smile the rest of the day and keep me going until i see her again tonight.

Got this Friday off going to collect the Landrover Freelander from the garage so at least i wont be working all of the week and will spend some of the day with Helen although i will still be going to my night job.

At dinner time went over to Costco its a while since i have been i had lunch a jacket potato chili and cheese and a coke i went there to give a mate a hand with a plastic shed he was buying and dropping of at his home address , whilst i was doing this i had a phone call from my daughter she asked if it would be OK to visit us at our house this weekend after i finish working Sunday.
Which means in a nut shell that if i pick her up she will see the new motor and report the fact back to the x -wife , i can see it causing her to be totally pissed off jealous and hate me even more , even though she had a brand new motor the little C2 which she kept for herself when i left , the fact is i do need a reliable car but i bet she don't see it that way ................so what i really don't care it might send her a message that i am rebuilding my life and i will get my share of the house some time in the future .

She is in the dog house our dog Penny the Jack Russell is being a pain in the backside she keeps biting Helen's ankles jumping up at her and pissing and shitting where she likes which is every where apart from outside.
We do live in rented accommodation although we have the whole of the house and its clean top to bottom the last thing we need is being evicted because the house reeks from the smell of dog wee and poo and if things don't improve quickly Penny might have to be up for eviction adoption or re housed asp.

Got a phone call from my Daughter today she as not spoken to me or contacted me for a few weeks since i let my X Wife know that i wanted to sell the house. she is being interviewed by radio5 live regarding her name she was christened Tuesday which was the name that i decided on and its all to do with Nicole Kiddman calling her Daughter Sunday.

Helen cooked two banana cake if there is anything i like as much as strawberry pie its banana cake and i have to say without creeping or grovelling Helen's has to be one of the moistest tastiest one ever that i have eaten trouble is its too nice she has open Pandora's box she will have to bake at least once a week if we could cook enough to sell we both could pack working in and sell made in Yorkshire banana cake throughout the world its that good.

Cancelled two direct debits one for o2 the take different amounts every time so i will pay it over the Internet a couple of times i have been charged bank charges because i have gone over my agreed overdraught and my car insurance which i have cancelled due to changing motors this Friday.

Saturday and Sunday worked until one o clock which after having the full week of i thought i did well to go in at all.

Saturday tea Helen made home made fish and chips which i have to say is better than most fish and chip shops.

Toilet blocked solid took half a bin liner of waste out from the drain and the toilet water level still had not dropped had to cal out a drain company to jet it all out £105 for half an hours work even he had trouble clearing it and had one point thought he was not going to be able to , true what they say about where there is muck there is money.

went over to visit Katie and Martin over at Crofton did Angel cards and tarot card readings.

Back to work today going to my night job but i will try to finish early tonight , Helen and i are going to meet my elder sister and the rest of the family and friends for her birthday celebration we are all meeting up near to our house at the pub at the bottom of our street no taxi fares for us then no risk of drink and driving either for food and drinks.Had home made steak pie Helen had the scampi had a couple of drinks we where the last ones there i manage to leave work early i started and hour earlier than normal so i could get all my work done on time and make the party at a reasonable time.Once again i forgot to take my camera but most people where snapping away so will get some photos at some time.

Went out today to Farsley near Rodley to go to the Chemist to get a prescription with Helen she bought her tablets and on the way back i bought this Land rover Free lander its 2litre BMW diesel engine which i was not aware of and its in in metallic black i have always wanted a black car it has only 32,000 miles on the clock and a full 12months M.O.T and 12 months road tax and i have to say it looks totally wicked for £5995 which is a good price for this model of car in this condition the picture makes the bodywork look scratched it is not its in mint condition inside and out including tyres.
I prefer this car and will get a greater buzz owning it then when i got the Citroen C2 and that was a brand new car with delivery miles only on the clock this car looks and feels right.Although i wish it had a CD it has a cassette deck which will hook my i-pod up to and use this method instead of playing cd discs and having Cd's scattered everywhere.

I was happy when i got the Laguna thank you Mick it has got us out and about to places we couldn't have got to and its been a godsend but its M.O.T is due this month , i do think it would pass maybe one tyre is questionable and the breaks are squeaking sometimes and it does keep cutting out when setting off when the engine is cold and has been stood for a while , to fix this i have been told it needs putting on the computer at Renault to set the engine management system up correctly which would cost x amount of money.

The average mpg for the free lander is 35 miles a gallon which should be cheaper on fuel than the Laguna which will help finance it partly i have other savings i am making so it should more or less be self funding .
I pick it up next Friday and i have already insured fully comp the documents should reach me in time they are faxing copies to the garage i have bought the car from just in case , the insurance which is costing not that much more money than what the Laguna cost me for third party fire and theft.
Went on walk about with Penny she still not 100% behaved when on put a lead until she gets tired then walks as she should do she attacks her lead and is sometimes afraid and cowers when strangers approach her direction.

Went to Second Hand Rose at Scarthingwell bought a few bits and pieces for the house.Bought a tea light ring to go around the patio umbrella which needs fixing as it broke during some high winds the other week bought a metal watering can and a metal matching urn a metal and pot cat and dog .

Then went over to Harewood house didn't have time to do everything went round the kitchen and servants quarters and princess Marys rooms we did manage to go over too the bird garden and did see the penguins bought some bird food and feed the ducks and other small birds that where strolling around,had tea at the courtyard ham sandwiches scone and carrot cake all home made at Harewood the only thing we hated was that the main house shut its doors at half past four which is way too early it would be nice to view the house at night we did see the gardens to the rear and we did not get there until mid afternoon we will have to go back and spend a day there also i didn't have my camera just mobile phone so going back is a must some time soon.
Called in to country baskets Helen bought a stone bird bath some imitation ivy for the rack in the kitchen

Slept in until ten thirty got up showered and made some more egg mayo sandwiches and re did the flasks today we decided to return to knaresbourough.Went to the market there Helen bought some plants for the garden as shown in the photo.and a enamel jug and matching bucket to plant the new plants and shrubs in to .
bought a couple of candle wall scones which we saw last time we visited.and a tin oldsmobile car.

We walked down to the river to where the rowing boats are for hire to have our picnic of egg mayo sarnies again ,didn't hire a boat i cant row that well , so we went back to the town centre called into another couple of shops did the lottery fingers crossed and headed home.

Got up at half past eight Helen went to the hair dressers for her hair re-colouring blonde again she has this done every five to six weeks .i picked her up from the hairdressers at 12.15pm.

We went home and made some egg mayonnaise and ham and egg mayonnaise sandwiches i did a flask of tea for Helen ans a flask of coffee for me and set of for Whitby at around two o clock.
got there parked up went round the shops bought some fudge went down the Pier to eat our sandwiches even feed the seagulls which seem to appreciate Hovis wholemeal bread.

I went for a reading by Lee Ester Alita Lee Clairvoyant and spiritualist a true born Romany at fifteen pound a time told me my future easily parted with money run true hehe and that i would be changing my car very soon , time will tell how exact she is some of the things she was spot on and was quite 100% exact on one or two points which was quite surprising so maybe just maybe i made a wish before she started holding her crystal ball hopefully that one wish does come true and if it does i would be blessed the rest of my life and ask for nothing else and it had nothing to do with wealth , wining the lottery or or anything material at all.

walked up the steps to the Abbey can see all of Whitby from the top of the stairs took plenty of photos and we walked through the grave yard to the walled Abbey we couldn't venture in but as we walked round we mange to see all of the Abbey more or less and all of Whitby as well.

We had to get fish and chips even though we already eaten we didn't have any the other day when we went to Bridlington. so we went to the one and only place you should have fish and chips in Whitby the Magpie fish restaurant we had to queue for about twenty minutes it was just before half eight once we got seated looked at the photos on the wall's taken by Frank Meadow Suttcliffe.
Both of us had haddock and chips with b&b mine i had with baked beans and Helen's with mushy peas plus one coffee and one tea .

Left the house at just after eleven not really sure where we are going got on to the A64 which gives us a few options decided to go to Bridlington which i have not been to for years bought a Ted Smith top we walked on the beach front the tide was in had a ice cream it was fairly sunny and hot we went in to a few shops and decided not to have any fish and chips we want them when we go to Whitby .
got bored of Brid so decided to back track over to York used the park and ride at the designer outlet and a bus was waiting to take us in to the city centre last bus back was 7.79pm which i thought was too early meaning we only had three hours to spend which is not enough every time.
We have been to york on a few occasions in the last few months and they have always been queuing out of the doors
this time there was free tables .
so we called in for afternoon tea i had a free range chicken breast open sandwich with red caramelised onion's and raclette melted cheese on a toasted ciabatta bread the coffee was nearly a fiver a cup i have never paid five pounds for a coffee before i was intrigued to see how good it would taste so thought i would try a st Helena island coffee which once i had tasted could drink it all the time the beans are grown on a remote South Atlantic island apparently , then for desert be criminal not to i tried the elderflower cake with fresh strawberries and clotted cream Helen had egg mayonnaise sandwich with tea followed by pancakes with meringue with fresh lemon sauce and organic ice cream with summer berries.whilst we was eating a pianist played a upright piano no mobile phones allowed no piped music all fresh ingredients cooked to order and i suppose that is why they charged the prices they do and why its almost always full with queues going out of the door

we walked through the museum gardens near down near by the river caught the last bus back to the park and ride the car parks are all locked down by barriers so we dare not get a taxi late back because we wouldn't of got the car out , on the way back to Leeds went to Acaster Malbis to the Ship Inn had a pint of cider then we drove round to the caravan sites and static homes just to be nosey .
stopped of at Asda bought some thermos flasks to take with us when we are out and about.
Helen tired to colour her own hair which didn't work this was after midnight two o clock we went to bed another late night.