BEEN THERE GOT THE T-SHIRT

TFIF
I washed the car I hosed it down and washed it with Turtle Wax car shampoo i did not wax it , it is a black car and looks good when it is dirt free specially at night .

I took Pip out yesterday and George our ginger tom cat followed us  he has done this before no big deal , and he knows his way home.This was in the morning around ten o clock it was hot and sunny  , Helen went looking for him at around 21.00 hrs he been out all day no food no water .

He was in a field of rap seed oil plants and was  stood  there crying for some reason not moving he had been there all day , what was going through his head and why he was transfixed there I have no idea why , the farmer had his combine harvester ready to cultivate the field the following day he would have been cat mince .I think George is now down to seven lives .

SATURDAY
Went food shopping bought really nice beef burgers and Mexican chili jalapeno cheese slices to go on top also bought stir fry veg and fresh egg noodles and some quality chicken breast.

SUNDAY
Washed all the windows in the van also washed some of the van or parts of it then i had a shower ,
Drove over to my Daughters house she was colouring Helen's  hair. She was also cooking us Sunday dinner we had roast pork and roast potatoes we also had apple crumble and ice cream delicious.
I think it is the first time we have had Sunday dinner cooked for us other than dining out at a pub or restaurant .

I learned my son has lost his driving  license through drink and driving , his insurance is going to triple when he gets his license back in twelve months has he is still not talking to me i can only guess he is gutted living where he does it  is going to make life very difficult but at the end of the day the law is the law he broke it now he pays the price , I know how bad it feels I have been there done that and got the t-shirt  , I learned from my errors hopefully he will too.

He also has solicitors fees of £900 he was told they could get him off so it was a very expensive night out plus he will have a fine to pay and court costs.

WATCHING - Mr Robot season two.

LISTENING TO - U2

NO CONTRACT ON ME

I phoned my mobile provider Three and cancelled my phone contract which means no upgrade no new phone .
I have switched to a sim only plan which has dropped the cost from £48 a month to only £9 a month and is set for one year  rather than two years .

I have been looking at various phones Leagoo Shark , Cubot and Oppo so far i am favouring the Leagoo Shark with a 6300 mah battery at a cost of around £155 .The Cubot is cheaper and the Oppo 3 about twice the cost of the Shark ,  at the end of the day it is a phone and of course i know own the iPhone 5s i am currently using .

I got sick of being brained washed that you must have the latest phone , this generation , this years model or this years newest  release. I now feel that  it is all hyped advertisements making you feel you are lacking in social status because the phone you are using god forbid is two years old.

If get a Android phone i might look at getting a new Android tablet s well i thought the Google Nexus tablet was a great machine as good as any other model out there for about half the cost of a Apple .

BARBEQUE 2

As far as i can tell my assessment for my blue badge went alright it will be a fortnight before I know if my application has been approved or declined .

Started watching Game of Thrones once again I started on series three so far its been very good seen four episodes it does seem to get better and better , although it is gory and violent the storyline is gripping .

SATURDAY
It is the end of my week off work back to the grind Monday cant be arsed with it , Helen's brother goes back under the surgeons knife his kidney transplant is not working fluid is building up in his body and he is retaining water his arms legs etc have swollen to twice their normal size on of his main senior surgeons is all for operating the other senior surgeon apparently not .

SUNDAY
Went over to my nephews house in Bramley Leeds it was his mother's , my sister birthday mid week so it was decided to have a barbecue this Sunday.
The food was great really nice chicken ,  burgers ,  sausages , and kebabs with chocolate cake and strawberry gateau for desert .
We had the tv on to see Andy Murray win Wimbledon for the second time in his career which was good .
The weather was sunny then cloudy then sunny with intermittent showers of rain but we still had a laugh and a good time .Second barbecue of the year .

HAYFEVER WOES

SATURDAY - Off for a whole nine days and i am going to love every one because i rather be at home than at work .Even if the weather today is no better in fact it is mid morning and it is raining again.

Thankfully in the end we did get quite a bit of sun , went looking at tv's amazing picture quality still think Samsung are great tv's also looked at laptops , dab radio's and coffee machines nearly bought another Amazon fire stick for the bedroom but left it . Went to the Whereby Whaler restaurant for fish and chips we are getting quite regulars .

SUNDAY
My hay fever is back with a vengeance I have not had it as bad as this in a few years my eyes steaming , nose running ,  head thumping and to top it of no Priton tablets. I  drove myself  over to the supermarket the winding roads with major bends is no fun when every sneeze causes a major concern luckily I made it ok and bought the tablets .I really use to hate summer from April to end of August i use to get the dreaded hay fever I use to suffer immensely.

MONDAY
Hay fever just has bad I guess it will be a good twenty fours hours before the tablets I  am taking kick in .

TUESDAY
Hay fever is ok everything seems to be fine no more symptoms
Charlie our friend from Holmfirth called over to drop his girlfriend Katie of for a reading whilst we went to the pub for a couple of ciders.

WEDNESDAY
Power washed all the concrete paths around the van the van is forty foot long and ten foot wide we have quite a lot of the hard stuff to wash down using a nose that gives one  inch width of jet can take a while , I was absolutely soaked my feet and trousers from the knee down was wringing wet  I need it to dry so i can then go over it with the hose and yard brush to get rid of all the debris , that's a job for tomorrow . After I have been for my assessment for my blue badge parking permit fingers crossed if I am eligible then  no more parking woes at work ever again

THINGS GOING ON

Received my Tombow Air press pens I ordered two in the matt black finish  I  have also ordered another one in a clear plastic finish , they are for the price,  quite cool pens which  will write upside down should you need to and will also write on wet paper .

The weather is still totally rubbish it is still very grey , very dull , cloudy but worst of all wet and it is not looking to improve any , the cats and the dog is getting feed up with the weather also .

I have two meetings today at work with HR ( I don't like HR people one little bit ) and works senior management   which i can tolerate quite good ) about two different people one is a person working nights and allegedly he is sleeping whilst he is supposed to be working ,  it is also alleged that he is working two jobs both of which are full time  , how he is awake and functioning i have no idea which makes me doubt that this statement is not true .

The other is about a female worker we feels she is being victimized and bullied by her line manager when she came to our office she was distressed that  much historical and crying . I reckon  that if she had been on a tower block or bridge the chances are she would have jumped I have never seen anyone she distressed and freaked out about being at work

Well three days to work then nine days off annual leave one of the things i would like to do is visit Yorkshire Sculpture Park of course depending on the weather and hopefully go to one of the farm ice cream shops for freshly made ice cream , i am easily pleased .

Helen cashed in a whopping £25 for getting three correct numbers on the Lottery it has been a while since we won a bean  .

Had my haircut at the little green shack again which is called Terry's  , it is near Holmfirth I have been again for the second time only .Don't let appearances decide you he  does a very good cut , He has been located there for years I like to feel i am supporting local business and he must have done hundreds of cuts . And as you can see from the photo  it is literally just a wooden shed or shack  with a waiting area at the back and side and one seat and  basin at the front where you are seated for your hair cutting , which i guess it is all he needs .

MONDAY AGONY

People are pissed about the Eu referendum all i know is this ,  if things stay the same then nothing will ever change ,and nothing new will ever happen what is now will always be and where is the fun in that.

 .Fuck sake we had a vote and we voted the vote to leave was bigger ,  christ grow some balls and act like leaders instead of headless chickens do the job you are being paid and have been elected to do.

 And to all those who now are bitching and crying but who never got of their fat and skinny lazy arses to go to the polling stations to place a little X in a box , wind your necks in and shut your mouths and  cease your bitching , and yes i voted to leave .

Latest purchase of Ebay are two Tombow Air press pens in Matt black finish i first saw the pens on http://everydaycarry.com/articles/pens  web page .

Rest of the week to work then I have a great nine days off annual leave hope the weather improves .

MONDAY
Took today off from work as annual leave totally unplanned  I phoned in this morning as Helen's back is giving her grief and she could end up in serious pain so we are off to see the physiotherapist hopefully if she can get dressed and get in to the car we will get some advise as to what to do .
A few exercises to do and a bottle of pain killers hopefully problem solved . Don't know if it is a plus or not but i will be home to see the England game with Iceland we are already out of Europe hehe.

EXPOSED

Off to vote this morning before i go to work , right or wrong time will tell if i made the right choice to stay in the EU or to leave the EU.

I saw a Manny a old friend that i did my joinery apprenticeship with  , we started  on the same day and we went through three years of college together  . We used to meet up four nights a week and Saturday dinner time .We were very  good friends .I  have not seen him for years decades in-fact  yet we recognised each other straight away he was coming out of the lift in the hospital i work at he  had to have two metal rods in his back part from walking with a stick he looked well .

SATURDAY
Think the rest of Europe is a little  pissed of with Great Britain oops .

Bought another four solar powered light bulbs for the decking from the garden centre at Dobcross .
Went to the Wetherby Whaler at Wakefield for tea as always the food was good the fish spot on .

SUNDAY
Went back to the little country lane that we use to live on at Holmfirth ,We called  to visit Samantha as it is her birthday tomorrow , we also saw our next door neigh bough Roger how we much Toad Hole cottage.
The cottages have been sold the land at the back of them so they can dig out the banking to open up the back wall put doors and windows in and create a garden they got the land for £1 yet it cost them £750 in solicitors fees to complete the sale and do the deeds .
Some of the exposed stone work will have not been seen since the 1800's .To get to ground level another ten foot of dirt needs to be removed the owner of this cottage plans to put a door in the back wall and create a garden ,

Bought a welded  metal chicken for the garden and a wood rolled top bread bin for the kitchen with a built in bread board  , We also went to the farm shop and bought some food goodies like Cornish pasties Yorkshire puddings, steak pie , bacon and  made there very tasty home made gravy .



Watching - "I am Wrath" and "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot ".

ENGAGED

Fuck it's Monday already , why do weekends go too fast why is the weather so rubbish where is summer because it's not here yet.

My daughter is on holiday in Portugal and her boyfriend has proposed so now they are officially engaged of course i wish them all the joy and happiness and luck in the world i truly hope they have a long happy marriage .

My son never got in touch with me its been at least six months that i have not heard from him. He is being a idiot and there is little i can do about it until he see's sense and answers his phone , there is little point in me trying to call him , but life goes on i am not one to dwell on negative energy  for now it is what it is .

Loaded Kodi on to a frejds fire stick it was a different way i did it iw having trouble with the Es file explorer i used this method  https://seo-michael.co.uk/tutorial-how-to-install-kodi-on-a-firestick/ and it worked just fine .

England 0 Slovakia 0 if we cant beat these . Then  the England football team might as well pack their suit cases and get the next flight back home .

Listening to RHCP new album "The Getaway". Great album art work great music

Watching "Gods Of Egypt "

IN THE CAN

SATURDAY

The street had a barbecue we all went to our friends Jacquie's plot we all took food and drink ,
We made up a load of  kebabs with orange red and green peppers , onions and mushrooms some where with chicken and the others we skewered lambs kidney and bacon .
It was cold as the night drew on but we had no rain which was good i guess there was  around sixteen of us in one garden which was quite good fun we might have one ourselves hopefully the weather will be a hotter , i need to build one.

SUNDAY
Put up the two fathers day cards i received both from my daughter she also sent me one from  my Grandson Jenson .
Made a lamb shepherds pie with cheesy potatoes on top for lunch , another weekend gone .

The photo is Pip on her morning walk the poppies are so more plentiful than last year on the 18th of July we will have been living here for a year a full twelve months in the can amazing got to admit i love every day i am so glad i bought us this wonderful place to live.

MADE OF STONE

Helen bought a two half barrels and water pump feature for the garden we can hear it's  running water from the bedroom and it is electrical powered instead of solar which considering  the amount of sun we are getting at the moment  is not a bad thing .


Bought 30 inch high semi naked lady stone ornament statue for the garden we are putting yogurt on to it and rubbing moss soil on to it to encourage the moss to grow it looks too new as it is.

England's opening game to Russia we should have won it same old England why Rooney is still playing amazes me never rated him think he is well over paid we don't need him get rid .We don't need the hooligans either get rid .

SUNDAY
All it did most of the day was rain not a flaming June we went out for some food and that was about it weekend over .



Listening to  - Albums by - Rosette , The Cat fish And The Bottlemen and The Lumineers .

2 BEE OR NOT TO BEE

MONDAY
Today is hot  I have finished creosoting the backs off the gates , and it is getting that I don't want to go to work  this afternoon a major issue with starting work  late in the afternoon specially when it's a red hot day your more than likely to find an excuse  not to go the  trouble is like most of us who work is I need to keep my job .

Our static van gets warm sitting out in the garden is not hot it is just right we also get a breeze it is an ideal spot for listening to music eating reading and drink ice cold cider oh how i wish i had a few days or weeks even months off work .

Helen got a letter in a brown envelope from the tax office Hrmc who are wanting her to pay a £100 fine for her late tax return which she did online the  beauty is that so does not earn enough money to pay income tax .vampires once they feed they feed constantly .

TUESDAY
Bought some fried chicken pieces for my tea and some piri piri chicken sandwich spread for sandwiches .
Still hot but rain treating an appearance later on .

WEDNESDAY
Helen did her online assessment for her tax she will have to pay the fine before the 31st of June .

Helen put out a saucer of water and sugar for a bee that was sparked out the idea being it is like an energy drink for them they take their fill get a boost a sugar rush i guess and fly away , Helen put that much sugar the bee I think got stuck in the mound of sugary mass unable to pick up its little legs  its wings sort of welded and stuck together via the sugar like glue.

  I was not sure if it died via the red hot sun baked where it was trapped or it used all its energy trying to escape its sugary grave  and in the end  gave up the fight. Needless to say it was dead . Not wanting the cats to eat it , too much sugar will root their teeth .

I picked up the little unbuzzing stone dead bee and throw it amongst the flowers as a final resting place . I left the saucer minus the bee out on the table on the decking  , got in to the car and left .
Helen went out after I had left for work and sent me a  text message  to say that "i have revived that bee forgot to tell you before you went to work gave it that energy drink sugar n water and it;s flown off". I did not have the heart to text her back and  tell her the truth perhaps tomorrow .

FENCING IN THE SUN

R.i.p Muhammed Ali what another great loss he had to be the most charismatic sporting great of all time a true inspiration to all.

We need to get some railway size timber so i can make a planter for the front of the van i think this is going to be my next project . I reckon i need around 12 pieces of timber obviously the thicker and longer the timber the more the cost I reckon we are looking at £12 to £15 per each  length .

My two year phone contract ends next month i am switching to sim only which will save me around £40 a month which means I will have to buy a new phone should i need one I reckon there is plenty of second hand phones for a third of the price.

Bought a remote light bulb that gives you the option of changing colour from red , blue green etc plugged it in did not work its going back tomorrow cost us £15.We also bought two solar powered light bulbs which just clip on to the bush they are brilliant and they only cost £6.00 for two .

Panelled in the three gates Pip will have to do her squirrel watch from the decking , we creosoted what we could in the time we had been to visit all three grandsons all born within 14 months .
Summer hopefully is finally here it has been warm and very sunny most of the day fingers crossed more is to come.


Watching - Kangaroo Dundee

PRIMED

MONDAY
Amazon prime has taken one payment out of my bank for £79 and another one for £81.17p not impressed hopefully it will be put back this week .Spoke with my bank Amazon prime are well known for just taking money out of people accounts once the money goes back i am taking my card details off so no more money can go awol .Helen bought three plant pots and fixed them to the fence posts more flowers .

TUESDAY
Got one refund from Amazon prime still not sue if the other amount for £81 has appeared because i have been told they have asked for the money but it has not been taken , but the money has been taken from my account it should just reappear but will nit show as a credit .

WEDNESDAY
Helen bought some more solar powered lights for the arch  ver the path from the front gate , this time there was enough lights to do both sides and run a strand up the middle section. Some how the wire snapped i had to join it , and it worked tonight its not typical .

ALL DONE

SATURDAY
Creosote the panels removing each one which is a pain some are too tight then we are laying them down on two saw stool trestles creosoting both sides before refitting them back in situ some w are lifting higher  .
it took all day I also fitted the gravel boards , they also got creosoted concrete is porous they look ok dark brown they blend in .Our god friend Erin came and helped .
After we finished we walked the two minutes to our local the George and Dragon for burgers and cider .

SUNDAY
The fence is now all done and finished off yippee  ,  all of the fence posts I have now cut down trimmed the tops off and put the wooden post capping pieces on top . I also made a custom feathered board panel for the end of the fence which I creosoted and fixed that in it's place. Job done.

The new UV light for the out door fish tank is now working and hopefully will keep the water clear it has been a nightmare from day one we got a refund from the first supplier .

Went shopping when I finished had to get cheese and ham I also got more cider and pork pies a scotch egg and a summer berry trifle .

Back at work tomorrow for the bank holiday I need a rest it has  been a very busy week I also went to the waste disposal site we now have to register our car registration number online , they are going to start scanning cars that are using the tip to check you are living locally .

Watching - Keanu

DONT FENCE ME IN

Went over to my daughters house at Allerton Bywater last night we found a better way of driving over there which involves not having to use the motorway and it is just as quick .
She cooked us a really nice  tea it seems like it was only yesterday that  I was at her birth ,  how the years fly by .She is totally independent and a great mother JOB DONE .

Finally managed to install Kodi and the add ons Exodus , Salts and Phoenix  on my daughters fire stick it took me a while the install Arm on the download link on Es File Explorer for Kodi was not loading even though I was following the installation method word for word ,but  they never mentioned that you  had to click the more option in the bottom right hand corner and to  click the option of open in browser to run the download but once i did that it installed the latest version of  Kodi.

Bought some dark brown creosote and three four inch paint brushes to do the fence panels hopefully the weather is better than what it has been for the last couple of days .

FRIDAY
The fence is erected all the post are well in and fixed with a couple of bags of post fix solid thanks to our good friend Charlie .All i have to do is fix three gravel boards , cut the post to size fit the end caps and creosote the panels and on small section to board out using feather edge boards , and jobs a good one.

Helen's phone contract is run its course and instead of paying a whopping £50 a month it has dropped to under £12 a month which is a  massive saving and no more dreaded two year contract .
Mine is up at the end of July i was speaking with the operative from my phone provider and he was telling me about free roaming charges Great i side i be more than happy being able to use my phone in this country never mind abroad.

UP ON THE ROOF

Second day off helped my friend across the road rip his plastic garage roof off we are or he is replacing it will corrugated aluminum which will hopefully make it hard for moss to grow .
We have to make a couple of eight foot roof trusses and level the ridge through before fitting the corrugated sheeting .
It will take a few days to get it sorted and to get all the sheets replace some are asbestos which is fine until you need to remove it and dump it. One good thing he has every tool you need including power tools , from drills rip saws to compound mitre saws and angel grinders .

Went to Asda food shopping got pizzas and breakfast goodies I also got a couple of bottles of cloudy apple cider it was on offer.

Watching - "13 hours  The secret Soldiers of Benghazi".

Listening to - Bruce Springsteen.

Eating - Lamb minted chops .

PANELS AND PONDS

The headphones that i recently bought from Ebay the headband is not a round shape  its  hoped more for a Frankenstein's monster head they are more oblong than round guess they will do until I can get some better ones , although the sound quality is ok .

The uv light we got for the outside pond filter has blown the bulb  , as water as leaked into the unit and it has totally ruined the light fitting  , we phoned the supplier and they told us to package it and send it back  it back.Once they get it than  hopefully we are getting a full refund .

We have ordered another light from a different supplier and in the process  found a seller that sells the uv quartz glass for £16.99 should we ever need a replacement  one . Hopefully we the new fitting is coming Wednesday .Until then we will need to re clean the filter .

Went back to the supplier that we ordered our fence panels etc from  , and down sized from  a five foot high panel to a four foot high panel .

Off all week the sun as been out for some of the day Helen is going to do her stand up tonight she is nervous i am staying with her on the way back home we need shopping .

Yesterday I tried on a Firetrap XL black leather jacket it looked ok opened it was tight when zipped up  I need to loose weight which for me is easier said than done .

GOOD DAYS

One more day at work then a week of annual leave i was only going to take  Wednesday  , Thursday and Friday , but i have to take Helen somewhere Monday and it seemed pointless not having the full week off.

I have downloaded Kodi to my Macbook and after downloading Fusion I added Exodus , Salts and Phoenix which seeing as I am not somedays very  I.T illiterate was pretty chuffed at my efforts I did find idiot guides on the internet which I took full advantage of  , me being a idiot .

The outside fish tank is doing well and all the fish have nearly survived a week so all is looking good.
Hopefully next weekend we will start and do the fence it should only take two days tops .

After the fence is done and creosoted then we do need to get more solar lighting orbs and sting lights then there is some patio work and a massive clear out of all the garden waste that as been thrown behind the shed a skip will have to be ordered but once it is all gone it will free up space and make for a neater looking garden.

SATURDAY
Went to pay for the fence panels x9 ,  wooden posts x 10  and 3x precast concrete gravel boards which for this little lot is well over £550 and hopefully they are all getting delivered next Friday morning so fingers crossed next weekend will be sunny warm and  fine and we can get them installed.

Went to the Wetherby Whaler after going to the filling station. We did not eat in the restaurant  this time we both got a fish and a bread cake and ate in the car just as nice .
On the way home went to the supermarket picked up some cat food bread coffee and soft cheese plus chocolate eclairs and macaroon cakes .

Helen's son Liam and his girlfriend Nicole stayed over , so we went back to the George and Dragon with them  and we all ordered freshly cooked  burgers and mozzarella cheese sticks  I had the Mexican and i had couple of pints of cloudy apple cider on draught which tasted as good as the first time that I had it.

SUNDAY
All of us went for breakfast to the Thorncliffe farm shop  at Emley moor  , we sat outside it is very popular place to eat all the produce is locally sourced ,  snd on a weekend even more so . Both Helen and me had the full Monty that is two eggs , two sausages , two bacon , baked beans , tomatoes , mushrooms toast and of course the dreaded black pudding  Liam and Nicole  , both are rake like they just had a sandwich the food is always good and it was nice sitting out even if it was slightly windy .
Thats three meals out this weekend suppose it saves on cooking .
Went to the Trinity centre Helen bought some shampoo and conditioner and teeth whitener and  I got a bottle of  mouthwash.

I have all next week off work it was only going to be the last three days of the week working Monday and Tuesday but i had to take Monday off so i could take Helen to a psychic event that she is doing the night and it seemed pointless going to work just on the Tuesday.

Listening to - Radiohead and The Chainsmokers

Watching - True Detective

Watching Film  - Mojave

DOG FISH

I am off work until at least Wednesday tomorrow which will make a short week so who cares .Ate lunch what we bought from the farm shop ham sandwiches pork pies and potato salad tonight we dine on freshly farm made 100% beef burgers in freshly baked bread cakes and leaf salad with white onion and horseradish sauce .

We now have four new  fish in the outside aquarium , two are golden yellow and two are bright  orange Pip our Jack Russell is already doing fish watch , the cats don't seem that interested ,
Ken over the road from us lost one of his smaller fish to a heron that landed on the side of his pond this morning at arounds half five he has quite a few koi carp there size suggests they are worth a few hundred pounds each expensive tit bit for the heron be cheaper leaving it a fresh salmon .

We lost BBC1 and BBC2 channels last year not sure why or what had happened someone tried to sort it out when we had picture flicker and after they left ( i was at work ) these two channels had disappeared well today I got them both back not that i missed them but anyway we have them back.

My coughing through the night improved , last night it was the first night that I did not wake up in a coughing fit .

TRUNKS

Headphones Philips blue tooth SHB3165 are not that bad they sync easy enough and charge quickly and for the price are really  good the base is alright and the sound quite crisp all in all they are good enough and a lot better then average and intern well worth the twenty quid  that I shelled out  for them. Only thing i don't like is the head band could do with being more rounded and there is no 3mm jack to turn them into wired ones .

The log end is taking some drilling out and I reckon I have burnt my drill out I put it down when it was getting hot maybe  a little too hot it was  smoking although it was still spinning the chuck , but  when i picked it back up to re use  it was  dead totally lifeless Helen could have done a reading for it totally  motionless not even a spark , I changed the fuse but still no joy reckon  still dead  reckon it is done for .
Until my good friend lent me his electric chain saw which made it a piece of cake , took it out in no time after I had sliced it length ways  and across the width as soon as you realised the start but it stopped the chain dead so no lost legs to main arteries cut through then  I just chiseled it out with a one and a half inch chisel ,  easy peasy they both look decent but will look better when the trunks have aged and weathered  be better and the plants are more  established .

It was another red hot day just the right weather for a pear cider i finished off the bottle the fridge is baron, the one thing worse then finding no milk when i open the fridge is no pear cider oh well one out of two ain't bad .

Still cant believe that Prince is dead extremely unhappy life is so fragile amount of new stories about him surfacing it always amazes me why did people wait until someone dies  to realise what a great one off genius they are .

FRIDAY
No work I rang in sick i am coughing phlegm up i have a sore throat and it totally messed my sleep up so i thought I would ring in the start to the day was looking grey , so nobody could think i was having  sly one of because it was hot , but GUESS WHAT by ten the day had got hotter and sunnier oh well people will always think what they want regardless.

SATURDAY
Woke again coughing a load of  phlegm which in turn is making me want to throw up will i guess  be fit enough to go back to work on Monday I do hope so.

SUNDAY
SLEPT WORSE than last night was up early i was only asleep for an hour and half when i was up again nothing worse than a tickle cough i think it will be Tuesday before i go back to work why be a hero .not only that my weekend as been ruined .

DON'T HANDLE WITH CARE THEN

MONDAY
Red hot it was scorching the sun was going for all it was worth what a glorious day .
Even went to the logging mill and bought two logs I will drill and chisel them out so we have two natural planters they only cost five  pounds for the two of them a proper bargain.

Our good friend Ken he lives  in the van over the road to us gave us a Blagdon fish tank for the outside it holds 75 gallons of water and as a fountain and waterfall which gives a great sound of running water all we need to get is an ultra violet bulb which prevents alga and green stuff building up .He even put down the flags down all level for the tank to sit on whilst i was at work .

TUESDAY
I started drilling out one of the logs it was not long before the drill was smoking i have done about a third and it is looking good .
Went to get the ultra violet light from the aquatic part of the garden centre we also bought some tap safe the club cost us a fiver .

Got home I was  looking at the lead and power brick for the light when the protective glass for the bulb that screws into the light fitting that fits into the pump which is totally submerged in the tank rolled of and broke .I cant buy a new glass you have to buy the whole light which retail on Ebay for £40 , we will get a blue so its costing use £35 pound still a margin shit happens.The irony is Ken had already broke one glass but he had a spare which I then broke should either sell replacement glass or make them out of plastic.

Got my headphones will have to charge them and hear what they sound like hopefully well worth the £20 I spent on them.

NOT WIRED FOR SOUND

Pet hate getting up making a coffee and opening the fridge to remember I was suppose to get some milk on the way home last night .

My phone contract ends around August I will cancel it and will not be tied into a contract again you end up paying way too much money over two years I have paid well over £1350 it is ridiculous .

SATURDAY
Went to the garden centre bought more plants for the troughs and other planters we spent around thirty pounds I was going to buy six solar orbs they were priced up at three for £10.00 when we went to the checkout  o pay up , they came up at £3.99 so I refused to buy them .

Bought some beef burgers and chicken legs from the farm shop also got a two litre bottle of pear cider a cheaper brand than my usual Kopparberg we got home and washed and scrubbed the  barbecue down before I got chance to light it the rain began to come down.

SUNDAY
Looks like the sun could get out later , I was up just after eight o clock and it was quite cold by ten the sun was trying to put in an appearance . Checked my  Ebay  i was just about to win a pair of Phillips bluetooth head phones reckon that I have saved nearly £20 on what they would have cost if i had bought them in the high street.

SUNNIER DAYS TO COME.

Woke unto day and i thought it was Saturday what a bummer don't you just hate it when that happens.

The sun is here and it is going to last through the weekend which means lounging about outside eating al fresco might even ignite the barbecue but even if the food is cooked in the oven its just as good .Some CLOWN up the street had a similar idea and decided to  light his  chiminea  and in the process  nearly burnt his van down. He had it set fire to the roof of his lean to , when he had left it unattended a spark  just have jumped and  ignited the timber roof frames and it very nearly burnt it all to the ground.  Luckily someone spotted the flames and informed them otherwise the whole place would have been a giant barbecue .

The gay person who works with us in the office has had botox that cost him well over £250 it is the second time he has had it done cant see any difference from before to after , a waste of money and time if you ask me why take the risk of injection poison into your face .

Put £350 away until the end of the month hopefully towards the cost of the fence we need erecting on the right hand side between us and the gay couple  ho live next door , not that I don't like them their dogs constantly bark , hopefully when i get paid the first weekend it will go up .They have had a delivery of a load of planks of wood why i am not sure it looks like they have been pallets that have been disassembled hope they not planing on a fence as they are aware we are putting one up.

Helen is on about getting a regular job where her friend works ,a steady regular income would be good .
If the weather stays hot over the weekend i need cider .

Listening to - Prince

Watching - "Eddie The Eagle"

Eating - Beef burgers cheese and rocket .

1485

Last night our good friend Charlie came over to measure up the fence we want erecting on the right hand side of our van it is 60 feet long , and we want it five feet high .It is mainly to stop the next vans dogs seeing our cats they have a lassie collie dog and two sausage dogs if we put the fence it should stop them barking if the cat see our garden area , it will cost a good £500 for materials posts ,  panels and gravel boards , as well as post fix concrete .

We all then went to the George and Dragon pub including our other good friend Erin , the Pub was  built 1485 and king Henry the V11 use to visit the pub for refreshments on his way up to the Dales. I had cloudy apple cider for the first time and to be honest i liked it , it is not as gassy as regular cider but just as refreshing. We also ordered food I went for the Mexican burger well done it was ok quite filling but not that hot which was a bit of a let down , Helen and the American she did nit eat it all ,  it is the first time we have been in the pub since we moved last June so regulars where not , might be a few weeks or months until we go again but it was ok .

Someone asked me if I could bring one person back from the dead David Bowie or Prince who would I choose without a doubt I said that I would resurrect  Prince , and to perfectly  honest  it would not even be that much of a  hard decision although I do like Bowie there was no one quite like Prince.

ITS MAY ALREADY
This year is going way too fast , it's scary how time flies by the older you get I really want a year to feel like a year and not feel like six months.

My Friend at work who collapsed after suffering a stroke is now suffering from blood clots on his lungs which if move could kill him so it's not looking good hopefully things will improve for him .

Helen was offered  an original  photograph in black and whiteouts be 600 x 1800  the subject an old night dress done buy Jonathan who lived on our street in Holmfirth originally he wanted £400 , that was a few years ago his wife was throwing it into the rubbish and texted Helen saying if the could pick it up it was hers.

COKE THROUGH A STRAW

Bought a big bag of fresh cut rocket to add to my cheese and meatball pizza and hot and spicy pizza .i also bought some fresh chicken chili pieces also to go on to my pizzas or in my flat bread panini's I now longer have fries with my pizzas which is a good thing i am never going to be a healthy eater i also bought three jars of my favourite coffee , you can tell when Bob's been its paid .

I am also bidding on some blue tooth headphones i am currently the highest bidder just know i am going to win them unless the bidding gets crazy .

I did not win the headphones I though that they were new but they had been used so I stopped bidding on them , luckily someone out bidder me .

Working the bank holiday Monday that will be every one this year so far .

Went to the Wetherby Whaler near to where we live on the way back from the hairdressers Helen was having her hair coloured blonde again i had  been sat in the car playing Zombie Frontier 3d which is as good as Dead Trigger .I had a extra large fish i was Hank Marvin I also had coke instead of coffee thats the drink not the drug although i did use a straw .

Our friend Charlie is coming over to quote us for a fence we want concrete posts and gravel boards i am hoping we can get the post and gravel words in and buy the fence panels next payday.

THINGS AND PRINCE

Sign O The Times and Purple Rain are just two of the albums I have loaded on my music player in memory of Prince .The first video I bought back in the day was Prince live tour Purple Rain the first cassette tape that I bought was by David Bowie both are now dead. I have also got Graffiti Bridge the film to watch , it was rumoured that he began penning his memoir hope his last writing words get published .

This Saturday or Sunday either i would like to go to see the KAWS exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park not sure how long it is there for i guess a while we only live five minutes away my Nephew went and it looks amazing i have been on about a return visit since we moved here last June.

Helen is still working on the garden we have know got potatoes growing in some bags hopefully we will get a crop she also bought a new patio brolly and some matching seat covers and bunting .

Made a wicked shepherds pie last night with minced lamb and a great stir fry the night before , when i get paid will stock up on sauces and noodles i may also get some chilli paste , if i do then plenty of pear cider.

CHEER UP

Watched the Witch and thought it was total drivel worse film i have ever seen on par with Noah nothing really happened you're  waiting for it to kick in and the credits roll so glad i did not pay money to see it on the big screen it is not worth watching pity i wasted my time .

Took Helen to the garden centre she bought four hanging baskets and enough plants to fill them all plus another three bags of combo roll on hotter weather.

She also bought some green plastic hanging bags that will hang over the fence either side and the flowers plants will cascade over the fence panels .

My friend at work who had the stroke Friday is not good although he has now opened his eyes and he can understand certain things or so it seems it will be a very long time before he is back to normal worse thing is the weather it is really changing for the better summer is on its way and he is stuck in hospital life is rarely fair.

I phoned my twin up the other day she thought i sounded feed up the day after she put me twenty pound in to my bank so i could get something nice for dinner which was totally unexpected what a truly nice gesture .

We are or Helen is ordering to parasols for the garden table and bench in fuchsia pink she says will go nice with the green van dam in doubt .

Need pear cider need more ice doing and i need to get more solar powered lights for the garden think i will go to Costco it has been years since i  have gone shopping there used to get freshly cooked baked potatoes and chili or pizza slices .

My sister who put the  £20 in my bank account told my other sister that I was feed , she message me saying she was putting £50 in my bank so I could get some aftershave or something nice , what great sisters I have.

Cant believe Prince is dead such talent , hopefully they will be new albums released it is a great loss R.I.P Prince .

LITTLE GREEN SHACK

We can finally connect to I Cloud a free wi-fi internet service at work , and seeing has my mobile connection is so shite then this is going to help out enormously with my web browsing capabilities You Tube and other sites .It is about time rumour has it also we are going to get computer upgrades , I pads and new os we are currently running xp not good.

Helen as had a  very good week with her readings and has had a very productive week which is good because I am piss poor yet again.

The weather this weekend is crap it is at best going to be grey and wet with rumours of maybe some snow which seems hard to believe seeing that  we are half way through April .

My son still has not phoned or text  me he has not bothered to contact me since the end of January he is still being ignorant , i would not have dreamed acting this way with my father i had too much respect obviously my son does not realise what respect is he needs to learn some before his time expires .

A colleague and friend at work had a stroke they took him to resus in A&E  then for a  Ct scan I had only been talking to him a few hours before it was lucky for him that we work in a Hospital as it more than likely saved his life .

SATURDAY
Went for my quarterly hair cut i could not get in to my regular salon so i tried one i have passed want times but have never frequented , it had one chair a fire on the back wall and a really old wooden framed mirror that had seen better days and to be fair I received a great hair cut , I might even go back there next time .

BEING BORING

I need to go to the coast its been ages hopefully soon as it is warm enough we will visit Whitby and the surrounding bays and beaches.
Helens bought more grass seed i have lost track of the amount of boxes she has thrown down it would have been cheaper to buy artificial lawn least it be green all over , no need to water feed or cut.

I have a couple of Guy Martin books to read not sure when i will start them i have to finish a couple i am reading now before i start any more .

Helens brother John has a kidney transplant today , he is estranged from Helen so we don't have much to do with him , but we do wish him well his wife is donating one of her kidneys and  he is theatre early Friday morning .He had a kidney removed when he was young and the remaining one is not functioning correctly it is down to 15% capability and will only get worse so he had no choice but to have surgery and a  transplant.

This week has been totally boring i have done nothing interesting its work eat and sleep repeat seem to be getting more weeks like this it is frustrating .

I thought about buying a drone with camera so i could do ariel photos and film of the moors at Saddleworth and do an ariel shot of where we live until i found out the average fly time is 5 minutes which is rubbish , so it has left me in a quandary is it worth it .

Listening to Patti Smith "Horses"

Watching - "London has Fallen"

TWO IN THE TREE NOT THE BUSH

The weather is shite , work is shit ,  skint pissed of and life ticks bye tick tock .
Bought a Filofax journal and have not got a clue what to put in i have put some stuff i want to buy on my to do list .Want a decent summer and today that even looks doubtful the way it is dull and grey with a burst through of sun every few hours just to tempt you what you could have had just like life.
Oh well it half past twelve time to get ready to go to work least it is mid week here i am wishing my life away .

THURSDAY
Took down the two bird boxes from the oak tree  outside of the van , i had to get the ladders out , i took them down so i could  fix dowels on to the face of the boxes below the entry hole so if any birds decided to take home then they can land before entry .The two boxes are different and of course i put them back the wrong way round the high one ended up lower down and the one that was lower down higher up as if the birds care .

The grass seed Helen threw down is  still not showing any sign of taking root and  I am doubtful we will have any more green stuff then what we have atm .

FRIDAY
THANK FCUK ITS FRIDAY.
Always good on Fridays got parked at work big bonus and it did not drag to much getting home M1 closed junction 42 to 41 had to de-tour got home late about fifthteen minutes oh well its the weekend .

SATURDAY
Did nothing read a bit Patti Smith M Train  , we went to the garden centre Helen bought some plants I bought a pork pie and a Bavarian slice .Watched the Grand National although we did not have a bet.
We also watched "The Boy" and "Hush" both good films  but i did  prefer "Hush". Erin stayed over  we cooked a roast chicken would have preferred beef or lamb or even pork.

ERECTED UP AND HAMMERED

This weekend I built a poly green house 1500 x 1500 . I wanted to build on to a wooden frame 50 x 50  to match the size of the green house , drive some pegs in to the ground fix the frame to the pegs then fill the inside with sand and flags and then fix  green house to the frame easy peasy  ,  Well Helen had other ideas guess she just wanted it erected and up ,  it is tied down with four string ties on each corner  that i screwed to the fence and staked in to place using metal tent pegs that i pushed in rather than hammered in to situ , oh well fingers crossed .

Erin came over it was her birthday we had some home cooked pizzas and fries all in all that was my weekend.

Had worse a lot worse but had better hopefully now the weather is getting better we will get out and about more .

My son has still not had the decency to call me guess he is in no rush well son neither am i so I guess it's a waiting game.

The cats between them are killing on average a bird every two to three days not sure about the mouse count but between them they are killing plenty of birds which we feel guilty about as we put nuts seeds and suet balls out for our feathered friends at each side of the van .

Good new Nick Blackwell the British fighter whom fought Chris Eubank Jr  is out of the nine day induced coma and is doing well which is great news .

NO GIRLS

Helens middle son Kris his partner gave birth to a baby boy they are calling him Oakley Noah both mother and baby are fine thats two of her sons and my daughter who have all had boys so where have all the girls gone .

I bought a cherry red Filofax for a few pounds and a load of inserts for it including plastic wallets and a hole punch so I can add my own pages which makes sense as I want it more as a journal then a diary , all bought from good old eBay .
Still waiting the delivery of my two usb memory sticks so i can take some movies off my mac book pro.

I seriously want to change my iPad but not sure it i want to stick with the mini or go bigger or even get the smaller iPad pro and pen , which would the ultimate Filofax , to get the pro option i would have to save be nice to save up each month and get it on my birthday in October if i can wait that long .

Will be putting up the plastic green house that  Helen bought from eBay ,  this weekend went out today and bought two packets of  10inch metal tent pegs 12 x 450 x 450 paving slabs and 6 bags of sand to use to lay the slabs on .

Reading  - Graeme Obree "The Flying Scotsman"

Watching - Graeme Obree "The Flying Scotsman"

Listening to the -  The Pet Shop Boys  "Super"

BEING BORING

Happy Easter Sunday -  I have had one chocolate egg today , but for Easter tea we are having the finest steak with breaded garlic mushrooms fries and  battered onion rings I have bought a jar of farm made horseradish sauce .
I won a cherry red Filofax on eBay I am not sure why red but it looks brand new I am waiting for a few things being delivered they should start coming next week fingers crossed .

Need to catch up on some films i have yet to watch  "Stealing Cars", "Identical's" and "Go Get A Job".

It is upsetting to hear about the British fighter Nick Blackwell who's fight against Chris Eubank jr who is also British . His father Chris told him stepped in to the ring to advise his son to stop hitting him to the head and finish him using hits to the body , Why Nicks own corner did not stop the fight i have no idea .
The referee  finally stopped the fight  in the tenth round after advice from the ring side doctor and Nick was then stretchered out of the ring and  took to hospital where the doctors surgeons  decided to put him in to an induced coma  , due to bleeding on his brain ,  I really do hope he pulls through , His father also had similar issues with his fight against Michael Watson who's career was stopped due to his injuries . So very sad and highly upsetting.

BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY - Another storm we have had enough wet weather to compensate i hope we get a really long hot summer we deserve it .
I went to work it was boring loads of people off and it was quite and it drag i was glad when ten o clock came round and i could fuck off home . Listening to the  different versions of the Pet Shop Boys Being Boring

TRIM YOUR BUSH

FRIDAY - I would really like one to these wallets they are quite expensive but i reckon unless you lose it will last you a lifetime http://www.fusionwallets.com

Today it is a bank holiday Good Friday i am working it is very sunny and cool it is a glorious day i will not have a busy day and tomorrow its good old Saturday life is good .

I bought some more Sharpie pens for Helen in pinks , turquoise and purples i also bought her some blank cd's and clear plastic wallets . I bought two metal Kingston 3.0 16gb usb flash drives and a Pilot disposable fountain pen for myself .

SATURDAY - Drove over to the  garden centre at Tong  and we bought three black metal obelisks for the garden one of them  had a basket at the base so plants and flowers can be planted ,  I spent a total of £85 on metal work I also spent £30 on tomato plants and a round box hedge that is trimmed in to a ball be fun keeping the bush trimmed  gardening is a very expensive hobby .
Had meatball pizza for tea washed down with a nice ice and pear Kopparberg cider the wind is howling and the rain is lashing down not nice for a bank holiday weekend Easter tomorrow back at work Monday.

MACBOOK WOES

Back at work i will also be working good Friday and bank holiday Monday double time and days off in lieu plus parking will be easy which is always a big bonus.Watch the weather be blistering hot whilst i am stuck at work.

Downloaded El Capitan on Helen's mac book it totally fucked it up the download must have been corrupted some how and  it would not install itself , neither would it load Yosemite so  i had to reboot using cmd + r to get in to disk utility i and to copy a ghost image of Helen's mac book hard drive  then i had to use the hard drive with the saved image and reinstall it using it as the  image to the destination of the mac book pros hard drive a pain it did it but it meant losing all the stuff i had saved on my external h/d i did try to do a Internet back up using cmd alt and r keys it wanted to install mountain lion which was the o/s before Mavericks but because a newer o/s was installed would not let me do it , all in all a pain in the arse but had no choice if Helen wanted to keep all her files and work she had stored , her laptop was never backed up using Time Machine , this was done with the help of Apple support and over 24 hours but got there in the end .

Got a wage increment at work which I was not expecting until Aprils pay cheque so that was a nice surprise be even better when may tax changes in April and we get a 1% wage rise which is piss poor .

Working both bank holidays this good Friday and the following bank holiday Monday two days easy parking hopefully no managers around and double time .

James ' Girl At The End Of The World  ' knocked Adele of the number one spot in the U.k album charts Tim Booth has one great voice .

LOTS OF SENSE

Ultravox , Sting , Terence Trent Darby , Spandau Ballet , Soft Cell , Erasure , Culture Club , Fine Young Cannibals , and Simply Red are a few of the cd's i used own in fact they were on cassette tapes and not on cd discs at all . Had a Akai tape deck and a matching Akai  amp and equalizer combo and a massive pair of stereo speakers it was a cool set up and cost me the best part of a £1000 which at the time was a good months wages. I also had a really great pair of cans i cant remember the make but they were  a reasonable quality .

Having no Internet back in the day i listened to a lot more music in house than i do now and i use to spend more on buying the  latest releases depending on how much over time i did and what spare cash i had , we did use to copy tapes using a double tape deck pirating still went on back in the day.

The new smaller  iPad pro with quad speakers and 256gb of storage would be a nice investment the biggest iPod classic 160 gb storage has finally been blown out of the water for a mobile portable device how many films books and albums could you load up would be an amazing feat.
 Tech is getting cheaper and better each year that passes the Apple SE phone makes a lot of sense once you get your head around it , especially with the current  trade in deals Apple are offering you are getting the same spec as a 6s for a lot less cash so anyone who currently owns a iPhone 5s , like me , well it makes a lot of sense .

CLEAR UP

Moved the garden boarder at the front of the van by another couple of feet , which is a  good idea because the grass w head sown last year had not really took there that well and was very baron and patchy . i removed more stones we will need soils but it should improve the growing quality , i hate gardening , i like flowers and plants i don't mind watering them either , it is all the hassle of maintenance.

I also removed  the rest of the dead leaves left over from Autumn using the garden vac including all of the ones under the decking .
Helen has planted up loads of pots with  seeds wand bulbs which should be good in a few months time and has reseeded the patches of lawn which are still bare hopefully this time it will take .

We need to hire a skip and have a massive clear out of garden waste and rubble which we piled up last summer it is hidden by the out building and needs dumping a decent size skip will be a hundred quid plus .

Well tomorrow is Friday my last day of leave i have the weekend then its back to the grind this week went too fast.

Watching - "The Forest"

GARDEN SHED HEAD

George has been back out and is fine after his ordeal on Sunday   so far he has not climbed any trees hopefully he has learned his lesson , he has to be careful with his other eight lives.

Helen successfully bid for on Ebay and won a wooden cabinet with wire mess doors very shabby chic one of the doors want easing Helen wants to put it in the gardening building on top of the worktop we have to pick it up from York .Helen is getting right shed head .

Fixed another two brackets for hanging baskets on the out building wall opposite ends , we also have four new half baskets screwed to the wall which are either side of the door and windows and there is a larger window basket underneath the main window , be nice when they flower .

Bought some more fresh beef goulash soup and some chicken balti and a loaf of tiger bread .


Watching - Dark Tide staring Halle  Berry.

Listening to - Jhene Aiko "Sail Out and "Souled Out".

SILLY PUSSY

George our ginger tom cat got stuck up the oak tree , that  i fixed the bird boxes to a few days ago , we guess that he decided to chase a squirrel up which was the easy bit  he ended up around thirty  foot up the tree unable to get back down .

i strapped two sets of aluminium ladders together and rested them again the trunk of the tree and rested them on top of a green wheelie bin , he wouldn't come down even though the ladders was near enough to him .We even tried to hose him down with water from the water pipe to entice him down the ladders that did not work either in fact he climbed further up.

I saw a van drive into the cup de sac behind us with a triple extending ladder i called round the gentleman agreed to help us out and drove the ladders round he put them up he even climbed up them and with the help from a broom got George to exit  the tree he hit a branch on the way down he tried to hang on but dropped then hit the top of the fence and  bounced off and finally landed on the soil paws first he rang off he came bace ten minutes later it appeared that he was fine .The man with the van ,  i dropped him and his girlfriend off at the pub in Denby Dale  believe it or not  it was his birthday .

                                                       My two cats George and Minnie

Going to watch both of the Point Break films the newest one and the older one to see if it is as good as the original with Patrick Swayze which released in 1991 .

SOUPED UP

Midweek all down hill after today till Friday I am then off for ten days next thing it will be Easter a quarter of the year already gone it is going too fast.
Helen is now going to use the out building has a potting shed which makes better sense she is after buying the top half of a dresser to fix to the back wall she got one from Ebay we pick it up Saturday morning FROM Huddersfield  ,
We will also at some point paint the inside walls and re do the outside walls and the window frames need glossing the door is fine it is white  pvc and it is all fully alarmed .

THURSDAY
Boring day only thing good about today is tomorrow is Friday and i watched the latest episode of Happy Valley and i had a wicked bowl of tomato red pepper and lentil soup don't let the lentils put you off it was gorgeous nearly as good as the beef goulash soup i had a few days with cheese on top and tiger bread bliss .

TFIF
Getting feed up waiting for summer winter seems to have last forever to say we have not had much snow w have had plenty of rain hurry up summer and lets get outdoors rather than spending an eternity indoors . Break up tonight for ten days I cant wait .

Below Holmfirth village we do miss it there is no other place like it .

SPRING FORWARD

I fitted the two bird houses to the tree it was only one screw and the houses just slotted into place , they do say build them homes and the wild life will come so fingers crossed we will wait and see.

I also planted three bushes that we were given to us  last week we dug three holes at the back of the van and placed them in , we also have load son seeds and bulbs to plant March is a busy month .

Four more shifts then nine days off which suits me fine parking at work is getting a nightmare i could not get a place to do i had to leave it with the risk of getting a parking fine was able to move it an hour later and had i  not been ticketed,

GOOD FEW DAYS

I bought an  imitation Beats type pill blue tooth stereo speaker ages ago from Ebay and  it is still going strong I take it in my back pack every day . I had it on at work yesterday playing Ed Sheran " I See Fire "  I usually wait until everyone as gone home for the day .Three people out of four are now buying one from Ebay they cost under £7.00 amazing so cheap yet so good .

SATURDAY
Went to the Trinity in Wakefield bought a nice zipper jumper for my Grandson along with a book and T-shirt Helen also got her Grandson a similar jumper we also bought tissue paper and gift bags cards and her mum a Mary Berry cook and recipe book .

I also bought tubes of super glue hair gel and aluminium foil and freezer bags which we where short of .

We called in at Burger King for a mid afternoon snack i was pissed they did not have any milkshakes the machine was down not impressed I had to have Coca Cola .

In the evening our friend Erin called we went for a pup supper to a vintage Inn the Hare and Hounds it is the fourth one we have been to we mainly go to the Sovereign , we all ordered the same a mixed grill it came with ham , lamb , steak , chicken ,black pudding and a  Cumberland sausage,  tomato ,  fries and onion rings and egg  i was the only one to eat it all

SUNDAY
Was out most of the day first off we went to Tong garden centre bought Helen a couple of bird boxes to fix to the tree near our van .Then went to see Hellenes mother and dropped the book we bought yesterday she had already received  her card from there then we went to see Helen's son Steven and  his baby who is also one year old the day after my daughters baby whom is one today .
Liam Helen's youngest son also called round with his girlfriend in his new car after a hour we went to see my daughter and my Grandson Jenson in Allerton Bywater we stayed a few hours and had chili and rice and cheese cake yum yum all in all a good day .

GORILLA ON THE ROOF

I need to get on to the roof of our van to do an essential repair the gas boiler flue is leaking from the roof seal  I am guessing that  it needs the aluminium tape that needs replacing , to make it water tight again  I will also get some sealant just in case.

I put the ladder up and took a roll of Gorilla tape up on to the roof the roof is solid sheet metal moulded to look like tiles it is very rigid and smile the Gorilla tape is water proof heat proof and highly sticky i taped it , and over taped it and over taped it again ,  I will see how it goes .

It was snowing today quite heavy and it was laying  just when we think you are out of the woods , it didn't stop until around half past eleven ,Then it started to rain  and the threat of more snow was always looming but it never happened , and the main roads were  soon clear , in-fact by the time i was going to work most of the snow was already disappearing fast  .

I have a full week off I work the rest of this week and next week then I have the following week off yippee lets be honest we all work for time off and money .

My Grandson is a year old this Sunday it is amazing how quick twelve months has been and gone I have no idea what to get a one year old baby I will have to Google it .

LEAP YEAR

Well, we have the ingredients for another Chinese sir fry this time we are using chicken fillets Helen is in bed it is quarter to seven in the evening we went out came home we had sandwiches beef and ham and egg mayo had a drink and off she popped to bed with George the cat and Pip the dog , I am left to my own devices .

My lead for my book arrived so i tried it out it is made in China it cost me only £18.99 and is excellent it is like a laptop lead brick and power lead that separate it charges my Mac book up fine it is slightly slower than the Apple lead but works great.

Finally Helen got up we did not cook our Chinese dish i had mini kebabs onion bhajees and popadoms.

SUNDAY
Vac washed and waxed the car it has been a while since I cleaned her black always shines up well it took me a good couple of hours which was hour more than i wanted to spend doing it but at least the sun was out .

MONDAY.

Its leap year and Helen did not propose to me , so she blew it for another four years. She missed the boat yet again , hehe I am only joking we are happy as we are for now.

Went for a test drive in a Citroen C1 1.2 it was ok greta drive quite nippy all in all it was good the fold back roof was emitting some noise but all in all i was impressed , we are hoping to order a 1.0 automatic in white if we can organise the fiancee we will see over the next few days if it a goer or not .
I want to keep our Suzuki swift for myself rather than financing another car which makes sense and Helen will use the C1 once she has passed her test both threat and practical. She will start taking lessons again asp .
I use to have and drive a brand new Citroen C2  , a certain Ex wife took it in the divorce proceedings haha.

At work I helped move the premature babies back to the Neo natal ward ,  there was a break down in power supply over the weekend caused by water leakage which blow out the mains supply which affected the power to the ward . Yesterday afternoon it was fixed and the power was back up and running so we moved them all back with all the equipment which was attached to them keeping them alive , it was a nice afternoon seeing all the tiniest infants  of all races beating all the odds and surviving makes you wonder why as adults all we want to do is go to war and destroy life it don't make sense.