Want to book sometime of from work get good Friday off easter Monday and the Tuesday so will take 2 flexi days plus one a/l to make it a full week got get the towbar fitted promised my son i would sort it when all the building work was completed and out of the way.

A work mate has just been offered 58k redundancy in a lump sum cash payout plus a 10k a year pension he is only 50 years old lets all guess and see if he can work out what he will do , dos'nt take much working out does it .

Alot of people working would be more than happy if they got half that amount me included. Another workmate just got offered two thousand pounds to throw the towel in and call it a day he is on 25k a year salary lets all try and guess what he is going to do i beat you all got it right again yes he's staying put especially when its been posted on the internet that any compulsory redundancy's will mean a cash pay out of two years salary.
Fingers crossed that if the worst happens this is a true statement.

Have still not recovered from changing the clocks forward by one hour Saturday night hate always have it knackers me up for a few days its never the same when they go back and we all gain an hour i always wake up at the same bleeding time its routine bye then.

at least the nights will start staying lighter for longer need to get down to the canal with my dog and do some serious walking take a few pictures of the barges moored up at the marina check out the walk over the nature reserve its a long walk without killing yourself all though iam not sure if i trespass doing it i have never had anyone say anything to me and there is always plenty of twitchers lurking about never seen Bill Oddy though.

If there is 52 weeks in a year seven days in a week which 52x7 = 364 why is there 365 days in a year i was arguing this point with a colleague at work whom i think now thinks either I'm totally with the fairys and off my head or I'm just winding him up hehe we been asking everyone who walks in to our office i still argue its 364 got to stick to ones guns no retreat no surrender

The things i would like to buy in the next few months in no particular order if possible
1. External dvd burner just got one what does it all atm shuttle pc cant fit another internal
2. External hard drive cant have enough storage preferably in a hard drive caddy to make it portable
3. Ps2 only if Asda are doing them for £50 as stated in a newspaper
4.Decent pair of designer sunglasses always get cheap crappy ones
5.Aluminum water bottle for the hot weather bus journeys home heater on full blast
6.New barbecue again for the long hot summer days and evenings
7.Ceiling fan for our bedroom
8.Sky plus box( it's amazing what one can get the wife to agree to when she wants one to go see Il Divo with her )
9.New aerial and extension sockets in four rooms to pick up a decent reception throughout
10.Back pack for weekend job using son's old one what a all black one
11.Shoulder bag for the week job need it for paper work the sun and metro hehe Nike one will do
12.Compact leather wallet must be able to hold metro card
13.Tow bar fitted to car to transport sons dirt bike
14. Tyre inflater that plugs into the cigarette lighter in car so so handy
15.Filofax want to hard copy phone numbers address's etc
16.fountain pen to go with filofax proper ink does not fade thats why it is used on marriage and death certificates
17.tattoo what has been on the cards well over a year
18.leather belt
19.k - swiss trainers in white for the summer months
20.summer light weight jacket can never find owt i like usually get a track suit top to crunched up in the bag just in case it rains.
21.Windows vista ultimate will wait till sp1 is out
22.X-box 360 doubt if i will get one this year
23. Gas cooker broke the glass door trying to clean it
24.Extra kitchen units and work top to go along with what we already have installed
25.wrist watch rely on mobile phone ok if its charged cant use mobile when working in hospital
26. A few new pairs of combat/cargo pants
27.T-shirts never can have enough
28.Dvd recorder
29.Pub Mirror had one ages ago broke moving house
30.Spyderco knife wanted one for ages not too expensive
32.Gerber multi tool Leatherman gone missing somewhere in the house lost with out it
33.Compact umbrella hopefully not until after summer needed for long walks to and from bus stops
34.Plenty of new novels%

Still reading the Skin Gods nearly at the end of the book and on the strength of this novel i will go and buy Richard montanari previous novel the Rosary Girls.

started using the oral b rechargeable tooth brush dont have to worry about clean teeth its knocked the, all out hehe o/j don't want suing its a fine piece of kit whether its as good as its made up to be will see when i go back to the dental school for my next bout of treatment on the 20th April which is when they start the root planing bit of the treatment.

they checked the pocket depths of my gums by using a fine metal toothpick instrument which as far as i could make out went down into the gum line of the tooth the did front back and both sides of every tooth not nice at all, but when they start to do the in depth cleaning they can use anesthetic and freeze my mouth which cant be that bad.

still might end up losing a couple of teeth but nothing ventured nothing gained might have a bridge fitted will see how it all pans out.

my Wife has got us tickets to see Il Divo at Sheffield only £75 she said what a bargin said i lets go twice i said rotflmho what i have done to piss the wife off i don't know hehe can always take my i-pod not exactly a cultural vulture and it will serve her right if i get her a ticket to go see the Red Hot Chilli Peepers chance would be a fine thing at least i will go with her to see her boy band my sister and her husband is going as well different seats same day might have to have a few lagers to get in the mood .

I bought a electronic rechargeable tooth brush from boots on my way home from work the other nigh its a oral B 7000 this was after going to the dental school at the L.G.I as i need to have deep root planning done right down into the pockets of my gums , and after my first appointment i was told that to preserve my teeth for longer was to invest in a electric tooth brush so on the way home i called into Boot's the dearest one's were retailing for £128 the one i picked was mid ranged priced at £42 which is the cost of one filling if your lucky so looking at it like that it ain't too bad cant put a price on your health.

So i got it home opened the packaging and read the instructions before use charge up unit for full 16 hours no props get it on charge at five o clock pm and be ready for use in the morning equalling nice cleaned teeth fresh breath zero plaque wot a result back to the dental school this Friday for next appointment where dental nurse technician will be well impressed with me and will know i'm taking her advise seriously as it was her recommendation that i get the electric tooth brush in the first place.

Thats when i noticed on the end of the charger what plugs in to your electrical socket is a two pin plug big problem i wet shave have no need for a shaving adapter not got one in the bathroom cause i don't need one but have got one somewhere had one years ago needless to say cant find it hunting high and low cant track it down have moved house about four times since i used to use an electric razor so no joy sob sob sob Tthe new tooth brush as dead as a dodo

You think the twat at boots would have mentioned the fact you need a shaving adapter to charge the unit up you go in to Curry's and buy a dvd player for £19 they try and flog you a scart lead for £15 ha ha ha see previous blog....... so on the way home i nipped into Wilkinson's and for the pricley sum of 65p purchased a two pin adaptor so sorted cant wait to fire it up and get to work on the plaque.

I was tempted to chop the two pin plug off and wire up a normal three pin 13amp plug on the end but some how i think that might have invalidated the warrenty .

got offered only £7834 severance pay an its not enough for 15 years loyal service so for the time being I'm staying put if i was on my own be loads of cash keep me sorted for a while .rumor is and its posted on the intranet two years full pay if made compulsory redundant so i reckon its best to carry on regardless for the time being at the end of the day i always though that if i was to leave my current post it would be lot further down the road then where i am atm have hopes and dreams .

Still reading the skin gods its a good read and a half decent plot want to get his previous book titled the rosemary murders which reading the back cover seems as good as this one.
the Kaiser chiefs new cd yours truly angry mob is there best to date not one bad track on there.

Paid another visit to Wok-in at Hunslet was ok would have preferred to go to spicemania in the city center sick of chines i have always preferred Indian over Chinese any day of the week and when i was working in Birmingham a few years ago for three weeks fitting a shop out i had a Indian meal at a different restaurant every night and didn't suffer Ghandi's revenge once is this a record hehe . hope she dont want a Chinese this week two much lol

bought a pack of 25 blank dvd - r discs from Leeds city market Verbatim 16x usually buy online forget Pc world and the like what a mark up its amazing how many people still buy from this type of outlet i would have to be desperate to shop at this type of retailer or not know better.

need to get some summer wear sorted out for lounging about walking the dog and going to work in more so more or less a new wardrobe need to be lose and cool need some better shades and a decent water bottle for the bus journey home seeing the heating never goes of and the office i work out of aint got air conditioning going to be doing alot of sweating need a new fan for the bedroom as well we broke it last year and i know we will forget to replace it until you cant find a fan to buy for love or money.

will feel better when the clocks go forward in coming weeks at least will be lighter for longer on a night and can start sitting out on a night with a cold beer watching the bats fly to the church tower and eat tea out on the patio hopefully.want a small portable dvd player so i can watch a film and chill into the night............

All the building work is now complete they do have to do a snaging list but apart from that its all done
i did have three days off last week the electrics including the ceiling fan and switches sockets and outside lights was completed along with all the laminate floor in in the new build the living room and kitchen was done.

All in all everything looks well bought a new sony dvd player and a samsung tv in white I built the table and six chairs only four in use the others are in the shed and the cabinet which holds a cd/mp3 player and my wifes laptop dvd player and dvd 's.

we do need more greenery and some other plants and ferns and other odds and sods like a clock ,mirror I'm not sure about perhaps not and some pot ware ornaments etc etc .

we have ordered a brown three seater leather settee and a leather footstool which is a twelve week delivery but that will appear after all the bits and pieces are finished off and some painting is done on the fresh plaster walls and a general good builders clean is completed on the white pvc frames glass and the roof panels the bricks need doing with a acid wash both inside and out and some glazing beads replacing.we need to sort out blinds as well which i know can cost a fortune last time we got blinds for our old conservatory it was £3800 a waste of money what possessed us i don't know. i don't want to spend any where near that amount £600 - £800 max and the less the better ,

My Sister's finally picked up my Mothers ashes from the funeral directors i bought a silver cherub pill box just after she had died and had some her ashes put in and sealed this purpose in mind when i bought it and there cant be more than a tea spoon full of ash in there but none the less i feel better and somehow i feel she is there with me in what ever shape or form that maybe, i don't class myself as a Norman Bates type at all but if anyone out there wants to buy a rundown motel drop us a line hehe.
It makes me wonder what will happen when i pass away , which of life's compost heap or council rubbish tip's will i end up on will even anyone bother collecting my ashes am i bothered if they don't hopefully that wont be for sometime yet .

The conservatory is coming on well now all the glazing is complete the floor is in ready for the laminate floor covering going in Friday the roof apart from the guttering is finished the back wall hopefully gets plastered tomorrow before the floor is finished off the double patio doors from the room are in place the door that leads in from the kitchen is also in place the radiators second fix on Saturday and the ceiling fan and internal lights Monday the porch should get more work on it in the next few days

Pigged out at the wok-in at dinner time it was someones last day so a few of us headed out for food but no alcohol had two bowls of ice cream to finish off and not forgetting the diet coke to wash it all down with.
Got home and work had started on the porch to the front of the house it really goes up quickly and makes the front of the house really stand out from the other three house's in our row of four

thought the roof looked different to what we had agreed will wait till its done and see if its what we wanted saying that sometimes it is better to go with the flow i thought it was going to be slated to match the roof it looks like it will be plastic will see what wifey says when see gets home.

Back at the Hospital tomorrow looking after the kids ward no rest for the wicked got two days annual leave and two days flexi to get in yippee got some flat pack furniture to build the bathroom to finish off and no doubt some painting to do as well cant wait.

Asda selling ps2 for £50 want one do as a dvd player going to need a new dvd player might have to chat to the wife will still want a x-box 360 as well i think might just go for a ps2 instead the new i-pod phones look wicked 4gig mp3 player to boot and a decent digital camera wont come cheap might get one if i can get a basic contract package deal.

Conservatory update no work was done Monday or Tuesday work commenced on Wednesday all the windows and doors went up on Wednesday along with the boxed guttering wall side of house and the work on the roof began Thursday all of this was done by a two man team
i think they will complete on time once its all water proof can start putting furniture in and look at leather settee corner unit we have had a couple of sofas and settees from Argos in the past and to be fair they have always been a good quality might look at Argos for price and quality before all these so called designer outlets and stores doing offers all the time

No kids cats OR dogs just a X-box 360 , my I-pod , Dvd and t.v and a cold bottle of Magners please and a perfect sky just bought The Skin Gods by Richard Montanari its set in Philadelphia in cheap motel showers and seedy night clubs along with seedier porno films and serial killers with chainsaws great bed time reading think its sounds like the Nicolas Cage film 8mm along with jigsaw form the saw movies so if the wife goes missing you all know wher i got the idea from hehe

Here are some views on my way to work it changes with the seasons and i think i appreciate walking rather than driving straight to and from work i had the car for a week and a day whilst the kids where on holiday and it only took twenty five minutes max to get home but i did miss my walk into and from town especially if there is anything i need from W.H.Smiths or Borders etc
i which i had a job just constructing wooden brides like this one on new developments i would really like to live near water and all this looks deep its no more than a foot deep and attracts frogs ducks and dragon flies and in summer is usually covered with water lilies you can just see Leeds Parish church on the skyline


All of the dock side development i have seen built and the changing landscape around taking shape in the last six years a basic 1 bedroom apartment with the worlds smallest balcony are on the market for 185k not including parking that comes at a 20k extra or so i have been told.
The royal armouries is on the left off the picture below

My mother passed away one year ago today , so to a dear MUM God and his all his Angels be with you hope you are at peace now and chillin out with Dad and all family friends and relatives that have passed away before us .

My Mum had a hard life her Mother died whilst giving birth to her and her father passed away before she was 2 years old so hopefully they are all now reunited where ever you my be all my love hugs and kisses your loving son Robert xxx

Finished work yesterday and i headed for home my Sister and her Husband was there on his Suzuki motorbike
He took my son out for quick spin on it whilst I had a quick coffee .

Then my son jumped in the car and I headed for the cinema at xscape in Castleford wanting to to go to the 4.20pm showing of Hot Fuzz we both walked up to the kiosk to purchase two tickets when I was asked how old was my son i replied 15 the girl at the kiosk than asked for proof I told her I am his father and that I was vouching that he was of 15 years old.

still no joy with out the proof no tickets i asked what if my son stood out of view and she just sold me two tickets for Hot Fuzz no joy she wouldn't the jumped up little jobs worth she ruined are Sunday afternoon out just because she could.

It is now a mission to get in with my son and watch Hot Fuzz hehe watch this space will try next Sunday instead we had a couple games of air hockey and went to burger king then trotted of home to watch Shaun of the dead on dvd.

The brickwork is now all complete yippee and the floor joist's are in position the rest should start Tuesday all being well got to pay the remainder 80% of the price the final installment when we are happy that there is nothing left to do including any snagging or finishing off.

Finally finished reading James Patterson's Mary Mary i don't know why it took me so long as its a really good gripping read and i am already wanting his newest novel which previewed at the end of Mary Mary and should be out in the next few months.

Going to the pictures tomorrow with my son to see Hot Fuzz cant wait,will go after i finish work at 4.20 p.m going to xscape to see it might even buy the coke and over priced popcorn wont be the same taking our own hehe.

Got Johnny Depp chocolate factory to watch on dvd and the wilderness might have to wait to watch them a bit to busy atm watching C.S.I tonight and primeval.

Found out today peoples jobs are to go through out the Council because the contract for new deal as not been awarded last year.
they are asking people over 50 who are in the pension if they want v.r volunteer redundancy with 6 and half years added on for those under fifty including myself its severance pay depending on how long you have worked there i have 15 years in.

Last year a friend of mine got offered and left with 24k under his belt he had more years in than me but was on a lower grade and he as not really looked back he is in Europe atm in his mobile home a kon - tiki swift he as emailed me photos and its well cool but not sure it will do more than 15 mile to the gallon he and his wife are just following the sun he did also sell his house for added finance and had other investments like isa's endowments etc he had to cash in for more funding he is a few years younger than me as well .

But at the time i did admire his guts to become a traveler a nomad, hippie or whatever other tag fits his bohemian life he is living atm .

I am not saying this is for me , well it is but the wife would never agree to live this type of life style and we do have children at school age and the dogs , cat etc etc.
to fit in with our plans as well he did'nt it was just him and his good lady.

so its a total different ball game for us anyway but leaving the job i have done for the last 15 years would be life changing in a lot of different ways.

I could keep the weekend job as a regular pay check i would even earn more because my tax allowances would be towards that jobs wages so it would be around £30 a week increase about £150 after tax for 15 hours work .

my superannuation would be frozen from my old job for when i am retired when ever that will finally be.

I could try and fit and install kitchens on free lance basis not unlike like a business or similar work i am a trained city and guilds joiner with cscs card which would sort out the rest of the week Mondays to Fridays i used to fit kitchens all over England for MFI as displays in all the stores showrooms which was nation wide .

if i don't get a kitchen every week so what the eck i still got the weekend job and the severance pay to fall back on i can also get other part time work or full time work as long as it don't interfere with my weekend job life should be sweet life ain't that easy though and will have to give it big thoughts as to what avenue i walk down

All the brickwork is now complete along with the first fix for the electrics lights and five double sockets which we hope is enough but no doubt there will be a couple of trailing extensions in use once its all up and running.
the gas pipes for the central heating either side of the French doors are ready for the radiators and valves to be fitted got to use a freeze pack to freeze the water in there radiators to avoid having to drain down the whole system which will save time , as i have never seen this done i am quite intrigued.

The sleeper walls for the joists are in place and i think the joists will go in once the build is weather proof to the outside elements, the plastic and glass starts is to be fixed this Tuesday , i am not sure how long this will take but i cant it seeing be too long as its more of just fit and fix and it is all pre-made in the factory as long as the measurements are ok then it should all fall in to place.

There is the box guttering to do and the roof is all in sections and should be pretty straight forward the rest of the brick work on the porch will done tomorrow as long as the weather holds.

The concrete foundation is already in place and half the cavity wall is built to the finish level of the existing windows as pictured left had to move the outlet for the dryer but was no big deal i reckon another 3 to 4 weeks and we should be all done and back to normal .

Not much has happened the last few days no building work as happened over the last few days.
i think they are still constructing the conservatory in the factory and i reckon that will be at least another week the brick work should only now take another two days if the weather permits the laying of bricks and mortar.

would really like a job at Ikea , doing the kitchen and bedroom displays it would have to be mainly in the Leeds store,
why iam not too sure i use to do similar for MFI years ago fitting out displays all over England and really liked the work i would like to do the same but without the traveling.

it would mean leaving my job of 15 years and it might be all a pipe dream i do think i am at a stage when i am just board with the way things are panning out and want to make changes and wipe the slate clean and start again also i would have to drive to and from work each day which beats getting the bus it would be about a 30 min drive,

another big plus is i do love the Swedish meatballs they serve in store and the hot dogs so dinner tea and supper would be sorted hehe and also by trade i am a qualified joiner , i bet the money and over time would be decent there is no over time in my present job and i could also pack my Hospital job that i do on the weekends which would make life more sweet.

will phone up tomorrow and inquire if they have any vacancies and take it from there...........

Been bugging the wife would really like a x-box 360 for various reasons , i can get one flashed plus ten games for a really good price of £270 nearly giving it away and i do like gaming when the mood takes me , i don't go out drinking or gambling or chase loose women, also i have stopped smoking two years ago in March i work seven days a week and i don't ask for much.

apart from tech stuff sush as pc's with wireless connections and broadband connections ,dongles card readers and memory sticks (well cheap now anyway be a fool not to have two or three knocking about the place), bluetooth essential with mobile phones , psp's and i-pods digital cameras etc etc etc .i have not even mentioned getting vista upgrade for windows xp yet save that one for later on lol.

I take £2.50 a day to work i have a metro card for the bus so all i have to buy is food when i want a magazine a book cheap dvd cd etc i get it on the debit card.

all in all i don't moan we will have quite a few quid left when the extension is paid for and is fully furnished which my wife will have carte blanch on just about which i again i don't mind.

But yet all i ask for is a x-box 360 is this so unreasonable i do have a ordinary x-box so why she asks do i want want yet another one , i say that principle only applies to f --cking wifes hehe and not to technology god bless her ..................................

The Brickwork part of the build should be completed by next Tuesday had to alter some gas pipes so they can go under the joists along with the wife o/j no one call the police lol the plumber is charging £25 a hour or part hour worked he want at least £50 if we wanted the wife rid off hehe , i hope he don't scratch his Porsche taking out his pipe bending machine and the rest of his money making machine hehe as long as he don't blow the house up and want paying for his dinner breaks hehe.

Its been forecast on the council internet site that its a 60% chance we are getting snow by Thursday so i guess a heatwave is heading its way up north to Leeds i hope so can,t wall bricks if its too cold.

Had an important meeting at work and i totally forgot to attend it, talk about snubbing the main man rather a bit like a devout catholic giving the pope the finger he might get over it by Christmas the boss not the pope that is.

The fact is he is never at our base anyway and he works the other side of Leeds but he was in early on this morning because i saw him and wished him good morning why then the pillock could not have reminded me about the so called drop everything important bloody meeting with lashings of ginger beer the Pratt the man bloody still wears ultravox trousers yeah the ones with the zippers on the pockets so his tissue dont fall out with his blackberry organizer strapped on to his belt...........beam me up scotty , the tosser and basically I'm getting a bollocking for not attending a meeting because i was out getting a £2500 job outcome the meeting i was to attend is to discuss the outcome of is extra duties i do and nothing in common with my main duties iam contracted to do or outcomes i have to achieve,

Worst part of it all is i missed the meeting i was out just driving about Leeds listening to Galaxy and just basically tossing it off i called in home to pick my mobile phone i had put it on charge the night before and i didn't pick it back up silly me.

I also went to a butchers i know along the way where the pork pies are outta this world or as good as they get i also got an apple slice as well and was in no rush to get back to base not exactly pedal to the metal unless where talking break and it was only when i got back to work i found out my error oops they can only sack me once hehe everyone else thought i was cool hehe after they all had pissed them selfs laughing at my expense. the wife didnt see the funny side i explained it help if you had a sense of humour to start with, the words was lost on her hehe.

Atm been listen to Primal Scream albums dirty hits and screamadelica vanishing point and riot city blues i didn't realize what a wicked group they are anybody out their not really listened to them got out and get scremadelica.

Had today off work as a flexi day did nothing washed the car and watched the Sentinel on dvd with Michael Douglas and Keifer Sutherland and Kim Basinger overall it was ok did fall asleep but i normally do if i get too comfy.

They Started on the electrics
on the extension just primely running out the cable deciding where the sockets are going which amount to five double sockets the floor is going to be joists and timber instead of concrete which i do prefer.

Got work tomorrow at the Hospital so all I'm doing now is cooking my wifes tea taking my dog out and jumping into the bath .Have a few bottles of Bud and bed