Got a load of Mexican pine furniture coming this Friday for the living room , dining room and our bedroom including wardrobes drawers and bookcases and tv stand .
Got Thursday off annual leave , this is to rip out the wardrobes out of our alcoves and chimney breast and move stuff around,hope they do get delivered Friday or we are going to be left with one big mess and no storage space at all.will need to repaint walls ceiling and floor once the alcoves are back to the original layout of the room.
I think I will be only working one day this weekend either the Saturday or the Sunday
So I have one day to get everything assembled and in situ hopefully without any hiccups.

MONDAY
This morning we set of for Cheddar , got that sat nav programmed in and updated , the egg mayo sarnies where freshly made, Helen insists on cutting them into quarters, along with two flasks, one coffee one tea.First stop petrol station filled up and started to head south we left at half past ten.only stopped off once on the way at a service station and got to cheddar at around half past two .I was impressed parked up three pound all day to park ,the views and scenery around us it was idyllic the rocks and cliffs with the road meandering through the gorge was as good as the Lakes or Scotland.




we called in to a few shops and walked down in to the rest off the village .called in for a chicken panini with cheese at Edelweiss cafe , i want to buy some scrump cider, i have never had cider other than stuff that's sold and bought from supermarkets and local off licence


Left just after five o clock , to set of for Bristol to stay at our Friends house about 20 miles away. On route we stopped at Priddy close to the gorge , where Diana Dors lived ,and is buried at the local church in unmarked grave so we are told.



Thanks to to the sat nav got to Bristol and the house we are staying at for the next two nights with out a hitch, We are staying in the summer house which was at the bottom of there garden and was built by hand not from a kit or pre assembled for under £1600.
We was on a sofa bed it was warm it was all electric with heaters and spot lights , and the bed wasn't that bad most of all it was free thank you Kerri and Paul ,we slept ok, it was a new experience made me think about converting our garage in to a summer house or guest house we cant get the Landrover in because of the drive and up and over garage doors.




Tuesday
went to Morrison's at Bristol for breakfast and headed for Illfracombe about 112 miles away. Helen bought me a silver ring which was very touching and will always remind me of our visit to Cheddar .

Called at Lynton and Lynmouth all these places Helen had been to before for me i had never been this far south for years and had never been to these villages and towns i have to say everywhere we went i loved and i want to go back and visit more places in Cornwall and coastal villages and towns as soon as we can .




WEDNESDAY
Heading over to Surrey later today to pick the fireplace that we bought of eBay went back to Cheddar had a great breakfast at this cafe everything was locally produced a apart from the baked beans.Bought a cask of scrumpy and we headed of to Surrey to pick the fire up just after twelve o clock 223 miles away finally go to the address and loaded the fire place and surround into the car just fit headed back to Leeds.

SATURDAY
Dropped Helen of at work she had spent until well after midnight last night at A&E with her son Liam he was having problems again with his heart racing and him feeling unwell,he got the ok from the doctors and was sent home.I went to Temple Newsham with my son Guy took quite a few photos of him climbing trees and walls until i dropped him off at two o clock.
picked Helen up at three and then went over to york to see the Ragdoll kittens and pay a deposit for our two cats which was one hundred pounds they will be ready in early June .
SUNDAY
Both of us worked until three o clock chilled out in the afternoon helen went to bed i washed my freelander at eightwe went over to Greengates to my Nephew Mark and his partner Sue for Sunday dinner we had been invited because they have just had a new kitchen fitted and had also invited my two sisters and there partners we had chicken and pork and all the trimmings some of the vegetables eaten where organic and were fresh out of the allotment Sue tends to and she as on rent from the council which i s £15.00 a year we still have not got a cooker so any offers of food and Sunday dinners never get turned down.

Helen made our Easter tree like she id last year we have more eggs on this years tree and hopefully there will be more eggs on next years tree as well button our rabbit was bought on Good Friday last year instead of a Easter egg .

Guy stayed last night picked him up after i finished work at half past eight.Today Helen and i both worked together at the Creche buffing the floors we worked until three o'clock , after got home and had a coffee i went with Guy to see Fast and Furious 4 at the Showcase cinema it was ok saw the trailer for the new terminator film which looked worth going to see along with the new x-men film wolverine.

Last night when i finished work i picked up Helen from home at around half eight and we went over to Doncaster to pick up a cat PlayStation with platforms and scratch poles that Helen had bid for and won on eBay for a tenner. They sell for around £70 I got the sat nav out and keyed in post code of the ebay seller , and set off after i had eaten two chicken and mozzarella toasties with cherry tomatoes... got there without a hitch got to say the sat nav has got to be one of the best presents i have ever had, its worth its weight in gold. Again it would have took us ages to find the address if we had not got a tom tom to guide us .just need our kittens we are going back over to York this coming Saturday to pay the deposit for the ragdoll kittens although it wont be June until we have them.

Got a plan for next week hope it all pans out as we would like it to, Monday set of for Bristol at around half seven in the morning leave Leeds we are staying overnight at Bristol with a friend we worked with at the hospital a few years ago.

She stayed with us when she did card readings for people we know. She is going to put us up in a summer house that they have, what they class as a summer house I have no idea hopefully it as a electric supply and is half warm with no leaking roofs. We are hoping that we can a wrangle another night and stay Tuesday night as well even if its freezing and the roof leaks , if that is possible we can then we can spend a full day from eight in morning till ten at night in cheddar.

Take loads of photos and get some local brewed pear cider , a decent Cornish pasty or two plus fish and chips, crab Sandwiches waffles and scone jam and cream yum yum yum then Wednesday get go over to surrey to pick the fire place and fire up we won on eBay then drive back to Leeds totally knackered but happy.

Helen put all the plants and shrubs that she bought from B&Q in the front garden yesterday afternoon.
She bought them the day that we took Ellie to the re-homing centre last week . Also Helen planted over two hundred bulbs that we bought from Selby market last year ,they should pop up during the coming summer months , she weeded all of the weeds from the borders as well as lawn ,she swept all of the drive and paths and also weeded the back garden, needless to say she was totally knackered .

Breaking up this Thursday from job number one, I am working good Friday at job number two which is the hospital job .I do this shift is only from 9.00am until 15.00pm so it’s still a early finish I am not sure what shift I am down to do at the weekend I have Monday Tuesday and Wednesday off from both jobs three days no work plus I have Thursday and Friday off from job number one.

we have to pick up the pine fire place and gas fire that we won on eBay from Surrey one day next week which won’t be Easter Monday.

FRIDAY
Helen let our rabbit Button out of its hutch in to the garden its been coped up for ages she did this afternoon she let it out of its cage and now its been out for hours she will not go back in to her cage,so we have had to let it stay out so she is going to be out all night as we are off to bed .Hopefully it cant get out of the garden and nothing can get in to the garden to hurt it, the mad bunny.
SATURDAY
didn't work until twelve o clock i still dropped Helen of at seven o clock went home then went in to town bought three black t-shirts from Primark and six pairs of black socks finished work at half past six.

Finally got the rabbit Button in we trapped it using the plastic washing laundry basket, i quickly grabbed it and it kicked and scratched but i quickly turned it on to its back all rabbits go quite docile and wont struggle when you do this to them they stop trying to get away try it if you don't believe it, i then put her back in to her hutch safe and well .

Helen and myself went to meet my two sisters and their partners in the owl pub at Rodley near to where we use to live had a bottle of pear cider,from there we went to the Karachi curry house in Bradford had a meat curry a chicken korma three chapattis two poppadoms 2 portions of onion bahjees one pilau rice and one portion of chips £14.80 for the two of us .

SUNDAY
Dint go to work Helen booked a days holiday went over to york to see some kittens at two different locations some over at whenby one side of york which looked like it was something out of wrong turn and the cats didn't fair much better the cats and dogs all together in the garden that looked like the dingles would turn there nose up at.
The second lot of kittens faired much better and were Ragdolls, the lady who kept them loved them all dearly she had numerous kittens and cats , some just a few days old some a month old and other weeks old we have picked two kittens from different litters and bloodlines a Tom and a Queen seeing that we are going to have a go at breeding them.

we go back in two weeks to pay deposit and to make sure they are both living one of the female we have chosen is only a few days old and we don't even know how her true colours or markings be until she is a few weeks older.

Went to two different pet shops and bought a new litter tray to go on the landing a cat carrier for transport and trips to the vet , and round orb like wicker cat sleeping basket its on a stand to keep it of the floor out of draughts and it can roatate to what postion you want this only cost nearly fifty pounds which Helen saw it fell in love with it and bought it.

Went to the red bus cafe on the A64 on the way back home,this was at around half past two and we had a late breakfast still as good as ever everthing cooked to perfection.

Received letter from solicitor requesting forty pounds to pay to the court for my absolute completing i will have to sort it out and drop in to his office and pay the amount early next week I want to be totally free I don’t want to be married for one day longer than I need to be , i will be as free as Helen is , and we be two single people living together.

The house is really quite without Ellie its strange coming home and her not barking and running up to the door the kitchen looks bigger without her bed and food bowls. Helen spent all day yesterday cleaning the house from top to bottom, think it was mainly to get rid of any trace of Ellie which I cant blame her for.

Yesterday got two text messages of Helen stating that our westie is uncontrollable and mental. It’s been getting more aggressive lately, to the point that you can’t even leave the room without it attacking you , barking and generally going crazy. Enough is enough , so we have made a decision to let it go.

It constantly follows Helen every where she goes in the house, she can’t even go to the toilet without it following her it even gets in the shower when she washes her hair or has a proper shower .

we have had enough and the neighbour's must be sick of hearing it bark and yap we cant leave the door open it goes out side and creates anyone that passes the gate , it barks at or any noise that it hears and it sets it off.

I booked it in to rescue centre to get it re housed , we went along yesterday afternoon to drop it off , i finished work early , it was sad but the choice was made by the dog by its own bad behaviour.

A pet at the end of the day is suppose to relax and calm you down and be a pleasure to have and own, not to agitate and wind you up and get to the stage where you could lose you patience with it on a hourly basis. it was dropped of and we went home to peace and quite it was strange this morning not having it around but we will adjust.

Helen picked up a load of plants to go in to the garden at the front of the house.

I went to Max Spielmann and printed some photographs of from a memory stick using the kodak in house photo both one of my memory sticks it wouldn't recognise that it had been connected but the other one i had with me was fine.

I was impressed with the quality and the time it took to complete my order, and the price of 45p a photo i felt was right, i just had eighteen done to see how they turned out , i now plan on making regular trips to get more done i will need to invest and buy a big clip art frame for the dining room wall i want to change the frame as and when i get more printed, you can guess who they are mostly of.

Been looking online at exotic cats breeds we thinking of getting two that we can breed from, it be another source of income and be better than having another dog Helen would look after the litter of kittens when i was at work .

Back to the building society today to draw out more money to pay more fcuking bills, i got the council tax bill to pay which is £134, also sky TV package to pay for which is £38 and the 2nd payment for our TV license which is £27 .

When i got up this morning i went to the local shop AND put £30 on the gas metre card and £20 on the electric metre as well.

Yesterday i paid £98 mobile phone bill WHICH WAS WELL OVER TWO MONTHS DUE .

I paid the mortgage I have with Helen which is £808 Thursday last week , and paid £500 on my joint mortgage with the ex wife on the Friday as well . on top of all this I have £160 a month car repayments and £75 for insurances for house and contents and life insurance.

I got paid £1408 from my main job and £902 from my second employment I have food and diesel to get me to and from work for another three weeks at this moment in time I have £738 in my building society account.

we have to collect a gas fire and pine fire surround which have slate back and hearth o pick up over Easter holidays that we won on Ebay, winning bid £105 , the thing is we have to go down to Surrey to collect it yippee , Helen bought me a Tom-tom sat nav for last Christmas, we have used it a few times on various journeys and they do save time and money since you don’t go miles out of your way or get lost.

Other interesting things I did today I bought six free range duck eggs and had my haircut, who now says my life is boring .

After having her Mobile phone disconnected for the last fifteen days , Helen has finally managed to pay her mobile phone bill and it was finally reconected and switched back on mid afternoon today , this is a new record for her mobile being disconnected by her provider which just happens to be the same as mine o2.

Saturday afternoon went to the White Rose shopping centre , this was after Helen had finished work at half past one.When we got there no where to park it was full as far as the eye could see everywhere was grid locked , cars waiting to park up and cars waiting to leave, cars trying to back out of spaces to exit, but no space to move in to. Nothing was leaving and nothing was moving any great distancesfor minutes at a time we was more or less stationary, after twenty minutes Helen got out of the car and went in the shopping mall, She called in to Debenham's to get some foundation and blusher which was well forty four quid, she should have stayed in the car , she came back to the car as I still had her debit card i borrowed it the night before when i went to the garage for some cigs , I was more or less in the same place she went back again and made her purchase , she also went to Gregg's for pasties egg mayo sanrnies and coke .she returned back to the car , I had moved fifty yards it took another fifty minutes to exit and get on the dual carriage way and home ward bound we was nearly hour and a half stuck in a bloody car park least we had our pasties’ and coke and egg mayo .

Helen is now addicted to Panini’s she loves the chicken and mayo ones with a order of side salad and fries , we get them from a pizza take away near to where we use to live over Farsley. She had one Saturday night and one Sunday night so I had to join he and was forced in to getting my fav two nights running also doner kebab meat and fries with cheese and chili sauce, quite a few calories i know worse thing going for fat and cholesterol a heart attack every mouthful.

Paid my o2 bill this dinner time £98.11p ouch it is for two months billing, I don’t know how I got away with it so long without getting my phone blocked , good excuses I guess, as i stopped direct debit ages ago and closed my then existing bank account,so can’t pay over the phone or online,without debit or credit card atm I have neither, you can’t even go into a o2 shop and pay your bill over the counter is that utterly stupid or what .

They had to send me a giro payment slip so I could walk in to a bank and pay, it which I had to ask for twice, my contract is up in may looking at o2 simplicity sim card over 12 month contract to me look like some very good deals on offer stick with my original hand set LG viewty which does me for the time being.

Helen as been busy leading the windows the lead cost £15.00 for a fifty metre roll we bought two rolls.bought a Mexican pine coffee table second hand like new for forty pounds for the living room .Helen also has been busy staining the banister again we are going to paint the spindles cream .

Opened a new bank account with the Yorkshire bank will get a card to make withdrawals from the hole in the wall the Leeds building society don't issue hole in the wall cards which makes life difficult all i have is a pass book and can only make withdraw ls by physically going in to the branch .Both wages did go in to the Leeds account i was worried they wouldn't, one wage went in on the Thursday and one in on the Friday none went in to the old account with the Halifax.

This morning I took Helen to our doctors so she could get her inoculations for her holiday to Egypt, she flies out on the 7th of May for two weeks
Helen hates needles although she does have two tattoos on her lower back ,for the last couple of days she has been losing sleep over having to get her holiday jabs done .
She needed to have two injections one in each arm , I held her hand and kissed her whilst she looking away from the nurse and was being injected two times.

I then had to drop her off home had a quick cup of coffee with her before I left for work. at least today will go that bit faster.

I got a email of Helen saying whilst she was out she passed a second hand/charity shop and spotted a large antique pine mirror it maybe second hand but it will still be new to us and we have been wanting to get one to sit on top of the fireplace in the living room since we moved in ,and for only £25 its a great bargain , so I am going to finish work half a hour early this afternoon to go and pick it up with her before I go to my job at the hospital .

Yesterday i had the day off we decided to go over to Bolton Abbey and take Ellie our westie with us it was sunny but cool got over there just around dinner time parked up near the Pantry and Tea Cottage walked down to the Abbey and down to the water Ellie went in the river there was ducks about but she did'ntt fuss over them or try to attack them .
Walked along the course of the river and crossed using the bridge near to were the stepping stones are and followed the course of the river up to the bridge at the other end wanted do the walk through the Strid wood but didn't have time will come back with a picnic hamper at around Easter time , We then followed the road back to near where we had parked up this took us over a good two hours to get us back to somewhere near to where we started , went to the Tea cottage for afternoon tea had a pot of tea and a pot of coffee with two scones with home made jam and clotted cream for under eight pounds .

Took Helen to work then i went home due to the fact i was not down to do a shift.
Started cutting and fitting the spindles that we bought for the stairs it’s a while since I have done any joinery work
I bought a brand new hard point saw for the job and it cut the angles spot on without running out did the main flight
Of about sixteen spindles before I had to pick Helen up at one o clock did the rest when we got home finished at around eight o’ clock .
Went to Helen's parent house for tea we had two chickens in the freezer her mum agreed to cook them for us seeing we still don’t have a cooker.
Her dad gave us a washing post we can put in the rear garden £21 at B&Q

Sunday
Both of us went to work and we both finished at three in the afternoon went to Wickes bought some post fix for the washing line post and some white primer for the wooden spindles .
Went for a drive and ended up at the Whitehouse at Roundhay for something to eat I had peppered sausages with mash washed down with pear cider and Helen had scampi with side salad washed down with half a lager and lime.

What a day yesterday went to work at the hospital after I finished my college job and decided to give Helen a call see how she was ,no answer left it 15minutes called again no answer so sent a text RU OK ,no reply left it ten minutes called the land line no answer waited ten minutes called the land line again still no answer so i texted a message to her phone again waited no reply so i left a voicemail message and waited again no reply.

I thought she might have gone to her parents house to return the photographs we scanned in last night and forgotten to take her phone, so I called them at their house they had not seen or heard from her all day,all of this happened over the space of over two hours finally.

I finally got a phone call from her she had left her phone on charge in the bedroom we both do this as we use them for alarm clocks had gone back downstairs and had fallen asleep on the sofa and of course didn’t hear her phone ringing.

Helen does complain of dizzy spells and had been known to pass out it happened once at work last year so there was reason for me to be worried another thought I had was she started painting off the ladders and had lost her footing and fallen.

When I got home she was not in the house was in total darkness and the door confined to the kitchen ten minutes later she returned her eldest son was kicking off he has lost his job a few weeks ago and had split up with his girlfriend to top it all he left his bike on the drive and someone had it away he was sending silly texts messages that had Helen worried enough to go seek him out.
He hangs out near his father’s house which is a council estate on the wrong side of town Helen was upset and concerned so she went looking for him with her friend you had called round and had a car just to make sure he didn’t do anything untoward to himself or others.

Another thing had happened her youngest son who is only thirteen was sent home from school he was having feeling faint and his heart was racing and beating too fast later on in the afternoon it happened again , he ended up going to casualty at around half past eight at night took get checked out , I took Helen round to her mums house and dropped her off with her mother at the casualty department they did all the checks blood levels, sugar levels and hooked him up to a ECG he got a clean bill of health and was sent home .

Helen got back home just after midnight we cooked potato waffles egg and bacon put in to a bread cake for tea/supper watched Jade Goody’s wedding ceremony on living tv which just depressed us even more was quarter to two when we went up to bed .AND TO CAPE IT ALL ITS FRIDAY THE 13TH TODAY CANT WAIT .

Finished work last night got home as I was supposed to be finishing the painting to the landing stairwell off the ladders that I had borrowed a few weeks ago.

Helen months ago borrowed some photographs and albums of her mother which to her mum are a bit less priceless to her then the crown jewels are to the Queen they safely moved house with us just before Christmas, her mother is worried they will get miss laid lost ,stolen or destroyed by water, damp, wood worm, mice, fire ,lighting the dog the cat etc etc.

Anyway last night we was suppose to take them back her mother she has asked on numerous other occasions for their safe return but they was still waiting to get scanned in to the computer using a flat bed scanner I have , so after tea last night at around half past nine we started to scan them to the pc one by one we must have done around 150 photos of holidays old family shots in black and white holidays birthdays houses etc a entire life time contained in a few albums and some nice ones of Helen twenty years ago with a perm and brown hair hehe but still so very sexy and attractive was looking for the swim suit ones no joy.

So it was well after 2’o clock when we finally got to bed this morning and later when we got to sleep hence why I am so bloody tired today .

Helen is going to go to Egypt in May for two weeks,I am going to miss her more and more each day when she does leave and two weeks is going to be a life time especially for the first few days.

But i am going to work hard and go to bed early and sleep though and count the days until she safely returns home.Buy four books to read and watch DVDs and chill out when she does return tanned and refreshed i will take some holidays and spend a few days alone with her with out the interruption of work hopefully if i can get holidays from both jobs sorted out to coincide with each other

This will be the longest we have ever been apart, leaving her each morning that i go to work and not seeing her for twelve hours most days is way too long, so two weeks is going to be a life time and 1 day will feel like 1 week .

Had a mate round to price up putting a RSJ in and taking down the kitchen and dining room wall it will be about £100 to get the 7x4 RSJ cut to size and delivered and I reckon he will want £250 to £300 for doing the job then we got another £70 for the cost of a skip to dispose of the bricks and kitchen units that we will have to rip out.

Finished work at half eight last night picked Helen up and we went to ikea again , bought a wicker dog basket four candles and two rugs for one of the bedrooms went to a local Indian take away got a wicked mushroom basmati rice chicken curry poppadoms and chapattis probably not the best thing to eat at midnight just before bedtime but when the hunger pangs hit and the choice is Chinese or Indian then its usually no option although I love Chinese duck in curry sauce the bill came to £13.50 and they knocked it down to £10.80 for some reason they always do this .