I have the next ten days off and the next five nights off from work today its just a chill out day doing nothing in particulate , Went to White Rose shopping centre to PC World and bought a 1T/B Western Digital external hard drive , had fish and chips then went to Primania and bought a pair of jeans so much better than river island whose also go under the crotch after about a year and are four times the price.

SATURDAY
my aunt ivy died bless her she was 97 years old and hopefully winging her way to meet her son Paul who died way too soon before her her husband jack and my mother and father Ethel and Ted another one of the clan now gone R.I.P.

Received a letter from college offering another added two years on to my redundancy package which equates to around another £1000 more the better got to look at a thousand quid means food for another three months electric and gas paid all helps.

I will also insure my car and tax it for a year outright plus a service and any other work that is appropriate either in case i need to sell it or just because its unlikely i will get another one so have to look after the one i have.

drove to Mattock Bath where they have the cable car taking you across the gorge up to Abraham heights cost of two adults was £25 once at the top there is a mine and cave to explore didn't go up this time might go back and do the cable cable car to get some ariel shots of the town below , from there we went to Bakewell which was only 9 miles away a great little place to stop off with some shops and cafes to visit.



Sunday
went to garden center at Uppermill called in to the Ford inn for lunch the weather was not has good as yesterday and it was cold and grey

Saturday we spent most of the day driving around the villages near to the Peak district going from place to place just taking photos every so often stopping for a coffee , it was raining very overcast very windy and dark with lots of rolling clouds cloudy.At Holmfirth we called in to the local baker and bought a pork pie and a apple pie to go with the flask of coffee we made.We called in at the local Antique shop
Ended up going in to the Ashley Jackson gallery/Studio which was just over the road the artist himself was in residance he took us upstairs to his private gallery to show his most expensive art work all done in water colours ranging from a few thousand going up to £60,000 ,why i have no idea we where dressed in our walking gear , he was down to earth and very chatty telling us about the meetings he had with L.S.Lowry the artist famous for his matchstick men paintings.He also should a print he had done for the world trade towers attack which Hangs at Nato head quarters in America , it had me wishing i had studied art need money do another painting, he was very interesting and i am glad he took time to show us his work and to chat to us, we was with him for twenty minutes , and it did make me feel to go out and by a sketch brushes a easel and some water colours.


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From Holmfirth went to Castle hill to the Queen Victoria tower which we have seen many times on the horizon but never checked it out made it to the top the view was endless could see for miles including Saddleworth Moor and the transmitters at Emily Moor.

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The tower was opened in 1899 and twenty thousand people turned up to witness the opening of the tower by the Earl of scarborough , it was original called the jubilee tower but was changed to victoria after the queen herself gave permission for her name to be used




Today Helen did part one of her reiki masters course which will take her a few months of self healing and other courses to attend and pass .

other stuff this week as just been work and sleep obviously work is still ending on the 31st July hopefully i will find a full time job as quick as possible , Pity i cant paint 40k to 60k a painting would be nice even if the tax is around 45% , was told by the man himself every piece of his art who ever owns it and is selling it on through the auction houses Ashley gets 1.5% of the overall sale price , which he also pays tax on , he is currently 70 years young might be a idea to use some of my redundancy to by a piece of art 3k will buy me a original and £400 a limited edition print , hopefully he be painting out and about for years to come.

Last night off we went up the m62 to Oldham heading for the the Bower Hotel to see the medium spiritualist clairvoyant Stephen Holbrook. He was very good in fact he was excellent the amount of incidents details along with time and dates he was telling different people was truly amazing , He has been doing readings for nearly thirty years and getting messages from his spirit guide Archie May who was a sergeant in the first world war, either killed in action or seriously maimed.Archie has guided Stephen whilst he has been doing meetings for the last twenty nine year.
With the help of James Christie three books "The light in the Darkness" "out of this world" and "survival" which all chart his life and are also on going autobiography and highlight his work.




Helen as been to see him six times now and has been impressed each time me only the once next time he is in Leeds i will go again.Comparing Steven Holbrook along side Sally Morgan i was more impressed with Stephen's prediction and performance i came out of his show wanting to know more about him as a person not so with Sally Morgan.

last day off from full time job working tonight going to clean the car it needs the black bumpers and door trims doing could also need a good t-cut and waxing got to start looking after it better than i do going to be a while if ever before i get another set of wheels.The body work is sound no rust as far as i can see and no dents or major scratches inside needs a good clean and some new car mats would,nt go a miss also a new cd/mp3 player would be nice nothing mega bucks just something bottom end of the market maybe if possible with a i-pod connection as well.



This one above does all required and at 10p under sixty quid is quite affordable at the moment its got the original land rover cassette player fitted which is a bit in the dark ages and seeing as i got rid of all my cassette tapes a eon ago very pointless , i wont bother getting any speakers loudness is sufficient with what i have in the car already years ago on my mark 111 escort i had a cheap graphic equalizer fitted which made a ton of difference with extra speakers on the rear shelf , but not bothered the volume half way up is loud enough these days. i could do with a leather steering wheel cover as well and a decent air freshener.

Then again when i loose my job and of course do less driving is it all a bit pointless should i be saving every penny i get to help with bills and buy food and clothes is tough don't know July is going to be here before i know it hopefully i will get another job but i get the feeling from people i have meet that are out of work have all said something similar twenty years in work and being made redundant with a very meager payout which equates to three quarters of a years salary as they say life goes on, when the disaster hit in Japan and all the people and country was torn apart it made me think why should i moan about anything perhaps i just get on with it and adjust when needed until then sod it i have another three months salary and the means of paying another years or 18 months mortgage repayments alot can happen in year and a half.any people out there got was of coping with less money please pass on your advice it would be appreciated.

Listening to :- The Stranglers Greatest Hits 1977-1990

Yesterday bought a black and colour cartridge for the Kodak printer , a ream of a4 paper and some black plastic folders and some plastic wallet inserts all for Helen's psychic work , after dropping her off at her Friends house in crossgates i went over to visit my daughter at her house in Woddlesford only a few miles away , ended up watching the James Bond film with Roger Moore "Live And Let Die " it was ironic it was one of the few films i went to the pictures to see with my father the other two being "Papillon" and "The Sting"





i suppose they was all classic films back in the days i remember going to see the James bond film it was at the odean in Leeds city centre and i should have been at school i to a note in and got out of the afternoon lesson so we could watch the film to this day still love the James bond films , Papillon was the first book i read from cover to cover whilst on holiday with my family at Scarborough.The Sting i guess it was one my Dad wanted to watch which i loved for its story line and of course the good guys won in the end.

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just remembered there was another classic film i watched with my father " Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid" that we watched together at the Clock Cinema Roundhay road which now is a electrical retailers was a great little cinema as was the Lyric on Tong Road which i went to years later.



last film i went to see with my Daughter was the Resident Evil film "Afterlife" after watching Jame Bond i stayed with my daughter and had a Chinese take away for tea with her it was nice to spend a couple of hours with her alone as i don't see her as often as i like , when you do reminisce and look back life is gone in a flash time is too short and unlike your favorite film we cant rewind play again our press pause , Just might buy all the four films shown abov ,and e Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid just might be the first.

well my last working day will be on the thirty first of July not that long taking off weekends holiday entitlement i have another 47 days left working for my current full time employer , my job i do on a night from half past four until half past eight will be my only source of income i will be losing around £1500 a month which is going to make life very hard.

Hopefully the first few months will set the scene for what follows , its obvious i am going to do my best to get another job whatever that is , as long as there is a wage attached then i will be oblige to take it hopefully it wont effect the job i do on s night. it might mean that i do a serious of part time jobs that nobody wants due to them signing on job seekers or getting other benefits, me working will mean i cant claim jsa or sign on but what other benefits or payouts i can get i have no idea for the last twenty years i have been in full time employment.

i suppose big changes will have to be made in the food we buy the bills we pay going out clothes we wear everything is touched by money its the royal wedding today they will never have to worry about housing bills shopping luxuries when the next lay offs or redundancies will affect the house and family and i guess that's the position we all want to be in but never will , HOW CHEAP CAN WE LIVE IS THE QUESTION THAT NEEDS ANSWERING MORE THAN ANYTHING.

The photo is a gargoyle over a door in Robin Hood's Bay

no work yesterday apart from my night job then off today apart from my night job then off saturday sunday monday and tuesday all day but then working wednesday but off wednesday night working thursday all day and night then off friday , which is the day of the royal wedding but will be working friday night , i am then off mayday the following monday but at this time i am not sure if its all day i have off or if i am working that night ain't life confusing.

Bought Russell Brands book "booky wook" to read whilst i am off ,and just in case the weather decides to change from this glorious sunshine ,the book was from the local charity shop only cost me a bargain £1.50 and its in mint condition.
Also i am planning on watching some films Anthony Hopkins in "The Rite" , "The Last Three Days" staring Russell Crowe and the "Season Of The Witch" with Nicholas Cage.

Hopefully over the next four days will get to Whitby and Robin Hoods bay which will be more opportunities for photographs to be taken need to purchase a 1.5 TB external hard drive for storage and would consider buying a media player for storing and watching films on which will free up some space on pc's laptops and other external drives i own , hopefully i am working the next few months before i get made redundant. A old school pal contacted me who lives in Canada considering it is well over 35 years since we was at school together was a nice surprise , one never knows one place my Dad loved and i have never been to is Canada apparently , we was emigrating there when we was little but it never happened all the paperwork was in place to go but my Father pulled out at the last minute.

Went to Yorkshire Sculpture park it was a long walk round took some brilliant photos and had a great lamb pie in the restaurant all in all it was a good day out loads of walking nice scenery but tiring.

my daughter stayed with us last night had our first barbeque of the year bought two disposable use once tray which are ideal and set them up in the garden did sausages burgers and chicken all tasted very good its the first time my daughter has stayed the night we all watched Wes Craven film "Take my soul" A total rubbish movie IN MY OPINION.

dropped my daughter of at the train station early this morning , we was all up at half six , we was taking her to the train station so she could meet her friend and head off to London for a hair show that is fully funded by her boss and his salon the tickets alone to the show are worth hundred pounds , lucky her

Called in to Leeds city center car boot sale just after half seven the parking is free entrance tickets in are a quid bought some rechargeable 2450 ni-mh AA batteries £2.00 for two i bought eight for our Fuji cameras.

decided to go to Edale not far from Lady bower reservoir took these pictures above was nice and sunny and very warm use the sat nav to get us back to Holmfirth from there went to Saddleworth and Upper-mill photos below.

Under the threat of redundancy at my full-time college job.been offered just over £11,500 but under £12,000 as a redundancy pay out which as been enhanced wow lucky me .will pay the mortgage for over a year and will stop paying basic rate tax on my second job but that's what I get for twenty years service , others I know are getting 5Ok plus which is more like it never rains but fucking pours.can't sign on cause I work two jobs so no doubt be Penalised to the max and will get no help what so ever.think I will be a caravan and live at the coast and fish all day for my supper least I will be tanned and stress free.What chance as anyone got of getting a job over fifty years of age or forty if it comes to it , this government and country just get better all the time why are we investing in wars and sending six hundred and fifty million to India and bailing other countries out of the shit when we are up to our necks in it fighting for survival.

On lighter note Helen did a craft fair which was quite good and has been busy doing Psychic readings which happened quite a lot over the last few weeks so it's not all doom and gloom also my daughter is staying over Saturday night which I am looking forward to , if she doesn't need to go to meadow hall with her I-phone might get to go to the coast for a days trip take some photos with my new camera.

finally got a new second Fuji fine pix s2800 hd camera second hand from a shop in Leeds city center i had to buy a 4gig memory card and a battery charger and set of batteries the camera cost £69,£179 pound new so it was a good bargain its in mint condition only thing missing is its lens cap if i had bought it new i would have had to get a memory card and batteries for it so i ain't moaning.its 14 million pixels and 18 optical with blink and smile recognition and will do for now.

Day off from my day job i have to go to a funeral service and cremation at Lawnswood a Friend i use to work with and live near to , his mother passed away aged 92 , he came to my mothers funeral so i feel obliged to do the same.Its been a while since i have seen him he lived with his mother after marrying then divorcing within the space of a year that was when he was twenty one he is now 65 years old he has lived in the same street in the same house since.he never had another partner and never got involved with another woman , he does not own a i- pod or any type of mp3 player laptop or computer doubt he would have any idea where to begin , he has no digital camera but has a mobile phone that he struggles to use as Bruce Willis said in one of his films he is a Timex watch in a digital age , he looked after his mother 100% of ever day for the last twenty odd years , me i think that its quite sad ,as he could have had loads of photos digital recordings of his mothers live and memories cause i know when my mother died i wished i had have had more i had very little of my dad he died way before i had a pc laptop digital camera , i went to the service with Helen , i didn't take my camera and nothing was recorded of her last existence on earth by the amount of people there i think it will be a while before she is forgotten R.I.P

Helen would really love to get her license and take driving lessons and then to pass her driving test so she could by one of these Nissan Figaro's , she has falling in love with them after seeing one the other weekend they are very retro and i do like them the interiors are very 50,s.

it would look brilliant parked next to my camper van which i would love to buy so we could load up with the goodies we would need for a weekend of on the road ,loads of warm bedding and pillows we would go touring to Scotland Ireland and the rest of the British isles.
We dream off parking them side by side on the drive of house we would love to buy over looking Dovestone reservoir , we never be in rain and shine we would walk all day taking photos of our travels and updating blogs along the way to tell of the people we have meet in the cafes pubs in towns and villages , be bliss be heaven we be happy beyond believe definitely need to win the lottery to be able to do it , if you don't have dreams not going to have any come true , it be us out of the rat race permanently , Helen could concentrate on her psychic medium work i be happy just recording history ,via the web one day soon hopefully.
Helen stayed out last night at her Friends in Flockton its only when someone is not there you realise that life is for sharing its better as a duet rather than solo ,pick Helen up in a few hours alas not in the camper van just yet.

Helen was a great success last night the medium who came was 100% impressed with all the messages and all the images Helen was recording from the world of spirit Helen is now believing in her self more and more each day , she is now getting messages so clear I can see the change in her . She is also so is worrying less about convincing people and we now know that both our destiny's will change dramatically sometime in march this year.We always believed we was put together for a reason and that it was for a purpose hopefully it will be clearer in March.
If true we are moving again but also keeping the house we have we won't be living in Leeds but a place we both go regular to it is has good has living in the country will have to wait and see.
after finishing work went to the friendly dragon at peice hall halifax Helen needed some Dorren virtue oracle cards unicorns and fairies i bought this pewter dragon,Helen had her first sandwhich at Subway she liked.
Also tonight we went to a spiritual meeting at Tranquility on stanningley road the lady who runs it was the medium you visited us last night at our house there was around 25 people there and she was very impressive

Just changed the design and art work of my blog because nothing stays the same and why should it.

My partner is psychic and has been getting messages for a lady who runs the slimming club Helen goes to which is in the church over the road from us , so was so impressed what Helen was telling her via text messages and odd phone calls that she asked if she could send a taxi to collect Helen and take her to where she lives , Helen of course agreed and went over when she got there the Elaine the dead mans daughter also had her mother present . The messages Helen had been giving was from her dead father and obviously her mothers dear departed husband they have both been to bereavement counselling and never accepted or forgiven him for passing away , i don't be believe he had much say in the matter .after Helen had spent sometime with them revealing things only he said to her through the spirit world they were both was astounded by Helen's accounts and details so much so she has now around 18 other people wanting to see her both was happy they will not be going to bereavement counselling anymore also one of them also visits another medium who tonight is on her way to our house to see Helen for a reading hopefully the spirits will be talkative.i am well proud and Helen is immensely happy she has helped two people to move on with their lives and be at rest with the passing of their loved one.


Me my back has been good today and was not that bad yesterday think it would help if i lost a stone but all the food i love is fatting curry duck , noodles , Donner kebabs and meat pies and mash then there is the drink i mainly have ten to fifteen cups of coffee a day and a few pear ciders specially on pay day but come summer Will get a new bike and go walking on the moors from dawn till dusk one of the reasons i want a better digital camera than what i currently have would like the one pictured here its not mega bucks and will do me fine looking at getting it next payday

Laid up in bed with a knackered back it's been playing up since Thursday last I rested it over the weekend didn't go to work Saturday or Sunday .when I woke this morning and rolled out of bed it seemed fine I put my arms over my head to stretch and something trigger a spasam in my lower back and a sensation like a red hot poker had been shoved in to my spine occurred not good.Helen gave me some tablets she takes for her sciatica and it's eased the pain I have the feeling if I move wrong or turn too quickly I am going to be suffering for days , I dare not drive it's hard looking left and right also if I stop or brake sharply it is going to jar my back and make it worse, putting socks on and tying shoelaces very painful and difficult , so , not sure what to do for the best rest or get up and move about .

Not been up to much really , still going to the moors on a regular basis printed pictures using new printer which is well good for the money and photos look well on high gloss paper.
Thinking about a Fuji finepix 1600 camera buying it from Amazon its not the camera i really want but the camera i can afford it should do the job will need to get some rechargeable batteries but that doesn't phase me.
still working seven days a week saying that my back as been playing up so i have had the weekend off.working till nine at night till end of march cleaning the operating theatres which i really love i work with my Filipino Friend victor who as his own problems in life money wife and tiredness he works longer hours then i do.
would love to book a holiday but its too hard at this moment in time contemplating going abroad.
the year has gone pretty quick tidy the garden up as soon has its warm enough to sit out have barbeque's and light enough to use the laptop outside i will be, car has not broken down this month which is a blessing other than that nothing else to report. Still in love still breathing , still love curry and pear cider and still waiting for six numbers on the lottery , have been doing lotto plus five a quarter of a mill would do six numbers or five numbers two stars to get out of the rat race once and for all please , there is quite a few people i would help out giving the chance to and a lot more i wouldn't

finished work at the hospital got home then went back to another Leeds hospital with Helen who a few weeks earlier had fallen down the cellar steps hurting her shoulder and arm she went on Tuesday and a x-ray was taken showing no broken bones was there nearly three hours before a doctor saw us and told us to go to the supermarket and get some ibuprofen and some deep heat brilliant.

To compensate we went over to the Owl at Rodley and pigged out , as always Helen had the scampi.