finally getting the Laura Ashley wall paper hanged on the chimney breast and opposite wall also bought a new light fitting all we need now Will be a new carpet or floor covering.was up until two o'clock painting and stripping getting everything prepared so we could paper today Helen's mother kindly offered to paper hang for us i am totally useless and Helen ore then likely just as bad as i am we just do painting .
We was supposed to be going out to to get pissed this was before her mother offered to hang the paper for us so we will have to put it off till next weekend,its been ages since hit he town.
i had to go to Ilkley to get an extra roll just in case we don't have enough to do both walls.
her mother finished just before nine we manage to get everything back tidy the room and watched a hours TV before we went of to bed .
will take the roll of wall paper back tomorrow we have two rolls that forty quid saved .

listening to Alison Moyet the singles
watching the :- surrogates

finally got the fire insert and mantle in place its been hard work and its not finished yet had to reform the opening and replace the hearth which we have tiled black it still needs a good clean and of course the fire fitting which should be tomorrow or Friday hopefully the bag of coals we got are fine and we wont need to replace them .

Listening to :- Erasure the best of

went to Boston Spa today to pick up a fire surround and tiled insert which we won on eBay for £82 the other night , also sold a dishwasher we have never used for £210.
hopefully the new fire surround and fire will all be in and working this time next week .We can repaper the walls Helen bought some Laura Ashley wallpaper ages ago hopefully get it done in time for Christmas , we will have been in the house nearly a year and on the 22ND of December we will have been living together two years at three different addresses and for the first three days one hotel .

Saturday
went to local Tesoco and bought two pumpkins for the windows Helen carved on and i did the other and various sweets for trick or treaters .
invited my sisters and there partners round and and my Nephew Mark and his girlfriend Sue round for Halloween supper. Did a large pan of chill jacket potatoes and garlic bread and grated a slab of red Leicester.

Lots of stuff is going on in my life ATM lost Internet connection for a few weeks but now back online , I celebrated fifty years of living last Friday with my twin sister Anne my eldest sister Irene and her partner Ged and my two nephews Mark and Andrew and there partners Sue and Angela .i drank pear cider all night after eating home made chili and chips .being fifty is not that great i suppose the only alternative is death which is worse still .
any way be extremely lucky or unlucky to be here in another fifty years if i am then for sure i will still love my angel Helen hopefully that goes without saying .

LISTEN TO :- SEAN KINGSTON TOMORROW

wessenden head going back this weekend to take more photos and eat more egg mayo sarnies

last Friday was my 50th birthday i am a twin we celebrated at the local pub in Rodley with my loved one Helen and some members of the family , my son and daughter both stayed away which was no big surprise

Saturday took Guy to ilkely for the morning had a coffee and muffin from Greg's in the afternoon went to Holmfirth bought a book from the second hand book shop "The Lost Boy" about the Keith Bennett and the moors murderers.Bought a old fashioned Rollin pin some butter pats and a old fashion iron from antique shop.Went to visit two Friends whom i have not seen since my divorce but have known them over 16 years Nik and Erky over at Heaton Bradford stayed a few hours catching up on stuff.

Sunday
went and to car boot at Rufforth then drove back to the one at Wetherby Race Course bought some old stone pot wear for the kitchen , went back home and had our first ever proper Sunday dinner , since we moved in to the house last December.We had a brisket of beef with roast potatoes , with proper gravy and of course Yorkshire puddings and roasted veg followed by apple strudel turned out perfect yum yum .

finally cooking with gas and electric got it all plumbed in , and its working fine.After ten months can finally do roasted veg and sunday dinner .for the last ten months its been way too long like living in a squat .

finally made it to Ladybower

Guy still with me and he is doing great at college really proud of him .
going to Ladybower in the morning done the eggs for the egg mayo sarnies just got the flasks to make and the bread to butter ,will take more photos and walk for miles . The cooker is coming this Monday ten months without a proper cooker.
Nothing else has happened been back to Saddleworth a few times since the last post.

Did some work in the garden made one of the boarders bigger and planted some bulbs to come up next year , getting the cooker on the 21st of September fingers crossed , Guy started at college applied for EMA .won sisxty six quid on the lottery bingo at work .
no nights all week .

Totally skint till pay day I am owed £135 from the lady we sent the cat back hopefully this weekend I will get a cheque

Posted out to me and can get it banked , Helen sons stumps up £30 Tuesday and I have twenty three pounds in cash

In my wallet . did fill the car up and we have gas and electric on the metre which will need topping up before payday .

Trying to get a weekend shift but it’s not looking likely anymore I won’t have to rely on weekends anymore .

Still no offers on the house we have on the market looks like it’s going to be a uphill struggle to sell it before its repossessed

Hopefully we will still get some cash if it is but not as much if we are allowed to sell it privately .

Still waiting for the range to be delivered can’t see us getting it this week be lucky if its next week one of the reasons I am skint

Is that I had to pay the builder for opening up the chimney breast and capping off the chimney which was £350 plus electrical work at £125

and re-piping the gas £85 .

We also paid five hundred pounds for the cooker which is still at our friends house who are waiting delivery for a higher spec model to replace it ,

so we can have the one that they have now.

Guy starts college Tuesday hopefully he will get EMA payment of thirty pound a week which will give him some cash in his pocket for life’s little essentials
and before we know it It’s going to be bonfire night then Christmas. Then 2010 .

Helen is back on sick she won’t be working this weekend might end up at Saddleworth Moor again next week I have five nights off from my hospital cleaning job

LISTENING TO NOISETTES – WILD YOUNG HEARTS

Didn't do much today went to Harewood House near Leeds to see the steam engines it was actually free parking then when we got to the event there was a charge and it was going to coast over twenty pound to get three off us in so didn't bother we headed back to the car and drove on the A1 north bound to the services and went to Burger King and spent £19.99 on three meals then just went home

Went to Bingham Rocks haven't been there since i was at Primary School don't think its altered and it's not changed much , the rocks are still there i didn't remember much about the place it was OK for an afternoon out not much to do unless you want to break a leg.

up early today to take Guy to his school at Garforth to pick up his GCSE'S exam results. went to the Red Bus Cafe for breakfast then drove to near by garden centres bought some compost and herbs to plant at the side of the garage after i had taken the flagstones up next April May i want to plant chilli's , peepers, butter squash, swede, parsnips, potatoes, onions, tomatoes , and broccoli might have to re plan the planting space or get some raised beds where possible

we have got the gas supply sorted out and today the wire for the electric ovens is being fitted .We also Had the chimney capped off to stop rain coming down the chimney and soaking the electrics . The dining room gas fire we bought off eBay is also plumbed in fitted and working like new , it now feels like we are making progress even though we have still no cooker that should be getting delivered next week and has been paid for in full £500 .

Helen had to go back to work this weekend and has been placed on the ward that caused her to go on sick in the first place which seems to suggest where is the duty of care to staff and patients we have a meeting next Wednesday with senior management hopefully it will be resolved intuition tells us it wont at the end of the day our contract states that we will work anywhere within the trust .
I have four days off work from my day job next week after i have finish on Monday but i still having to work on a night Helen is trying to get a shift back on the wing she use to work on Monday to Friday hopefully this will be resolved at the meeting this should have had been resolved four weeks ago hopefully this will be manager and accomplished by said management i doubt it will.

we should get the cooker either mo day or Tuesday if we do and its all plumbed in. Then next Sunday we might be eating our first Sunday roast in our house and home since we moved in to on the 16th of December last year , this is a major event i don't think most people realise how important it is to have great cooked food they just take it for granted since we have been without a cooker we have only been invited for Sunday dinner twice which is better than none but not ideal guy has been with us over two months now and i think he is already realised what a cooker and freshly prepare meals count for its basic human rights to keep your self clean to clothe yourself in clean clothes to wash and keep your self clean and to sleep somewhere clean dry and comfortable and of course safe and to do with out any one does affect how you feel and how you view life it is depressing and it does get you down also it made me feel that i was in some way not looking after Helen and others as i should have been even cavemen cooked on or over a living flame.

Finally we should be getting our cooker delivered this Monday its a Rangemaster with double oven and is dual fuel both gas and electric which can cook 30% better than a normal oven without the need to preheat it , also it can be used to defrost food and there is a wok burner and a spit for roasting poultry so we might even get a duck going round and round ,we are paying five hundred pounds which bought from new would have been nearly £1300 .

We can’t wait to have a Sunday roast to and to start eating fresh roast veggies once again parsnips, butter squash and sweet potatoes covered in honey with mushrooms and onions thrown in to the middle of a home baked Yorkshire pudding and if she will for Helen to bake a banana cake and other mouth watering delights .

We have been well over eight months without proper cooking facilities since day one that we moved in , so it’s a new cooker is for us a life changing event , especially since the two ring hob has given up the ghost and went in the bin last Sunday the largest ring on it didn’t work right form new .Money should be saved too , last night for instance we bought three pizzas for £9.99 we must spend over £100 a month on take a ways which usually are great and tasty and freshly cooked to order and filling , but we could have bought extra food in from Asda and cooked loads of extra meals instead , so hopefully take away bill is going to be drastically reduced saying that, we will still be visiting the Red Bus Cafe on the A64for the odd fry up and of course still going to our favourite fish shop Murgatroyds at Yeadon . all in all standing of living and moral should be better and one thing missing from home is the smell of food cooking our cakes getting baked also we can start and use our whistling kettle again on the gas hob. .

painted the inside of the chimney breast stained the lintel and fitted a panel with two downlighters in had to repoint the brick work then acid clean it , wash it all down before painting the inside faces now we are just waiting for the range to be delivered in a couple of weeks fingers crossed we need a electrical socket fitting the gas is already there also need a concrete base for the range to sit on .