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First pay day and to shelter

The thing is, what do you do on your first pay day, having some spare cash has been brilliant, learning to live on £72 per week means I hope to save quite abit, and then taking myself and my lads on holiday arrives, loads of great thoughts…


Two bottles bought as I feel very worthy of them! Was given a great idea about a video last night, though I decided not to make it!


That’s just about all my older clothes now gone to Shelter, I put some cash in Marie Curie, though decided not to sign the book, singer Paul, friend Tracy and uncle’s Ken and Barry. I also get the big issue, im a very lucky person and have restocked my clothes.


“Odin…” oh, thats another film.

“I’m Spar, ‘no I am…” I am good Stu though!!!

Charity, Ssafa and the RBL

Potentially I have not mentioned enough about these charities? if it weren’t for them, especially Ssafa – thanks Joanie! then I would dare not think too much, as selling the big issue would have probably not been enough. My thoughts; to do a few really in-depth blogs how the charities pretty much rescued me after the various parts of the governments systems – illness – pretty much abandoned me, a terrific women at Bradford’s ‘open moves’ started a ball moving, and to think on, I need to thank her otherwise it were shelter.

These last few months I have given so much clothing to Ilkley shelter, another tangent, once (hoping) I get fully settled and at ease with working full time then I’m certainly going to volunteer my possible spare time to charity, honestly, too much to mention for a simple post, thing is, its also on my mind to write something in-depth about Remploy, and how I ended up with them, the honest truth, some really nice folks do work at the Keighley job centre plus, im harping on a lot now…


As a sub note, I really am tempted to write about the organisations that take on ‘folks’ through Remploy, but that needs more thought as perhaps organisations might not want too?

Breakdown live

The best original band I have ever had pleasure in viewing, superb guys, superb…

I were going to mention something under each photo, I struggled, you all complement each other big time, a big fat sound with very clear vocals, just brilliant, keep those songs arriving!

Scarves, hats and socks, love we colours!

The thing is; we mainly dress to approve, we dress for the mood, we dress to say and we dress any which way, do we dress to improve? I think so yes, we can dress smart no problem, but to keep some of that humour, the body changes but the mind still creates;


I dread summer as it means no scarves, what a bind, but to keep cool, clothing is there, the nomads used scarves in the desert, erm, I think? hats, hmmm, its an old wives tale that wearing hats in the summer lost your hair, it really just is not true, what about all those women with, hmmm, what did they call them, after being to the hair dressers, arrggghhhh, you know, looked like fishing nets on the head?


I have no chance of ever being a fisherman, although I once had a ‘fisher’ and walked home from the hospital after treatment, what a pile of, that is another Stu story!

A few things but really

Its a big test, the cold is indeed getting colder! Friday’s are dress down times at work but I think it might well be a good thick wool jumper with tee-shirt underneath and dress up with those Doc Marten dealers! the cotton shirt will help keep me cool if it gets too warm, wool really does have the same properties in the warm as cold, hmmm, you get my drift? me too!


When sheep dress down they feel so cool, and I suspect they think they look so too? mind you, it is a little out of control for them, sometimes maybe they do feel like that shot in the dark?


Not to worry, just keep on pushing and if you try sometime you just might find, you get what you need, bah, or something else of being equivalent in-between…?


Jeez, you remember them? yes some pretty vacant in-between those there sideburns, or as was pointed out to me, the teddy boys called them sideboards, either way they kept my face warm like sheep, erm, forgotten where we were, ah ha, that’s it, keeping warm…

Hot chocolate jelly pop

Me and Matt tried an experiment, just to see if we could make a lolly pop out of hot chocolate and jelly, we never though about the getting ready photos but these were early the next morning.


Once we had used warm water to release the delicacy on a spoon then you can see the frozen jelly at the bottom and the frozen hot chocolate at the top.


The spoon held it firmly, it might even look erm, inspiring, the thing is, we never thought about photos of it being tried out, and yes it was vile, disgustingly terrible, never to try tasting again, the frozen jelly was abit too hard and the hot frozen chocolate was a little like vomit, someone elses…

Hats, socks and scarves, colours we love

Colours bring a smile to so many folks, nothing wrong with singular dull colours but I just love getting the crazy and daft colours to show personality is within.


By far the biggest hat I have ever had the pleasure in wearing, when walking around for some reason I do see folks smiling at me, I just can not understand it!


Absolutely the brightest hat I have ever worn, terrific, I will get more over time, these two are LOUDelephant, you should check them out, fantastically warm too, possibly the best natural wool hats available are LOUDelephant, 50 pence per hat also goes to charity.


A few more socks here, all are about 85% cotton, this seems to help with my feet, synthetics can sometimes seem to be a problem, hence all the new clothes especially for work, mind you, some of the smiles I get could be down to my socks!

Name that tune

Could someone please put me out of my thoughts of that I will never find out, today at the doctors, and for the third time running, this tune came on, none of the receptionists know what it is, they even said after my last visit the doctor came out to ask as I also asked him!!!

What is this tune

Its a little rough as it is recorded on my Orange Rio, but the best times to turn it up are between 30 – 41 seconds, someone must know the tune!? I really do need a better phone now! Please someone put this misery to the opposite and make my day! I went to the doctors as unfortunately this morning I still did not feel too good after the Alendronic acid yesterday, it wont happen again and they prescribed me some stuff to help settle my stomach during the day.


We are to marshall my tummy! I really am doing everything and anything possible to ensure I can work well.

Alendronic acid

The worse meds for me seem to be the alendronic acid tablets, I used to take them on a Wednesday but since starting work I changed them to Saturdays, simply because, after I have taken them I can feel pretty rough for too long, thankfully they are just one per week, for those who do not know they are taken first thing with about 500ml of water, and then I must remain upright for a least half an hour, problem being, I forgot on Saturday morning so took it this morning, yes felt quite rough and bed soon, its early but that is certainly not a problem, this sarcoid rests as much as possible.


A little while ago I contacted my consultant about something that was beginning to get too embarrassing, as you can see he reviewed my latest scan, thankfully its not the sarcoid, they reckon the prednisolone can cause gastric problems, but I feel its more to do with the alendronic acid.

Last week I had bacon butties on four mornings, after each time I got some stomach pains, but the morning I had no bacon butty I felt ok, conclusion, I have decided to try something different in the mornings, as I can now sort of afford to do, but it might not be as tasty!


I am terrible with cereal in a morning, in fact any form of early morning breakfast, I aim on taking two breakfast bars with me and probably eat them on the train, its claimed a couple of these cereal breakfast bars in the morning can be really good for you, I will try, even after the bacon butty I felt sweats coming on, so it might be weekend only now!


I’m also going to have one of these Actimel drinks each morning, the overall target is to settle my insides for the working day ahead.

So I need to get appropriate treatment to counter a drug that counters another drug… Proper glad of works disabled toilet, its quiet and I certainly do not feel that embarrassing thought of someone listening to a hideous fart and ‘stuff’ ha…

Socks, hats and scarves, we love colours

For now I guess it is to keep this brief, but then what is that, these vary, though not briefs – thongs, or, hmmm, breath deeply…?


These really do appear my favourite, but then we pull others over our feet and…

What are your best thoughts for lots of colour on the feet? go get them, loving it, and I think folks like us can do the trick!