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Bradford City beat Sheffield 2:0

This was the bantams first home ‘derby’ and what a game, talk about fast, this was contested at huge speed. Its like teams have to fight their way out of league two but play their way out of league one, its going to be a great season. Wells with a well taken strike on the verge of half time, and after De Vita had his fantastic shot stop Wells was waiting to ‘bobble’ the ball towards us. Wells 2, Sheffield Utd 0.
Matt tired
Matt was very tired after having a few late nights with his pals, but the chanting soon woke him up!

Bradford City thrashed Carlisle 4:0

What a pretty good and welcome start to the football league 1 season for Bradford City, a huge win over Carlisle, Yeates with a fantastic drive, Wells with an incredible tight angled shot, Hanson using his wrong foot and Jones beating the goalie towards us!

Jacob and me 1

Jacob and me 2
A good few pints before the game went down very well.

August 13th

I were not going to say but that chapter now needs to close. 13th August 2005 I met someone in the Harrogate Blues Bar, knew her for a few months, and then its a typical middle aged story; messed up minds, crap divorces, meeting crazy people, but, although she went back to an ex something really was about her. She comes and goes in my thoughts and this year I decided to send a valentines card (someone from Harrogate actually recommended that I should), and so its now not a secret as I have decided to share the card.

Elaine one
It is difficult when you think of someone in a manner, they probably do not think of you?

Elaine two
My hand writing has always been terrible. Back in 2006 it was decided that when her youngest was 18 contact would resume, well, its been and passed. No, my life was not on hold, lots happened since then and slowly but surely I am progressing, it would have been great to have had a relationship with a nice honest trusting woman to have helped me through.

The following song I wrote for her, its mainly based on text messages that she sent, and so these pages are now turning.

3. TXTs
Elaine Robinson, it was a pleasure knowing you. Sometimes we are grateful of meeting someone, I just could not remain friends with someone I really liked, I guess others also understand.

Today is a zero Pred day

So, its the first time in a while, a very long while and onto zero Pred, tomorrow back up to five, then day after its zero, 5mg, 0, 5mg, 0… we do this for a month. Consultant spoke with me yesterday, he really believes my sarcoid is not active (I think it is slightly) and he wants me off the Prednisolone as soon as possible, its confirmed I am now at high risk of bone fracture, and that the osteoporosis is carrying on. My load bearing joints can be very painful, mainly ankles, hips and neck, and so its going to be more scans and consultants, but we can see the light!

See the light

Redundancy notice

Well, its like, this is the first time in my life I have had a redundancy notice. One thing is for sure, my life has mainly been full of a very many hard knocks, these past few years or 10 have been the worse, im not a bad man at all, im kind and considerate, trusting and honest, have great humour with fun, yet, maybe all those combined are my problem, one will never know.

Redundant
It has been mentioned that other positions might become available, I was trying to think I could progress, oh well, lets keep anything crossed eh.

Sarcoid ankles are back

I’m thinking a bumpy few months to years are again approaching, oh well, I had a few weeks of remembering what it was like to feel relatively normal! This time the ankles are gaining dots rather than blemishes?
Ankle dots

Supposed to insert after each movement

Well, the banding of my ‘piles’ failed, and so they decided to give me these, the doctors said that they should be used after each movement, and so, I moved to the bathroom, then moved to the bedroom and then to the kitchen, hmmm, feeling a bit on the full side with these Uniroid-HC suppositories…

Insert

Interview at work

Hmmm, researched, revised, rehearsed, and readied myself, thinking I have lost my spark for interviews to progress within? used to be terrific. Supposing the last few rough years can count as being pretty hard, then a massive positive of gaining employment through the Leeds branch of Remploy, then further positives of the sarcoid going into remission and slowly getting off the ‘drugs’ allowed me to think about progressing in work.

Over the years I have always advanced within my employment, a little annoyed at myself why I now mess up, the first interview I knew I weren’t good and that I was just happy to get it, this interview I did what I used to do as it would be my ideal, half in the office and half on site, the work itself I know im capable of, but, I struggled to get answers out – that I knew – and so…

In a nut shell, I enjoy what im doing, I work hard, I like the whole group, its just that, in a few months my tax credits will drop, and then, its going to be a proper struggle, a proper struggle brings worry, worry can bring on the anxiety, which in turn can eventually cause my sarcoid to raise its ‘shit’ head, I just need to live and not survive, but it might all be in my mind or am I really a shadow of my former self, rejected?

Shadow

 

And finally out properly on the new bike

Back in April I got my Bianchi bike through the cycle to work scheme, and, well its in the following photos, was I lazy or simply procrastinating, yes I know, its the latest buzz word but, we all do it, don’t we? let me take some time out to try see if we all do, I will sort it later? oh, the bike ride…

1 Finishing kits
I got all the finishing kits back in May, and that’s where they stayed for a while.

2 Bike ready
Thinking this cordless sigma computer would be difficult to fit I left it until the last kit for me to fit, how wrong, proper easy and with nice big digits too!

3 Under pressure
Feeling under pressure, my own fault as I threatened through Facebook to go for a ride, and erm, I just couldn’t get out of it after a friend give me some nice stick…

4 Yes I went
Yes its really me, in fact, I felt like a fully unfit cyclist rather than a sarcoid struggling to breath, very happy to have put myself under pressure!

A song

Well, this song is titled ‘Txts’ in a nutshell.  I met someone on 13th August 2005 at the Blues Bar Harrogate, a stag night, but erm, and whatever else, we met a few times yet communicated daily, this song I wrote early 2006 based on txts that she sent.  I played it down the phone and we never met again, ‘Stu, your voice, the words, its just so’ tears, upset, and the phone went off, a few txts exchanged which basically stated she had gone back to the ‘ex’ and if her stories were correct – no real reason why not – then she met folks who abused her mentally and physically…

I still think of Elaine but I probably got it all wrong, the ending riff says it all…

3. TXTs

Bright side of the Briggs