Mixed emotions..

It is with great sadness that I write that wifeys gran passed away on Wednesday morning. The blessing in this sad situation is that she passed in here sleep in no pain with all of her children and grandchildren around her. I cannot think of a better way to go myself.

Wifey seems to be doing ok with it as does her Mum. Dont get me wrong there are tears and lots of sadness but there is an air of finality that comes sfter a prolonged illness. The funeral is now set for Thursday so thats the second that I have attended this year after losing my great gran earlier. Must be a side effect of getting older to be losing people close together like this. I hate funerals and im sure there isnt anyone who likes them but it will give closure to a difficult time for my wifes family.

Why the title of mixed emotions??

Well its because even whilst there is great sadness at the moment there is also great joy as our move to Nottingham has fallen completely fallen into place. I have now been offered 2 jobs up there and we are getting the keys to our new place on the 8th of November so I get a couple of weeks to slowly move our kit up there!
I had an excellent interview for a logistics position within the NHS which I am really hoping I get because its only 5 minutes walk from our house :) That would save running an extra vehicle which makes a big saving on the limited monthly funds!
The children are looking forward to moving ( Yes even the pig miserable teenage one!!) and wifey is beside herself with excitement with the reality of moving "Home"

Yesterday evening was spent helping my youngest sister and her boyfriend move into their new home. As the youngest of 6 and at the grand old age of 21 she is the last to move out of our parents and she is so happy :) On the flip side of the coin though my Mum is having abandonment issues with her "baby" moving out and everyone else now scattered across the UK and Ireland LOL. The time has come for my parents to now visit all of us and not us just popping in to see them as we all lived locally for such a long time!

My Dad has saved us a couple of hundred pounds in a very unique way. I was going to hire a Luton van for the final push of the move but Pops is going to build his own campervan and has just bought a nice long wheelbase Maxus van that he has offered me the use of to cart out stuff! This is superb because wifeys car is nearly due its mot so im sure that will cost a pretty penny to do :)

Thats it for now I will write again soon.

The move is on :)

OK then as you all know I have been actively searching for a job and wining about my lack of success!

Well I am pleased to say finally all is change on the home front. Ive been offered some work doing property maintenance and driving and the following morning my old boss called offering us one of his houses from the end of November which is superb!

Talk about all things finally falling into place :) and just in time as wifey is at the end of her teather with work and deeply unhappy.

So now the packing boxes must be filled and a truck hired to transport the endless junk that the kids insist is being kept as they "NEEEED IT" even though they havnt looked at most of it for months LOL

So its looking up which is a great feeling :)

I had a good ride out on the bike to Oxford last week and as I pulled up I heard the wondeful noise of metal on metal. The front brake pads had had it so I had to replace those....feeling fed up and a bit lazy I asked the bike shop how much to fix it and they quoted £90!!! Bugger that I paid £40 for the pads and changed them myself in 20 mins! I would like to say I saved £50 but as I didnt have the money in the first place LOL

Onto sadder news. Wifeys gran is in a bad way and she has spent the last few days with her in Nottingham. Cancer is such a vicious thing. Still it was 2 1/2 years ago that they said she only had 6 months to live and is it me but that generation are made of such tough stuff that she has defied all the odds and has been active playing bingo a few times a week until last week. At least she is still suffering no pain as has been the norm throughout this illness so thank god for small mercies.

It is very hard to see your family suffering and have no way of taking the pain away. The best I can do is just be here to offer support.

So a mixed bag of good and bad but life is moving on as it always does. Wifey cannot wait to be back up north with her family full time and after chasing around with me for 10 years I really cant blame her :)

All quiet on the home front.

Now its been a while since I wrote much of anything and thats because at the moment I have very little in the areas of excitement or interest to talk about.

The job search goes on in earnest and I have to admit that it has never taken me so long to get a job as it is at the moment. I feel like a bit of a meathead because every job outside of my experience, and even some within it, now need either a degree or diploma to start with. Even my truck licences now need another bit of paper to prove I know how to drive and load a truck!! Funny that as I thought the 2 tests I took and the £2400 I spent to gain the piece of paper from DVLA proved it but apperntley thats not good enough anymore! What a load of crap its just another money making scheme from our happy government.

But not to worry because if I spend much more time in my house I will get past my cabin fever and go completely mad...problem solved as I would then be dosed up on so much medication I wont care.

The bike is still great fun, shame I have no money for petrol, and the van just sits on the drive supplying a nice and dry enviroment for the spiders that have moved in :)

See I said I had nothing of interest to report and now im onto a big winge session so im going to sign off and see what the weekend brings :)