We bought a car

As we now no longer live in Todmorden GO’s commute to work has become slightly trickier.  While he could use public transport for his later shifts for his early shifts he would be stuck.  So after a lot of chatting we decided that we needed to buy a second car.  GO did a lot of searching and found a reasonably priced car in Mansfield.  We went to pick it up and it I love it.  It’s so sleek and luxurious with its heated seats, and space station like console.  It has all the mod cons and while it’s not my car it will become the family car.

Skipton

We were supposed to go to Newcastle to watch another Blackburn match but as Biglilbro wasn’t feeling well he decided that he wanted to go somewhere close by. He had also mentioned that he wanted to see a castle. 

“So change of plan. Decided don’t want to go to the match today. I am not feeling too good (cold), I know I bought tickets but we can watch the match on TV. Also we would have not got back till 10pm at the earliest, then I would have had to do a video which would have moved by bed time past 1am. So not the best moves with the early start.  So today, is wide open. If possible would a weatherspoons breakfast be on the cards? Not sure when they stop. After that we need to find a shop that sells quavers. Pretty felixble as to what to do. Love you” 

So we decided to pay Skipton a visit, we stopped at spoons for breakfast so everyone was nicely full for a wander around the castle and town.   We had definitely reached saturation point and patience was being tested but we managed to see everything that everyone wanted to.  

Home Tour

We took Lilbigbro LB) and USsinlaw (UL) to see the new house in the daylight. I have so many ideas that I’m struggling to focus on the essential jobs.  Our first job is to replace the boiler G.O has done a bit of research and has decided that the Hive boiler system from British Gas, while expensive it is connected to the Alexa voice control system when it is up and running we will be able to use our Alexa to turn the heating on and off.  Until then I can control the heat from my phone, oh the power.

One with the tour, photos courtesy of USsinlaw, as I was so busy I forgot to take some.

The house is a detached house in Lancashire, with four bedrooms and three baths.



I am slightly overwhelmed by home ownership but can’t wait to get my hands on the place.

The decor is worn ninties but nothing seems to be urgently replaced apart from the boiler.  Which the previous owner told us about.

The house is decorated with magnolia in most  rooms.  The floors are laminate with the exception of the stairs, landing and guest rooms which have a badly soiled carpet.  Which we were going to replace but have instead found a company that will clean them for £50.

The bathroom has been painted which some shiny grey paint, and the bath has some scratches (to my untrained eye it looks like a dog has been washed in the bath and scratched  up the enamel).

The previous owners had left the whole bedroom set, I’ve decided to keep it and move it to the guest room, we will replace the mattress, but it all seems quite nice.

The exterior need some TLC and the rockery needs some serious attention that is my plan for spring, once I have raided Pinterest for ideas.

Happy New Year

When we realised that the Outlaws would be with us for New Year’s Eve we decided not to stay in.  We always have a good time at Trouble at Mill evenings and when I found out that Mr Wilson’s Second Liners would be playing we knew we would be there.  I had a great time, there was food, music, bingo and entertainment in the form of X-Factor finalists.  I quickly realised that the Outlaws didn’t get the jokes, didn’t know the music and didn’t want to mingle with others.  So while GO and I had a blast the highlight for those two was when we stopped into McD’s on the way home.  Ah well you can’t please all of the people all of the time.