Not one to seek out new friends nor talk to anyone I don’t know Jamie told me there was a bloke with no friends at church who needed blokes to attend his stag do would I be willing?

There is possibly nothing in this world I could despise or detest more that meeting God bothering people I don’t know in town for drinks and a curry! Last week got weired and put me off going this week when even the vicar was turning out but decided to go but early and have a couple in the White Bear and I was only sat there 5 minutes when in walks Simon (the groom) and Mike who I ended spending the whole evening with and really enjoyed it because we talked about sports women and booze my 3 favourite subjects

I set my alarm for 5:30am but woke at 3:40 excited beyond being able to sleep though I lay there for another couple of hours I eventually got up and showered I was going to boil the kettle but thought, just get in the car and get down to Staffordshire and get a brew so you are there ready. I was excited!

7:30 was the allowed time to get on to the showground but I turned up at 7am and drove through the gates as I did so they closed the gates behind me, I was on and allowed to go to red 12 and in less than 2 minutes I was hugging my family and helping them pack up and come home.

We convoyed home with only one rule we had to stop for breakfast at Maccys which we did and then the unpacking began for me as all three campers showered and one by one found a comfy place and slept…

Shit?

I am home alone and got one job replace the soil pipe but I chose to work too and I think that was a mistake because I am absolutely exhausted like by 7pm I have nothing else to give. I am thinking how little I can walk Billy because I am tired but have to push through because he deserves a walk in a morning and at night in the VERY least so I go to Market Field and make his night!

I managed to finish the soil stack and get the yard something like tidy but that’s a bare minimum I can’t go any further I gotta sleep….

Woke up knowing I had to start and finish renewing the soil pipe on the back of the house because once the old one is removed we have no toilet which is why we decided to do it while 3 of the 4 were camping!

I removed all but the pipe from the back of the toilet to the outside and thought I should have this licked by dinnertime but that pipe was just stuck and I spent 4 hours trying to get it out without making the job bigger than it needed to be but it never budged. I had to take out two half bricks one either side of the pipe and all of a sudden I could see the problem but I had already destroyed our bathroom.

Once I removed the cement holding the pipe it loosened came out and I could start fitting the new one and it was so quick and simple, it took a couple of hours from there to have it fitted and tidied up best I could but felt exhausted. Up and down scaffolding up and down the stairs really took it out of me and had nothing left as it started to rain so I thought I have a flushing toilet and that’s enough for today.

Tea bath bed sounds good fight now!

As Jamie left for DTI with trepidation after volunteering to spend a week living and working (for nothing) in a field we waved her off knowing I would be taking the children to join her tomorrow she was jealous that I would be spending the time at home alone which to her sounds like bliss.

I don’t volunteer for shit it’s not my thing but Jamie can’t say no because she is a giver, someone who wants to make people happy and just says yes I’ll do it!

What she doesn’t realise is that I love her so much that my life isn’t complete when we are apart and as much as I love alone time I have to do it surrounded by my family yes an opportunity to Potter sounds great but my motivation disappears when they’re not there

So my week looks like replacing the soil pipe on the back of the house and fending for meself

Top time today was asking Lincoln to build the scaffolding I am going to use while they were away and he LOVED that it made him feel really good