Its Been a while

Not had much time for this place as I have been busy with life. I finished my National Diploma in Photography at Hull College, and was lucky enough to be accepted for my Degree in Lens Based Photo Media, Which I am about to start my 2nd year.

I have been enjoying it and am hoping to have a career from it, hopefully working for myself and obtaining some much needed pennies in the process. I will start slow and learn to walk before I run.

My wife Michelle is still working hard with at the hotel, despite the fact she is always in the thick of it, she still manages to have a smile for me when she gets home. Much love and praise goes to Michelle as she is supporting me through my educational period, and puts up with my tempers when the workload I have sometimes stresses me out. Michelle has also been through a rough time with her body playing havoc with her. Her shoulders, neck and arms have been giving her considerable pain.

Many visits to doctors eventually led to hospital treatment, giving her 3 sessions of spinal block injections, and numerous acupuncture treatments to keep the pain to a minimum, but she is soldiering on and I have a high regard for her...Love you sexy.

Also in the absence since my last post we found ourselves in trouble with the law. 18 December 2011 we, the whole family and friends finally went out for a drink for the first time since the Mother in law passed away (bless her cotton socks). We went down Beverly road for a few quiet drinks and to arrange what we would be doing for Christmas day dinner and at who's house.

I will keep this brief and to the point of the events that took place that night in bullet points.

• My son was jumped on by 3 males on the dance floor.
• A Copper ran in and CS gassed the dance floor, People couldn't see, especially my son who was still lashing out and accidentally walloped a copper.
• I intervened to pull my daughter to safety, when i looked around I saw my son being held against the wall by 2 coppers and a third smacking the hell out of the back of his knee with an asp.
• I ran across and removed the asp, and said "WHAT THE F*CK, is there any need?"
• I ended up in a confrontation with a woman copper who could only say the following 2 words to all my questions "GET BACK".
• The woman copper got pushed aside, as I wanted to check on my wife as the people who jumped my son where hanging around her.
• The lads who started the fight never got stopped or questioned by the Police???
• The police swarmed the pub with Tazers, it looked like something out of Call of Duty.

Needless to say 3 of us spent the night in the cell that night. Chantelle was released the following morning with No Further Action.

I got bailed with assault police, police obstruction and resist arrest. I pleaded guilty. Couldn't be arsed to argue.

Clark got bailed with Assault police. Clark pleaded not guilty, he wanted to stand his ground and he had good points too.

Clark and myself were then put on 7pm -7am curfew, and were banned from all licensed premises. Electronic tags were also introduced at later dates for us both.

As the year progress we were all dragged back and forth through out court, spent more nights in the cells and finally after the trail went to Crown Court we were given our court date and we were sentenced:-

I got community service of 150hrs and a behaviour order for 12mths.

Clark got sent to prison as he was found guilty. He managed to get released just before Christmas but he had to serve the remainder of his sentence on Tag and curfew.

We have managed to put that behind us now but it is hard when you read news paper articles and see other people do far worse things and get let off.

Anyway lets bring some good news to the this blog. Michelle and I are now proud grand parents :)

Clark and Simone have a baby boy, he was 3 weeks early and weighed 5lb and 2oz. They called him Thomas.

After the 3 days of him staying in hospital they stayed at ours for a week so they could get guidance from Michelle in making sure they did things correctly as they no longer/can't be arsed to teach first time parents the skills needed to bathe and feed etc.

Thomas was officially registered on Tuesday 24 Sept Thomas-Clark Paul Middleton. They surprised me with my name being included and I am honoured and privileged, proud as punch to be honest.

Kaine has since left school as we got him enrolled at Hull College 14-16yrs. He is studying Mechanics and engineering, its good to see him come home with a smile on his dial. He was being picked on by certain teachers at his previous school and they was always giving him detentions and isolating him from his class.

Kaine says he wants to join the Army when he gets to the required age so that he can expand his knowledge of engineering but at same time he wants to be like his dad and do photography. He also knows that the RAF and Army have sections that have photography in them, just more for logistic reasons. I am sure he will decide one day and I am sure he will enjoy every moment of it.

Danielle has decided she is going to be a midwife, and she is doing very good at school, she has already picked he life path and what courses she needs to do in order to go down that road to succeed. Michelle and I know she will be a great midwife as we see how she is when we have Thomas and any other kid for that matter, She is like a possessive mum lmfao.

Chantelle has now settled down with a guy called Lee and they have been together for a few years now. Lee is a nice fella and I can actually say he isn't one that I want to kill or throw him of the Humber Bridge.
Lee has a daughter called Tamisha who is 3yrs old and Chantelle is rather protective over her. They are good togther and I am glad to see she is finally happy.

This year for Christmas will be the best one, as no one is on curfew, we have baby Thomas. The roles have changed and I am no longer cooking the Christmas meal, as the men are being sent to Pub and the women are cooking the dinner...will see if that still stands nearer the time ;)