Ten poubnds

5 Decembre
Very quiet again since joff went.its's nice though. Angela found a ten£ note downt he side of ths ofa which he must have lost os we had a good laugh and she went and bougt a n Indian. I had a vinderloo for a psceial treat because I reckon it clear you out better than a colinise flush or whatever they camll it. Cost you fifty quid or osmetihgn to have your backside rinsed out with a rubber tube when you can have al tlrh fun of a vinderloo for a a fiver. Some people have og too much money than sense.
And it keeps your skin clear too with all the sweating clearing your blackheads out. I don’t think it’s a good idea tohave one too o often though or you might get ulcers which are bad.
Anglea promised she'll keep her eyeds oppen for a cheap lavatry brush. Quite agood idea actually .

I have been counting my flat monety and have over 3£300 now,. Its in a bottle in the place under the oven where tins go.
Anglela had a job last week for three days helping to clear out stuff at the back of Tecso and they dsaid she can keep any good food but not od=fiiclally. Other wise rhe Health and Sfatly people will crucify them. So we have had really ogood food this week which is why I can put another fiver in the flat bottle.

Angla didn't find a lavatry brush so I think a wire brush is better now.

It is Christmas coming up now and I don’t know what to do. Perhaps I'll buy her a scarf or something from save thechildren. She likes scarf and has rwo . but maybe that's enohg of rher? Maybe another onw would be a niusance?
Ill lhave to think about it,.

Joff snet a postcard from a prison near Barnsley. Him and ghis mate tried to rob a building socity but didn't notice the police car outside and got nicked. Ithnk he'll be in for six mionths this time.

Mrs Windsor snt a postcard to and askled if I was going to visit . thaty was nice. Perhaps I will when the weatrther is better. I've not seen the seaside for a long time, since mother died.
£305 now!

Joff has gone again

1 Novemeber

So after Dennis had gone it was very quiet for a long time. Then joff cvame back in with a cup of tea and said 'Yours is in the teapot'. Angela gave him a long hard look and after quite along time he said Oh alright and went and brought back two more cups .WE;=ll, one cup and a oplastic thing from the bowling alley which is too hot to hold. He gave th t one to me then said budge up. But there isn't room for three people on the sofa, and he knows that, so he nudgs me quite hard and I spill the hot tea on my hand an jeans. So I have to jump up and yowl and Joff just laugha sand sits in my place. 'Better run it under the etap of you'll have blisters he said. 'Hope you haven't boiled your manhood as well, eh!'. Then he puts his hand on angelas knee and makes k=jokes about me again. But she didn't giggle at all and even pushed his hand off. 'Wosser matter doll? He says 'not like you. Oh come on.. just a little joke. Can't take a k=joke can we?. Well *** you then.' And he picks up a paper from by the side.
Angela gets up and comes to see me in the kitchen part ad looks at my hand. 'Itll be OK she says. It'll be Ok.
'OY! Wot you wishpering about, you two? Eh? Whoat? Ere.. angela, I'm feeling proper peckish as it happens, why dontcha nip out and get us a little takeawy, eh? There's a good girl, and he fishes in his pocket for a fiver. An get yourself something too., eh/.
But angela just looks at him. 'Wossup with you , you dozy ****** cow? I'm offerin, aint' I? Wot is it? Oyh.. I get it… I get it… do you think I'm frightened og that gorilla who'se just sneaked on=ff out of it? Is that it, eh? Is that it?' And he laughed and laughd.

5Novenmer
Today is Tuesday and joff has been agditated all day nbut pretends that it is just because he is getting itchy d=feet he says. 'well I've been thini=-king he said when he had his cornflakes and bacon roll 'The thing is I've got this mate in Barnsley who might have little earner going, n=know what I mean. Said I could join his firm any time I like. Quite handy actually. Well, I been thinking about it since I got here and I reckon I could do lot worse. Get me out and aboput bit. See a bito f the world. Yeah, might just do that.'
Angela dint say anything and I ssaid 'How will you get there?' @Oh I ain't decided yet. Justy an ide thought really. Might nip upt trere one of these days though. Bet you''ll miss me, eh? ' and he laughed and poked me in the ribs with his knife. 'And you, you lovely lady'. But she still didn't say anything. Actually I don't think shes said anything to him for two days.
Then he watched television all morning and went out once to the bookies. Then he cam v=beack again and said'Well that wasa bit of luck, eh? Blimey, what a bit of luck! Made bit of a killing round a t Joe's (the bookies). Felt lucky, stuck a peony on Chancer at fourty to one and blow me if the old bleeder dind't vcome home the winner. Loaded! TYou can't keep thios boy downm eh?# And he dived ino his pocket and made a sho of peelingoff a fiver which he chucked at angela. 'There you go doll, get yerself a hairdo. You can't go round looking like a haysyack allyer life.' I kept trying to look at his mioney but he turned away. I don't think there m=was a big fat roll. H was just pretending I think. 'So.. been thinking… sorry to tear mself away, sure you'll agree… but I reckont eh time's come for me to set my sights up North and go and seemy mmate. Now I've got wad I can travel in style, eh? Might even get a taxi! Hoe=w far is it d'you reckon to Barnsley? Fifty ,miles? Hundred? Not a problem. Loaded, mate. Loaed.
Then he went ove to the sofa and picked up his bits of stuff and his v=bag.
'Right, be going then. It's been great seeing you again. The he lit anothere cigarette and just as he turned round to face the door dennis cam in. 'you still here, you ******* little tosser? Let me help ' and he grabbed Joff by his denim jacket and swung him straight off the ground and banged him up itnto the door. 'Get up. Did you ******* hear me? You sack of ****' and grabbed him by the hair in one hand and back of his belt in the either one and hurled him strainght down the stairs. Angela shrieked and I went 'No!! but Dennis just smiled and picked up Joffs bag and unzipped it. 'This your soap? He said 'Yes asid angela. 'And this your zapper?' he said to me. I nodded. Then he took out Joffs two t-shirts and stuck them in his teeth.With a big grunt he riped them right up the back then stuffed them beck in the back and empied the ashtray on top of them./ Then he chucked the bag down the atairs ad well. 'I didn't like him much' he said. Toerag. Hope he wasn't a close friend Frank.? '

anglea tiptioed down the stairas a bit later while Dennis was eating a suadage roll, and she cam back again. ';He's gone' she said. 'I thought you'd killed him Dennis' I said. 'Nah. He said. The skill of being a bouncer is knowing how hard each silly **** will bouince. That how you get the name bouncer. Lovely sausage rolls these. Have another one angela.'

Dennis has trouble

21rst October
I nkew it was too good to last. Dennis has lost his job ahgain . it was'nt my ******* fault' he said. I was onlt doing my job which is what they pay me for'. He was feeling very adgitated you could tell, and joff didn't know what to do because Dennis just walked in as if he oned the eplace like he always does, and plonked a box of fancies on the table and a si9xpaxk of lager. 'Help yourself' he said 'Here who the **** are you?' Joff was so surprised he just said 'Only a frend. Friend of Franks' Aren't I Frank?. Eh?' But I didn't answer and he didn't know what to do then. Dennis lookeda t him and the nest he;d made on the sofa just for him, and he loked a t me again. 'A friend is it? Hoggin the ******* sofa.'
Then he turned to angela and siiad 'How's my favourite lady then? Still on the prowl?' and angela went a bit pink. 'Here. Have a ******* fiancy and passed over the box .angela took a yellow cube covered in pink and red icing which is her favourite. 'Wash it down yer' Dennis said and pulled the top of a lager for her like a proper gentilman. I lokoad a side at Joff and could see he was adgitaed. After a bit he began to calm down and gradually reached over to take a fancy, but Dennis just hooked his figer in the edge odff the box and moved it about a cenitmetre out of his reach. Joff loked as though he had been hit in the face with a cowpat and grabbed his mewspaper to look at the horses.
'oy shidft over' Dennis said and waved hios arm at Joff. 'shift yer ******* carcass'. Joff looked a mixture of angry and frightened and began to lift things off his nest. 'Her let me ******* help you' Denis said and picked up the stack of old mewspapers and threw them arcoss the room. Then he picked up threre empty packets of biscuits and a takeaway and stuffed tyhtrm into Joff hads. 'Bin' he said. Joff oppended hi s mouth to say something and Dennis just pointed to the kitrchen part. After a while which felt like ages ,joff go t up and took the rubbish out. 'here, my lady, Dennis said 'Have a ******* seat' and waved angela onot the sofa. 'And budge up a bit to let Sir Galaerhad sit nex to you' and he waved ot me to sit down too.
Just as I sat s=down H=Joff came back in and looked shockt . His mouth came ungihnged at the corner and he began to poinrt 'Yes??????' said Dennis with a long set of question marks. Joff didn't speak at all but scratched his armpit. All Dennis did was to go 'Woo-hoo' quietly like amonkey which made angela smile and look away but then Joff realised and he went bright red. He cklenched his fists but Dennis didn't turnto face him. Then joff looked away and stared out into the kitchen part. The rickety chair was inbetween them and tyou could see Joff wondering whether to sit ion it. He just stood there for a long time while Dennis said 'I was just doingmy ******* job like the ***** underpay me for. This blokoe came op ****** out of his tiny skull, tattoos all over his neck and rings an dhoops and bits of kitchen ware all hanging from his face and earlobes and he ssays'ere mate, let me in, you ****' in front aof all the people waitng to get in. I says 'No sair, please wiat in line like everybody else. 'You ****' he says, and I says' You already said that. If you say ity again you will wish you didn't.' he went very quiet then and everbody was looking a thim. 'Lissen, you… … … … I am a friend af Jazeel who owns the ******* club, so if you still want your job you'd better let me in, you … … … …' I was getting a bit agditad now, because this bonehead was trying to poull rank which I've always hated,a s you know. So I said' I don't care if you're a personal friend od Edward ******* Scissor-hands or R2*******D2, you ain't comin in until all these other epeople have had their turn.' So this little **** just went click and there he was with a ******* flick-knife. ' You could hrt yourself with that, sonyy' I said Here better give it to me. So he tried to stick me in the gut with it the ******* little toe-rag. Obviously I wasn't having that, so I coiught his arm and bent it,like this, and he grabbed Joff's arm and showed us, and in two seconds he was on the floor, yelping. 'trouble was, the stupid little tosser fought back so I had to break his elbow to defend myself from being spiked . '
Joff had got back up now and wanted to sit down because he was a bit shocked it hink and needed dto sit down, so he moved towards the rickety chair. Dennis was about three paces awaty and he just ook one step . And Joff stopped. 'Put the kettle e on, eh… er what's your name?' 'Joff' he said. 'Right Jeff.. put the ******* kettle on eh?' Dennis looked at angela and she blushed I could tell.
Just as Joff went intot the kitehen part Dennis said in a very loud whiser 'funny what you see whn you haven't got your gun, isn't it?'
I smoled a big thankyou at him with my eyes and angela blushed again. 'Well anyway' he said ina quite loud voice 'I gotta be going now. Just thought I'd driop in to tell you I'm looking for wotjk again. Right… I'll be off.. Don't forgetrt.. any trouble .. just gimme a bell.' Then he winked and there was a long pause which bounced into the kitchen part and aback again.
Then he weny out and closed the door with a little thud. Then he opned it again' Oh yes… I'll be back to see you on Tuesday. Did you get that? TUESDAY. Ennjoy your cup of tea.'Then he went home