well thanks everyone for your replys....result.

Firstly the whole episode of the engine just dying is down to the failed distributor..hall sensor i think. and this was not just a striaght fail as the engine cutting out issue happened 3 times over 5 weeks.
My original diag of no spark was correct until the dizzy was replaced but when i tried to start with the replacement dizzy the severe missing I thought was due to the leads in the wrong order when infact they were in the right order, but i guess taking plugs in and out swapping this and that caused a bit of damp or something to make it not fire up smoothly, so I changed the order to gods know what and of course I felt i was back to the original problem of it just turning over and over.

??Why i just didnt swap the leads back aroung i dont know..at least it was fireing??

It was indeed back to basics Cossie Sean and got the 1-3-4-2, (1 being at 2 oclock and then anti clockwise) correct. so out of the 6 days off the road only 1 day down to my foolishness the rest was damn bank holiday post delays

Thanks again folks till next time