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Garden Digging Party
18 September 2007
Read moreLast weekend we held a garden-digging party. Mostly because we have been failing to dig the garden in a timely fashion and its the time of year we should be turfing it. Personally I’m not mad about digging gardens but obviously my friends are as there were five of …
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Tile Transfers
27 August 2007
Read moreOur house has a cellar, which contains the kitchen. The steps down to it are very sterile white tiles and have been described as being “morgue-like”.
I have been thinking of painting some of the tiles, or even retiling although that seemed rather extreme as we’re likely to change …
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First Edition Painting
20 August 2007
Read moreIn case anyone thinks its been a bit quiet on the house front, I’d like to reassure you we’re still pottering away here. We’ve got a loo roll holder and a towel ring in the bathroom, Kevin’s fixed the bedroom door’s rattling and we’ve …
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How does your garden grow?
12 August 2007
Read moreI’m so organised that I forgot to take a before photo, but for those that this means something to, here’s my new-look front garden:
Previously it was a bit of a mess, with gravel just dumped on top of bits of plastic sheeting and weeds coming up everywhere …
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Home Help
06 August 2007
Read moreI finally took a picture of the garden, with its new benches and no tree stumps:
I just wanted to post the photo and also thank the many people who have already helped us in the house and garden, and the many more who have promised help (or whom I …
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Alternative Uses for a Shoe Rack
02 August 2007
Read moreA few houses ago, I had a shoe rack.
I remember it in our first house together, and I’m not sure if it got assembled in the house after that. Its been in storage since then until yesterday. When I unpacked it, I discovered this sign attached to it …
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Painting Platforms
26 July 2007
Read moreThere’s lots to do in the house now – the list of jobs runs is frightening and has everything from “fix kitchen drawer” to “rewire house” on it. Redecorating is a long way down the list but I’ve bought beautiful red curtains for the front room … and the existing …
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Happy Housewarming
20 July 2007
Read moreLast weekend we combined good friends, plenty of drink, a barbecue and a surprising spell of good weather to make a house warming party! We started mid afternoon and people dropped as their schedules permitted which worked really well1 . The barbecue was perfect and in fact we had two …
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Garden Goodness
10 July 2007
Read moreYou’ve probably seen the garden photos we took already, but last weekend, it underwent rather a change. Here’s the updated version:
You can’t really see on this photo, but I now have flowers in my garden :) Here’s a better shot:
The two on the left are …
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Strawberry Summer
02 July 2007
Read moreBack in October, our first house sale fell through and our plans were rather up in the air. On my next visit home I was marched onto the patio by my father who pointed out the strawberry pot and strawberry plants that would have formed my housewarming present.
Eight months …
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Little Guest Room
02 July 2007
Read moreI promise house stories, and then I disappear for weeks, I know! Anyway, I’m back with some more house photos. Do you remember an attic photo from the first day in the house?
Well, its the little guest room now, and has had a few visitors already – I hope …
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The Internet Has Landed
02 July 2007
Read moreWe bought a house, as I may have mentioned before. For anyone who doesn’t know us, I’m an internet geek living with an even geekier internet geek. The internal networks have been up since about ten days in, but its taken til today (more than five weeks) to …