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The waters rise
25 June 2007
Read morePopped home at lunch time and the water is a couple of centimetres deep with another 12 hours or so of heavy rain forecast. Even my bright red wellies aren’t enough to brighten up this situation!
So today’s post is about a different bit of the house, the …
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A Tale of Two Floods
20 June 2007
Read moreWell, we’ve been in the house almost four weeks and so far we’ve been flooded twice1.
Last Friday I headed down the stairs for my breakfast, to the kitchen which is in the basement. pitter … patter … splish. splash. splosh. I’m standing in about an inch of …
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Don't close the door!
17 June 2007
Read moreI know I’ve been pretty quiet around here lately but we’re still without internet at home (don’t ask – a story for another day) and work is frantic so I’m struggling to find time. While everyone is waiting I thought I’d let you know that the …
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Boxes and Labels
08 June 2007
Read moreI’ve packed the camera as I’m away this weekend, so I’m sorry but a word-related house post is all there is for today.
We’ve got most of the furniture assembled now, or at least in the room it is destined for, and the process of unpacking …
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Timber!
05 June 2007
Read moreThere’s a tree in the new garden which shouldn’t be there. In general I’m in favour of trees, but this was a horrible big conifer which blocked the light from our garden and next door’s.
Here’s the offender:
And the “after” shot:
Ah, that’s …
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Ding! Dong! The doorbell's ... gone
04 June 2007
Read moreSo we’ve just moved into our new house – its quite large and the mobile signal is quite poor. We’ve got a wireless doorbell and can take the chime around the house with us which is very useful. We had not got round to screwing it to the wall …
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Photos from the house: day one
29 May 2007
Read moreFollowing the news about our recent house purchase, I promised everyone some photos, so here they are. I’ve only got internet connection at work so I’m afraid I’ve just picked a few of the ones we took on Friday, with the house exactly as we found it …
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New Home
25 May 2007
Read moreWe did it … we got to the end of the process and we are now Home Owners :)
Its been a rocky road right until the last minute, I hadn’t wanted to blog the completion date being today in case I jinxed the whole thing … and just as well because …
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Sssh ... Thoughts of Moving
20 May 2007
Read moreI’m whispering. It loses something when you whisper in a blog post but just imagine that I’m whispering.
I’m whispering because I’m going to write about the house and I’m sure that speaking too loudly will jinx the whole process! Nothing is certain in my …
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Hopeful House
18 May 2007
Read moreI haven’t updated the house saga for a while but its been ticking along in the background. There have been the usual series of alarm and excursions – one misunderstanding about whether planning permission was needed for the basement (happily it wasn’t, as there isn’t any!) and some …
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Offer Accepted (sound familiar??)
24 April 2007
Read moreWe’ve bought a house! If you think you may have read this before, perhaps you’d like to read one of the three previous offers posts.
In an interesting twist, we’ve had an offer accepted on the same house we had an offer accepted on last time, for …
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Hopeless Homeless
22 March 2007
Read moreI may have mentioned that we’re buying a house, or houses … if that doesn’t sound familiar you should probably catch up and then come back to this page. So, to recap, the house isn’t falling down.
What I didn’t mention, because I didn’t know when …