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Another new walk
R and I went for a walk off the Ceres Road today. It was a lovely morning, and on the way we had coffee and rolls and sausage from Baynes. This is next…
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Orange beams no more
When we moved in last year, every bit of the woodwork in the dining room was badly stained a kind of “1980s orange brown” colour. In general this was pretty awful, but worst…
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A new cat toy
I bought a partially reconditioned Victorian firebox for the dining room. The idea is that it will be filled with logs and placed in the hearth as a feature. It came from ebay…
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Lenten Biscuits
I made some biscuits for a church group today. I had been going to make my (and R’s) favourite “Christmas Biscuit” but as it consists almost entirely of sugar, butter, nuts, dried fruit…
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It’s curtains for us…
The curtains came back from “The Steamie” today (this is an actual local business in this case – not the generic name for a laundry). It was a really good service because they…
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Tiles in place
J is finally recovered from his cold (not flu I think…) and I enlisted his help putting the tiles on to the fireplace. He put the adhesive on and I put the tiles…
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Tile sizes
I’ve now nearly finished the paintwork in the dining room, and a massive task it has been. All I have to do is the tops of the windows and the ceiling beams –…
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Mouse and Bacon
Saphy has had good hunting over the last few days so I decided to make a pie out of her catches. She was none too pleased about this, but accepted grudgingly that this…
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Mowing the lawn
I got Rowley our Mowrator out of the garage for his first run of the season today. He is a truly brilliant invention which R discovered a few years ago and he has…
