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Kitchen – stage three
So with the units replaced and the new floor laid, time to go to work on decorating. Much as I would love to have professional decorators do this, it is way too expensive…
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Roof – stage one
Just when we thought we were getting away (reasonably) lightly with things that could overtly be wrong with the house – we ran into a problem. A piece of the guttering at the…
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Happy birthday J
It is J’s birthday today. He is lucky to have been born in August because my birthday is in November (cold and miserable) and R’s is right after Christmas (cold, miserable and travel…
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Kitchen – Stage two
We got the new floor in our kitchen today. I would have loved real encaustic tiles but they are excruciatingly expensive, so we went for the unauthentic option and bought vinyl cushion floor.…
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Aspidistra still flying
I noticed today that the Aspidistra we bought a few months back has put some new shoots out. Perhaps one day it will be the “Biggest Aspidistra in the World”…
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Fruit Flies no more
We had a bit of a plague of these pesky things for a few days. With the tradesmen in and out, not only were the doors constantly open, but it was difficult to…
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Update on Lucky
Lucky is the cat we had to leave behind in Lochgoilhead. He was (or is) a cat which belonged to the place rather than to us, and very kindly the people who bought…
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Supermarkets
Since we have been here, we have been getting a weekly delivery of our groceries from Tesco. I am very used to getting all our food this way having done so for the…
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Kitchen – stage one
So the kitchen fitters were here for two long days and all the hideous units have been replaced. I’ve spent all of today putting everything back – this time with everything in a…
