House
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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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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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Cats in the Drawing Room
The cats have good taste. With the weather rather better today, they both ensconced themselves in the “best room” for a hard afternoon’s snooze. If you can’t see Amber, look hard at the…
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Dining room windows
I’ve now done the wallpapering and the majority of the woodwork. I now have to tackle the woodwork around the windows, which to be honest is the part that needed the attention the…
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Getting on with the decorating
The dining room is a big job – and this is only doing half the walls as luckily the part above the dado is in good condition with wallpaper which (although it would…
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Nice visit
We had a lovely visit today from another lady who used to live in the house in 1970s and her husband. She brought some lovely flowers and chocolates and we had a long…
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Winter drying method
Following on from my revelation last summer that drying clothes on the outside line was better than using a dryer, I have come to a further epiphany (this time courtesy of J). Our…
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Started on the dining room
I started on the Dining room today. First one piece of good news – the old Lincrusta (or Anaglypta) came off in one single piece – it was really hardly attached to the…
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Dining Room Renovation
Well we are a month in to the New Year now, and my batteries are recharged. So on to a new project – it would be getting the garden into shape but the…
