House
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You know you have arrived when
You have the ultimate expression of Victorian respectability – an Aspidistra. This is ours in pride of place in our drawing room window. The main reason that these plants were so popular in…
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A bit of detective work
We’ve been getting a bit of building work done to put a new bathroom suite in. We wondered when the room had last been altered to install the horrible acrylic bath we ripped…
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Builders and plumbers and herbs and fish
Today we simultaneously had builders and plumbers in working on our new bathroom. The noise was something awful in my office, so I retreated to the garden, at which point it promptly began…
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In which I do a foolish thing
In the middle of cooking lunch today, the cooker suddenly stopped working. The oven turned off as did all the rings and there was no light on the switch beside it. R and…
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Keys to the door
There is a cracking door latch on the basement bathroom – it looks more like something out of a dungeon than belonging on a domestic door. Unfortunately most of the locks on the…
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Nice and not so nice
We have discovered some nice things and some, well – not so nice. I had had an idea in my head that the bottom part of the wall in the entrance hall was…
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The cats of Castlebank
One of my great sadnesses when we arrived at our long anticipated house, was to find that the lions which had been on plinths to each side of the door had been removed.…
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Taking stock
This was going to be R’s last day here before he had to go back to his lonely vigil. We tried to take stock of the house as well as doing as much…
