House
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Basement Lounge
J’s lounge in the basement is a huge room with a bay window. For a basement it is really quite bright and airy but when we moved in it was not showing at…
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Starting on the Games Room
All three of us have been keen game players since we were in our teens (a long old time ago now). By games I mean mainly RPGs (like Dungeons and Dragons) but also…
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R’s Office
Now that the pink wall paper and disgusting old curtains are gone, you can start to see what a gorgeous room R’s office is going to be. I renovated the original Victorian fireplace. …
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New Plumbing
The first night we moved in I tried out the only shower on the first floor and nearly boiled/froze myself to death with it because the temperature oscillated about randomly without any input…
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Butterfly Rescue
With one thing and another we have had to leave the doors propped open quite a bit. One of the reasons apart from the tradesmen is that we have not coaxed our shy…
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Fast or Slow?
I’ve always been a fan of the JFDI protocol. To give an analogy – you are trapped by your ankle by a giant clam and the tide is coming in. It is lose…
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Two beautiful pictures
This is our lovely pure black lady Amber sitting on a velvet “Ladies’ chair”. In Victorian times, chairs for ladies were made with no arms in order to accommodate their skirts (crinolines and…
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Oldies but goodies
A few blasts from the past today. Firstly – I hung my washing out in the garden. In Argyll the weather was much too temperamental to even attempt this – literally it could…
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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…
