Renovation
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Before….
This is a raised bed by the side of the house – I am going to turn it into a herb garden. At the moment, it is a sea of weeds intermixed with…
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Grandma’s Bookcase
When I was a child my father’s mother lived in Blackpool. There was a desk with a bookcase on it – and it was full of old fashioned books of the sort you…
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Outside paintwork
I have been saying over and over again that when the weather improved a bit, I needed to get outside and do the outdoors paintwork. So it now has, and today I tackled…
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Busy Day
Today I dealt with the backlog of housework and laundry which had built up in my absence (to be fair to R he has been exceptionally busy while we were away preparing for…
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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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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 –…
