Renovation
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Vestibule
When we moved in the entire upstairs house was carpeted in a serviceable but rather dull (and in places rather threadbare) green carpet. Bit by bit we have had some of the worse…
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Wardrobe
I’ve finally turned my attention to our spare upstairs bedroom – or as we call it “the Turret Room” because it has a nice view over our battlements and a small balcony. In…
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Waterlilies and hard labour
So far we have five waterlily buds between our two ponds. The first one came out yesterday. Unfortunately no time for looking at flowers today as I am back to decorating. I finally…
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Clearing up
I cleared up yet another load of weeds today. It was time for the composting bin to go out, and it was full up to the brim. When I went to move it,…
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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…
