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An early 19th Century Pot
This is a nice ornament we inherited. It celebrates the first iron bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland and was made in 1810 (the bridge was opened in 1799). So it is…
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Nearly finished…
The games room is nearly finished now. I ended up with a huge pile of stuff in the hall, mostly cardboard from packing, but also stuff for the other two floors which was…
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Working hard in the games room
I’ve been slaving away putting the games room together. I have to admit it is a labour of love, because many of the things are possessions with happy (or even sad) memories which…
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Fruits of the garden
For all we are in an urban setting, the garden is full of life (too much so in one respect as I have just had to buy some insect repellent as I keep…
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What lies beneath…
We have an old coal store next to (but not part of) the basement. I keep threatening to lock J in there – but in all seriousness, it is a rather creepy place. …
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Tiles and bread
We had the tilers here today putting up the new tiles in our main bathroom. This room was not in a good state when we moved in – it had a hideous 1990s…
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Sunday Lunch
One of the things I wanted to do when I moved here was lead a more “gracious” life. By this I do not mean the full on Hyacinth Bucket snobbery thing, but just…
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They are domestic cats
I’m a bit of a cat lady, and also a fan of the Victorian period (both of which are probably pretty obvious). So for amusement, I wrote a little parody of “For he…
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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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Waterlilies
We have three small ponds in our back garden. One of them I call the “secret pond” because it was so overgrown we didn’t know it was there and I found it by…
