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Some useless lawyers
Now two days before we are due to complete on the Donich Lodge sale, and we have heard nothing more from our solicitors. I rang ours to discover that theirs had not put…
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Finishing my boudoir
R went back to Donich Lodge today having managed to demolish the hideous wardrobe in the room which is going to be his office. This was another example of rather unusual DIY skills…
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The remembrance of things past
The green bird bath in the picture originally came from my Mum’s house. It then moved to Donich Lodge where is sat in a little garden I made on a flat place (few…
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Samplers
We have two samplers which came from Norfolk. I have always been very fond of these – imagining the little girls who made them. Victorian girls would have been incredibly skilled in comparison…
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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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More Furniture
Today the furniture arrived from Norfolk. This was basically most of the contents of the house in Norfolk where J grew up. Compared to the stuff R and I brought from Donich Lodge,…
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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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Cardboard, cardboard and (yet more) cardboard
You just can’t imagine how much crap there is choking up the house. For a start off, the people who sold us the house did a far from stellar job in removing their…
