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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…
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Saphy’s first bird
I had a hard day yesterday working at decorating. J’s basement lounge was basically in need of quite a lot of TLC – it had pretty awful wallpaper and a carpet that was…
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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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Heather the Heilan’ Coo
This is Heather – she came with us all the way from her homeland in Argyll where she was made by a local craftsman “Chainsaw Carver”. I think the removal men were a…
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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. …
