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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. …
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Eggs and Pumpkin
I found this egg shell on the lawn under the cherry trees yesterday. It was cleanly broken in half with no residue on the inside making it likely that it is the discard…
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The End of the Beginning
I know we still have a long way to go, but today we made some major steps forwards. All the new flooring went in to the basement. The intention had been to paint…
