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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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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…
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Taking stock
This was going to be R’s last day here before he had to go back to his lonely vigil. We tried to take stock of the house as well as doing as much…
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In which Amber gives us a fright
So come mid-afternoon R set off back to Donich Lodge. Before this is all over, he will never want to see the A83 again. Oh hold on – did he ever want to…
