Category: House
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Bring on the sun
We got solar panels! I’m so chuffed. Honestly, I’ve been looking at solar panels for nearly 19 years. We were all a bit surprised to discover that Grandad had actually left us money. He was not a wealthy man by any stretch of the imagination, but he bought the council house they’d been living in…
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More office updates
Having made a few changes around my home office, I may have got a bit carried away. I had a sudden urge to indulge in a bit of decorating and paint some of the walls. Clarkie is such an enabler. She made me leave the house and took me to Homebase, just off the Oxford…
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Office refurb
2020 has been an interesting year, huh? Being asthmatic, back in March I decided that I was going to work from home a few days before the full official lockdown began. Some time maybe a month or so in, my boss decided that the company was functioning pretty well without an office, and decided to…
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New Home
I’m not sure where the time has gone. I blinked, and suddenly it’s a whole new year and we have a new house. The last few months I seem to have been functioning, but I can’t really say what I’ve been doing exactly. Life has been rather hectic, but I think a big part of…
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Here we go!
So, the big things happening that I mentioned in my last post. I’m pretty sure I’ve now told the people who really needed to hear from me directly, so I can share it on the blog. I got a job. I’m still writing up my PhD, and I will be for a while yet, but…
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Bedroom rejuvenation
Back when we moved into this house, the main bedroom was purple. Lilac really, with pale green accents. Sort of a toned-down Wimbledon. Lots of people like it as a colour, I understand that. We, however, didn’t. So, in the week before the furniture arrived and while Clarkie was off playing cricket, I painted it.…
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On the make
Happy Christmas everyone! Yeah, I’m a bit late. I got another cold, a pretty good one this time. So I’ve been mostly sitting around coughing and feeling a bit sorry for myself. I think I managed to not totally irritate everyone on Christmas Day though, and I had a large portion of turkey, managed several…
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The fall and rise of a bathroom – conclusion
It is done! We’ve got our new towels on the towel rail, our shampoos etc back on the bath, and a brand new bottle of bath bubbles that I tested on Saturday after my run. Lovely. You’ll no doubt have noticed that you can’t see the door in that shot, whereas normally you can. That’s…
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The rise and fall of a bathroom – part 9
So close. Get this: last night I had a shower at home. Oh yes. Very close now. The shower is back on the wall. The shower screen is up. The bath panel is in place, and you can just see the flooring too. I had a shower last night and it no longer shudders and…
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The fall and rise of a bathroom – part 8
The photos aren’t as light today. My camera has decided it doesn’t need the flash any more so obviously the room is lighter, it just doesn’t look it in the photos. The grouting has been done. The brick effect is now much more subtle. A second coat of paint has gone on too, so it’s…
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The fall and rise of a bathroom – part 7
It feels like we’re getting close now. Which is good, because it’s supposed to be finished by the weekend! The tiling is done bar the grouting we think. Nice and neat on the sloping bit at the top. Also nice and neat around the shower (not that you can see it from there). The exposed…
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The fall and rise of a bathroom – part 6
We went to visit the nice, shiny, completed bathrooms at my parents’ house over the weekend, and progress on Friday consisted of completing a small but intricate piece of plastering. That’s important, but doesn’t look amazing in photos, so we’ll start again with what it looked like this morning. We have some tiles! Those are…