Author: Harpsbridge
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2018 – End of October
The big news has been the revamping of the porchservatory (It’s a bit big for a porch, although it is one, but not quite a conservatory…). Before – rotten windows, leaky roof and only a walkway between the doors. During… And after – admittedly it sill needs trivial things like flooring, skirting boards, decorating and […]
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Mid October
We have carpets upstairs! And (some) furniture. Alright there are still a lot of boxes, but it’s beginning to look like home. Outside it’s looking a bit autumnal, and that is probably the last picture of the porch before it gets a makeover. And in produce news, I weighed one of the large tomatoes […]
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Mystery object identified
Remember this? Well Jason has won the prize for spotting it as the inner cast iron plate from a piano. Here are a couple of other examples found on the web. One has been given the designer treatment and used for interior décor. I don’t think we’ll be doing that…
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Early October 2018
Christine has been working hard, finishing off the upstairs painting ready for carpets fitting on the 11th October. Shame about the awful photography. Also an awful photograph, the old pine chest has had a facelift More furniture is now lined up for the Christine treatment – old drawers, a dvd cabinet for the […]
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End of September 2018
So, I missed a week, and to be honest, weekly updates were probably getting a bit tedious. So here’s a round up of the last couple of weeks of September. The car park was full again 🙂 The neighbours on the caravan site cleared the Confer hedge trimmings that had been in the Dyke since […]
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15th – 17th September
Inside, we were very pleased to get the pew brought down safely and without too much drama. It’s the heaviest piece of furniture we own, being solid oak, and the bulkiest, as there is no way to disassemble it unlike all our flat pack stuff. Still, we got it in, and safely put against a […]