Category: inside
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December 2018
I know it’s January, so this is a bit late, but I’ve been busy Christmas-ing, OK? The boxes have mostly been unpacked, or otherwise tamed. For example the stack on the left now houses the contents of the boxes on the right. Work on the house then stopped to prepare for Christmas instead. Bedrooms ready […]
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November 2018
A very brief post, just to prove I haven’t forgotten about the blog. November was very busy, but most of it was not very photogenic – just boxes, boxes everywhere. We received a completion date on the house in Wyke for the end of the month, so everything had to be moved out – to […]
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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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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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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 […]