Archive for the 'Photomaton' Category

Finito

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Done. For now.

In other news I have no windows in the second bedroom and its en-suite and it’s raining. Damn.

W Day

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Today is day two of the electricians and day one (of five) of the joiners.
Our excellent carpenter / joiners are refurbishing all of our sash windows so that they:
* actually open
* have working locks
* are rot free
* are draft [...]

Posts that I have…

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

… written on VOX that it won’t let me cross-post due to all the links.
The post where I talk about Etsy and the wonderful things it does
The post where I talk about restoring my antique desk and my poor shredded fingers
The post where I get excited about all the lovely furniture that has arrived from [...]

Chimney sweeps and new art

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

On Friday we are getting our sitting room chimney swept. Of course I have visions of consumptive Victorian urchins in rags shinning up my chimney stack but in reality it will probably be a corpulent balding man in blue overalls with a hoover.
The chimney is also being surveyed to see what state our flue is [...]

Onwards

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

We now have the luxury of hot water at Bobble Towers courtesy of our new condensing boiler – the gas pressure hungry condensing boiler – and a long length of fat copper pipe. Surface mounted pipe is very ugly to be sure but it was the only way. I am now shopping for off white [...]