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

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 proof * look smashing They are starting with the sitting room [...]

… 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]