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Mmm, Zelda
On Friday, the nice young men from the tree surgeon came to visit. They took out the last few leylandii (we are free! Free!), and the variegated conifer by the front gate, which was getting a bit too big and squashing the ornamental cherries (we now have a much better view of the road, as an added bonus ( Read more... ) -
Living room!
After a hard afternoon and evening of furniture rearranging and assembling, it's all done other than putting the pictures back up on the walls!
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That was quick!
Quicker than expected, in fact: the new floor's all done, when we were expecting it to take until tomorrow. Unfortunately, we'd ordered things like new shelves, rugs and little felt pads to go under the furniture to stop it from making scratches for delivery tomorrow to tie in with it, so we're still a little short of furniture in here. Hopefully, ( Read more... ) -
Springlike
(Only not today, when it's currently rather foggy. Does seem to be clearing, though, and at least the fog is a sign that the wind has died down!)
We've been seeing lots of little flowers appearing in the woods, including wild strawberries and cuckoo flower/ lady's smock. There's a fine patch of violets up a tree, as well:
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Bits and pieces
My parents have been to visit, which was nice, and short (possibly the two are related!). They brought us new living room lights (we saw the ones that we wanted in John Lewis, but they were out of stock when we went to order them online. A short panic that they were being discontinued later and my mother had bought them in her local store, as she ( Read more... ) -
Am I missing something here?
I just downloaded an mp3, and thought I'd pop it on my phone (to join the other three on there; I very rarely listen to music on my phone ( Read more... ) -
Navigating London
If you were driving from Darkest Kent (M2) to The Frozen North (probably M11 but maybe A1 or M1), and wanted to break the journey, park the car and tube / train into Liverpool Street before carrying on, where would you do it ( Read more... ) -
1 dpi
I'm getting to the stage where I have to decide what I'm actually going to do with them....
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Bits
We're still rather up in the air about the new living room floor. In fact, I've just booked another quotation: wood-flooring guy replied to a request to quote for vinyl with cheaper wood options, vinyl-flooring guy a) still hasn't actually produced a quote and b) lost a lot of brownie points when he looked at our upstairs bathroom flooring and ( Read more... ) -
Free stuff
We've got various bits of surplus stuff that will be going to either the tip or the charity shop unless someone wants them!
- 1 x 80cm wide beech Billy with six shelves
- 2 x beech Benno
- a Morphy Richards steam floor mop, which works fine but isn't really up to Jodie's level.
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