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Communications
While we haven't found the modem cables yet - and switching our broadband could take a couple of weeks we thought we had a telephone. ( Read more... ) -
Welcome to the energy inefficient house.
Well we got the keys on Friday and spent the weekend cleaning and painting the ceilings white (originally a dense mid blue which took at least two coats of brilliant white to hide). I spent an educational day exploring the wiring and lighting setup (the former owner was a professional electrician - Glad he never did any work for me!) ( A detailed description follows ) -
Moving
Life is terribly hectic at the moment. We're part way into moving into our new house - and discovering various pluses and minuses more in a seperate post ( Read more... ) -
Moving
Ok we're now moving house! fortunately it doesn't require a one day massive heave - which is good because there are several things which need doing before/ as we settle in. The sellor was a professional electrician of the sort who add things to his own home that he wouldn't (or oughtn't) countenance in any other circumstance ( Read more... ) -
spring and gardens
There's no way I could be described as a gardener. But I came across this ( Read more... ) -
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It's been windy few days, but from the news, we've come out of this with minimal damage, One gust blew a section of roof off one of the dutch barns (complete with timber beams) but it missed our power cables. a couple of decent timbers and four large roofing sheets and a day or so and we should be as good as new - well nearly! -
Life and people
There are all sorts of people, obvious I know, but there is a point ( Read more... ) -
Communications
The farm was outside of ADSL range of the local exchange until fairly recently,( Read more... ) -
The infamous Dolls house
As I've mentioned previously I was asked to make a dolls house for A feature in the Daily Mail.
The article is available online on the Daily Mail website
Article here
Unfortunately a picture of the dolls house didn't make it into the piece and if you blink you'll miss any reference to me!
A happy Christmas to all! -
Of Dolls houses,
Ok I mentioned that I'd been asked to make a dolls house for a newspaper feature. Well Igot an email from the feature's writer. The feature should be in this weekend's paper however due to assorted factors it doesn't actually appear!
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