Posted By Judith on 6th April 2016
Regular readers will know about our long running battle with NPower our gas/electricity supplier and the fact that, at long last, we decided to change to SSE, who have been supplying our power from April 1st.
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Posted By Judith on 4th April 2016
After 2 days of destruction it was nice to get back to ‘putting things back together’ on Thursday and Friday, specifically putting the final course of ‘blue’ bricks along the top of the long retaining wall.
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Posted By Judith on 30th March 2016
Apart from the obvious reasons of providing protection for the car and secure storage for all our gardening and DIY ‘stuff’, a major reason for this garden project was to get rid of the 50+ years of old concrete paths which had been added to and patched up over the years by many well meaning ‘handymen’. Unfortunately the result of this ‘TLC’ meant that the paths were ugly, broken and in parts downright dangerous.
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Posted By Judith on 27th March 2016
Thank goodness we’ve put the clocks forward this weekend, I’ve been getting up at 6am for the last 3 weeks because of the light mornings and the prospect of 7am does sound a lot more appealing.
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Posted By Judith on 24th March 2016
Monday was a bit of a slow burn, Brett carried lots of bricks onto the scaffolding platforms whilst Peter and Adrian struggled with the finer points of the second lot of step. These are now testing his geometry skills, so once again lessons long forgotten had to be rediscovered.
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Posted By Judith on 21st March 2016
I’m sure we’ve all been told how our school days are the ‘best days of our lives’, and whilst that statement could be open to some debate, I’m sure we all agree that at some point during those ‘best days’ we have asked ourselves the question ‘when will I ever need to use this – – – ?’ (insert subject of choice)
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Posted By Judith on 19th March 2016
After a positive week, yesterday turned out to be a bit of a disappointment on several levels.
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Posted By Judith on 18th March 2016
On Wednesday we had a full compliment of builders, a delivery of bricks and the truss man came!
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Posted By Judith on 16th March 2016
There’s nothing quite like the smell of the first cut grass of the year. I’m hoping when things get sorted out in the garden Terry will resume his grass cutting duties, but until then I’ll be cutting it, and that’s what I did on a lovely, sunny Monday morning. The smell was wonderful.
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Posted By Judith on 13th March 2016
Friday was the first day this year that actually felt like Spring and as usual Adrian and Tony were here by 8.30am.
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