Posted By Judith on 29th August 2015
Now, before you start worrying that I’ve gone all ‘Mills & Boon’ in my old age, the three little words in question are, curtains, shelves and lino. Five syllables, nineteen characters, three little words that are still standing between us and completion of the dining/kitchen.
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Posted By Judith on 24th August 2015
I hate moths, but before all you lepidopterists out there take umbrage, let me explain why.
It’s not all moths, just ‘Tineola bisselliella’, better known as the common clothes moth.
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Posted By Judith on 15th August 2015
I can’t think in 3-D, some might say I can’t think in 2-D, Peter says that sometimes I don’t even think at all! (I’ll leave that one for others to debate.) He, on the other hand, can think in 3-D a fact that became very evident in our latest mini project.
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Posted By Judith on 9th August 2015
Cast your mind back to March 2014, before all the work started, when we still had a separate pantry and the only means of getting upstairs was by Gladys’s ladder.
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Posted By Judith on 5th August 2015
I’ve never enjoyed reading, I don’t find it relaxing and prefer to spend an hour doing a good puzzle rather than reading a good book, but that’s not my guilty secret.
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Posted By Judith on 31st July 2015
At Ravendale House we had a small clump of Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ which we were very fond of. When we decided to move house we wanted to make sure we had ‘Lucifer’ in our new garden. (As it turned out we needn’t have worried!)
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Posted By Judith on 26th July 2015
Not unreasonably I seem to have been concentrating most of my attention on progress indoors, which seems to go in ‘fits and starts’. However, I hope you will be able to see there has been some progress outside too.
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Posted By Judith on 18th July 2015
Any regular viewer of the BBC’s ‘Gardeners’ World’ programme will recognise Nigel, Monty Don’s faithful gardening companion.
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Posted By Judith on 8th July 2015
Have you ever wondered what staining a wooden floor looks like? Well wonder no more.
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Posted By Judith on 3rd July 2015
Unlike the song, if I ruled the world I wouldn’t make each day ‘the first day of Spring’, what I’d actually do is get rid of cruelty in all it’s vile and hideous forms.
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