Simply The Best

Posted By on 11th March 2015

No, this isn’t a tribute to the legendary Tina Turner, it’s actually a question.

What’s the best thing you’ve ever bought?

For the purpose of this ‘best’ can mean, most expensive, most beautiful, most useful, best bargain, longest lasting or just your favourite thing in the whole world.
Here’s what I came up with.

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D.I.Y.

Posted By on 27th February 2015

D.I.Y. you either love it or hate it. It can be fun, hard work, rewarding, dangerous or disastrous. Here are a few observations.

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(Dim) Light Dawns

Posted By on 20th February 2015

There’s a limit to what you can write about painting and decorating. Whilst a brief sojourn into fitting hanging rails in the wardrobes provided some light relief, the last few weeks have been mainly painting, so I thought instead I’d write about a happy accident that happened before Xmas.

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To Laugh Or Cry?

Posted By on 9th February 2015

On the face of it painting a staircase is quite easy, after all if it’s made with wooden spindles like ours there’s more ‘hole’ than substance, isn’t there? Don’t you believe it.

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26 Years

Posted By on 1st February 2015

Having recently recovered from a bad back, I’m continuing with decorating the new hall. It used to be Gladys’s kitchen, but I doubt she’d recognise it now.

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You Know You’re Old – – – – –

Posted By on 26th January 2015

You know you’re old when,

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And Then The Post Came

Posted By on 16th January 2015

I decided to let Xmas and New Year go by before embarking on what I hoped would be my final NPower quest.

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The Good, The Bad, And The Ridiculous

Posted By on 10th January 2015

There’s no better time than the beginning of a new year for blowing off the cobwebs and getting a few things off your chest, so here goes.

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And So It Goes On

Posted By on 3rd January 2015

What better way to start the New Year than a good NPower story. I can already hear the collective sigh and the chorus of, “Oh no, not this again”, and I do sympathise, I’m even boring myself, but it’s a story that just won’t go away.

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Here Comes 2015

Posted By on 1st January 2015

Here’s wishing everyone a Happy, Healthy and Peaceful New Year.

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