Posted By Judith on 12th July 2014
After the excitement of Monday, week 17 settled down into lots of sitting around in the garden doing nothing (well the sun was shining and we deserve a rest!) and finished with a nice surprise.
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Posted By Judith on 7th July 2014
Week 17 started early this morning with the arrival of Adrian and the boys to do the work on the chimney.
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Posted By Judith on 5th July 2014
Week 16 consisted mostly of ‘finishing off’ type jobs. Why is it that such seemingly small things seem to drag on for days? Also we’ve got the pleasure of another visit from ‘Stand-up Steve’ to look forward to, as we have a leaking radiator.
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Posted By Judith on 3rd July 2014
As well as keeping a photographic record of the work, week by week, it has always been my intention to show a few ‘before’ and ‘after’ shots to illustrate the improvements (hopefully) we have made.
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Posted By Judith on 28th June 2014
Week 15 started on Monday with an unexpected visit to the vet. If you want to know how not to take a urine sample from a cat, click here.
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Posted By Judith on 21st June 2014
Week 14 has been a succession of ‘ings’. Let me explain what I mean.
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Posted By Judith on 15th June 2014
I think Week 13 can best be described as a ‘slow burner’, as nothing of any note actually happened until Thursday afternoon when Adrian and Danny came to dig a trench in the concrete floor of the porch to accommodate the, soon to be installed, (I hope) kitchen sink waste pipe.
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Posted By Judith on 8th June 2014
If you had told me in Week 1 that I would be starting a future blog post with the words ‘ Week 12’ I would have been horrified, but there it is, that’s exactly what I am doing, so here goes.
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Posted By Judith on 2nd June 2014
Under the linoleum tiles in the old kitchen is the original quarry tile floor. It was always our intention to uncover it as this will now be the hallway at the bottom of the new staircase.
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Posted By Judith on 1st June 2014
Week 11 could best be described as a hive of feverish activity, in fact on Wednesday (the day before the move) we had 8 tradesmen on site, nightmare when you only have 5 mugs.
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