Published on 4 June 2006 in House, gardening, house
We're in a drought situation. The reservoirs are not exactly in a good state and Thames Water have already instigated a hosepipe ban. So I confess to being in a bit of a quandry about whether we should have hanging baskets this year. After all they take up a lot of water.
Published on 21 March 2006 in House, estage agents, house, house buying
A BBC News website about dirty tricks and scamster estate agents makes depressing reading. Anyone who has bought or sold property knows that it's an extremely stressful experience. It also reminded me that I'd never blogged about the estate agent hell we had when we were trying to complete the purchase of our lovely little house.
Published on 1 March 2006 in Life, house
Is it possible to look at Spherey and not feel happy? I think not.
Published on 6 October 2005 in Television, Digital TV, house, television
I know, I know. You're all desperate to know what the state of play is on my satellite signal. I can tell this because of the flood of emails that have been bombarding my email address ever since I first mentioned the problems.
Published on 2 October 2005 in House, DIY, house
It was about six months ago that an epic journey was started. A journey that would see a complete redefinition of the way I lived my life. A journey that would shake the foundations of the world I lived in. It's impact is larger than can be imagined. Yes. I started decorating.
Published on 22 September 2005 in Life, house
So I'd like to say a big thank you to the person who, at some point, walked to the end of my drive, lifted up the purple recycling box, removed the green recycling box from underneath it, took out a newspaper and some other bits of paper from the green box, put them in the purple box, put the purple box back, and then scarpered with my green recycling box.
Published on 14 September 2005 in Life, house
I seem to recall recently, hearing a report on Today about how hedgehogs are becoming rarer. I've certainly never seen one. Foxes yes, Hedgehogs no. Until tonight.
Published on 5 September 2005 in Work, day in the life, house, work
Things that I have done today.
Published on 9 July 2005 in House, gardening, house
Recently I began to think about doing something with the small flower bed that sits at the end of the drive. When we moved in, there was a narrow strip for plants and behind that was mostly piles of pebbles and stones - lots of them. It was time for a change. And fewer stones.
Published on 23 June 2005 in Life, house
A couple of weeks ago I realised that not only was it June, but I'd had a whole of three days off work in the first five months of the year. And one of those was taken so I could do tourist stuff with my mother, so wasn't exactly a carefree day of leisure.