Starts and stops

September has come and gone in a colourful blur, bringing us a supermoon, changes in the weather (not for the better), temperature and the length of the days but no real changes in the house, unfortunately.

Yet October had just begun when we stripped one room of woodchip wallpaper, admittedly it was the box room – the smallest in the house but it took us less than a day, and was easier than I was expecting. We did make a start on the artex ceiling but soon discovered what a messy and awkward job it was going to be, so we’ve bought some masks and some better goggles and shall make another attempt at some point.

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Little bits, here and there

I haven’t written in a while now, though in fairness not an awful lot of progress has been made on the house, in that time.

Shire shed

We do now finally have an erected shed, Shire sent us the missing parts within the week. We weren’t able to finish it off right away and it had a tarp roof for a fortnight or two, which meant that after a few bouts of real British weather we experienced some shed floods. Paul and my parents finished it off one weekend whilst I was at work. This has freed up a lot of space in the utility room where we had a growing pile of gardening stuff.

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Extreme Gardening

There has been a lot more work going on since my last post. Our attic is now boarded out and we’ve put some boxes up there for storage and it’s even got light and power! We also have gone and bought ourselves a media unit for the television from John Lewis (since getting rid of our fireplace it had been on the floor).

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Charlie (the cat) can finally relax now that a lot of the noise has stopped.

Most excitingly (in my opinion) is the fact that we have now got our new oak windowsills in place. I can’t show you a picture yet though because we’re too scared to uncover them before we get them varnished – but I can assure you that they look good (even if they don’t really go with the strange green colour in the box room -ahem- study).

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