A bit of this and a bit of that

Well, it’s closer to Summer than Spring, but the fact that we have guests over TT has prompted a spot of spring cleaning. It’s funny how stuff just tends to accumulate over time, but we’re being quite brutal in what we’re throwing away. If it’s past the best buy date, it’s destined for the bin. [...]

Got a letter in the post yesterday, letting us know that our Samsung fridge/freezer is due an service. It’s a free service by Samsung and I was a bit surprised as we don’t have an extended service plan and so weren’t expecting contact from the company. We quite like our fridge/freeze, it’s an American style [...]

As part of our Spring Clean, one of the places that really needed a clean out what the medicine cabinet. You know how it is, you start with an immaculate medicine cabinet, then you grab something because you need it and chuck the packet back in. Before you know it the cabinet is one big [...]

Image via Wikipedia Isn’t it funny how Spring comes along and you feel the need to clean up. I’ve already cleaned up my desk at work and yesterday was sorting out some of the accumulated junk that I’m sure I would never need. It’s funny how you tend to put things aside sometimes on the [...]

Yes, I know .. if you’re been following my blog posts I should be really cleaning the house, but I’m blogging instead! Thing is, I always find the best way to relieve boredom is to puncture what you’re doing by doing something totally different. The great thing about that is that you don’t really feel [...]

photo credit: Stuart Conner We’ve had a great mortgage so far, paying an interest rate of just under 1%. It was a tracker mortgage, and with the Bank of England interest rate dropping to 0.5% everything was nice and bright. The only problem is that those low mortgage were a thing of the past, so [...]

Here’s a great photo of the twins Camille snapped this morning: It’s a great photo, isn’t it? We’ve taken a couple of good photos recently, the only problem is that the house is a bit of a mess. It’s pretty hard to keep the house tidy with a four year old and twin babies, but [...]

Image by liftarn via Flickr Just finished watching a show on TV called Britain’s Worst Home. The reason it stuck in my mind is that one guy had a house full of computers, computer bits and all sort of peripherals. I recognised a Spectrum, a VIC 20, an Amiga … then I stopped myself. If [...]

photo credit: *Sally M* I love the way our house feels in Winter. “It’s cold out there, but it’s warm in here”, as George Michael would have said; and that just describes it down to a T. It’s cold and rainy out, but I’m sitting here in our living room, with the fire on and [...]

Image by William Hook via Flickr Have you ever stopped to wonder how much technology we have around the house. I’m not talking about computers, TVs, DVD players and everywhere else you expect to find technology. But there are things we tend to rely on in other parts of the house. There are visible ones [...]