A bit of this and a bit of that

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 we’re [...]

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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 I [...]

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 [...]

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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 like [...]

We had someone come round today to see what it would cost to get a small conservatory fitted to the back of the house. We’ve been talking about something there ever since we moved in the house, but things have taken a turn to the urgent. You see, with twins on the way, we have [...]

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I’ve been slowly replacing the light bulbs in the house with energy efficient ones. We now have LED ones in the kitchen and compact florescent ones in various places around the house. The technology seems to be improving every year, but it’s still not up to scratch with traditional incandescent light bulbs. The [...]

I’ve just been looking around our bedroom and realise that I could possibly add a bit to the decor. It’s a typical bedroom, you know, with a bed, wardrobe, drawers and all the other bits, but it doesn’t seem to have the character you tend to get in some bedrooms. You know, some bedrooms have [...]

Hmm, I’ve been thinking that the bathroom needs a lick of paint for the last 6 months now. We had some damp come in, which was dealt with on the outside, but I’ve been meaning to clean up the walls on the inside and give it a couple of coats of paint. The biggest problem [...]

It’s not quite Spring yet (actually, we’re still in the middle of Window), but it’s starting to feel like we need a spring cleaning around here. It’s amazing the things that come out of the attic once you start digging into the pile of junk. Old computer bits, clothes that never belonged to anyone, even [...]

We’ve been thinking about putting some changes into the kitchen for the last couple of months. It’s not that we’re unhappy with the way it looks like, just that we could put some more cupboards where the breakfast bar is and make some more storage space. It would also let us put a dryer in [...]