Category Archives: House & Home

New Fence

The on-going renovation of our house and garden met a new high over the weekend, we finally got a new fence! The old fence was rotting, and it pretty much got demolished in the high winds we’ve had these past few months. My Dad, Adam & Adam’s Mum all pitched in and put the fence up (I was working hard on other things!), and it makes the garden look much better. All that rubbish on the right? That was behind the fence, I think it was our neighbour-that-backs-on’s stuff. Anyway, much better.

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This was how the garden, and old fence, looked during our renovations. We’ve steadily been tidying it up and took down the two giant trees (they were half dead, blocking loads of light, and restricting the area we now use as a vegetable patch) and the murder shed (it looked exactly like the interior of a horror movie set in there).

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Next big step will be a new garage, but that’s after we’ve done a few more improvements on the house itself (a whole exterior wall needs re-rendering). I’ll show you some more before and after photos of my house this summer! Looking back on the old photos really make me realise how much work we’ve actually done.

 

Hermes Baby

I was making my usual Tuesday lunch time wander through the secondhand market today and came across this wonderful Hermes Baby mint green typewriter. I’ve been looking for one for a while now, and cursed myself when I uummmed and ahhed over one I saw in a charity shop a couple of months ago, I returned to get it and it’d gone.

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The market stall guy only wanted a fiver for it, but I even managed to haggle him down to £3.85 in the end. Bargain!

I’ve cleaned her up a bit, mainly just dirt & grime making it look a bit grubby, there’re a few scuffs here and there but it’s in otherwise good condition. It even works fine! It could do with a new ribbon, though. I mainly wanted to put it somewhere to look pretty anyway!

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Tulip Watch

We planted some tulip bulbs last autumn, they’ve slowly been creeping up over the past few weeks and I’m on tulip watch waiting for them to bloom. They’re some interesting varieties, including one that looks like a ball of plasticine made from mixed up colours. It currently looks like a tiny Audrey II from little shop of horrors.

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Some wild flowers that I grew from seed last year are just coming out too, look like they’re going to be super pretty!

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Mac OSX Shortcuts Print

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This is delightfully geeky, I think it’d go really well in our new little home office (currently home to erm, a disgusting number of Macs and 1 old PC).

From etsy seller birdAve and found via unplggd