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On the ‘New Year, New Me’ Phenomenon (and my 2019 Intentions)5 February 2019Since my teenage years when I started dabbling in diaries and pouring my thoughts out on paper, every January there has been a little list of Resolutions for the year ahead, always based on “improving myself”. Every January the same two things have topped that list: lose weight, and stop […]
Work on the House in 2018 and our 2019 Renovation Goals16 January 2019This time last year I set us a few renovation goals for the year ahead in relation to our house renovation. I didn’t want to make any grand plans because we’ve found since having our daughter, we just don’t have the blocks of free time we used to for big jobs, the sort that need to be […]
How We Saved Money By Recycling Our Old Kitchen8 September 2018Our beautiful new kitchen has in fact been made by recycling our old kitchen, but in a different room! The units in the kitchen were never the problem – they have lovely solid oak doors and are really well made – the issue was the tiny room. I loved the units, but I didn’t think it would be easy […]
Progress on Our House Renovation At Last!4 September 2018Unbelievably it is September already and so I thought in a spirit of back-to-schoolness I would remind myself of what I hoped to do in our house renovation by the end of this year, and see how far we’ve actually come, and maybe give myself a kick up the backside to actually get it all done. As you […]
