May 27th, 2010
We had amazing weather last weekend. So we ditched the interior DIY plans and covered ourselves in a layer of protective sun cream and headed out to the garden. We’ve been wanting to get the greenhouse up ever since we moved in several years ago, but it’s just never happened. We even ordered the sand and that’s been sitting in our driveway for the past year or so, making it really difficult to put the bins out – so annoying.
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May 20th, 2010
We’ve been pretty slow on the renovation front this year and after knocking great big holes in our studio walls in January nothing much happened with regards to installing our wood burning stoves for quite a while. Then Colin laid the hearths last month and last week we got round to getting the holes in the walls plastered up and chimney caps put on and the wood burners fully installed.
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June 15th, 2009
We hate the concrete garden we have at the front of the house and want to do something about it this summer. It’s going to mean trying to hack away at it with a pick axe ourselves, or if that fails, hiring someone with a pneumatic drill.
A previous owner decided to embed a load of large stones in concrete and then fill in the gaps with small red, white and grey gravel. We don’t know how deep the concrete is.
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