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In Hot Water (Cylinder), and Plants
Heat wave? Rain storm? What’s going on?! The weather has been weird recently. It’s either torrential rain and flash flooding, or tree-splitting sun and blue skies. Summer is going out with a bang. We’ve spent the last week hanging out with family and friends As a follow-up to the last conservatory DIY post, I’ve finished…
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Food, Drinks, and Fireworks
Time for something completely different. Ish. Different-ish. Different dish? Bobotie and Burgers It has been a while since I’ve covered food but I’m back with a few recent gems. We had a trip down to Falmouth only to be faced with Pendennis castle overrun by pirates. Summer traffic made traversing Cornwall a bit of a…
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Cupboards and Conservatories (And a Bit of Broadband)
It has been a busy week around here with a few trips and plenty of ongoing projects. Airing Cupboard/Hot Press* *Neither is particularly a accurate name… I am in the process of reassembling the airing cupboard/hot press (take your pick) and tried to do so in the most straightforward way – cutting bits of plasterboard…
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Heat Pump, Take Three (Part Two)
And it’s in. Time for the ever after… We’ve had our Daikin Altherma air source heat pump in for about a week now, and so far it seems to be functional. We haven’t had much of a chance to test it given that we are in the middle of summer and the room temperature barely…
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Heat Pump, Take Three
Radiators filled. System pressurised. And action! It was almost destined not to happen, but after months of pain, disruption, and switching companies, the air source heat pump (ASHP for those in the know, or if you want to be pretentious) installation is finally happening. Octopus Energy is the force behind it, and they have been…
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Swiss Cheese in the English Alps
A long drive in torrential rain (a theme of late) brought us to a bungalow just outside Grasmere in the Lake District. There was a little walking, and a lot of eating. Here are just a few of the fun filled activities we got up to. Raclette, you say? Raclette is an Alpine semi-hard cheese…
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Changing Gardens Part Two (Chronicle of the Dump)
The work in the garden continued over the last week. We’ve almost wrapped up the project. We’re back in the back of the garden for another installment. This one is even more plant-filled thanks to the new fern bed installed after we removed a smaller dead tree. We finished off the last installment with the…
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Changing Gardens (Chronicle of the Dump)
This post is more of a visual, photo-heavy one documenting the in-progress transformation of the back of our garden. We un-paved paradise, and put up a playground… The area at the back of our garden had been used as a dump for generations of folks. Broken bottles. Wheelbarrows. Insulation. Broken bricks. Mobile phones. You name…
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Busy Times in Horsham High
I have been flat out entertaining and getting the house ready for the impending heat pump installation, hence the delay in this one. Cheese…and cake? Part of entertaining is necessarily cooking (traditionally speaking, of course) and since I was making my oft requested Korean fried chicken, I wanted to do something a little different for…
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Liverpool…Not just a Pond Full of Viscera
On the road (rails) again. I’ve been travelling again, but this time within the confines of the country and within unreliable public transportation distance, at the home of the Beatles. This is my second trip to Liverpool and first for business. I was at the joint meeting of the British Division of the International Association…
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