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Life in general, Moving and Improving

June 2, 2009

Chick chick chick chick chicken…

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Blousey and Tallulah

Blousey and Tallulah

Lay a little egg for me! I’ve got chickens!! Their names are Tallulah and Blousey and they are lovely.

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Life in general, Moving and Improving

May 21, 2009

The things I have learned since moving to Somerset

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The view on Christmas Day. One of the reasons we chose this house.

The view on Christmas Day. One of the reasons we chose this house.

Today marks the one year anniversary of when, by the light of my mobile phone, we found the keys under a flowerpot for our new house. Wow! I cannot believe it’s been a year already; but on the other hand, I do feel like a visitor when I go back to Tonbridge; and I do feel I belong here now. I have no regrets about our relocation at all. Here’s a list of a few things I’ve discovered.

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Food, Life in general, Moving and Improving, Other things

April 7, 2009

Paint. (Farrow & Ball, Crown and Focus)

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I have reviewed different brands of paint before, but I’ve never used Farrow and Ball paint until recently, and as I also just used Crown paint, I’m going to do another one.

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Life in general, Moving and Improving

February 8, 2009

Alder King estate agents and The Countrywide Group

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The Shepton Mallet branch

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Life in general, Moving and Improving

February 7, 2009

Open fire advice

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I discovered this sort of information hard to find, so here it is for you.

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Life in general, Moving and Improving

February 6, 2009

Living without central heating

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How we are coping!

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Life in general

August 12, 2008

After Glastonbury Festival

What do you say you’ll do?

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Life in general, Other things, Reviews

April 27, 2008

Living in Tonbridge

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While researching areas to move to, we’ve found little reviews of towns found on the internet were vital – especially when we started looking in Wiltshire and Somerset – places we hardly knew at all. So, now that we are leaving it, here’s my thoughts on Tonbridge; having lived here for 30 years, I feel qualified enough to tell you!

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Life in general

April 25, 2008

Moving to Cornwall

After over three years of planning to move to Cornwall (from Kent), we have well and truly decided we are not buying a house there. It is simply too expensive – ridiculously so if you’re after an old place with beams and inglenooks like I am. (Not so bad if you’re after a new build). Our problem is we need somewhere big enough for two of us to work from home. Anyway, after so long researching and house-hunting, I can offer a bit of advice if you’re planning on relocating to Cornwall and aren’t sure of areas.

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Life in general, Moving and Improving

April 24, 2008

More house hunting with kids

A continuation on my advice!

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