Posts Tagged ‘house’

Exhausted and I have a nagging sore throat, but I wanted to share a few photos and thoughts from the last couple of hectic weeks.
We spent about four days last week moving…I think we did 18 trailer loads – although we kind of lost count..and even more car loads… (and yes- next time we move [...]


so close….so tantalisingly close. Giving three weeks notice on this house on Monday.
The worst thing about waiting is … the waiting.
In other news Jack got his L plates during the week.
Tomorrow – trip to IKEA to grab stuff. Izzy is coming and we’ll be listening to the JJJ hottest 100 of all time and coming up [...]


I have been composing posts in my head for weeks now…but there is such a jumble in there it hardly seems worth while trying to make sense of it all. But I’ll try. It’s left me at times a bit flat. I have to say this last month has been the most difficult for me as it [...]


- reminds me of that awful Janis Ian song…I am queen of remembering horrible, irritating songs! -
Pistachio and macchiato are the names of the ‘feature’ tiles in the bathrooms. We seemed to have made quite a few design decisions based on some tenuous association (the Memphis red in the kitchen was chosen because we have [...]


A is for argon

04May09

… this really cool gas that is in our double glazed windows.  Argon helps greatly with thermal insulation.
I have high hopes for this ‘noble gas’ – (an odourless, colourless gas with little chemical reactivity). Equally cool and interesting is that argon is used for preservation- The US Declaration of Independence is stored in an argon-filled [...]