Been a lax on the old property updates recently, far too busy eating cake and dealing with stressful solicitor type situations, but in the background work has been moving on a pace and we're involved with some fantastic projects. I'm managing a renovation contract on a very large Parsonage, which has been untouched for about... Continue Reading →
Food: Heaven is finding yourself on a cake tasting panel
Regular readers of the Moregeous blog will have noticed a few recurring themes: property renovations, events in West Didsbury, random injuries.... and cake. As a confessed self-employed stresshead, cake plays a major role in my life for it's comforting, uplifting, fortifying and pleasuring qualities, it never fails to make me smile. Unless it has jam in... Continue Reading →
Property: UWDC, I finally give up, 6 months to change a faulty meter!
I absolutely give up and though this girl has tried her best to help me get a broken electric meter replaced, she is up against a brick wall working for this crazy company. I finally sent this email today..... Dear Susanne, I have now entirely given up trying to get this faulty meter changed by... Continue Reading →
Life: The Christmas festivities begin in West Didsbury
I can't remember a more festive beginning to the month of December than this year, it's been absolutely perfect. Firstly, snow. Yes, I know it can be a bummer for business and terrible for traffic, but it's just so blinkin Christmassy! We've only had a little flurry here, a single day of flakes, but it's... Continue Reading →
How to make your kitchen warmer: Try some under cabinet insulation
One of the by-products of helping make other people's homes Moregeous is that people assume mine is already done and dusted, they imagine some kind of show home with plumped cushions, a designer bathroom and spectacular decor - NOTHING could be further from the truth! When we moved in here four years ago it was... Continue Reading →
Life: Creepy surveillance, somebody’s been watching me…
Following on from yesterday's post, and to cut a four week long course down into a readable post, if you have chronic pain, are struggling with it and are lucky enough to have a hospital with a pain management course available, get yourself on it. I was one person before the accident, another person after... Continue Reading →
Life: No pain, no gain? Not always Ms Fonda!
Back in September I wrote a little about something I've been dealing with for the last four and a half years, a chronic back pain condition which developed after a relatively minor car accident back in 2006. Looking back, and this is not meant to sound in any way trumpeting, I was on a roll... Continue Reading →