I didn't get a chance last week to upload the pics from our visit to Gloucestershire, then forgot, but was reminded by an article in this week's Sunday Times Style section which was so clearly inspired by the very same show....."Labourer of Love" by Clover Stroud http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article6650985.ece Living with a big strong boy myself, I... Continue Reading →
Unbelievably rude would-be tenant
I just had the funniest thing happen. Tenants are like buses, you wait 2 weeks with no viewings then 8 come along in a day. A flurry of activity this past couple of days on the small studio; a girl has decided she will have it, and is paying her initial deposit to secure it... Continue Reading →
25 Beautiful Homes come calling for Project Cathedral
Oooooh how exciting, it's all booked now, 25 Beautiful Homes ( http://www.ipcmedia.com/brands/25homes ) have booked to come and shoot Project Cathedral at the end of this month, through Maxine Brady, an independent journalist I met through another job. She used to be a stylist on House Beautiful, so clearly recognises a lovely house when she... Continue Reading →
Design – A Belling drops in
6.45am they bloody rang! What sort of a time is that to deliver a range oven, how uncivilised can you get?! The friend who's bought the lovely Rose Cottage round the corner from my house has only gone and won herself a top of the range Belling Range oven in a competition run by Period... Continue Reading →
Getting a teenager off the sofa
Success already!! Required for Project Deano, tile adhesive suitable for wooden floors and tile trim - both unearthed in the weekends cellar excavations. Plus the Rug Doctor cleaning machine has proven that whole new forms of life can be found living in the carpet of a one bed flat which has been let out for... Continue Reading →
A Photoshop whizz and Rug Doctor mania
Day of rest my arse. Started with a lovely fluffy omlette, packed with smoked trout and philly, then off to get Charlie and my Apple lesson. Dunderhead me though I'd changed it to a 1hr one, but it was a 3hr personal project with Kyle, who is the expert on Photoshop. And is he. Showed... Continue Reading →
Clearing a disastrous cellar
Inspired by becoming a mere working mortal as opposed to an A list tv star arf arf, today we are tackling the cellar. It's a bleeding disgrace and i have a meltdown whenever I descend into it's depths. Can never find anything, stuff gets dumped in it constantly and I buy stuff I've already got.... Continue Reading →