Massive news today from down here at Love Withington Baths, the community charity we set up to save and then run the last working, water-filled Edwardian baths in Manchester, and probably one of the few left in the country! We've been running the Baths for a year come 20th June and during that time, on... Continue Reading →
You all know me by now right, there's nothing I love better than the smell of timber, a busy work bench and stuff being made. Everything summed up in the image above really, taken up at a fantastic manufacturer company called Dresser Mouldings which we visited this month in Lancashire. They'd been recommended to me by a small... Continue Reading →
I have honestly never seen anything as ridiculous as this in my whole life. Speaking as a lady builder who spent months on frozen roof slates last winter, this daft woman isn't an artist, she's just another attention seeker using the same old cheap method to grab headlines. How in God's name are female builders and roofers... Continue Reading →
Regular readers will know all about our Baths and the hard work put in by Team LWB over the last (wow is it really?!) nearly three years. None of us really knew what would happen when we took over the running of this magnificent but rather dilapidated and poorly cared for building in June this year. Though... Continue Reading →
Let's repaint the porch. Such an innocuous phrase. Just a Sunday afternoon job, you might think. Yep..... not here! Seven days later and I must confess that he's done all the stripping whilst I've been off working on client jobs and styling for ad campaigns and the like. One of us drew the short straw,... Continue Reading →
Yep, I know, it's been a while since a Do Up Diary post! Since finishing the major building works and getting water tight in Spring, Mr M and I have been working hard to earn pennies to carry on at Moregeous Mansions. It's been tough living like this but as everyone keeps saying "it'll be... Continue Reading →
Blackberry picking is absolutely one of my most favourite things to do in the whole world. Despite the stickiness from all the oozing purple juices, sweatiness from covering up in August and scratchiness from all the prickles, it takes me right back to being a child with nothing else to focus on but getting a pile... Continue Reading →
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