As we are doing the kitchen at the moment, I reponded to an request for kitchen units.
After a couple of photos, dimensions and the expaination of them being wobberly and held together with tape, the taker was still interested.
We spent a long time NOT destroying these units to have them put out and covered for [...]

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Chimney swept for the winter to go with the mysterious 250kg bags of coal in the bunker!
It’s a bloody messy job.

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I think, well I know we have at least 1 mouse. Problem is there is no sign of the little thing anywhere. All we can do is hear it scratching away in the walls. Why can’t it come out? At least that way we would be able to catch the blighter. [...]

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So I’ve been reading other people’s blogs and I have decided that I haven’t really got much to say, compared to some of the things other peole have been noting down. It could be because I haven’t been out and about doing stuff for the past 4 weeks. But surely with the radio [...]

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On the weekend, I spent a lot of the time chopping wood which we got from the local wood. 
It cost £5.00 which was half a boot load.
After throwing a couple onto the fire, I noticed it seemed like it was taking more energy for it to take then heat up the house.
Hence the weekend of [...]

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I’m trying to organise my life a little better.

I’m running Journler which hopefully will do this.

This was actually written on Journler and posted via some internet jiggery pokery

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Well Ho has been installing some wooden flooring into the house. We have gone for bamboo (highly sustainable and really, really strong). Anyway we needed something to stop the tables & chairs etc from scuffing the new floor. Now I know you can buy little cord jobbies but we thought that there [...]

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Today I swept the chimney.
It’s a crap job. My arms are covered in black and soot is all around the stove.
Last year I made a soot scatcher. It consists of a old B&D vacuum cleaner, modified so it was just a drum with a pipe and hole in the top for ‘Henry’.
This year I’ve modified [...]

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I’ve been spending most of today digging in the back garden. There is this green plant that just sprawls itself all over the place. I thought that I would try and get all the roots up once and for all. I have been trying over the past couple of years to get [...]

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Recently I have been trying to declutter. I have struggled to sell anything on eBay, due to the laziness of working out what I want to get rid of and how much I want for it.
Instead, I’ve decided to use FreeCycle.
The Colchester version is run on a yahoo groups website and basically, people just put [...]

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