Tag: gardening
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Sleepy Jobs
Being 15 weeks pregnant I must admit my energy level for DIY is significantly lower than pre-pregnancy. While I can do the same jobs as usual, they leave me exhausted within half a day, or for a few days after. This has meant a slow in progress. One job I was keen to do was…
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Rearranging
I usually write my blogs on a Sunday night, as a nice way to finish off a weekend of DIY. Sometimes if we haven’t done much I’ll wait till the following week. As I didn’t feel what we’ve done is that impressive I wondered about rolling over this week, but then again it was a…
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Levelling up
It’s felt like a physical weekend, with lots of lifting and bending, but we’ve seen a good amount of progress to make it worthwhile. I finished off the last few slabs on the side patio, before we reach the section covered in piles of stone that need to be moved first. Chris then cut a…
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Flattened
Having said I would leave the final piece of hedge laying along the back of the house till next year, we had some sunny evenings and I had some energy, so I decided to get on with it. It was a fiddly bit of ground to work on, being high and narrow. I managed to…
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Katie’s Big Fortnight
Switching from one job to another I took a fortnight off, both to free up time for some IVF appointments and to push on with some DIY projects. Unexcitingly, I spent good amount of time filling the edges around the wall on the stairs. Still it was nice to tidy up a rough edge. There…
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Chris’s Big Week Off
Chris is changing jobs, and wisely decided to take off a week between. This has given him some time to focus on some of the jobs that he’s been wanting to get done. Unfortunately, as I’ve been working, I don’t have many photos of some of Chris’s work, as he doesn’t take any. He spent…
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Timber
One of the biggest disagreements myself and Chris have had about the house renovation has been how many trees to take out in the garden. Having been abandoned for forty years, the majority of the garden was covered in tall trees or scrub. Personally, I would prefer not to take out any trees – as…
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Once in a Lifetime
I’m afraid there’s only one thing I can start with, though it’s not DIY related. When I heard solar flares meant we would have the best showing of the aurora in a decade I decided to poke my head out the door, but I didn’t think I’d see anything. We’re very lucky to live in…
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Two Years On
This Sunday marked 2 years since we got the keys for our new house, and 10 months since we moved in. We had hoped to have finished the inside by the 2 year mark, but everyone that’s ever watched Grand Designs will know you never make your deadlines. We started the week with some boring…
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A Little Sunshine
You’d think I’d be bored of building drystone walls, but if anything I wish we had more to build. When the new fence went in our neighbour’s gardener, who put in the fence, piled up some stones along the boundary to cover the gap at the base. We didn’t want a full wall here, as…
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