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A Hole in the Floor

There’s a funny sort of echo in my kitchen this week. It’s hard to describe, but the acoustics are definitely off. It’s this echo that reminds me that our floor experienced some serious trauma on Saturday – that, and the Read more

By Rebecca Seymour, 10 years18th October 2016 ago
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A Slight Financial Hiatus

Right about now, our renovation project is scarily daunting for two very significant reasons: 1) There is sh#t loads to do and f@#K all spare time to do it in. 2) We have no money. Ok, we have a bit. Read more

By Rebecca Seymour, 10 years14th October 2016 ago
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Rubble Trouble

There’s an ongoing conundrum at the Funny Little Bungalow. It concerns rubble; there’s just never enough. We currently have a neat little brick wall rising out of our pit. On one side, there’s still something of a moat. But on Read more

By Rebecca Seymour, 10 years11th October 2016 ago
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Conkers in the Footings

Ordinarily, I like conkers. Having read some very interesting books about the origins of the Horse Chestnut Tree, I can’t fail to see each and every silky brown shiny nugget as a most precious treasure, to be prized and stroked Read more

By Rebecca Seymour, 10 years7th October 2016 ago
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Subtle Changes

Tesco Man visited us again today. He was impressed, I think, that the plankage leading to the front door no longer bowed in the middle when he carried his load across. I smugly declared that we were “making progress”, and Read more

By Rebecca Seymour, 10 years ago
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Time Away

The Four Little Seymours have just had a splendid weekend. They attended a posh wedding, got to dress up smart, and stay in a hotel. The hotel was a Victorian manor house, complete with suits of armour, wood panelling, four Read more

By Rebecca Seymour, 10 years3rd October 2016 ago
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Visitors

Upon moving out into the countryside, the Four Little Seymours were warned that we might not get as many visitors popping in to see us as we did when we lived in Suburbia. They were disappointed. They loved greeting their Read more

By Rebecca Seymour, 10 years ago
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On Dust

I like to hoover. I really do. I suppose I should say that I like to dyson. But dysoning does not and will not ever sound right. So I hoover. Frequently. Not that you’d really notice. Last weekend, when Big Read more

By Rebecca Seymour, 10 years28th September 2016 ago
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Magic Stags

There are many downsides to living on a building site. The opportunity for self-damage is one of them. Even though we have, as the Carpenters would say, only just begun, we’ve still managed one gouged nose, two scraped arms, a Read more

By Rebecca Seymour, 10 years28th September 2016 ago
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Time Capsules

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the enormous trench outside our only functioning door is of immense interest to the Four Little Seymours. I keep finding them in it, scratching pictures in the concrete, or carving out the surrounding mud, just to make the Read more

By Rebecca Seymour, 10 years25th September 2016 ago

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