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There is one thing about living in this region, clay features heavily in the gardens and all the surrounding countryside.  This is very evidident when you take over a garden in say a new build development.  Each house has it’s…
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I know of two bungalows that are going to be going on the market quite soon.  The chances of one coming up for sale is unusual, they were built in the 1920s and still reflect much of that design in…
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Getting a home improvement project underway can be a rather frightening prospect if you’re like me.  I have these grand ideas about having the kitching ripped out and replaced with modern stramlined loveliness.  I’d do that in a trice but…
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With so much riding on the business world to put up money for new developments, it can sometimes be a bit of a minefield choosing companies to look at for smaller projects.  It is rare now for a small company…
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Living in the part of the world that until recently was considered more a quiet backwater, not in the main hub of business activities, the housing situation has always been easier to manage.  In the 1970s it was possible to…
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In recent weeks I have been thoroughly enjoying catching up with old 1960s cult tv.  I’m not naturally a tv watcher as such so it came rather as a surpirse to me in fact when I realised my tv subscription…
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I have a real love of older properties, not old victorian terraces and the like, but heritage properties with real history built up over centuries, I particularly like the ones which have survived various generations of a long seated family. …
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Ah that was a grim winter we have just endured.  Admittedly there wan none of the really long snow ssettlements that were a feature of the bad winters of 1947, 1953, 1963 etc.  Those will only fall from our memories…
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Isn’t it always amazing how we look forward to the Christmas and new year festive period with such glee.  The joy of giving masses of presents to loved ones.  The sorting of the food requirements and everything to do with…
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There is nothing more demoralising on a cold, wet and windy day than to get home and discover there is something wrong with the homestead.  Maybe you discover a leak coming down from a gutter that has been undiscivered for…
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