When I was very young, my parents decided to design and build two of our childhood homes from scratch. For an IT consultant and part time PA it was a pretty adventurous move (this was way back in the 80’s, years and years before Kevin McCloud, Kirsty and Phil and Sarah Beeny had ever graced…
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Goodbye, 2013
Read moreSo what’s everyone doing tonight, then? We’re off to stay at a friend’s house which should be lovely, although I’m wondering if it will beat my favourite New Year’s Eve of recent years, when Alex and I decided to go completely crazy and stay in, and ended up watching a programme on the ‘World’s Most…
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Win: your Christmas photos made into a photo book
Read moreHow was everyone’s Christmas? Ours didn’t have the most promising of starts, involving a broken boiler, the storm cancelling almost all of the Christmas Eve trains to Bournemouth, and it looking for a while like we might be celebrating at Waterloo Station. But as soon as we got there it was really, really lovely. If,…
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A moving Christmas story
Read moreSo we are all moved and all in, and although it was touch and go for a really long time, we actually managed it just before Christmas. The move itself went really smoothly, especially as we took everyone’s advice and hired packers (who were so efficient that they even packed a bag of recycling from…
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Last-minute Christmas gift ideas from TK Maxx
Read moreOK, hands up. I’ve not yet finished my Christmas shopping. What’s that, I hear you cry – the big day is only three days away? I know, I know. We’ve been so preoccupied with moving house that I’ve not really had a spare second to think about it. I did manage to get some done previously though,…
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Christmas pyjamas for children
Read moreOne of my favourite Christmas traditions has to be having new pyjamas to wear on Christmas Eve. Does everyone else do this one? Alex and I usually get each other some from Gap, and last year Eliza had a John Lewis snowman onesie (I thought this would be a brilliant sight for stocking opening the…
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Flat out
Read moreWe’ve been so caught up in the rollercoaster of the will it work out…will it fall through of our house move that we only dared to think about actually moving when we finally exchanged last week. Which means the last few days have been pretty hectic. We have a big moving ‘to do’ list, and a…