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I think I must have been cursed by that Romany lady I didn’t buy the lucky heather from. It was years back, I was hurrying through Middlesbrough Cleveland centre and she chased me as...

So it’s all down to finishing off a pitch pine floor, hours of tonguing and grooving, weeks working on the sub-floor too. It’s pretty freezing up here in the hills, the radiators were now...

Two weeks and a handful of days to work on the house over My Christmas Holiday, minus around six days for New Year and Christmas duties and you have a bundle of days to...

What one aspires to do in the available time over Christmas – the eighteen days of Christmas plan, phew, more like ten days… Subscribe to My Dream House by Email Holiday Plan – the...

Did an odd thing this week and decided to take the Thursday off rather than the Friday. Friday being the day before the weekend before Christmas was to be the break up day at...

Well that was a pretty useless week, but it is pretty here a Copley winter wonderland Subscribe to My Dream House by Email Every evening after work I spent with my little girl –...

So another lovely long three day weekend with two available days to get as much work done as possible. Friday and I would have loved to have started at the crack of dawn but...

A bit of work on Wednesday evening was all I managed to achieve in the week, the rest of my evenings were with my little girl or working late at work. Not good on...

Although I only had a day to work on the house this weekend I had the distinct advantage in having an extra two pairs of hands in the form of my wonderful big sister...

So a little time off to see John off and last Thursday it was back to work. I’d done my full day of work at the college, getting up at dawn in the freezing...