I may have got my platform up and running but I still had some roughy toughy wallpaper stripping in a tall stairwell to do. The wallpaper wasn’t the worst I’d experienced but it wasn’t easy, without the Karcher steam stripper I just really don’t know how I could have tackled it. Without...

Only a smidgen of time to work this week but I did my best. Saturday – Only a smidgen Only the Saturday of the weekend free and any night I could muster and motivate myself to work after a day at work were available. So Saturday, an early start and straight on...

OK so I’ve not posted in a while, I have been busy but my busyness has been interrupted by a spell during which I wasn’t feeling too well, so really I’ve not had the best month, but really all in all, what a difference a month makes… Hence my lack of posts....

I took Friday as a holiday and got nothing at all done on the house as it was my birthday. The day before my birthday I’d gone on a late night trip to the cinema and passed midnight in the closest picture house playing “The Revenant”. Come two in the morning it...

I took Friday as a holiday so that meant two days to crack on with the bedroom and the study. I got up early on Friday, I dressed appropriately in my sombre multi-layered man-about-Screwfix look and pressed on with sorting out the washing and lighting the fire before a quick breakfast. I...

I very rarely get to bask in the evening chilliness of my old living room lately, generally I’m at work or looking after my little girl. Last night though was one of those super nights when I got in from work, managed to throw on five layers of clothing and worked in...

Not a lot to say of this week of work as I only got down and dirty on the one day to do some insulating in sub-zero temperatures, oh the irony. During the week my evenings were filled with a late duty at work, three lovely nights of putting Izzi to bed...

Gosh it’s been ages, I should have written this post up long ago, the promise of a catch-up report after the visit of my wonderful sibling and her equally wonderful hubby was very tempting, everything just dangling there and ready to tell and me just too busy to type it all up....

So how did I get to the last coat of lacquer, this is really tough to remember, I should have kept notes on what I’d done since my last post but time has been tight but any free time I’ve had has been spent on the house. My previous weekend and this...

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 bustled along. I was late for something or other, I’m normally excessively polite but this time I was...