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After weeks of dodging rain showers as we tried to focus on jobs around the garden, enduring the frustration of starting one job then rushin...

There are a couple of expressions people might use after moving home and looking around the house properly for the first time. We might say ...

The longest and most challenging of the tasks on our ToDo list is finally ticked. Job done! That is not to say that there is no single piece...

Mahonia is a large genus of woody evergreen shrubs  named by British botanist Thomas Nuttall to honour Bernard McMahon, a colonial nurseryma...

We turn the key and the door to our new home opens smoothly. Some might be tempted to go for the over-the-threshold carry but we have alread...

There must be a simple mathematical formula associated with living in a house for any length of time, expressed as a relationship between th...

We don't often have it, but when something called 'spare time' comes along then one of the things that often emerges is an old p...

Both our lives are due to change this year. We are retiring! But wait a second, didn't this happen once before, somewhere around the tim...