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Home 2021 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 135 – 142)

Sunday, 9th May 2021 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 135 – 142) You thought it was all over, didn’t you? Well, it is and it isn’t. We still have the front porch to remodel, the patio to be built outside our new bifold doors to replace the hole that is currently there waiting…

Home 2021 – The Great House Extension Project (Bargain Furniture Find)

Tuesday, 9th March 2021 – Furniture Find I’m not a great one for antiques or vintage stuff if I have to hunt it out, but we do have one or two pieces that seem interesting, and just every so often, something comes along that you’re not expecting. There’s a space under the window in the…

Food 2021 – Banquist, Jitin Joshi

Saturday, 6th February 2021 – Banquist, Jitin Joshi Banquist have been consistently good through the entirety of the lockdowns/pandemic stay at home sessions, with a number of excellent meals curated by some very well known, well-regarded chefs. The latest one was the work of Jitin Joshi, former executive chef of Gymkhana, a Michelin starred Indian…

Home 2021 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 130 – 134)

Sunday, 28th February 2021 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 130 – 134) And so, as of 26th February, we no longer had any of our possessions in storage anywhere! It’s an excellent feeling, as well as a substantial financial saving. Needless to say there was still a deal of work involved in getting…

Home 2021 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 125 – 129)

Sunday, 21st February 2021 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 125 – 129) Monday was quiet enough until midway through the afternoon when the men from Harrison and Rowley turned up with three containers of our possessions. We persuaded them to move the old cabinet that they had brought back just before Christmas along…

Home 2021 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 118 – 124)

Sunday, 14th February 2021 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 118 – 124) On Monday last the lovely man from Hillary’s Blinds came back to fit all the curtains apart from the one that needed to be redone because it was too long. That won’t be back until the 18th of February at the…

Home 2021 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 116 – 117)

Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 116 – 117) The Ikea saga continues… We’re still short of two drawers and four shelves. The customer service representative promised me my order (as lost by DPD) would be sent out from the Milton Keynes branch on Monday. Short story: They weren’t. Milton…

Home 2021 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 113 – 115)

Sunday, January 31st 2021 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 113 – 115) Two more days of work on the house and we are now so much closer to the end game, and we couldn’t be more relieved. It’s still frustrating because we are now at the point where there are long lags between…

Home 2020/2021 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 105 – 112)

Sunday, January 24th 2021 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 105 – 112) There has been something of a lull in the building progress during the depths of December, between Covid restrictions, people wanting to take time off, and the general unavailability of anyone who actually wanted to do any work. However, as we…

Home 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 99 – 104)

Sunday, December 13th 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 99 – 104) Thus far the electrician is still alive. How, is a miracle! He winds me up to the point of violence, and every single day he has been in this house I have had to make a conscious effort to get my…