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Photos and garden stuff

Posted on September 9, 2006 by Henry Elliss

Work on the house has slowed to a veritable crawl these days, hence the lack of updates, but I thought I’d stick up a few shots from around the house. The first couple show some of the new stuff we got for the garden recently, and the second 2 are the new frames Henry put…

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Decorating the main bedroom

Posted on August 28, 2006 by Henry Elliss

After putting it off for much longer than we needed to – mainly due to Henry not wanting to move all the furniture out of the way – we finally got around to redecorating our bedroom today. Henry took 2 days off work, and the bank holiday meant we had a good 3 or 4…

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Let there be (fancy) light!

Posted on August 20, 2006 by Henry Elliss

Another recent purchase from the magical land of Ikea was a new bookcase for the hallway (extra slim to fit in the small space available) and a new light, also for the upstairs hallway. Both have resulted in the hallway looking much brighter in general, and they were only slightly painful to put up! The…

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Wired for sound – in the garden!

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Henry Elliss

The final touches in the garden today, with Henry finally getting round to wiring up the rock speakers, and Sara buying him a new MP3 Stereo, especially for the garage, to hook them up to. Don’t worry though, it only cost £30! As well as those, we bought some nice candle-holding flower type things from…

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Our fountain floweth overeth

Posted on July 29, 2006 by Henry Elliss

After the electrician coming round on Monday, Henry decided to tidy up the cables in the garage. Sara decided to tidy up the garden and try to make the fountain not stick out so much. With a little help from Sara’s mum and gran who gave us the large hosta behind the fountain and the…

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Let’s have a garage party!

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Henry Elliss

So we finally decided that we couldn’t have the garage powered by that crappy extension cable coming from the house any more, and got the electricians in to sort out a proper power supply. Luckily, they were able to use the existing consumer unit that Mark gave us and fitted way back on Day 16,…

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One step closer to the Med!

Posted on May 28, 2006 by Henry Elliss

Reinforcements arrive to give our backs a bit of a break. The slabs are laid quickly, holes are dug for the bamboo, 21 bags of gravel are bought and hey presto, its done!

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Who needs GroundForce?

Posted on May 27, 2006 by Henry Elliss

Mum arrived on Friday night and was itching to get going on the garden, so she started moving the pots off of the grass. On Saturday morning we were up really early and started digging up the grass while waiting for HSS to open so we could get a wheelbarrow, spade (sorry shovel) and a…

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First foray into the garden of 2006

Posted on April 17, 2006 by Henry Elliss

After a winter of pretty much no work on the house or garden, plus a nice Holiday in the Isles of Scilly, we finally decided to get on with some garden work today. Sara hit the garden centres on Good Friday, and on the Monday set about plating all the new flowers in pots. Henry…

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Christmas Decorations again

Posted on December 10, 2005 by Henry Elliss

Well would you look at that – over 100 days without an update? What sort of an SEO expert must I be if I think THAT’s the way to maintain a good website… a bad one, that’s what. But hey – it’s wintery now and we’re very poor, so we can’t afford to do much…

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henweb

Pun-loving, 👨‍👦‍👦 dad-blogging, 📷 photo-taking, 🏰 Lego-making, 🎅🏿 beard-wearing, 👶 child-caring dad of 2. 💍 Husband of 1. 💩 Strategist

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Finally, 12 years later, my firstborn child is ear Finally, 12 years later, my firstborn child is earning his keep. Long may it continue.
Obligatory snowy walk photos. Lovely stuff! Obligatory snowy walk photos. Lovely stuff!
Tried out a couple of new countryside walks this w Tried out a couple of new countryside walks this weekend, thanks to a new app we found. Both within 2 miles of our house and both very muddy indeed!
Now you see it... and now you don’t! After over Now you see it... and now you don’t!
After over a decade of dereliction, the old abandoned caravan that sits next to our rear driveway has GONE! We’ve only been here for less than 10% of its reign, but even a few months was enough and I made enquiries about having it removed. Today, just 4 months after I started my attempts, it was taken away. And I am beyond pleased. All I need to do now is tidy the ground up and the whole driveway will be usable again.
Boxing Day walk. Eldest son not in shot due to bei Boxing Day walk. Eldest son not in shot due to being too cool to walk with us.
Went for a lovely sunny, winter walk through the n Went for a lovely sunny, winter walk through the nearby @wasing1759 estate. Nice day for it.
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