So: after almost twenty months, more Estate Agents than I ever hope to encounter again in the rest of my life, an architect, a team of builders and a deep immersion in the auction houses of London, I am moving into my new house this weekend. The children have already seen it and given it [...]
Posts Tagged ‘House’
Moving
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bamboo, Best Friend, Family, Garden Joy, Garden Rage, House, Moving, Old Friend at Work, Parents, Sister on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Dude, Where’s My House?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Builders, Gigantic Builder, House, Unfeasibly Attractive Girlfriend on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, the horror, the horror! How well I remember the feeling from the first house that we bought (sight unseen by me, as it happens, with Ex-Wife and my mother making the decision together – and doing a fine job of it), when the builders have started to knock the living shit out of the [...]
I Wonder About Glasses
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged House, School, Wife on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I walked home yesterday, I saw an Estate Agent’s board displayed in the front garden of one of the houses ahead of me, very near to our own. As I drew nearer, my heart started thumping: the board was in OUR front garden – and the sign on it said “Auction of Premises”. Dear [...]
Praising The Police
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chiswick, House, The Police on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not fashionable, I know – but here’s something positive to say about the Police:- This morning, they rang our doorbell to see if anyone answered, because our bedroom window on the first floor was wide open and the burglar alarm was tilted at an angle. The police, seeing this, were concerned that someone had used [...]
Digging for Victory
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged House on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the torrential floods that afflicted London (and a huge number of other areas) last year, our cellar was flooded. The most severe losses (aren’t they always?) were our photographs: all the baby photographs of the children and most of the surviving ones of late Mother in Law. The insurance covered us well, fortunately and [...]
Feng Shui’ed to Fuck
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Death, Feng Shui, House on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wife is on a purging mission. If I didn’t know better, I would assume that she was eight months pregnant and the famous “nesting instinct” had kicked in in reverse. I came upon her (not like that, it’s not that kind of blog…) sweating and carting around bagfuls of toys and books for the charity [...]
Yes We Could… If You WANT It To Look Shit
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged House, Wife on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 16th February 2008 The building work is bubbling away on the horizon… The attics are going to be converted, the kitchen is going to be re-born and the bathrooms are going to be pulled, kicking and screaming into the new century (they currently look like the sort of thing that you’d find in an [...]
