Thursday, 12th April 2007 We move house quite soon. Wife’s found a fantastic place a couple of streets away (crucially, it’s still within the catchment area for the children’s school), with two more bedrooms and a great garden. With everything else that Wife does, she has also managed to pack up most of our belongings. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Moving House’
Boxtastic
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The Psychology of Moving
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Tuesday, 1st May 2007 You know how when people have resigned from a job, they suddenly start pointing out how shit everything is about the place they’ve been perfectly happy in for the last 8 years? Clearly, that helps them believe that they are leaving a bad job, for a good job. I suspect that [...]
Mr. Shifter
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Monday, 28th May 2008 Wife and I have spent the afternoon and evening attempting every possible configuration (and some which proved, after lengthy swearing, impossible) of furniture and paintings in the Drawing Room and Sitting Room. It is now 10pm and we have decided we are happy with the set-up in these two rooms: it [...]
A Day of English Poncing
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Saturday, 30th June 2007 The Daily Telegraph, Plain English, Waitrose, Farrow & Ball, Peter Jones. This was today’s shopping itinerary, starting with The Daily Telegraph/House & Garden Fair at Earls Court and culminating with a visit to Peter Jones to buy a new fridge. In between, we have ordered a new door from Plain English [...]
The De-80′s-ing Continues
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Monday, 9th July 2007 Wife seems to have found the world’s best builders and decorators. They (like everyone else in Chiswick) are Polish (the Polish Community Centre is down the road) and incredibly conscientious: here every morning at 8.30 a.m. and working consistently until the end of the day. They make me feel incredibly useless [...]
Posh Party
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Sunday, 16th September 2007 Adorable Neighbours threw a party for us last night, so that we could meet our new neighbours. We went next door at a couple of minutes before eight o’clock to find about twenty neighbours drinking wine and standing round waiting to meet us: a little bit frightening. As ever, the women [...]
Changing Rooms
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Sunday, 23rd September 2007 Actually, we’ve been changing curtains: moving the ones we have around the house in an effort to see if any of the HUGELY expensive (but mainly hideous) Colefax and Fowler watered chintz curtains can look good anywhere. Actually, the curtains from the Sitting Room are now in (and look very good [...]
The Drawing Board
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Saturday, 22nd March 2008 The plans for the restoration and redecoration of the house get more and more complicated by the day. We are now going to be – for reasons more ridiculous and red-tape swathed than I can bear to write down – taking the roof off the kitchen, knocking out the utility room [...]
