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So the shower has been leaking for over 3 years. The old landlord's handyman has tried fixing it intermitently - but the problem has persisted. You can see how its rotted away the skirting board to the bottom left of the shower door. After some consulting with Sunshine's dad, we decided the problem was quite likely to be the door itself. So we set about taking it off. Yes - Mr handyman hadn't grouted behind the door - and had sealed bits that were meant to be left as channels for water flow.
On further investigation though - we find that there is masses of damp behind some of the tiles ... hmmm ... this is going to be a bigger job than we anticipated.
As aluded to a few weeks ago, we have now become homeowners! Whoopee!!! Here's me (still in my convention t-shirt jammies) getting the call from the solicitors this morning telling us that it had all gone through ... hello 20 years of debt!
And the first thing we did as new homeowners? We insulated the loft! It already had 150mm old insulation, but we decided to add 200mm more recycled glass stuff that was subsidised under the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target. You can't beat 7 rolls of insulation for £21 ... It was even worth doing two trips to our local B&Q as we could only fit 5 rolls in the car at one time.
Anyways, now we are warmer homeowners ... next job, underfloor insulation - think that is going to be a bit more messy.
Ah, I do like vintage picture dominoes ... especially like the fox on this Abbatt Toys one.
reblogged from planetmithiOh my goodness ... my computer has been pretty dead for the last month or so. I've had internet access on the laptop - but its the desktop I use with Potatoshop etc so image handling has been non-existant.
ANYWAYS, in the mean time, the exciting news is WE ARE BUYING A HOUSE! .... infact, we are buying OUR house!!! Yes, after living here for 4 years we are going to transfer from being tenants - to being homeowners ... how exciting! To commemorate the occasion I am going to do a drawing of the house when we exchange/complete the purchase (should be in the next few weeks), but in the meantime, here is a drawing I did of it when we first moved here back in September 2007.
Hello all ... sorry to have suddenly disappeared just as I've started blogging again. I have in fact a whole bunch of photos taken of more Lucky Finds that I've been meaning to upload, but my desktop PC has crashed. We've recovered most of my data but have had to re-install the operating system. Its still being a bit wobbly so I haven't put my Adobe software back on (so no photo editing on that computer at the moment). We are still looking into the problem but will hopefully be back in business soon ... Thanks for your patience!
I've been collecting vintage children's games like this for illustration inspiration for a couple of years now. Galt has a wonderful collection of these things including this lovely "Remember Remember" memory game with many tiles by the wonderful Kenneth Townsend, as also seen in these small dishes I have here.
My two Hornsea bird ashtrays (although sometimes referred to as spoon rests). I absolutely love the simple graphics designed by John Clappison. Clappison did lots of other designs for Hornsea including owl/cat/fish cruet sets and these bird ashtrays. As far as I know, there is one more design that is a chicken. As much as I'd love to have the cruet sets too - I'm restricting myself to the birds (and they have to be in blue!)... for the time being ;)
Can't believe its been 2 months since we lost Little Wind... we've tried to get on with life and have been trying to photograph and document the nice things we've been up to so I can blog about them ... but only now am I finally managing to pull those together. I've been making up some draft posts but backdating them to when they happened. So bear with me as the last two months are going to appear a bit oddly if you get my rss feed. Please come back periodically over the next few weeks while I try and get them all up. Will also update this post to say when I'm done.
Running away to Gower
My birthday done
Wau flying done
Visiting Miche
Vintage velo ride done
Norfolk Broads
Sunshine's birthday done
Spike Island open studios
So the shower has been leaking for over 3 years. The old landlord's handyman has tried fixing it intermitently - but the problem has persisted. You can see how its rotted away the skirting board to the bottom left of the shower door. After some consulting with Sunshine's dad, we decided the problem was quite likely to be the door itself. So we set about taking it off. Yes - Mr handyman hadn't grouted behind the door - and had sealed bits that were meant to be left as channels for water flow.
On further investigation though - we find that there is masses of damp behind some of the tiles ... hmmm ... this is going to be a bigger job than we anticipated.
