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1930s Newspapers
I love old newspapers, so I was excited to find a stack of 1938 Advertisers in a trunk in one of the many outbuildings (even though they...
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Jan 24, 20232 min read
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October 2022
So much for keeping a regular blog…I will get better! It has been a crazy six weeks. For one of the drier places, in the driest state, in...
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Nov 2, 20222 min read
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Pug 'n Pine Cottage
This cottage is a bit of a mystery. I thought Pug ‘n Pine was just the quirky name the estate agent gave this totally dilapidated...
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Aug 20, 20221 min read
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The day we actually bought a village
5th August 2022, and it is finally ours. Perhaps finally isn’t really the right word given that I only stumbled across the listing on the...
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Aug 5, 20222 min read
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The Day we bought a Village
This is not what we normally do. We’re not usually that adventurous or brave or crazy. But then, thinking about, maybe we are… Fourteen...
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Aug 2, 20222 min read
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