From Green Dreams to Reality: Our Persian Garden Adventure

As a mum over 40 I remember the days when I spent more time outside than inside as a tot. We didn’t have the new technologies there are today that have allowed schoolchildren the stimulation that was once experienced in the great outdoors. Here we look at how we planned to create a Persian garden. The Great Outdoors The best memories of growing up and of primary school for me were pottering about in my gran’s garden, making daisy-chains on…

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Home Sweet Hovel And Our Property Pandemonium

Today, I’m going to share a tale of buying an older home and our fixer-upper fiasco. With leaks that could rival the Caspian Sea, floorboards so rotten you’d think they were hummus gone bad, and a boiler that decided retirement was for wimps. If our lives were a movie, it would be “The Money Pit: The Sequel,” starring yours truly and my DIY-champion husband, H. Living In A Time Capsule From day one, it was clear our fixer-upper was determined…

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