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Posted on November 7, 2008. Filed under: London, New Zealand, UK, moving |

Criminy, it’s bin a lang time since me owd goat said owt on ere (said she, in an appalling mix of accents). It’s been an interesting year and not worth trying to explain it all – if you’re reading this, you probably know most of it anyway. Suffice to say, we have handed in our [...]

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Open house weekend

Posted on September 17, 2007. Filed under: London, building, environment, technology |

Had a fascinating 7 mile walk round south London yesterday, via two innovative eco-houses, the Tree House, a modern self-build timber-frame solar-powered house built on a scrap of land in Clapham, and 3 Acorns Retro Eco-House, which claims to be the only retro zero-carbon home in London (featuring solar hot water, solar electric, domestic wind-turbine, [...]

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Big Bottom

Posted on July 9, 2007. Filed under: London, comedy, environment, music |

Spinal Tap reformed for the Live Earth concert in London on Saturday afternoon. It was only on the tube on the way home from Wembley that I realised the wrist band I’d been given when I went through the gate had “Pitch” printed on it… I’d been sitting very comfortably in the stand all day [...]

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Home info packs postponed

Posted on May 22, 2007. Filed under: London, New Zealand, UK, moving, selling |

That’s a bit of a relief. Should make it a bit easier when we put the flat back on the market. We were all ready to sell our flat in Balham and buy a house in Wallington, near Carshalton when realised our relatively small deposit in London could buy us a flat outright in Wellington, [...]

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