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Mortgage Muddles
20 February 2007
Read moreI’d be the first to admit that our path along the house-buying road (see all house posts if you missed earlier episodes) hasn’t been straightforward. So far we’ve had:
- Three offers accepted on different houses
- Two different solicitors
- Two different estate agents
- One mortgage arranged, then the …
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String Basket
20 February 2007
Read moreThere’s a lot of craft entries going on here at the moment I know but actually I’ve just had a binge at finishing things off rather than actually creating things at speed.
Here’s my string basket:
Its going to hold all those little samples that you get …
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Big Wool Bag
19 February 2007
Read moreThe good news is that I’m nearly at the end of my pink big wool stash, so there might be some less-matching items appearing here soon. However today I’d like to show off the bag that I’ve made to go with the mittens and the hat.
The …
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Coldspring Mill
18 February 2007
Read moreI haven’t lived in Leeds very long and I’m hearing about new places to go all the time. One of the girls from the “Leeds Knitterati” knitting group that meets in Starbucks in Leeds had told me about Coldspring Mill – its the other side of Bradford and has …
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New Camera
18 February 2007
Read moreWe bought a new camera yesterday. Kevin has a good digital camera but its quite big and now quite old. He saw that Jessop’s was having a sale so we went and looked … we’ve now got a fujifilm finepix F650 [1]. Its quite small and quite powerful with …
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Crochet Slowpoke
16 February 2007
Read moreI saw these slowpoke patterns linked from somewhere else a while back and I just had to buy them. Well the first one is finished – he’s a bit plain (think that was the rather primary colour choices) but he’s done and I think he’s cute:
I pre-recorded …
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Email Outage
15 February 2007
Read moreLike the technical wizard that I am I’ve just spent 48 hours (almost) with all email to my lornajane.net domain getting lost in the ether somewhere. The story is one of those silly bureaucratic ones which I won’t repeat here because my hosting company, flump , have been …
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CafePress Order
14 February 2007
Read moreFollowing our PHPThrowdown experience I saw on their website that they have mugs on CafePress. For ages I have wanted the “code like a girl” mug from CafePress having read Kathy Sierra’s article of the same name.
Well the order arrived today: One PHP Throwdown 2007 mug and one …
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CMS Promiscuity
11 February 2007
Read moreThis site is run by textpattern, I’ve used it a few times and I love it. In addition you may have read about my recent encounters with Joomla! .
This week I’m trying out Serendipity for another site and its quite a change. For a start I haven’t …
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Little Meals: Fasta Pasta
08 February 2007
Read morePasta is a great store-cupboard staple and can be turned into a meal as complicated or as simple as you please. In this series of articles on “little meals”, the food that is fast and makes either a good lunch or a small dinner for one person, I’ve already …
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Offer Accepted: Third Time Lucky?
07 February 2007
Read moreWe’ve had an offer accepted on the house I told you about. This is the third time we’ve had an offer accepted on a house and the other two have failed to end in a successful purchase, mostly because we seem to choose houses that turn out to …
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Feel the Freedom
07 February 2007
Read moreI’ve just stumbled across Scott Carpenter’s site Moving to Freedom site and it reminded me something I meant to write about.
Some time ago, my little sister entered Further Education and needed her own computer. So I tarted up my desktop, reinstalled it, and dumped it in her …