Back in the 1800s, radiators played a huge role in keeping people’s homes warm but over the years, it has developed into a low-maintenance staple in every home with different sizes, colours, and shapes to choose from. One of the more popular types is the cast iron radiator. Despite its aged look, cast iron radiators are…
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Improve your Home Security
Read moreYale have realeased an infographic for National Home Security May Day 2016. On it you will find a lot of advice and tips to make your home more secure this summer. It has statistics of the types of jobs that people make a mess of and when it’s better to get the professionals in to…
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Five Quick and Easy Home Improvements to Brighten up your living space
Read moreAs a self-employed painter and decorator I’ve been in a lot of peoples homes. I’m always fascinated to see how people decorate their homes and quite often I take inspiration from what I see in other peoples homes and bring them back to replicate in my own home. Sometimes, a customer will ask me to…
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Let's just be parents
Read moreFor some time now I have been reading lots of posts about stay at home dads or stay at home mums and gender stereotyping. If I’m honest I have a written a bit about this myself. I was thinking about how as a society we tend to label ourselves, but sometimes the labels we give…
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My daughter E is coming home for Easter.
Read moreToday I am off to Southampton to collect my daughter E from university for the Easter break. It hasn’t been that long since I last saw her, but that doesn’t alter the fact that I miss her living in the same city as me. I will be leaving about 6am for a two hour drive…
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7 Quick Fixes to make your home even lovelier
Read moreAs you might already know, this has been a hectic week for us having moved house, and I’ve already blogged on our cunning plans to clear up our garden. However, even though we have only been in the new place for a couple of days, I’ve already got my sights set on some DIY work for the weekend.…
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Buying or renting a home
Read moreI was once a homeowner until I got divorced and was fleeced for everything by my ex-wife. Rightly or wrongly I made some decisions about what I thought was the right moral thing to do. From my first marriage I had three children. They were born and bred in that house and they still live…
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Coming to terms with moving again
Read moreSo we are on the move again in just under a fortnight and coming to terms with it for me has unfortually taken a little bit of time. I don’t adapt to change easily and I’m not very keen on change either. I imagine that it might make me boring, but that’s me. We have…
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New home, new outlook!
Read moreIf you’ve read my post from earlier today then you’ll know that we’re soon going to be moving house. It’s not something we really wanted to do, but sometimes in life these obstacles are thrown at us for a reason, even if I’m still yet to discover that reason! However, I really do believe that…
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I'm a part-time stay at home dad to be!
Read moreR & M are starting nursery in September and until now I have always had Monday off work to be with the twins and a family friend has looked after them on a Tuesday. The reason behind this is because my wife works two days a week so for about 18 months this is how…
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Do you share the responsibilities in your home?
Read moreMy wife and I share all the responsibility for getting things done in our home. Surely we have now left the 1950’s where the woman runs the home and the man earns the money? I cannot believe that there are homes like that anymore, but sadly there are. This is so wrong. Women are working…
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Keeping our Children Safe. Guest Post.
Read moreThank you to Martin who blogs at At Home with the Boys for writing this guest post. I’m sure it’s fair to say that as our children grow older, they experience different challenges, each of which, help with their development. But as the rolling over, crawling and toddling stages develop, there too will come the dangers…
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Don’t move to a New Home, just make your Current Place a Better One
Read moreWherever you happen to live, whether it is in a large house in the country or a tiny apartment in the heart of a big city, there will no doubt be a little voice in your head telling you about the improvements and repairs that will need to be done. There are times when this voice gets…
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Room Makeover. My Way with Homebase
Read moreBefore and After Before and After A few weeks ago we moved into a three bed bungalow. It’s a huge improvement on our previous home, but it needed a few improvements to make it feel more like home. Did you know that most homeowners think DIY is about creating a look or style in their…
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The first few weeks at home with the girls
Read moreAfter getting through the first night the reality of the girls being at home was beginning to hit home! The routine that the special care unit had drummed into us was becoming invaluable. The girls fed every three hours and their medication had to be added to every bottle of milk. We recorded everything by…
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Tips for home renovation projects
Read moreWhether you’re thinking of renovating one room or your entire house it’s important to do it right. Planning everything step-by-step before you get started is vital and there are lots of other things that you’ll need to take into consideration too. Some home renovations may require planning permission so it’s important to make sure you’ve…
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Our first night at home with the twins
Read moreFollowing on from my last post, we arrived home at around 3:30pm. We were anxious, nervous and full of trepidation. We were fully equipped with girls medication and prescription milk. This was going to be a big learning curve! Twins! There were no doctors or nurses around anymore. It was just us. 24/7! I can remember sitting…
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The last seven days in special care
Read moreFollowing on from my last post… The routine in a special care unit is rigid, you have to experience it first hand in order to fully understand where I’m going with with this, but having been a rebel most of my life, I had difficulty understanding all the rules or in fact, wanting to stick…
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The girls are moved to a nursery ward
Read moreFollowing on from my last post our girls had been moved to a nursery ward. This meant nursery nurses would take over looking after them now. I have to be honest the nursey nurse, all of which were women were an interesting set of nurses. I felt as though they treated us parents as we were…
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