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Holding On: Background and History
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Holding On. A gentle look at life on our smallholding. 2017 Veg Garden Plan. Small Print and Disclosure. Birds and Eggs For Sale. I am slightly surprised to have got to over 50 years old! Mother of two, grandmother of two gorgeous grandsons. My work history includes a couple of decades in the not-for-profit sector, marketing and customer service. A love for country style interior design and beautiful but productive gardens influences my home, both inside and out. Creating our vegetable and fruit garden i...
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What can you get for a tenner? – Poshbird on a Mission
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Poshbird on a Mission. Restoring rather than renewing. What can you get for a tenner? Art deco/ art nouveau maniac enjoying a deep and meaningful relationship with alcohol View all posts by poshbirdy. July 10, 2015. August 25, 2015. 6 thoughts on “What can you get for a tenner? July 13, 2015 at 5:07 pm. Hammerite and the French paint brand St Julien are the best by far. Trev has brought some of our metal door fittings back to perfect life with St Julien! July 13, 2015 at 8:20 am. July 11, 2015 at 12:59 pm.
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ourlittlehouseinfrance | ourlittlehouseinfrance
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Discovering Aquitaine and French life. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Owners of a little French house. Bon les vacancies école. October 24, 2016. And as the sun came up, this gorgeous dappled fig tree leaf on the turn. And when we arrived at the house there was a very neat hole in the wall. We were very pleased. It might have taken just under a year but, hey who’s counting. Open garden, South West France😍. August 31, 2016. First lunch at B’s. French home and garden. August 28, 2016.
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A bit of a scrub – Poshbird on a Mission
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Poshbird on a Mission. Restoring rather than renewing. A bit of a scrub. Because I had used too much, so I had to get the Wonder Wipes out to scrub off the excess (second photo) I am struggling to get some of the initial paint out of the details in the metal so I will get the non-scratch scourers out again. I have asked my brother to bring his soldering iron the next time he visits as the frame has been dropped at some point and one corner has two very clean breaks which should be invisible once mended.
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It’s Showtime! | Domaine de Cromey: the heart of Burgundy
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Domaine de Cromey: the heart of Burgundy. Christmas and New Year. May 28, 2016. It’s happening as I write.Our partners in Cromey, Brenda and David Miley, are here with his siblings and their spouses to be our guinea pigs in a shake-down week before we open for real at the end of June. And everyone is over the moon. All we need now is the landscape guy to lay some sod, and we’re off and running. Hard to believe, but the Domaine de Cromey is almost ready! We can’t wait to see you here. Almost Done →. You a...
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More elbow grease – and some wax – Poshbird on a Mission
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Poshbird on a Mission. Restoring rather than renewing. More elbow grease – and some wax. On these 2 rusted fittings I have used Rub’n’Buff, then on the second one I have added Annie Sloan dark wax. It really adds some depth and stops the metallic paint looking flat. Art deco/ art nouveau maniac enjoying a deep and meaningful relationship with alcohol View all posts by poshbirdy. July 22, 2015. August 25, 2015. 2 thoughts on “More elbow grease – and some wax”. July 23, 2015 at 8:19 am. Peas in a pod, Gill!
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Daybeds will be going home to France – Poshbird on a Mission
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Poshbird on a Mission. Restoring rather than renewing. Daybeds will be going home to France. Art deco/ art nouveau maniac enjoying a deep and meaningful relationship with alcohol View all posts by poshbirdy. June 26, 2015. July 7, 2015. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. French way of...
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It was the tears… | Mr. Chickadee
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There is a magic… →. It was the tears…. June 28, 2016. They were forged in the foundries of old, great factories worked by solid tireless men, akin to the smithies of the dwarves! Being one who loves lost things, and such the romantic at heart, I find true joy and endless satisfaction in bringing these aging ladies back to their former glory. With but a bit of oil and a rub of the stone, a quick pass of the file, these sad flowers shunned to the night grace us again with their beauty fully in the day!
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Stones of time | Mr. Chickadee
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Masonry heaters and hard lessons. A tree falls →. March 11, 2016. Sweat rolled down my back as I stooped to roll back the matt of moss to reveal thousands of tiny chisel marks pecked across the flat surface of a sandstone slab perhaps 3 feet wide and 4 inches thick. Who had been the man to make these marks? Where was he born, in what year, where did he work, and did he love this stone as I do? This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Masonry heaters and hard lessons. A tree falls →. Liked by 1 person.
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Are we talking 1975? – Poshbird on a Mission
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Poshbird on a Mission. Restoring rather than renewing. Are we talking 1975? Having only visited the house once, and that was now months ago, I want to know more of the history and how it came to be empty for so long. A friend who also has a house in France described the remote buying experience as feeling unreal and dreamlike. You are so right, Gill! Art deco/ art nouveau maniac enjoying a deep and meaningful relationship with alcohol View all posts by poshbirdy. July 14, 2015. July 14, 2015. You are com...
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