With winter drawing closer, we undertook some required maintenance work on the exterior of our garden room, and finished it off by applying Zinsser All Coat Exterior Satin paint in…
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Our garden room was in need of attention before the winter, and it’s been a project that has consumed nearly two weeks of our time.
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Walk through our vegetable garden and see the progress we’ve made. We’ll have a look at some of the star vegetables of the season and discuss the challenges we have…
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Our push towards sustainability and a smart home continues. Over the course of the next few weeks we’re going to check out and review smart plugs from various manufacturers. To…
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One of the first smart home devices we purchased after moving in were Eve Thermo TRVs so that we could get better control over our air source heat pump central…
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The signs that the summer is coming to an end are evident in our vegetable garden, but the cucumbers and leeks are still going strong, so it was the perfect…
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In order to help us get the grass around our smallholding under control, we purchased a cordless, battery-operated lawnmower, the Toro 55cm Flex-Force Recycler.
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We had our suspicions that the effluent in our home sewage treatment tank was not as healthy as it should be, and the recent lab results we received support this.…
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August was largely a washout with consistent and regular rain, and it ultimately affected a lot of our planned outdoor projects and also had an adverse effect on some of…
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It’s been two years since we made a complete lifestyle change, where we left the stress and frenzy of city life behind us, and opted for green fields, sheep, toads,…