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    happy easter!

    Easter is here, and a four day weekend! I’ll keep this one fairly brief after the behemoth of last week, as time is ticking. The current Bank Holiday plan (as ever) means having more to do than any normal work day, that being finishing the decorating, putting up shelves and assembling a flat pack, hanging some pictures and cooking an…

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    fifty eight days later…

    A few weeks on, and everything is steadily returning to normal, the unpacking is just about done with (and is gradually morphing into the being-terrified-things-I-can’t-find-have-got-lost; my clothes brush is currently number one on the list) and we’re even come out the other side of Oscars night again! Even though I have little time – in theory – for the organisation…

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    back to square one…

    So after four (mostly happy, if expensive) years, last week saw me close the door to my Monument flat for the final time, although to be fair I haven’t been living in it for almost a month. It had it’s faults – greedy bastard landlords, an awful heating and hot water system, view of a brick wall – but handing…