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Tales From The Riverside

Aug 8, 2020
5 min

Swan Lake

Most people choose a house based on its location, its wow-factor and the local amenities. We chose ours based on swans - and, unbeknown t...

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Juliette Wills

Jul 23, 2020
4 min

Little Red Courgette*

I love using song references, but in this case using one of Prince's doesn't really work because courgettes aren't red. Gardening is the ...

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Juliette Wills

Jun 4, 2020
4 min

Gardener's (Mad) World

When your neighbour is really good at gardening and you're supremely rubbish at it, there's only one thing you can do - make them a cake ...

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Juliette Wills

May 18, 2020
5 min

Sound of the Suburbs

When you move far away from your friends, the only thing you can do is get out there and make new ones. If you're lucky, they might turn ...

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Juliette Wills

Apr 26, 2020
4 min

Living In A Box

Living in a cardboard box... Or rather living out of them and being surrounded by them. Moving here was traumatic, chaotic and made no se...

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Juliette Wills

Mar 31, 2020
4 min

Cupboard Love

'Neighbours, everybody needs good neeeeigh-bours' - it's true, especially ones who are really good at making cakes. Some might call it cu...

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Juliette Wills

Mar 31, 2020
5 min

To Buy, Or Not To Buy?

That really is the question many of us are toying with right now. We want to keep businesses in business, but we also don't want to put w...

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