Category Archives: Good Life

Blog 116 – 13.5.19…Now, now…

Posted on May 13, 2019 by aintwegotitmade

I love it when one of the tenants sends me a text. No I don’t…that’s rubbish. When I get a text late at night about an over-flowing washing machine or a broken light – it’s my job, but it’s not … Continue reading →

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Blog 115 – 29.4.19. Springtime talking and walking…

Posted on Apr 30, 2019 by aintwegotitmade

Spring is springing along as usual here in London. It was warmish, we put winter coats away…and then got them out again. It is the beginning of a new term at St.W’s primary and as a volunteer classroom assistant I … Continue reading →

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Blog 112 – 25.11.18. Dog day winter afternoon…

Posted on Nov 25, 2018 by aintwegotitmade

This is a day when I should have been feeling low. But somehow smiles managed to accidentally break out of me as I was coming home from church…and I got smiles back. I popped into a new local fashion boutique … Continue reading →

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Blog 111 – 31.10.18. The Matriarch of Riverside….

Posted on Oct 31, 2018 by aintwegotitmade

In my 20s, a few years after university, my housemate/landlord Robin, told me about a development of newly refurbished ex-council flats in a (then) near deserted part of London’s docklands called Wapping. Most of the docks had closed and the … Continue reading →

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Blog 110 – 5.10.18. The sheer Spanish, French, Chinese-ness of it…

Posted on Oct 5, 2018 by aintwegotitmade

Look…I’m not saying that London is some kind of ‘rosy haven’ of a place…well, except that when I do focus on the rosy haven-ness of it, it becomes easier to see more rosy haven, so to speak. And I do … Continue reading →

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Blog 109 – 20.9.18..a prehistoric cut above..

Posted on Sep 21, 2018 by aintwegotitmade

September is actually the New Year. I mean…it should be. It’s the end of the holidays and it’s when school starts. It’s when ones thoughts turn, pretty abruptly, from the frivolity of frolicking in sandals to the sturdy lace-ups of … Continue reading →

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Blog 108 -7.8.18..Roll out the soda, pretzels and beer…

Posted on Aug 7, 2018 by aintwegotitmade

I’ve got a stinking cold and sore throat…the kind you might get once a stressful period is over and you can finally afford to collapse in a heap… yes…we have a beautiful new extended kitchen…and yes, it was worth it. … Continue reading →

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Blog 107 – 30.6.18. And so we went…

Posted on Jun 30, 2018 by aintwegotitmade

And so we went….to Rutland. Never heard of Rutland? Good. We’d like to keep it that way. We escaped the building dust for a week by driving 2 hours or so north of London to England’s smallest county.

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Blog 105 – 1.6.18. Like Beirut….

Posted on Jun 1, 2018 by aintwegotitmade

I remember from my youth that untidy teenage bedrooms, car pile ups, dodgy council estates or any chaotic situation would be described as ‘like living in Beirut’…i.e. a war zone….

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Blog 104 – 13.4.18. Home wasn’t built in a day….

Posted on Apr 13, 2018 by aintwegotitmade

Shhh…look…just don’t jinx me by telling anyone. I don’t know quite how it happened…really I don’t. We have a….shhhh…great builder. Yep. They exist and they are right here in south London…shhh now. Don’t blab about it. Please. In case our … Continue reading →

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