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We might have nowhere to go right now, this being lockdown 3.0. But we can look back to a day when shopping in a face mask was for armed...
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Helen@Moreton
- Jan 2, 2020
- 4 min
The Christmas bush
Season's greetings to you all! What a year we've had, completing our accommodation wing and welcoming our first holiday guests. Next year...
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Helen@Moreton
- Feb 17, 2018
- 5 min
Club class
At last, I can write about a finished room (oh yes, there was champagne!). More than a year since we first stripped the paint, I give you...
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Helen@Moreton
- Mar 30, 2017
- 2 min
A happy accident
About the time the first apartment was stripped back to its bones, we were toiling with winter. We’d been in South America and Asia for...
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Helen@Moreton
- Mar 27, 2017
- 3 min
At least three steps backwards
With the outside looking shiny and white, it was time to turn attention our inwards. The part of the house we tackled outside is a...
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Helen@Moreton
- Mar 9, 2017
- 2 min
Hello from the other side
Turning attention to the west side, we didn’t bother trying to strip off plastic paint coatings this time. So one week and a couple of...
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Helen@Moreton
- Feb 10, 2017
- 2 min
Shades of white
I promised myself I’d write this post when the scaffolding came down, so that I could take some decent ‘after’ photos. But instead of...
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Helen@Moreton
- Jun 27, 2016
- 3 min
A dash of lime
..of the natural hydraulic variety I’m afraid. I’m going to get disappointed googlers looking for hockey if I use the term NHL. So last...
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Helen@Moreton
- Jun 25, 2016
- 3 min
The first big makeover project
Sorry I’ve been quiet for a while. It’s not from lack of progress, more that I planned to blog about this when it was finished, but the...
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Helen@Moreton
- Feb 24, 2016
- 7 min
The oval-about
Confession time. I just spent my day doing geometry, and really enjoyed it. I was playing about with shapes on the landscape plans, and I...
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Helen@Moreton
- Feb 1, 2016
- 2 min
A splash of colour
I need to make it absolutely clear; this is a ‘before’ picture. I have no words. I said last post that I would share some pictures of the...
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Helen@Moreton
- Jan 31, 2016
- 3 min
Water, water, everywhere
This week’s news from Moreton was all about the water. It seems to have been an unusually wet year – or is north Devon always like this?...
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Helen@Moreton
- Jan 22, 2016
- 3 min
Garden school
My family has its fair share of gardeners. My parents have a fabulous garden and mum has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the latin names of...
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Helen@Moreton
- Jan 20, 2016
- 2 min
Down the garden path
Not surprisingly, getting the house safe and watertight has been our main priority this first year, but we have enjoyed getting to know...
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Helen@Moreton
- Jan 19, 2016
- 2 min
A bit Downton
I had a message from a former student of Grenville filling in what some of the rooms were used for by the school in the 1980s. As we...
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Helen@Moreton
- Jan 18, 2016
- 3 min
The beast
We always knew we had a bit of a problem in our southeast corner. The beautiful ancient Holm Oak tree on that corner was brushing the...
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Helen@Moreton
- Jan 17, 2016
- 2 min
The guest suite
Having given up on our first choice of rooms to renovate, we moved our attentions to a newer part of the house. It doesn’t look newer,...
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Helen@Moreton
- Jan 16, 2016
- 3 min
Setting up basecamp
Having done the obvious stuff (meaning that the existing apartment was functional, if not exactly beautifully restored, and we have a...
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Harvey Phillips
- Jan 15, 2016
- 2 min
The big kid
The second post in my round up of the first year’s work will detail the very top, most important, priority for the new owner of a grade...
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Helen@Moreton
- Jan 14, 2016
- 2 min
A year on, and still standing
It’s a new year, and one of my resolutions is to blog more regularly about all things Moreton. My plan was to wait until we had our...
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