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    How to Choose the Right Man with a Van Service in London

    April 28, 2025 - By 

    London can be really difficult to navigate, can’t it?  Moving your possessions around is difficult because of the heavy traffic, parking shortages, and crowded areas. A man with a van service can sort that out. Be it a single piece of furniture or a few boxes, these removal services are perfect for smaller moves. But how can you choose wisely when there are so many possibilities available? We’ll go over how to hire a man with a van in London in this guide, along with helpful hints and suggestions to ensure a smooth move. Why Choosing the Right Service Matters…

  • London - moving

    White walls

    July 5, 2013 - By 

    One of the only things we haven’t yet unpacked is our pictures. Our walls are pretty bare but we both think it’s so important to get right that we’re not in a hurry. I’m the first to admit I’m not very artistic. I didn’t enjoy my Art lessons at school, in fact, I actively tried to get out of them each week by having Cello lessons! Luckily for me I’ve improved since then and my husband has a really good eye too. Our new house is lovely and light but also bigger so we’re looking at investing in some new…

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    Keeping the mess in

    May 2, 2013 - By 

    So far we’ve only discovered one problem with our lovely new house. The previous occupants took all the blinds with them when they moved. They were perfectly entitled to do this but it has left us feeling a little ‘exposed’ to our neighbours, especially in the evenings. Today we ventured to the local high street. We did some shopping (top of the toddlers list was ‘bubbles’) and stopped for a cup of tea in the strangest coffee shop-inside-a-department-store you’ll ever see inside the M25. I was allowed a very quick look around a charity shop which was curtailed by the…

  • crafts - handmade - Kids crafts - moving - tutorial

    Up inspired moving card

    March 13, 2013 - By 

    My sister is moving to the country cottage of her dreams this weekend. When we visited a couple of weekends ago we drove out to see it and it is lovely, a typical ancient cottage and it even had a stable door for the front door with roses growing around it! We thought we would make her a card as she is really excited about moving from town to country. I set up everything the toddler needed – a paint tray, big dollops of his favourite colours and some corks. We’ve painted with corks before and they’re the perfect size…

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    Family time

    February 10, 2013 - By 

    So far this year has been unusually busy. We’ve sold our house and bought a new one so fingers crossed everything will go smoothly and in a couple of months we’ll be happily installed in our new home. To celebrate finally having an offer accepted we decided to have a lovely family day today. The weather has been atrocious but we ventured out to do our weekly food shop at Tesco after treating the children to a couple of hours at our local soft play centre. At least when the weather is bad as it has been you don’t feel…

  • homestyle - London - moving

    Why moving house feels like being unfaithful

    February 7, 2013 - By 

    I fell in love with our house the moment I walked through the door. A 3 bed full of period charm. It would ‘do’ for a couple of years. 6 years later we’re finally on the move. The 3 bed is now a 4 bed; the garden has grass and flowers rather than mud; we’ve discovered treasures galore buried at the bottom of the garden and under the stairs. This was the first house my name appeared on the paperwork. The house I got engaged in, left from to be married, conceived my babies and returned triumphant from the local…

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    First aid at home

    January 25, 2013 - By 

    I’m finding house hunting quite stressful. It feels like I’m scouring the internet daily to see if any new houses are on the market, often at the expense of giving the children my full attention. The other day I was on the phone to an estate agent when Little Sis began choking on a crisp. It was a horrible feeling. For some reason I stayed on the phone, carried on talking, but quickly picked up my coughing child and hit her hard on the back, dislodging the crisp. I could have cried with relief when she started coughing. The incident…

  • moving - Orla Kiely - sewing

    A sewing room for me?

    January 16, 2013 - By 

    It’s official! We’ve sold our lovely Edwardian cottage. Over the last few months we’ve been busy de-cluttering, painting, building walls and hiding as much as possible in the shed(s). Our house was on the market for a week, is now off the market, and we’re ready for a new adventure in a different part of London. We’ve had lots of people round to view, even before the photographer had been. We’ve also been arranging our own viewings which is exciting. I’d forgotten just how hard it was to keep the house clean and tidy though. Every day I was trying…

  • housekeeping - moving

    An Autumn clean

    November 2, 2012 - By 

    I’m so glad we’re back in our ‘normal’ routine – as normal as life can be with a baby and toddler. The little man is back at his school twice a week which means I get a couple of hours with the baby. We’ve just started going to a weekly music class and it is lovely doing something together and getting out of the house. However the end of summer means getting back to our plans of moving. We’re doing all those small jobs around the house which we’ve ignored since moving in 5 years ago. We’ve replaced the broken…