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The perfect lawn – artificial grass!

You’d better believe it! This week has seen our garden transformed from a lush expanse of weeds and wild poppies to a beautifully groomed lawn of artificial grass. They’ll all say we’re crazy, but take one look at our beautiful lawn and you might just be converted!
Here’s a photograph of our lawn before […]

Craig | September 29th, 2007 | Continued

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Craig Alan Williamson is the author of campus comedy novel ‘A Foreign Education’. His uniquely-English perspective on American college life was cultivated during a year spent studying abroad at the University of Colorado. He has since returned frequently to the United States and travelled extensively around the country.    This is his blog about new build […]

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My final blog post – farewell!

And so, the end is here. It is just over 6 months since I posted my first entry, and we have been through so much together. We’ve had:
• snags galore (here and here)
• gadgets galore (here and here)
• near disaster (here and here)
• killer flies (here)
• and sexy lingerie (here).
I hope that my posts have informed and entertained […]

22Dec2007 | Craig | 0 comments | Continued
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New Home Guide: Top snagging tips

Congratulations – you have just bought a new house. Commiserations – you have now have to deal with ‘snagging’. Snags are all of those little imperfections with your new home that your builder promises to rectify within the first few weeks of you moving in. Here are my top 3 snagging tips:
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17Dec2007 | Craig | 0 comments | Continued
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New Home Guide: A list of hidden costs

New homes come with lots of little hidden costs. For example, did your builder install a door bell for you? How about a house number on your front door? Not even a mirror in the bathroom? Only after you have moved in does the extent of this little list of hidden […]

10Dec2007 | Craig | 0 comments | Continued
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New Home Guide: Buying extras

You’ve picked the perfect house style with a workshop area for your impressive collection of power tools, and you’ve selected the perfect plot with a prime view of the all-girls college. Surely your work is done? Well, not quite, as you’ve still got to pick your extras.
‘Extras’ are the additional niceties that you […]

3Dec2007 | Craig | 0 comments | Continued
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Tasty buns and skimpy lingerie

Unleashing the wife on John Lewis was definitely the right plan. No sooner had I published my last blog entry than we received a phone call to arrange delivery of our new sofa. It arrived last week and we are extremely pleased with the results. Our old sofa was in need of […]

19Nov2007 | Craig | 0 comments | Continued
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