Our Life Together
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The girl & I have been fretting over the state of our garden for the past month. Portuguese households being quite fastidious when it comes to outward appearances (especially in our neighbourhood), it was quite depressing to deal with the unsightly mess the previous occupiers left us with. On …
Continue Reading about Organic Threat Destroyed, Garden Gets Amputated
Eventful week, with most of the action happening near the end of it. Sometimes I feel like nothing gets done, but when I reflect back, I realize it's probably because I concentrate on what's left to do rather than what's actually been done. Silly me! Most eventful things to happen this week: Got …
Continue Reading about Familiarity, Settling In, & a New Garden
When we were in the process of buying our studio flat, I was more than a little nervous about the possibility we'd feel cramped in the space. I wanted a one or two bedroom home, ideally, but since it would be a complete pain trying to get a mortgage here in the UK, and on top of that, it probably …
Continue Reading about Why We Bought a Studio Flat in Cash VS Mortgaging a 2-Bedroom Home
There are quite a few things we haven't yet spoken about on this blog, not because we haven't wanted to, just because we haven't had the time or mind frame to just sit down and flush these stories out. This post in particular, as you undoubtedly already know from the title, will be a catch-me-up …
Continue Reading about Our Backstory: A Failed Rental Property & A Cross-Continental Move
While we recently bought a flat here in Bournemouth, this wasn't our first rodeo; we'd bought a fully detached house in Canada years ago, which we sold just a few months before parting ways with Toronto. What we learned from buying that first home honestly helped us out considerably when …
Continue Reading about What Being First Time Home Owners Taught Us
It's about time we got to the point where I could finally post an updated house tour. Not much to the flat since it's a studio apartment, but with all that Ikea furniture to put together, as well as some extra furniture from the previous owners to get rid of, the flat was looking pretty cluttered. …
Continue Reading about Home Tour: Our Flat is Practically an Ikea Showroom
