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August 22, 2016

+ 10 Ways to Make a House a Home

About a year ago Ned and I got the keys to our maisonette near Clissold Park, and since then we’ve pretty much poured all of our money, sweat and tears into making it our own. I captured everything I learnt during the mostly horrific process of being a first-time buyer here, but this time I wanted to share my thoughts on how to make a house a home, a far more positive topic! Tip 1: Tear It Up The kitchen we inherited wasn’t horrendous but

April 3, 2016

+ Our Kitchen Redesign: Before and After

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Over nine weeks ago our builders started work on the kitchen and it’s still not 100% finished, but I just have to share some photos anyway! The kitchen redesign was originally pitched to us as a two-week job, but due to various issues (inaccurate measurements, poor communication between our builder and the kitchen fitters) it’s still not finished. Even so, you can see from the photos below that it’s starting to look stunning. I’m really happy with the results but just wish it

March 28, 2016

+ What I Did in 2015

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Yesterday the clocks went forward in the UK, marking the beginning of spring and it pains me to have waited so long to finish my draft post of what I did in 2015! To be fair, this year already has been massively hectic with a new job, a new workout plan and the constant headache of a new kitchen that’s still not complete after two months weeks. 2015 brought me one failed flat purchase, one successful flat purchase, trips to Paris, Positano,

November 27, 2015

+ A Guide to Angel: Interior Shops on Cross Street

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I’ve lived around Angel on and off now for 4 years and I’ve never paid too much attention to what’s on offer in Cross Street, although Get Stuffed, a quirky taxidermy shop at the junction to Essex Road, piqued my attention on many a bus journey! Fast forward a few years to when I have a flat in need of a few home improvements, and I’ve lost count of the number of trips I’ve made to this little street. The

November 22, 2015

+ NEW Escocesa Restaurant – Stoke Newington

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After a lazy weekend hibernating in the warmth of our flat, we decided to go on a little jaunt to Stoke Newington. We live five minutes’ walk away but this was our first visit there in months. What remains the same is the pace at which new places open up there, and the brand new Escocesa restaurant caught our eye. We knew it was new but hadn’t realised it was less than a month old! Many of the staff from Escocesa  (according

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Today marks my last full day of maternity leave! I Today marks my last full day of maternity leave! It's mostly been a balancing act of nursing my son (who refused bottles), writing my dissertation & feeling conflicted between trying to 'teach' Ev to #selfsettle while adopting #responsiveparenting and #positiveparenting!

My #maternityleave in summary:

- At #8monthspregnant I contended with an abandoned #houserenovation due to our builders going bankrupt! 
- I recorded an @lse.pbs assessment hours before my waters broke
- Ev was born on the day the #covid_19 genome was sequenced
- We went into 🔒down when he was #10weeksold
- My agoraphobic mum needed help throughout it with groceries/bins taking out, so I did my absolute best to keep her safe while stuck in London
- I wrote a 3K essay + a 10K thesis with NO INTERNET for several weeks (yep, a car smashed into the street's broadband box!)
- I abandoned an @glideapps app I spent 6 weeks building for my #behaviouralscience experiment due to incompatibility w/ #prolificacademic
- I sorted the house purchase of a retirement flat for my mum

Hmm... I think that was it! Being a #firsttimemum in a pandemic has been hard but I cannot WAIT to crack on with 2021. I'm so grateful to have had this year with Ev despite all the challenges and to have a job to go back to 🙌

#matleaveover #maternityleave #maternityleaveisover #breastfeeding #pandemicbaby

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