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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We debated about fitting a multi-fuel stove in this house then decided against for various reasons. But I still wanted some kind of fireplace so I have fitted this and I think it fits the bill. NB I have also discovered that I do not like tiling and am probably the messiest tiler alive 😂

Wooden fire surround with tiled hearth and back.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last night’s sunset behind our house.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’ve just been told that the pond in the fields behind our house is home to rare great crested newts. How amazing is that! We had a really small one in the garden that I rescued out of the dog’s water bowl. 😧

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well who knew Mother-in-laws-tongues did this?!?!

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Morning dog walk. The dark sky suggests the day will be damp and somber. In a front garden a robin sings from a high branch of a young fir tree. Beneath him pass a stream of school pupils seemingly oblivious to his beauty. Unexpectedly the clouds part to reveal the brightness they’d been hiding.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is 14 degrees in our house. We do have radiators but unfortunately they are not attached to anything yet. Men are coming to fit the boiler and the pipework on 1st and 2nd October. 🥶🥶🥶

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Morning dog walk. The peaceful morning has dawned bright, the vivid blue sky cloudless. A single magpie chatters from a hidden location above us and I wonder if it still counts as ‘One for sorrow’ if it isn’t seen. In the sad garden of the empty house the berries of a Pyracantha gleam defiantly.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The hedge is half its height and we have a view!

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This plant threw up these flower shoots weeks ago then stubbornly refused to do anything with them. Now, all of a sudden, it looks as if it’s starting to flower!

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@soberalmu.bsky.social When is your exam? I seem to remember you saying it was September?

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I can’t help wondering what percentage of the people who are anti the Assisted Dying Bill have actually watched someone they love die a slow painful death. 🤔

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Morning dog walk. As we leave the house a robin serenades us with his autumn song. A pair of removal vans pull up outside a bungalow and I wonder at the story behind and ahead of the move. The huge willow looks magnificent as it towers protectively above the weir and shelters a group of mallards.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have stuck stripey wallpaper up on a wonky wall and it looks straight as a die. I am a genius.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Well the living-room is still full of wet plaster and mess but today we have a bedroom. With furniture! I left the wardrobe door open while I was sorting out clothes and this happened…

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Morning dog walk. Clouds briefly allow the sun its glorious freedom before cruelly confining it again. A silent lone wood pigeon sits peacefully in a young beech tree while a large, fat bodied spider scuttles across our path. Doves gather on the roof of the old mill beneath the towering chimney

A row of white doves sit along the apex of an old mill building

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks BBC for giving no warning at all before TWICE showing footage of a donkey being tortured in tonight’s 10 o’clock news. Twats.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One of the dogs accidentally knocked my gin and tonic over last night and it went all over my new book. I’m still not sure which I was most upset about. 😂

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We have all been to the vet’s and survived the trauma unscathed. It’s the same vet we had before but he’s opened his own independent practice. Look how lovely it is.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Woodster has been sedated for a vet’s appointment at 9.15 😔

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We have French doors! The men arrived at 8am and were finished by 12 noon. They’ve tidied up, stacked all the bricks and arranged for the plasterer to come tomorrow. I haven’t seen such efficiency for a long time.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There are three men putting French doors in the new living-room. This is a small house. They seem very big. Everywhere I go I’m in the way 🫤

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Look what’s happening to my Mother-in-laws-tongue. This is something I’ve never seen in my life before.

Large potted mother-in-laws-tongue plant on a sunny windowsill. It is beginning to flower.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Morning dog walk. We pause to chat to a neighbour and the lavender she is trimming fills the air around us with its scent. On a patch of parched straw-coloured grass, damp from yesterday’s rain, a pair of magpies search for nourishment. A small concrete bear sits proudly atop a garden wall.

A small, pale concrete bear sits on top of a brick garden wall. Behind him is a blue sky and a Rowan tree laden with berries.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We have bedroom wallpaper. All we need now is a carpet in there and it will be a functioning room. I can’t wait to get our bedroom furniture out of storage and have a proper bed to sleep in.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It’s raining! Proper stair rods, bouncing of the road type raining 😃😃😃

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Been to a 1940’s weekend thingy. Saw a Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We have reached the “Bloody hell there’s stuff everywhere” stage of house renovation.

Central heating boiler, radiators etc stacked ready for a heating engineer to install plus, in another room, boxed kitchen cabinet doors etc waiting to be used to transform the kitchen.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A very nice man has GIVEN me a shed load (literally) of Howden’s kitchen doors, drawer fronts etc to revitalise our kitchen. Isn’t that a lovely thing to do?

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I’ve got stuff to do and I am struggling to get going this morning. Perhaps more caffeine…

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Tired Exhausted Man Walking

ALT: Tired Exhausted Man Walking

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I am doing everything I can to put off painting a ceiling. The ceiling fairies aren’t going to come and do it for me though are they? Better get to it then. 😕

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The new wall is up and the old wall is down! OK there’s a bit of fine tuning to do but it’s progress.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Well on the way to a new wall 😃

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I would love it to be Maggie Smith.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

New neighbourhood update. Look what I found this afternoon! And wait till you see where it goes… 1/2

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Found a lovely shady path for this afternoon’s dog walk.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Wordle 1,857 2/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It’s all been happening in our new town today! As well as the annual Sweet Pea show there has been a Vehicle of Interest show which included a parade around town.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I haven’t posted any ‘morning dog walk’ posts since we moved house because they’re all much the same. We go out. I get a bit lost. I eventually find the way home. 😂😂

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is the view from the back of our house. How incredibly lucky are we? Unfortunately we can’t see it from our garden at the moment because if an overgrown hedge full of sparrows (this is from next door’s garden) but come September/October that hedge will be half the size.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Our house has been empty for about two years. Look at the chuffin’ garden!

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Finally got the keys to our house yesterday but too late to do much so we’re moving in today. 👏 👏 We’re going to be camping in one room though because we’ve got to knock a wall down, rebuild it in a better place, replace a window with patio doors, replace the kitchen… The list is endless.

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Tom and Jerry: Home Alone House Build

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Just had a phone call to say we are definitely getting the keys to our new house tomorrow. Thank goodness for that! It was uncertain until about 4 o’clock this afternoon 😧 🔑

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As well as being the 41st anniversary of Live Aid (I remember it like it was yesterday *sigh*) it is also Boo’s 14th birthday. As you can see she is excited for any celebrations that may happen…

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

To anyone who takes their dog out after about 7.30am in this weather (and I’ve seen several today). JUST STOP DOING IT unless you are prepared to follow them in bare feet while wearing a fur coat.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Morning dog walk. In a garden next to the canal a man plays football with his dog as the sun dispels the overnight mist. A Red Admiral butterfly lands briefly on the path ahead of us. Disappointed to find the cafe shut a group of men hunting a full-english breakfast discuss alternative venues.

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Just been in Aldi. There was a small child sitting inside a trolley which had been left unattended by mum who was getting things off shelves. The child had opened a pack of butter and was biting chunks out of it. 🧈 😂😂

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If you buy a house in Scotland you can get the keys in about 4 weeks. So why is it such a feckin’ slog in England? #stressed

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Morning dog walk. Our last walk before we move house. By teatime we will be 250 miles away. This knowledge causes everything to appear vivid & I am acutely aware of all the things I’ll miss. As we near home the removal van passes us, heading to collect all our possessions & take us to another life.

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