Hello again! / myLot

United Kingdom

September 29, 2016 3:45am CST

It’s a long time since I was last here – almost three months in fact! A lot has happened since then, and of course half the time was taken up with the school summer holidays which always make time disappear like water! Our biggest news is that we moved house, and are still getting settled in our new home. Although it feels like ‘home’ already we have lots of decorating to do – and the previous owners seem to have used some incredibly sticky wallpaper that is irreversibly bonded to the plaster, Grrr. Anyway we are now back in the school/work routine so let’s see if I can manage to pop in more often again!

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Laurel (L_B)

@Happy2BeMe (99390)

• Canada

29 Sep 16

Hi and welcome back. I am new here since you've been gone. Good luck with your decorating and I look forward to reading more of your posts.

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Fleur

@Fleura (29218)

• United Kingdom

29 Sep 16

Thanks! I'm sure there will be more stores as we discover more problems!!

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Laurel (L_B)

@Happy2BeMe (99390)

• Canada

29 Sep 16

@Fleura yes there always seems to be something. Nothing is ever easy it seems.

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Marlina

@marlina (154165)

• Canada

29 Sep 16

Welcome to your new home! There is nothing worse than removing stubborn wallpaper.

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Marlina

@marlina (154165)

• Canada

29 Sep 16

@Fleura Once we were taking off some wallpaper off in our new flat and we almost lost our "marbles" doing it.

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Fleur

@Fleura (29218)

• United Kingdom

29 Sep 16

@marlina Now I understand why many people just keep papering over the old layers!

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Fleur

@Fleura (29218)

• United Kingdom

29 Sep 16

They seem to have used some extra-strength adhesive!

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (12635)

• Ireland

29 Sep 16

@fleura welcome back. Good luck with the redecorating!

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Fleur

@Fleura (29218)

• United Kingdom

29 Sep 16

Thanks! Like many things, it's taking much longer than anticipated. And then there's the toilet saga - but that's a whole other story.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (12635)

• Ireland

29 Sep 16

@Fleura Oh, I do like a good toilet story!

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WorDazza

@WorDazza (15833)

• Manchester, England

29 Sep 16

Congrats on the house move and welcome back. Funnily enough I've moved house recently and I'm now wondering if you bought our old house

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Jennifer

@LovingMyBabies (85127)

• Valdosta, Georgia

29 Sep 16

@WorDazza

Thanks for the laugh!

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Fleur

@Fleura (29218)

• United Kingdom

29 Sep 16

Ah, was yours the one with the broken toilet and the missing cooker handles?

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WorDazza

@WorDazza (15833)

• Manchester, England

29 Sep 16

@Fleura Ah! No! Mine was the one with the working toilet and intact cooker handles. Everything else was broken though!!!

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DianneN

@DianneN (247219)

• United States

29 Sep 16

It was so nice hearing from you again and welcome back! Congratulations on your new home. Take your time decorating it, so it turns out perfectly.

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Fleur

@Fleura (29218)

• United Kingdom

30 Sep 16

Thank you! We thought it would be easier to decorate right away, before filling the rooms up with furniture, but as always things have not gone as smoothly as we hoped!

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DianneN

@DianneN (247219)

• United States

30 Sep 16

@Fleura I don't blame you. We are redecorating one of our family rooms, and already need a carpenter and a new area rug. The one we chose with the decorator is not being made anymore, so she showed us new samples. The one we chose was so far out of budget that we have to look elsewhere. It will have to wait until my husband recovers from surgery. Never a dull moment! I hope things get better for you!

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s sivasubrahmanyam

@shivamani10 (11038)

• Hyderabad, India

29 Sep 16

wow..congreats on the eve of getting into a new house.

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Fleur

@Fleura (29218)

• United Kingdom

29 Sep 16

Thank you! We plan to stay here at least 20 years so no more moving again for a while!

changjiangzhibin89

@changjiangzhibin89 (16549)

• China

29 Sep 16

Nice to see you again!Congratulate you on moving in a new house !

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Fleur

@Fleura (29218)

• United Kingdom

29 Sep 16

Thank you!

Jennifer

@LovingMyBabies (85127)

• Valdosta, Georgia

29 Sep 16

Welcome back! I hope things get easier with the new place. =)

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Fleur

@Fleura (29218)

• United Kingdom

29 Sep 16

Thank you! We will get there in the end - it isn't anything like as bad as our last house was when we bought that!

The Horse

@TheHorse (206620)

• Walnut Creek, California

29 Sep 16

Are you a teacher? I forget!

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Fleur

@Fleura (29218)

• United Kingdom

29 Sep 16

No, I work at home mostly - or at least try to, but it gets more difficult when the children are at home all day!

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (326170)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Oct 16

Not too long ago you wrote a post about whether you should move or not - and now it's all happened! Glad it feels like home. We hired a steamer once when we had to remove a lot of wallpaper.

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Fleur

@Fleura (29218)

• United Kingdom

4 Oct 16

I know, once we had decided we were actually going to move and that we wanted to stay in this area, we found a house we liked and it all happened quite quickly! We have a steamer but it also took the plaster off rather easily so we're a bit wary of being too enthusiastic with that now!

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (326170)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Oct 16

@Fleura Taking the plaster off too would be a bit of a blow.

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