OK, that’s very tongue in cheek, I wanted to clarify that before anyone thinks I have gone completely off my rocker thanks to the stress of the current situation!
The “babies” in question are our Strawberry plantlets which have finally had their runners cut this week, and are doing pretty well so far!
To be honest, [...]
The forums are now live. Not much there just yet, but if you’d like to join in, go to the forums now!
You can also use the link in the main menu at the top of each page.
Any questions on how to register or use the forums, feel free to post a comment here, or [...]
I’ve had some positive murmurings with regard setting up a public forum here for residents to share their experiences, and basically use as they please as an online community for our community here in the Oxley Woods eco houses.
I’m working on it, and will get it set up as soon as possible. Nothing fancy, [...]
Well, here we are, over 14 months in our multi award winning eco home on Oxley Park. You’d think by now we’d be settled, getting used to our home, be in the advanced stages of decorating. You know, happy families.
This is the first time we’ve ever bought a home, let alone a new [...]
To counter act the angst and frustration of recent posts a little, here’s some light refreshment!
The flowers supplied by George Wimpey are apparently quite carefully chosen to be wild/native and/or supportive of the local ecology. All rings true with the eco theme of the Oxley Woods housing development here in Milton Keynes.
Anyway, we have [...]
Been meaning to update the site more, but been busy. Bit like when Wood Newton and George Wimpey are supposed to carry out work on the houses in the neighbourhood.
Fortunately, nobody is booking days off work or rearranging their schedules while they wait for me to post my latest, usually depressing update about life [...]
Last October and November, people representing ITV got in touch.
They had seen and heard about our problems at Oxley Park and with the nature of this “prestige” and “award winning” development of eco homes, they were pretty keen to come and see us, and talk about featuring us on one of their “Problem Property”/”Homes from [...]
On Friday we bought ourselves a shiny new WATTSON home energy monitor from our local Maplin.
The device is one of many available that do pretty much the same job. Check your energy consumption via a clip placed on the live wire near your electricity metre, which is sent wirelessly to a display unit (portable [...]
Then our new Flickr page is worth over a million and counting. Certainly saves having to come up with that amount of text!
If you fancy seeing holes drilled in walls, walls being peeled off inside and out, horrible looking water running all over panels and even the odd photo of just every day living [...]
Really, this a proper free offer. We ended up with two because my mum’s house has an electric power shower, and it doesn’t work with those, but I digress…
We went to this offer website for a free eaga shower smart water saving device, ordered it, it arrived, and it works! I was a [...]