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I really should tidy up the spare room

Posted by Tricia in Saturday, April 19th 2008

Considering how nice the weather has become I’m almost tempted to move the tropical plants that I keep in one of our sunny spare bedrooms (actually the only sunny spare bedroom) over the winter to the enclosed back porch or front porch.
Trouble is that as soon as I do that the temperature will fall! The […]

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25000 emails later …

Posted by Tricia in Tuesday, February 26th 2008

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On Sunday I fired up my desktop computer for the first time in a month. I then had the displeasure of going through the 25,000 emails that had come in over the month! Yes, twenty five thousand! Isn’t that absolutely sickening?

These days I mainly use my laptop and most of my email accounts […]

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Looking to buy or sell a property in South Africa?

Posted by Tricia in Thursday, February 14th 2008

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I just finished watching the latest episodes of Survivor and Lost and looking at all of that lovely scenery has me dreaming of exotic locals.

Do you ever think about living in another country or perhaps having a second home in another country? I know that several of my readers work from home […]

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Our neighbors are trying to sell their house in January - Good Luck!

Posted by Tricia in Wednesday, January 23rd 2008

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Well our neighbors home is up for sale again! They must really want to move. Who puts their house up for sale in January the coldest month of the year here in Toronto?

Once they took their for sale sign down and said they were getting some repairs done on the house (changing from oil […]

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Our neighbors can’t sell their house!

Posted by Tricia in Tuesday, January 8th 2008

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Our neighbors who were trying to sell their home since late September finally took their house off the market. No one was interested in buying it.

We heard from one of the home owners that they had trouble selling because they have oil heating and their tank is very old and new owners won’t be able […]