I told the story of the crappy tenants here and we are hard at work renovating the cottage. But: as with everything else about my house, scratch the surface and you probably won't like what you find. The

I'm not sure what's wrong with the people in my street, they all have cars and the municipal dump is only a few blocks away but this appeared on the street one Friday. I've heard of people putting unwanted

When I first moved in, I noticed that the one bathroom was well below the ground level and that there was damp in the walls, exacerbated by the fact that there was an outside tap next to this wall. Now

When I moved into my house, there were papyrus reeds planted next to the kitchen wall and I assumed that it had been done to soak up excess rainwater, as the gutters discharged into the small alleyway

My house is built on the side of a hill on top of a rock formation and the front wall of my bedroom sits on a shale outcrop that runs at right angles to the wall, with parts of the reef protruding through