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Buying Property Step 2 – How much to spend
Be sure to read the overly long winded “When to buy” post first if you care about this stuff. I think it’s very important that people enter into property buying with their heads and not with their...
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Buying Property Step 3 – Understanding the Price
This one should be short and sweet, it’s really just a brain dump of a conversation I had with a friend who had the all too common argument of ‘But It’s so expensive, I can’t afford R9500 payments’....
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Champagne, Paperwork and South East Asian Cuisine
So last night we finally signed and initialled all the bits of paper that basically say our combined asses belong to the bank until we pay off our newly incurred seven hundred and fifteen thousand...
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Rapid Fire Update
Oh how naive I was to say “I’ll be tending to dodgy doors on saturday evening”… More accurately I think we’ve spent about 48 man-hours cleaning this weekend punctuated with bouts of repairs and...
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The Knife Rack Represents Progress
A few months ago, before we had moved into our new house, I decided that one of the small things I couldn’t wait to do was to install a knife rack. Needless to say I grossly under-estimated the amount...
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Mostly pictures of our cat (and a few of the house)
I finally got around to downloading the pictures off my camera and discovered that most of them are pictures of the cat. I think this means I am officially a cat blogger. More pictures In other news, I...
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A photo post.
We’ve been very busy with all sorts of things… Here are a few pictures to prove it! As usual, all my photos can be viewed here.
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Visualising the Interest Rate
I though it might be interesting to try and graph the Reserve Bank’s prime rate data… It goes back a long way. I used Python to scrape and collate the data and PyCha to generate the graph. UPDATE: I’ve...
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More Before and Afters
Since we moved in we’d been wanting to buy one of those pine workbenches they sell at places like builders warehouse and do it up for the kitchen. We decided on painting the base in white enamel and...
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