Gardening Tips for June

Gardening Tips for June

The sun should be blazing and as we approach the longest day on the 21st there should be no excuse why you can’t get in your garden and work! There is no reason to wait for the weekend as you can flex your green fingers during the long summer nights this month.

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How to Get Rid of Carpet Stains

How to Get Rid of Carpet Stains

It always seems to happen in slow motion doesn’t it? The hand does not quite connect properly with the glass of red wine and you see it tip and start to fall. Despite a desperate clutch to stop it happening, like a goalkeeper trying to save a certain goal, the drink falls and stains theContinue Reading

Four Ways to Declutter your Home

Four Ways to Declutter your Home

Clutter has an annoying way of building up so that before you know it your home is full of it and your living space is overwhelmed by rubbish. Everyone needs to declutter their home from time to time, so here are some handy hints and tips on how you make your home clutter free.Continue Reading

How to Spruce up a Concrete Yard

How to Spruce up a Concrete Yard

Some people call it a yard and the slightly more pretentious call it a Victorian walled garden. Whatever you call your Coronation Street style concrete space at the back of your urban home you can still make something out of it.Continue Reading

Gardening Jobs for May

Gardening Jobs for May

Summer is nearly here. You may not believe it with the chilly weather we have been having of late, but the sun should be shining soon! Amazingly, three inches of snow fell on high ground in Shropshire and two inches covered parts of Devon just last week.Continue Reading

Quick Tricks to Transform your Home

Quick Tricks to Transform your Home

We all know that magic is not real. The magician stands on stage and he or she performs tricks to amaze and amuse the crowd. Magicians can distort our perceptions by performing visual illusions right before our eyes. With a bit of jiggery-pokery you can transform your home by applying a few tricks of yourContinue Reading

Bathroom Planning Tips

Bathroom Planning Tips

There is an old adage that goes something like, “Perfect planning prevents pathetic performance.” If you do not make a plan then you run a greater risk of everything going “all Pete Tong” as some people might say (which means “wrong” by the way. Just in case you have not come across the expression).Continue Reading

Paint Projects to Spruce up your Garden

Paint Projects to Spruce up your Garden

Now that the days are getting warmer you can get out into your garden and give those parts of it that need it a good old lick of paint. Obviously, you need to make sure that you choose a dry day to get those paintbrushes out although there are some good quality quick drying paintsContinue Reading

Gardening Jobs for April

Gardening Jobs for April

Fingers crossed that the awful cold snap we had last month is finally over and that spring has sprung. It was officially the coldest March for fifty years and hopefully it did not do too much damage to your garden.Continue Reading

How to Make Cleaning Easier

How to Make Cleaning Easier

Time is a precious commodity. We all need to juggle our work and family lives. The calendar is full of things to do and places to go. To bring us down from those exciting times are the boring old chores such as washing, ironing and cleaning.Continue Reading