If you are a keen gardener, you have probably been practicing home composting for many years, but it is only in the past few years with the rise of environmentalism and the recycling movement that it has become widespread. Although many local authorities do offer specific recycling bins for “green” organic waste – […]
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Wordsworth’s “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”; fall is here with a bang! The leaves are turning to their autumn plumage, branches are laden with berries and nuts, and root vegetable plants begin to die back, giving up the summer’s goodness to nourish the hidden treasures beneath the soil. […]
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A clean house not only looks good but it also keeps you healthy. It is important to maintain the right decor in the house. Cleaning is indeed important and you should do that on a daily basis. But, if you have time issues, you can clean your house twice a week. With restricted time, you […]
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Shabby Chic has to be the most notable home interior trend of the past decade. Warmly nostalgic and reminiscent of a thriftier, more caring and less disposable age, it also appeals to very modern ideas about recycling and reducing deadly plastic waste and landfill. It’s also become extremely popular with a generation of millennials […]
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Many studies have named cleaning and other household chores as one of the largest stressors within marriages, romantic relationships, families and other kinds of domestic arrangements such as house-sharing/roommates. Even the most harmonious relationships can become strained when chores come up, and it’s easy to see why – different people have very different attitudes to […]
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Hardly a day goes by without an article from a celebrity chef on the huge advantages of the flavour of home-grown herbs and vegetables over shop-bought, or the latest pronouncements from well-being experts on the mental and physical health benefits of gardening and spending time around plants. But what […]
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With pictures of melting ice shelves and revelations about how much plastic is making it into the marine food chain all over the news, the effects of climate change and pollution are increasingly on everyone’s mind. It can be easy to feel a bit overwhelmed […]
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All of us have been there. You plan to eat healthily and frugally, but you drop into the shops when you are hungry; you come home late from work and order a takeaway, and you end up throwing out half the contents of the fridge uneaten because it has passed its use-by date. You […]
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Everyone is familiar with that wonderful feeling after taking the time to really sort out your living environment. You look around at the beautiful clear space of floor and table, open a cupboard and smile to yourself as you immediately find what you’re looking for. You relish the empty washing basket, look with satisfaction at […]
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Too many of us are used to the feeling of constantly living with insufficient storage space. Despite the gurus’ claim that the answer is to declutter endlessly, plenty of us simply don’t want to get rid of most of our possessions! We wear and like all our clothes; we use our devices regularly […]
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