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Award-winning garden designer Chris Beardshaw offers tips on planting, lights and show-stopping centrepieces. By Hannah Stephenson. With lockdown restrictions easing, there’s likely to be a lot of entertaining going on in back gardens throughout summer. So, is your garden party-ready – where guests will be able to sit in… Read More
06/06/2021
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Encourage your neighbours, friends and relatives to connect with nature for 30 Days Wild, urges The Wildlife Trusts. How can you reconnect with nature? It could be taking your breakfast outside to start the day, listening to the birds, reading a wildlife book or photographing a ladybird. Connecting with… Read More
06/06/2021
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As 2021 looks set for a staycation boom, here’s how to make the most of opportunities to let your holiday property out. By Vicky Shaw. With staycations likely to prove popular in 2021, holiday lets could become more appealing to those with the money to invest. And mortgage lenders… Read More
05/05/2021
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From leaving items in your basket to going incognito on your web browser, Vicky Shaw looks at some dos and don’ts of online shopping. Online shopping is a trend that appears firmly here to stay, even as more of the high street begins to open up again, as lockdown… Read More
05/05/2021
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An expert offers a guide to making bath bombs, spritzes and soaps from common garden plants. Want to create your own bath fizzers, soaps and other skincare favourites with botanicals from your own garden? If you grow roses, chamomile, lavender and other common plants, you can use them in… Read More
05/05/2021
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Pretty pastels will make brightening up your space a breeze, says Sam Wylie-Harris. Top of the colour charts, the pulling power of pastels never fades. Serene, easy-on-the-eye hues and mellow effects can collide beautifully together. And in their low-key statement way – especially in the world of interiors –… Read More
01/04/2021
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Support our hospitality industry by booking a weekend break at a local inn, says Sarah Marshall. As we edge closer to a relaxation of restrictions, the demand for UK staycations has skyrocketed, with many people opting to holiday locally this summer. Self-catering stays are rapidly filling up, but there’s… Read More
01/04/2021
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There has never been a better time to grow your own vegetables, but not all of us have a plot to do it. So, if an allotment is a no-go and you don’t want to dig up your lawn, a raised bed could be the answer. You can make… Read More
01/04/2021
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In the conduct of McCarthy Holden’s day to day activities we meet people from all walks of life and from time to time we discover people with great craft talents and skills, so in this news article we are highlighting the unique products created by Maggie Sheerman who lives… Read More
21/03/2021
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