More posts by Hilary Bruffell
Garden
Top tips for successful seeds!
It might still be cold and wet outside, but now's a good time to get your seedlings going for a fantastic summer display. We've compiled a great list of top tips to help the novice gardener getting started with planting your first ...
fashion
Keeping warm the old fashioned way
This winter has been a humdinger. Some say it's the coldest winter for 100 years and comparisons have been drawn with the big freeze of 1947. But how did they cope back then without the wonders of modern inventions? Read our top tips ...
Garden
Plant pots from toilet rolls
How to make pots for garden seedlings using toilet roll tubes or rolled up newspapers
Food
How to make Mandarincello
Winter is the season for citrus fruits and hopefully you're making the most of all the cheap vitamin C that is around. However what do you do with all that left over peel? Do you just throw it in the bin or composter? How about turning ...
Seasonal
Made with love – homemade gifts for Valentine’s day
It’s nearly Valentine’s day - a day guaranteed to strike terror into some of the hardiest of folk! How are you meant to show someone that you love them? What should you buy? Will they like it? Will they loath it? Will it be ...
Stories
How to get the most from your New Year Resolutions
We are now into the third week of January, so hands up those who've already fallen off their New Year Resolution wagons? Don’t worry if you have - you're not alone. By now it's highly likely that your New Year Resolutions are a dim and ...
Stories
10 top tips for banishing Christmas stress
Christmas can be a time of major stress for some people. Families are brought together and spend hours cooped up in a small enclosed space (even the largest living room seems small with an irritating relative in it). Issues that have ...
Stories
The psychology of gift giving and why home made presents are best
We are getting close to Christmas and it seems that the present shopping is gathering a storm. We might be in a recession, but it doesn’t seem to be stopping the Christmas shopping frenzy. But is shopping the only way to celebrate ...
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