Home and Garden News & Updates
Are you over 50? Do you live alone? Do you have a disability? Do you have limited Mobility? If you do then you may qualify for a FREE home fire safety check and a FREE smoke alarm test.
- 24th November 2014
Do you keep saying “I’ll do it tomorrow” but never actually get round to actually doing it? If you’ve got some free time after work or at the weekend, put that shelf up or clean your gutters! Maintaining your home and keeping on top of things is so important to make your home enjoyable and a pleasure to live in.
Samuels Solicitors in Barnstaple are making landlords aware of a certain 'pitfall' that can complicate a tenancy agreement if the landlord has taken a deposit from their tenants. Read on to find out more.
- 27th August 2014
The Bat Night takes place every year since 1997 in more than 30 countries on the last full weekend of August. Nature conservation agencies from across Europe pass on information to the public about the way bats live and their needs with presentations, exhibitions and bat walks, often offering the opportunity to listen to bat sounds with the support of ultrasound technology.
- 1st July 2014
National Shed Week starts on 1st of July when shed enthusiasts are encouraged to keep an eye on the 'ShedBlog' to discover who has won the coveted Nation's Shed of the Year award. This annual event sponsored by Cuprinol is now in its 8th year and it continues to go from strength to strength!
The purpose of this awareness week is to remind us of the importance of the role of insects in our everyday lives. If you have a garden and some space to spare, why not allow it to become waste ground? By allowing native plants to take over it will bring a whole variety of insects into your garden.
Picnics bring to mind romantic, basket-filled-with-treats lunch for two by a stream or a lunch in a park hastily packed to get the children out for a couple of hours, but picnics can be just as fun inside! With our ever unpredictable weather, indoor or outdoor picnics are the order of the day, this week.
- 3rd June 2014
Creative people from North Devon are being invited to submit designs to help make a community art installation in the shape of a shed to help raise money for charity. Trelawney Garden Leisure @ Ashford is asking customers to create eight inch by eight inch squares for an art piece that will be displayed during their Shed Week in July.
- 11th March 2013
It's time to start thinking about all the things we need to do around the home that we put off all winter! Spring cleaning is always hard work, but you can guarantee that once it's done you will feel a whole lot better!