Home and Family News & Updates
- 31st May 2009
I've just got back from the launch of Art Dejardin's annual open air sculpture show. And it was an absolute delight.
Fabulous weather helped, of course, as did copious supplies of delicious canapes and (in my case) elderflower cordial. But the stars
- 26th May 2009
I have an elderly friend who's nearly 90. As she's very active she likes to garden quite a lot but as her eyesight isn't too good, she does bump into things a bit. This has led to some serious bruising and cuts on her legs which became infected.
She
- 30th April 2009
A Prairie Dog has been found eating sugar beet at a farm in Fen Road, Rippingdale on Tuesday. The eight inch high mammal is a native of America and is not ususally found in the wild here. RSPCA think that it must have escaped from captivity. the little
- 28th April 2009
I recently went to a party with my husband where there were four other couples. Various hand shakes took place, although no-one shook hands with their own partner, or themselves, and nobody shook anyone's hand more than once.
Boringly I asked everyon
- 28th April 2009
Ketton First Responders has received a second set of life-saving equipment. The group are front line volunteers who tackle life-threatening incidents, and was set up to reduce the time between the emergency call and the ambulance arriving.
When cases
- 8th April 2009
Scuba divers say that a blast from the oxygen tank blows away cobwebs. Apparently the increased oxygen speeds up the metabolism to increase breaking down poisons.
Not recommended for pregnant women or the elderly is the Prairie Oyster. This uses a whole
- 21st March 2009
Sharon Clephane of BigPinkHeart has been telling us all about the latest developments. She has been meeting with the Mayor of Leicester - who wants to hear more about BigPinkHeart as one of her own passions is humanitarian causes, and she likes what the
- 4th March 2009
According to Reuters in Paris, there's a new French website where kids can pay older students to do their homework.
It costs just 5 euros on faismesdevoirs.com (domyhomework.com), for answers to simple maths problems, and 80 euros for a full end of ye
- 12th February 2009
SNOW THE UNIFIERAfter the fall of snow and my garden was covered with an eiderdown of white, it was confirmed to me how important structure is in a garden. Mine is composed of interlocking shapes that create planting beds that billow in summer with leaf an