The Best Power Washers for Everyday Home Use

There’s only one quick and efficient way to clean your deck, and that’s with a pressure washer. We’ve taken a look at best in the market to help you make the right choice.

Yep, there’s a day for that!

Unless you’ve been living in a cave, on a mountain, in a land, far, far away, you must have wondered just how many ‘National Awareness Days’ there really are! There are the ones where you shave your head. Others where you shave your moustache. Still others where you shave your… well, you get the idea. […]

Nine reasons you need to get rid of your lawn!

The view from my office door

I’ve been a ‘no-lawn’ advocate for at least the last 25 years. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, why do so many millions of us get out every weekend and mow our lawns? OK, if you’ve got young children, you’re excused for […]

NASA Offers Wealth of Educational Activities for Kids at Home

We may be gradually returning to ‘normal’ but the Omicron variant has made it abundantly clear that we could be back in isolation at the stroke of a pen. When the US Center for Disease Control first recommended that children refrain from going to school, what concerned parents most was educational substitution. They worried about […]

Our Guide to the Best Tea Tools and Accessories

The world consumed nearly 14 billion pounds of tea last year alone. The popular notion is that –save for water – people drink tea more than any other beverage on earth. In fact, tea is so popular that an entire industry of gadgets and styles has prospered around its consumption. Here’s a look at some of the best.

10 Home Security Tips for the Holiday Season…

Unfortunately, where-ever there are people, there is crime. And while most crime is opportunistic, the holiday season provides fertile ground for professional thieves and burglars. The last thing anyone wants (or needs) is to come home after a vacation to find their home ransacked. While you can’t guarantee your home is safe, you can minimise […]