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Holiday home owners encouraged to make regular checks during severe weather

Authored by Boshers
Posted: Fri, 02/14/2014 - 9:21am

Holiday home insurance specialists Boshers are highlighting the importance of property owners making regular checks on their homes.

The advice comes with more severe weather forecast and with the first school half term of the year bringing visitors in to those areas already affected by extreme wind and flooding.

Mark Lavington, Director at Boshers Ltd explained; “With many holiday home owners living away from their properties it is vital that they are regularly checked in order to proactively deal with any potential damage from the weather. Identifying issues and damage to...

Why can't we have it all?

Authored by Lucie Simic
Posted: Thu, 10/11/2012 - 4:18pm

I read another depressing article in the Daily Mail Online about how women ‘can’t have it all’ when it comes to career and motherhood. I find this kind of article the worst, probably worse than seeing the streams of airbrushed models strewn across the pages of glossy magazines, beacaue I know that is unrealistic…I am old enough and wise enough to know what ‘real’ women’s bodies look like, but there is nothing more crushing, or more negative to portray, than telling women they simply can’t ‘have it all’.

Firstly, what is ‘having it all’?? This itself is confusing, because one of the...

Shades of Autumn - great ideas for your home

Authored by Babs Walker
Posted: Mon, 10/01/2012 - 10:40am

As we settle in to the autumn and Halloween is just round the corner I start thinking about making my home look and feel cosy. It’s all about the finishing touches, be inspired by the colours of the season, warm blackberry, golden orange and green. Add some new cushions to you room or a beautiful throw in fabulous textures. Mix them up, be bold, use silk alongside chunky knit wools, it will give your space a wonderful warm glow. And, when it comes to Halloween why not brings some twigs in from the garden and dress them with Halloween-inspired decorations, pumpkins and spooky ghosts it will...

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