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Maintenance Tips for Winter Decking*
With winter rapidly approaching, now is the perfect time to start preparing your garden and making sure it’s ready for the heavy weather conditions ahead. There are lots of perpetration that can be made throughout early autumn, but by this point you should be focusing on making sure every area of your garden is ready for the cold months that are to follow. By protecting your decking for winter and properly preparing it, you’ll find you save yourself time and money when the springtime comes around and you look to start using your decking again. The Right Time Choosing the right time to finish your garden maintenance for the winter…
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Making Goals for 2018*
There are only just over 6 weeks of 2017 left and this hasn’t been my best year with break ups, break downs and no Walt Disney World, it’s time to look forward to 2018 and hope (as I do every year) for a better year. In 2018 I will be turning 30. It doesn’t feel like 5 minutes since it was my 21st birthday but so much has happened in that last 9 years. First and foremost I became a mother, of course that was always in my plans but nearer my late 20s rather than early. I had few serious boyfriends and one terrible break up. I went to…
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Christmas Content // Top Tips for Staying Safe When Decorating for Christmas
Christmas is fast approaching and over the next few weeks you’ll start to see an influx of Christmas lights and decorations all around. There’s something truly magical about the run up to Christmas, especially when you have younger children involved! With all of the excitement of this wonderful time of year, however, there are some important things to consider keeping yourself safe during the preparation stages. Safe Tree Positioning Whilst it may seem like an obvious thing to consider, many people choose to position their Christmas trees in an area that looks good, without considering the potential risks that may be in that certain space. Take a quick risk assessment…
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Parenting Content // The Joy Of Moving Home With A Little One*
If you have a new little addition to the family, you are probably still bathing in the warm fuzzy feeling of being on cloud nine. Your gorgeous little bundle of joy is probably your sole focus at the moment, and you’re relishing everything that motherhood has to offer. However, on the horizon, you can see a challenging situation coming into view. Not so long ago you sold your property and bought yourself a new pad – one that is much more conducive to family living. Moving day is swiftly approaching, and you’re beginning to panic. You’ve only just got your little one into a sleep routine, he or she is…
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Wedding Content // The Wedding Industry: Online vs Offline*
It’s getting to the point now that so many people rarely do anything unless it’s “Instagram worthy” from life announcements, to decorating and even what their kids wear. We’re all becoming more and more reliant on the digital world and how we’re perceived in it. In the past, organising a wedding has always been something you do in person. From viewing the venue, to trying on the gown and tasting that cake, it wasn’t something you could do over the Internet. However, is that about to change? Over the last year about 87% of UK consumers have bought at least one thing online, and a large proportion buy everything online…
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Attracting and Retaining Tenants*
What is better: to keep your existing tenants or find new ones? It depends on the situation, but you should target both, and not just focus on one of them. That being said, it cannot be denied that keeping an existing tenant is less work and less stressful but what if your tenant isn’t the ideal one? So at some point, you do have to find new tenants. And once you do, you’ll want the good ones to stay so that your income stream is maintained. But the problem is that you have no idea how to rent out your house, attract quality tenants and then make them stay. Finding…
