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		<title>Grow Sow Simple – Grow your Own the Easy (&#038; Sustainable) Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With spring on the way soon here is a great idea to make growing your own veg simple and easy. Grow Sow Simple make clever little biodegradable pods which all you have to do is push them into your pot or bed and water. Before long you will have wonderful homegrown veg coming your way! [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Great DIY Doctor Amazon Tape Debacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2021 11:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the past months we have been receiving calls regarding &#8220;our DIY Doctor&#8221; carpet tape and the fact that many users have found that it has left a sticky residue on carpets once removed that is extremely hard to get off and in some cases cannot be removed ultimately ruining the carpet in question! We [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>England Changes Laws on Burning Wet Wood and Coal to Improve Air Quality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2021 11:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hopefully we won&#8217;t need to be thinking of having fires for much longer this year, but did you know that the laws have changed over the burning of wood? In England new restrictions on burning coal and wood mean that anyone with a stove or open fire must burn cleaner alternatives. These forms of heating [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Havoc in the Housing Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The housing market seems to be generating conflicting signals which makes it very difficult to understand what is happening for anyone who is not an expert, but simply wants to buy or sell a property. On one hand the papers are reporting that record prices are being reached particularly in some of the areas with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Half of us Never Want to Move Again and Will Create the Perfect Home Ourselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2020 08:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We are all looking for the perfect home – but some of us are prepared to work at the imperfect one we have to get there. According to a new survey by Pilkington it takes approximately &#163;26,000 of renovations to achieve the &#8220;perfect&#8221; home after moving in, and it takes on average five years after [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gardening, DIY and Home Bars are what we are spending our money on this year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2020 13:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With us being restricted to our homes and gardens (if we are lucky enough to have them) during lockdown, banks and credit card companies have been surveying what we spent our money on, or intend to spend it on this year. Home bar in garden &#8211; Image courtesy of shedblog.co.uk According to an American Express [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>9 Stages of Painting a Casement Window</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2020 09:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Working in a logical order will help you get a professional paint job when painting casement windows. If you have Upvc windows you won&#8217;t need to paint them, but timber windows need painting periodically to protect them from the elements. This guide assumes you know about preparing woodwork for painting, but there are lots of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The DIY Doctor Solution for Working With Tradesman and Avoiding Cowboy Builders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You have just bought a new car as part of your two-part life plan. You&#8217;ve been saving for years, researched just about every car on the market and test-driven 16! You plumped for a 4-wheel drive family people carrier. It cost &#163;26,000. It came with free servicing for 4 years and is taxed for a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Saving Money on a new kitchen &#8211; Tips and ideas from the Professionals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2020 12:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If your budget is tight – or you just like to be economical – you can make easy savings on your new kitchen without compromising on style, or having to go for the cheapest units on the market. The best way to save money on your new kitchen is to spend the time planning so [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>DIY Rope Screen &#8211; Using Rope in Unusual Screen Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2019 11:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A rope screen is a relatively easy way to create a partition between rooms or areas of a room. Rope screens can be simple or complex, colourful or made utilising the variey of naturial colours in the materials you use. Rope screens can be used inside or outside, or between the house and garden depending [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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