One of the best things about the Net has to be the way you can get such good tips from so many people. I’m really impressed by some of the tips and ideas on our messageboards – some great answers to really good questions there – and there are lots of other forums with helpful [...]
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Buildings insurance is an essential for home-owners. If you have a mortgage your loan company will insist that you take it [...]
Great to be on The Wright Stuff on Channel Five again yesterday talking about ways that people can make a bit of money. Complete with suitcase – we discussed how you can buy lost luggage at auction if you’re feeling lucky – and maybe sell on the proceeds. It was the subject of a popular [...]
Stay cosy for less over the winter
Get some exercise and have fun at the same time
Host a movie night
Great recipe ideas
Going out on a budget in winter
Keeping cosy
Weather experts are predicting the chilliest weather in more than a decade in the coming months (although they predicted that last year too). Keeping warm is really [...]
You know I love to use up old jars and tins of things, and half-eaten packets of lentils/ pulses just coming up to (or even past?) their sell-by date. Hey, don’t knock it -I’ve made some great dishes this way. And I get huge satisfaction from not wasting food. Sometimes I make a whole recipe or dinner [...]
We’re indebted to the cookery writer Janet Macdonald for today’s recipe. I went to interview her for a TV report (wearing my other hat) about “things to do with pumpkins on Halloween if you’re not going to carve them into faces”. My editor didn’t want it to be a cookery piece though. Well, if you’re not [...]
You can get free accommodation with all sort of jobs. Thousands of employers up and down the country need staff to live on site. Some of them offer really impressive places to live; others just offer you your own room in someone else’s home. Here are some of the jobs to look at if you [...]
