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Luxury Father’s Day Gift Ideas

Father’s Day this year falls on 18 June and Mr C has been dropping little hints on what he would like to have and what he might buy for himself! One of his luxury Father’s Day gift ideas is a new 4K TV!

Luxury Father’s Day Gift Ideas

Join the Hasbro HotSpot Community Awareness Program

Come and join the Hasbro HotSpot Community Awareness Program! Do you have a child aged 12 or younger? Do you like to voice your opinions on a private online community of Mums? If you have what it takes, then why not come and join in with this familiar leading brand in the toy, game and entertainment industry, Hasbro to serve as advisors to their brand.

Join the Hasbro HotSpot Community Awareness Program

Enjoy the Bank Holiday with a Motorhome Holiday

Bank holidays present the perfect opportunity to go somewhere new for a few days and escape your usual routine. With the extra day off, you can get involved in the great British staycation and enjoy a destination that you haven’t visited before. As tourism boards across the UK are reporting a record-breaking amount of bookings around the country, it might be time to explore what’s on your own doorstep instead of jetting off to more exotic climates.

Allowing you to enjoy the long weekend without any stressful travel plans, going away in your very own motorhome might be the solution to this year’s bank holiday getaway. As the staycation continues to remain popular, you have a number of breath-taking destinations to choose from right here in the UK. So, jump in your motorhome, turn the Sat Nav on and start exploring!

Enjoy the Bank Holiday with a Motorhome Holiday

How to Take Care of Your Plants in May

How to Take Care of Your Plants in May

May signals that we’re well and truly into spring, an exciting time for everyone as it means better weather is more frequent! We can finally say goodbye to the dark mornings and hopefully begin looking forward to pleasant weather to enjoy. For many people, spring also means you can start working in the garden again if you haven’t already.

Whether you’re an avid gardener, or you’re just looking forward to restoring your flowers after the cold winter weather, now is the time. Mary indicates the time of year when your garden can really come back to life, but not without some important jobs to complete first! If you’re wondering how to nurture your garden this month and into the rest of spring, let GetPotted.com help give you some guidance, from general garden maintenance to looking after your plants!

How to Take Care of Your Plants in May

5 Luxurious Gift Ideas for Mothers

Mother’s Day (countries like Australia, Canada and the United States etc) is coming up soon! Choosing the absolute perfect gift for mom can sometimes be a challenge because the gift must be perfect! What do you buy for someone who already has it all? Another set of jammies? Lotion or perfume? Mother’s tend to have a great deal of lotions, perfumes, pajama sets, and slippers. Chances are that your mom doesn’t need any more of that stuff. This article will provide five gift ideas that would be perfect to give to mom on Mother’s Day, her birthday, or any holiday for that matter.

Luxurious Gift Ideas for Mothers

How To Choose The Right Mattress

Choosing the right mattress for your specific situation and needs can be an extensive and downright exhausting task sometimes.

Choosing between the different types, firmness and fillings can be confusing and in the end you could be buying the completely wrong type of mattress. This can be quite harmful when you have a bad back or hip, with the wrong mattress this can only aggravate the situation.

How To Choose The Right Mattress

Designing Your Child’s Bedroom

Decorating and designing your child’s bedroom can be tricky. For one thing, they could easily turn around not long after it is done and have completely different interests. How do you get around this and how exactly can you decorate their room in the first places. Let’s take a look, shall we?

Designing Your Child’s Bedroom

3 creative ways to improve your bathroom for cheap

3 creative ways to improve your bathroom for cheap

Remodeling projects are exciting. They bring out your creative side and get you to come up with ideas on how to improve your home. Although a major concern is the amount that you have to spend, you can remodel and redesign even while on a budget. The bathroom, for example, is one of the rooms that you can improve without spending much.

Creative ways to improve your Bathroom

Top Gift Ideas for Your Loved Ones

Top Gift Ideas for Your Loved Ones

Spoiling your loved ones isn’t left to just special occasions such as Mother’s Day just past. Show your loved ones how much they mean to you by surprising them when they’re not expecting it with truly gorgeous gifts. When they’ve been there with you through your personal trials and tribulations, now’s your chance to say, ‘thank you’ with a gift perfect for them.

Top Gift Ideas for Your Loved Ones

6 Essentials That Can Be Found in Every Family Freezer

6 Essentials That Can Be Found in Every Family Freezer

Freezing food has so many benefits – you can keep perishable food longer, store leftovers, cook pre-prepared dishes straight from frozen and have stuff ready for those days when you just don’t fancy slaving over the stove. There are some staples that I always have in the freezer, like mince, fish fingers and bread, so I wanted to give you some ideas for those ingredients and side dishes that taste best from frozen.

6 Essentials That Can Be Found in Every Family Freezer

Injured? Acupuncture Can Help by Regenerating the Nerves

Injured? Acupuncture Can Help by Regenerating the Nerves

This is a special acknowledgement and thanks goes to Dr (TCM) John Tsagaris and his London acupuncture clinic for putting this article together for us.

Injuries – either sport-related or accidental – usually affect the lower limb (particularly the ankle and knee) and are commonly seen in the elderly or people with an outdoorsy lifestyle.
Injuries can be caused by trauma, as a result of sudden impact or unpredictable movement, or can develop over time often due to continual use of the same joints or muscle groups.

Injured Acupuncture Can Help by Regenerating the Nerves

Quick & Easy Book-Inspired Kids’ Costume Ideas

Quick and Easy Book-Inspired Kids’ Costume Ideas

We all know it’s good to get the kids into reading as early as possible, but when it comes to dressing-up parties and dress-down days like World Book Day they usually want to go as superheroes and princesses. Here are some book-inspired fancy dress costumes that are easy to put together and will inspire your kids to put their nose in a book.

Quick and Easy Book-Inspired Kids’ Costume IdeasqQuick and Easy Book-Inspired Kids’ Costume Ideas

Health and Safety at Work

Every worker, including telecommuters who work from home, are entitled to work in environments where risks to their health and safety are properly manage. Under the Health and Safety law, the primary responsibility for this is down to employers to do their assessments. Of course, as an employee, it is also your duty to report to your employers if you feel you or your colleagues’ health and safety is at risk.

health and safety at work

Add Value to your Home through Home Improvements

Home improvements can breathe new life into a property and ultimately add more value to your home in the long run. From building a new kitchen to a loft conversion, from changing bathroom to windows, undoubtedly it will give your home a new facelift.

Add Value to your Home through Home Improvements SAGA

Getting a Health Check before going on Holiday

Sometimes going on holiday can be very daunting. Many diseases are taking advantage of the boom in international travel and spreading far beyond boarders. If you remember the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in China 2002, that was a horrible outbreak of a virus that affected a number of the neighbouring countries, including Singapore for a year.

Getting a Health Check before going on Holiday

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