Make a good house a GREAT home
Some tips, tricks and suggestions for home improvement and interior decorating
Here’s a recipe for a Low GI salad that my wife is now making.
It’s great for lunch, and she says it can be made in advance, which is always cool. I have taken it to work in a lunchbox, so I can definitely say that it keeps.
This recipe serves 2 people, and goes down really well on a Saturday afternoon when you’re looking for a light, healthy meal.
So, South Africa is running short on power, and people are using Generators during load-shedding.
But did you know that generators can be dangerous if you’re not careful?
A few people have died already. Here’s a report of one death, and what you could do to prevent it.
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Have you heard of Jeff Dunham?
He’s a ventriloquist who I think is HILARIOUS! And, I believe everybody needs some laughter. So I thought I would share him with the rest of you. 😉
I recently bought 2 of Jeff Dunham’s DVDs:
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Mothers Day is almost here, and it looks like people are starting to search for Gift Ideas again.
This year (2008) we will be celebrating Mother’s Day on May 11th. If you ever need to know when mom’s special day is in South Africa, it’s always on the 2nd Sunday in May. Nice and easy, isn’t it? 🙂
I’d just like to remind everybody to go and check out my article on “Mothers Day Gift Ideas”
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I’m sure everybody’s sick of maggots!
Thanks to Julie, a reader who left a comment on the above post, we have this “definitive guide to getting rid of Maggots“.
She browsed for hours and hours and wrote a summary of what she has seen to be the most common resolutions to the problem of having maggots.
And with her permission, I’ve posted what she found. There is a lot of information to digest, so hopefully it proves helpful
And, if you’ve read the comments on the post about getting rid of maggots, you’ll know it’s a common problem. So use a solution from the list below, and know that you are not alone!
I previously wrote about how to make a sparkling energy drink with Energade and sparkling mineral water.
The problem with this is, you shouldn’t be drinking an energy drink like Energade as a normal, everyday drink, unless you’re doing a LOT of exercise.
It is SO high in energy that it can actually help you to put on weight!
A few dietitians have said that it’s actually healthier to drink Coke than Energade if you’re not replacing energy spent doing exercise.
So, here’s an alternative.
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PLEASE NOTE: This article is all about pruning roses during the growing season (or, dead heading roses). If you’re interested in reading more about pruning roses during winter/spring, visit this page to find out how to download a free eBook – NOTHING required from your side except to click download 🙂 : How to Prune Roses
If you’d like your Rose Bushes to grow and flower a little more than they are currently, I’m just going to tell you a little thing I learnt about where to prune my roses.
One of the keys to helping roses grow more “bushy” and flower more, is obviously to prune them, but also to prune them just above an “eye”.
In the photo below, the red arrow is pointing to the the eye on the rose stem (that has already been pruned):
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I saw the most amazing thing yesterday. A well-behaved domestic house cat.
Actually, it was still a kitten, but it was house-trained already.
Because the owners live in a complex, they didn’t want the kitten wandering off on it’s own. They don’t have their own garden, and they’re worried that it would get lost, considering they’d only had it a week. So they had trained it so that it would not leave the patio.
They also mentioned that the cat NEVER had any “accidents” on the carpet. They feed the kitten pellets every day, and the one day they decided to try soft food, it didn’t agree with the cat. And even though the kitten JUST made to the litterbox, that’s where he did his business.
This is another “get the frustration off my chest” type of article. It’s similar to my Coricraft articles in that this doesn’t benefit you, the reader, unless you were planning on using the company and wanted to know my experience with them.
This should actually be called: “How to make MY perfect cup of tea” because everybody likes their tea differently.
But I’ll tell you how I like my tea made, and you can decide whether it’s a good way to make tea.
