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Posted: 4 Years ago by Emma Friedman, The Builder

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Garden to go An idea came to me the other day as I was pondering dejectedly over our sandy, brick-strewn, cement-stained patch of garden to be. What if you could order a pre-designed ready to go garden in the same way that you could order a Happy Meal?

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Posted: 4 Years ago by Josephine Doueihi, The Renovator

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Diary of a new laundry

I'd been waiting a long, long time for my brother to come and finish off my laundry - a year in total. Finally he'd agreed to come and do it over the Christmas break.

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Posted: 4 Years ago by Leo Schofield, Leo at Large

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Queen of the Night It's a rather undistinguished looking climbing cactus from South America but it has one of the strangest and most beautiful flowers known.

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Posted: 4 Years ago by Emma Friedman, The Builder

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Cooling off To me, refrigerated air conditioning means the cinema, an Indian restaurant or a supermarket (where supposedly the feeling of cold encourages us to buy more). It means planes, trains and airports. It is not my house.

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Posted: 4 Years ago by Leo Schofield, Leo at Large

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Restaurant noise City dwellers have become so inured to noise that they don't even notice it any more. We awake to the sound of garbage trucks roaring by, bottles for recycling being tipped into bins at six in the morning and the scream of sirens.

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Posted: 4 Years ago by Lish Fejer, Going Green

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The daily dilemma After washing your hands in a public bathroom, what is the most planet-friendly way to dry your hands - hand-dryer or paper towel? Which has a lower environmental handprint?

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Posted: 4 Years ago by Elle Lovelock, Style Scout

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In the frame Do you have a bare wall in your home that is in desperate need of some decoration, but you're currently lacking inspiration (and budget)? I did. It was a space that I'd been umming and aahing over for almost a year.

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Posted: 4 Years ago by Emma Friedman, The Builder

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The cold war My mum asked me recently what I would like put aside for me in her will. I replied instinctively. "Um, maybe the rug I love by the fire". She laughed. "Why on earth do you want that old thing?" she said. "For the memories I suppose" I replied.

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Posted: 4 Years ago by Lish Fejer, Going Green

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Happy new gear! Did you set yourself some fabulously cleansing resolution for 2009? Every year I resolve to do more than I dream... and tidy my room. This year it was getting back on my bike.

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Posted: 4 Years ago by Leo Schofield, Leo at Large

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A frangipani summer This has been a great summer for frangipanis. Specimens in areas where this rewarding flowering tree flourishes have put forth sumptuous flower heads and it seems that there is now a greater variety of colours than ever before.

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