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Home and Garden
CONTENTS
Moving home and settling in
Kit out your Kitchen
Great time-saving essentials for your kitchen.
Food safety
Safety in the home
Enjoying your garden
Outdoor safety
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Home and Garden
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Click here for our special section all about
MOVING HOME
including how to choose or create
an energy-saving home

There are so many fascinating websites covering home and garden issues. When you are busy looking after a child, there isn't much energy left over for thinking about enjoying your garden or DIY - but check out the Motherwise links and see if you don't feel inspired (for later!)

Check out also our extensive essential guides to safety checks in the home, on the road and in the garden

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Want to DIY?
Make it safe.
 
 
Did you know that children can suffer from lead poisoning when you decorate? This 18 page booklet on Safe decorating (.pdf) has all you need to minimize the risks.

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Natty on-line calculators to work out how much paint or wallpaper or material you'll need - for curtains, carpets, walls, etc.

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What clever chaps at B&Q to have acquired the DIY domain name at www.diy.co.uk - but if you're into serious DIY then you need Screwfix, specialists in direct-to-customer sales for over 30 years.

Sure they have screws but they have everything else you could think of, too - and all at Trade prices for next day delivery (including weekends and free for orders over £45).

Their website is DIY heaven (and quite an educationn - you can even buy your own emergency generator!

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But for something with a designer edge - click here for Victoria Plumb's blissful baths!


 
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Great Dane Siamese Mongrel Moggy
Direct Line £20.19 £9.34 £13.61 £7.31
Marks & Spencer £17.01 £9.17 £12.01 £9.17
More Th>n £14.49 £9.99 £14.99 £9.99
Pet Plan £24.15 £8.50 £14.70 £7.75
Pet Protect £48.12 £13.81 £26.43 £12.29
Healthy Pets £17.40 £7.35 £10.40 £6.25
 
 
The table is from the Money Insurance section of the Sunday Telegraph October 6 2002. Quote assumes each animal is seven years old and lives in the Home Counties

Healthy Pets premiums were not featured but were added as a comparison.

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It's National Pet Week
1-9 May 2004
National Pet Week is here to promote responsible pet ownership, and reinforce the value of animal/people relationships.
Puddle Pet Care, Click here!
Try this family-run business for all your pet's needs.
pet planet
If you have pets, you'll know how expensive vet bills are
PetPlan was founded in 1976 by pet-owner Patsy Bloom when she discovered the high cost of veterinary care.

She developed a totally new concept of private animal health insurance and was feted as the Veuve Cliquot Businesswoman of the Year.

Cornhill Insurance - the company that had underwritten Petplan's policies - bought the business in 1996.

Patsy stays involved through the Petplan Charitable Trust which she also founded
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You can compare pet insurance premiums here

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