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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. |
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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 |
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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
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