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The nights are drawing in…

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It was only a few weeks ago that we were enjoying an early autumn hot-spell, & had got the barbecue equipment out again. It hardly seems possible that the nights are drawing in so quickly, & that I’m sweeping leaves off the lawn as well as collecting apples…

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A clean sweep for the new season…

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After the latest patch of beautiful sunshine, and a surfeit of cakes’n’bakes, we strayed back into barbecue territory, using an old pot-bellied cast iron model we found in the garage, backed up with a few disposable bbq trays to take up the slack when needed…

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Grand Designs Live 2014 Birmingham – coming up…

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If you made it to the London show in May, you’ll know that Grand Designs Live is one of the most inspiring & ground-breaking exhibitions on the annual design calendar, so it’s great news that it’s returning for an extra day this October and will run for four days from 9th to 12th at Birmingham’s NEC.

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Bake overload…

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Is it wrong to be slightly underwhelmed by GBBO this time round? I think I have a bake overload. And since when did everyone refer to a cake of a plate of biscuits (not cookies) as a ‘bake’. Perhaps I’m over-egging the pudding a bit, but…

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Kitchen Before & After III

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This 1930’s semi-detached home provided the basis of a long over due update to the family kitchen. The current kitchen had been installed in the eighties; so much was required in the way of modernisation. The brief, apart from the structural requirements centred on…

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100% Design 2014 – a sneak preview…

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This year, London’s leading design show celebrates its 20th anniversary with an opening by Philippe Starck. Back to Earl’s Court from 17/20 September, 100% Design will be opened by the renowned International designer to coincide with the unveiling of Flexible Architecture…

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