If you live in Bletchley, Milton Keynes or anywhere nearby and you’re looking for a good, honest, family-run garage to get your car serviced then I suggest look look no further than Milton Keynes Tyre and Brake (MKT&B).
Every single time I’ve used the garage to get work done they’ve ended up charging me less than [...]

Updated: 25th November
We’ve got two wireless phones in our house that receive a signal from a central pod from the master BT point. The phones work fine, except when stood in certain areas of the house. In these peculiar areas we get a buzzing noise in the phone. I’ve no idea why this is. Anyone [...]

Trap them little critters good: Trapawasp.co.uk. Seems like the logical solution. Less fun than chopping them in half with a sharp knife whilst airborn like my friend Harry Deans or indeed decapitating them and watching their bodies (and stings) live on in spasm. But don’t forget: Wasps do a great deal of help in the [...]

We are unfortunate enough to have a microbore central heating system. For a plumbing simpleton like myself this complex system serves up a few headaches when I need to remove radiators for decorating. Microbore is supposed to be quite an efficient system that reduces heat loss through pipework but it also lends itself to pipe [...]

Here’s a splendid UK retailer of Bamboo. So many to choose from, so little time to choose…

I feel I’m not alone in thinking that there’s a plot afoot to make black sound and vision products like TVs and Hi-F’s obsolete. Everything seems to be available these days but only in silver. You can get flat screens, wide screens, cinema screens and plasma screens but try getting one with a black shell. [...]

So, the wall is down and we’ve got one huge open-plan space. The woodchip is off the walls and the carpets are ready to be pulled up and the skirting board wrenched off the wall.
Now, here’s the million pound question: laminate/wood or carpet flooring?
I kind of see the benefits of both but want [...]

The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) helps you to make sure your telephone number is no longer available to organisations who may telephone you with offers and information you do not wish to receive.
Praise the lord for this service. Bye bye Anglian Windows!
A “Please note” message from their site:
Please note that it will take up to [...]

This article follows on from the hugely popular Anglian Windows: Sales Tactics post.
Have you had any good/bad experiences with UK double glazing companies?
Please comment on your good and bad experiences with Anglian Windows, Zenith Windows, Coldseal, Everest and indeed any other double glazing sales company. Comments on this post may be edited for [...]

For a public service corporation the BBC (beeb) don’t exactly make their web access particularly easy! Anyway, incase you’re hunting for the settings for your beeb.net account (as my mum is), I’ve provided some info below�

Visit www.beeb.net and look towards the top of the screen for the horizontal nav bar (a left to right bullett [...]