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 Find the perfect cards…. But hurry! If you don’t already have a favourite charity, try the Combined Charities Christmas Shop at http://www.christmas-cards.org.uk/ for ideas. Your Count-down dates to Christmas might include: –  30th Nov – 4th Dec:  Write your Christmas cards. Start with the ‘must-sends’ first, so the pressure eases off. Draw up your Christmas...

Final posting dates for the UK this Christmas are as follows:  – Friday 16th December: Royal Mail Bulk Mail Economy – Monday 19th December: 2nd Class – Wednesday 21st December: 1st Class – Thursday 22nd December:  Special Delivery Guaranteed & Royal Mail Tracked 24 – Friday 23rd December: Special Delivery Guaranteed with Saturday Guarantee

The temperatures are dropping now, and if you are going away for Christmas, it is a good idea to nurture your car battery. Cold, damp weather can cause problems for it. The RAC recommends the following to take best care of your battery: Before you switch off your engine at the end of a journey,...

Do you expect to like all the presents you will receive this year?  Not if last year was anything to go by! In fact, it seems that more than two-thirds of us expect that we will unwrap at least one item that we do not like this Christmas. What do you do with those weird...

The amount of sleep you get each night can have a huge impact on your health. A recent study has found that middle-aged people need at least seven hours a night. This reduces their risk of developing various serious health conditions including cancer, diabetes, and arthritis. This contrasts with the effect of having only five...

If you live with a cat, you will know the scenario: it is late at night and you want to go to bed, but the cat is sitting maddeningly just out of reach on the garden path. You keep calling ‘kitty kitty’ in your sweetest tones, and in response the cat twitches an ear –...

Short naps in the daytime are very good for your young child.  They can be key to allowing their young brain to fully develop. According to a recent study, the part of the brain that processes memories, the hippocampus, is underdeveloped in children. Taking a nap will help them, as their immature hippocampus quickly reaches...

Holding a fireworks party on Bonfire Night?  Make a bird nut ball Organise a wine tasting this autumn Help your hedgehogs this autumn Coffee is good for you Working best from where? Has covid changed your personality? Freeze your leftover food, advises Sainsburys Entertaining at home is making a comeback Do you still cook Sunday...

Autumn bazaar law Forgive the wasps A very modern problem with driving after dark Why walking a small dog may win a woman’s heart Nurseries under threat One reason for heavier flooding in suburbia and urban areas ‘Ban car sat navs in lorries to stop them getting stuck One in five puppies ‘falling ill or...

‘… from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales… and it was distributed to anyone who had need…’ Acts 4:33-35 Imagine someone in your church is ‘decluttering’ their home, and soon fills up a box with unwanted items. Then they offer it to you, to...

Chances are that you were irritated by wasps this summer – there were a lot of them about. But did you know what they were really looking for? According to Prof Seirian Sumner, a behavioural ecologist and entomologist at University College London, we should try to “understand what wasps want, and what they’re doing at...

Men who walk small dogs are seen as less threatening to women than men who walk large or even medium sized dogs. Using cute little dogs to appeal to women is a well-known tactic on dating apps, but now scientists at the University of Jaen in Spain have found that even just walking a small...