Sue Perkins` advice for a family life less complicated in 2012
Sue has all the answers you need to de-complicate Britain`s families in 2012. Watch our video to see her unusual suggestions to make life less complicated for parents by getting the kids ready for school in record time.
How To Recycle Used Stamps
Where can you recycle all the stamps that you collected from your christmas cards? Remember the Blue Peter Stamp Appeals? They began as far back as 1962! We saved and sent but how about now?
Many of us will associate collecting used stamps with Guide Dogs. Sadly GuideDogs.org.uk phased this out in 2007 as they no longer found it a cost effective way to raise funds.
Click here to read which charities accept stamps and how to forward stamps to them plus learn what happens to all the stamps collected.
New Years Resolutions & Traditions
A New Year's Resolution is a commitment by an individual to make or break life changing habit.
The most common ones being:- Lose weight, Stop smoking, stop drinking and pay off debts
New Years Day began to be celebrated in England In 1752, but it was not until January 1974 that it became a Bank Holiday.
Where to Re-cycle Your Christmas Cards and More?
The website How Can I Recycle This ? has a whole host of interesting ideas on how to recycle advent calendars to broken fairy lights.
Layering up and shaking the moths from our winter coats aren`t the only things we should be considering right now! As high winds, ground frost, hail and even snow on high ground are expected to hit the UK in the coming weeks, some rural areas have already experienced below-zero temperatures.
Analysis suggests that, on current trends, there could be 4.6 million breakdowns over the winter months as we potentially face a cold winter with some warning of snow in November.
Listen to our podcast with Steve Herbert from HomeServe as he runs through his suggestions as to what we should be doing to save ourselves money and inconvenience.
Layering up and shaking the moths from our winter coats aren`t the only things we should be considering right now! As high winds, ground frost, hail and even snow on high ground are expected to hit the UK in the coming weeks, some rural areas have already experienced below-zero temperatures.