Homes & Gardens

Top tips to maintain your well-being whilst working from home

WFH tips to help maintain your wellbeing during December

Ezra , one of the leading global providers of digital coaching, has revealed some of their top tips on maintaining and maximising professional and personal wellbeing during December, as the latest tier restrictions keep many working from home with the additional stress of the looming Christmas period.

Working from home can be great but it can also blur the lines between personal and...

Research shows that cat and dog owners said their pet had been a lifeline throughout lockdown

Pets will be the only companion for millions of people this Christmas

Millions of people in the UK may be completely reliant on their pets for companionship  this Christmas, according to research from vet charity PDSA.

Off the back of findings from the annual PDSA Animal Wellbeing (PAW) Report, PDSA is warning that the financial impact of the Covid-19 crisis in the UK means that the enormous benefits pets bring to their owners is being put at risk. The...

Radiator maintenance was googled most for home improvements

UK homeowners’ most Googled DIY questions in 2020

The UK has always been a nation of do-it-yourself, and this year more than ever - with two national lockdowns and limited access for professional tradespeople - people have had to carry out quick fixes around the home independently.

Thankfully, basic home improvement skills can be taught and learnt by simply typing the issue into Google. So to see where homeowners have struggled the...

Lockdown saw an increase in seed sales

The UK gets a Taste for a Self-Sustained Lifestyle in Lockdown

When the first lockdown limited our ability to leave home and increased shortages in the supermarkets, the UK public had their eyes opened to nature and its abundance.

Between March 23rd and July 4th 2020 Suttons, the long-established supplier of seeds, bulbs, and other horticultural products, saw record numbers of customers purchasing seeds; the top performing being beans, with a...

Fleas can thrive in warm temperatures when the heating is on

Think your dog can only get fleas in the summer?

Switching on the central heating creates the perfect breeding ground for winter parasites — and it’s not just your pets who could suffer.

The Itch-Festation Report from dog food company tails.com has found that the warmer the temperature, the faster flea eggs develop into adults. At a cool 13C, it could take a flea egg 140 days to hatch, but when temperatures hit the mid-twenties (or...

More of us are turning to loungewear

Six in Ten People Admit to Buying New Loungewear Last Month

Loungewear has been the proven stand out trend for 2020, with searches for the term up 162% YOY! Joggers, oversized sweaters, velour co-ords, fleece sweatshirts. These used to be the clothes we only changed into after work and wouldn’t dream of wearing to a meeting or on a date – BUT NOT ANYMORE. With 6 in 10 admitting to buying new loungewear in the last month alone , the UK’s leading...

The fastest and slowest broadband speeds

UK's worst street for broadband is 5,330 times slower than the fastest

The slowest broadband in the UK, with an average download speed of 0.12Mbps, is found in Queens Road, Weybridge in Surrey, according to analysis of a record-breaking 398,973 consumer speed tests collated by Uswitch.com , the comparison and switching service.

Sluggish-paced Queens Road is a staggering 5,330 times slower than the UK’s fastest street, Dale Lane in Appleton, Cheshire,...

5 services to make your life easier

From cleaning to cooking up a nutritious dinner, sometimes these tasks simply take up your free time and require energy that you might not have. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by household chores as you try to balance a busy career or other commitments in life, perhaps trying these five services will help to lighten the load?

  1. Domestic Cleaners

No matter how hard...

Our living rooms are the most Instagrammed rooms

2020’s Most Instagrammed Rooms Revealed

The months of lockdown and increased time spent indoors has prompted a significant rise in the number of people searching for and posting pictures of interiors online. New research into the trend has revealed that our living rooms are the most Instagrammed rooms, with more people sharing images of this ‘hub of the home’ than any other.

In fact, 41 percent of all images uploaded of UK...

Four ways to give your home some TLC

After spending many a month inside this year, like us, you have probably spotted more and more things in your home that you would like to change or sort out. If you have spent majority of lockdown pottering about your home and garden, we wouldn’t be surprised if you are beginning to run out of things to fix and sort! But fear not, for we have created a helpful list of some jobs in your home...

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