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Your Most Overlooked Garden Asset

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Image Credit With Spring just around the corner, no doubt you’ll be thinking about getting your house and garden in shape. There are many aspects to a garden, yet one of the most integral is often overlooked. The importance of the common garden lawn is in many ways akin to the living room of your house; it’s where you’ll host barbecues and garden parties… play hide and seek… create fun waterslides… and all sorts of other fun summertime activities – yet it is often taken for granted.

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Winning the Battle against Writer’s Block – Blogging Isn’t a Walk in the Park

“All you do is just sit behind a computer all day, tapping away on your keyboard – it’s not hard.” – Sound familiar? Chances are, if you earn a living by working on a computer, someone has attempted to play down just how hard you actually work. “You don’t do any actual work.” “You’ve never done an honest day’s work before.” “How can you be tired? All you’ve done is sitting down all day.” No, all bloggers do is pull an idea out of thin air and write it down. Not to mention build up our websites, form a content …

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A Big Splash: Fantastic (And Not So Fantastic) Reasons To Get A Swimming Pool

Pixabay If you are looking for extreme ways to shake up your garden, a swimming pool has got to be the biggest change you would ever have! Of course, with a great swimming pool comes great responsibility. The first thing we all think of when a swimming pool comes to mind is long hot summers, lazing by the pool. And if you are anywhere in the vicinity of Lincolnshire, you know that long hot summers aren’t always the most dominant reason to have a swimming pool! But there are some fantastic reasons, and not so fantastic reasons to have one …

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Chicken & broccoli pasta bake | Recipe (Slimming World friendly)

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A pasta bake is a great staple meal for Slimming World members, and I’ve previously shared a few on the blog. This one doesn’t create much washing up as there is no pre-cooking on the hob of anything other than the pasta. It’s a “throw it all in, and sit back and wait” dish! I’ve used dried breadcrumbs to top this one instead of cheese; they add a bit of crunch. You could top it with cheese, too, if you like, using your healthy extra or synning it.

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