Carddies Card People Review

Carddies are little cardboard people with scenes that you colour and keep. They quickly become a little girl’s best friend as you can take them wherever you go. Poppy adores her Carddies while Percy has already pinched a few naming them little sister, big brother and Ben and Holly. RRP £8.99 You can find them here: CARDDIES FAMILY 1 – …

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Recipe: Sausage Casserole with Parsley Dumplings

This sausage casserole is full of vegetables to keep the winter cold at bay! Made with thick butchers’ sausages, and allowed to slowly cook in a tagine or casserole dish, sausage casserole is a hearty, traditional meal for all the family. Servings: 2/3 people Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 2 hours Ingredients  8 butchers sausage 500g leeks 1/2 pint …

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Recipe: Popcorn Chicken Nuggets

If you’re not already familiar with popcorn chicken nuggets, this recipe is very similar to southern fried chicken or buttermilk chicken. This recipe is for one person so can be handily scaled depending on how many mouths you have to feed. FLOUR MIX 100g                flour 15g                  black mustard seeds 15g                  white mustard seeds 5g                    smoked paprika 5g                    celery salt 5g                    white …

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Heston Blumenthal Precision Scales Review

Usually when kitchen appliances and digital displays combine there’s frustration as everyone must learn how to use the new device (or maybe at The Consumer Voice Towers we’re just a bit thick!). Anyhow, these scales were ready to use in a jiffy. Easy to use your own bowl without weighing it and doing complicated sums, quite simply genius. Love it. …

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Stewart Variable Propagator Review

Our Stewart Variable Propagator review is complimentary as it allows plants to be started any time of the year without the need for a greenhouse. Generously sized we can’t wait to give our annuals a head start. Right now we’re using it for year round mediterranean herbs. A bit of basil, a touch of coriander and a little bit of thyme. …

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How Have Your Consumer Rights Changed with New Law?

Consumer Rights Act 2015 came into force on 1 October so how have your consumer rights changed? Eight pieces of legislation streamlined into one Making the law simpler for businesses and consumers Consumers downloading music or buying ebooks are today being given new legal rights. Responding to the surge in the number of consumers buying digital content, the Consumer Rights …

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European Court of Justice rules on airline delay compensation

  The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that airline passengers can claim compensation for delays caused by technical faults. In October 2014 the Supreme Court ruled that consumers had six years to claim compensation for delays and upheld the ruling that technical difficulties are not ‘extraordinary circumstances’ for the purposes of a compensation claim. The Dutch airline KLM …

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Tips for Eye Health on National Eye Health Awareness Week

National Eye Health Week takes place on 21 – 27 September 2015 and aims to make people more aware of how to prevent eye problems. Eye care charities, organisations and health professionals from across the UK are joining together to promote the importance of eye health and the need for regular sight tests for all. National Eye Health Week has been established to communicate …

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Half of British Parents Dread Taking Their Children to Their Grandparents’ Homes

A new study from the UK’s leading money-saving brand has revealed the top locations that British parents dread taking their children, with events such as weddings, christenings and even grandparents homes topping the list. According to the poll, 61% of parents admit that their children’s mood sometimes plays a deciding factor in whether or not they will go out. According …

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Top Tips to Avoid Writers Block

If you write for a living then writer’s block is something to be avoided at all costs. Yet with the pressure of constantly creating ideas sometimes the well can dry up. Luckily, the productivity website Stop Procrastinating conducted a survey with 2000 writers to find out what techniques they use to beat writer’s block. The 25 techniques they writers came …

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