Site Update: April 23
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 | Author: admin |  Email This Article to a friend Email This Article to a friend


Starting today ‘Ask Auntie Flo’ articles will be appearing on the site with weekly household tips and tricks using more ‘old fashioned’ methods that should both save you money and help the environment.

Auntie Flo pulls out her (and her mother’s) book from the kitchen drawer to bring you old but good, common sense advice.

In today’s ‘just buy this product to save you time’ idea, we often forget that people from years ago had the same problems and could usually solve them with simple and cheap solutions.

Also, I have finished the Community Information section and added as many organisations and facilities as I could find. If you have a suggestion of something to add, please let me know by dropping me a note on the contact page.


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