As obvious as it sounds, many people don’t realize how important groundwater is to us. We use it for drinking, cooking, and washing at home; it’s also used by farmers, industries, and businesses in their daily operations. In fact, more than thirty percent of all U.K. residents get their tap water from a groundwater source. [...]

Walk into any clothing shop, food market, or department store and you’ll see row after row of various products for sale. Racks of clothing, shelves full of shoes, and shop counters stacked high with various items all display the vendor’s wares for hopefully approving customer eyes. As it turns out, what’s used to display retail [...]

Remember the 1980s? Stadium Rock was the music of the day; Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan made up the dynamic duo on the world’s political stage; and pastel colours combined with the “bigness” of fading ’70s fads dominated the fashion in the Decade of Excess. Well friends, fashion and cultural trends are cyclical and like [...]

The importance of lighting choices in a home is often overlooked during the construction or remodelling process. Yet the function and decorative attributes of lighting have a long lasting effect on the space where they are utilized. Lighting can create a mood or enhance an existing one, but is can also destroy it. So good [...]

With summer now upon us, it will seem like no time at all before we are being bombarded with Christmas gift ideas by the mass media. For many of us that will mean hours of anxious shopping to find the right type of toys to suit the multitude of needs a child has. Nowadays toys [...]

Trampolining is rapidly overtaking other forms of exercise as the fun and easy way to burn fat and tone the body. Having a garden trampoline means the entire family can jump to fitness and health in comfort and safety. Bouncing is low impact exercise which requires no special skills yet the benefits of trampolining are [...]

We all appreciate the importance of a comfortable bed to sleep in and this is usually one of our most expensive furniture items, but how many of us take the same time and effort in choosing a bed for our pet as we do for ourselves? As a recognised dog-loving nation, with over 10 million [...]

At the management level of an organisation, it’s very easy to get sucked into a cycle and spend all your time fighting fires, just to maintain the status quo. This comes completely at the expense of business development, an essential top-down process that requires management to drive it. In order to break this cycle, you [...]

Getting a decent night’s sleep, particularly if you suffer from back pain (which 80% of the UK’s population do at some time in their lives), sounds like an impossible dream. We’ve all known the misery of tossing and turning at night, trying to find a comfortable position, but we always seem more inclined to blame [...]

It seems we expect far more from our sunglasses than to simply shield our eyes from the sun. Sunglasses have become important fashion accessories – and they are no longer restricted to summer usage. With so many frames, styles and colour options to choose from, it is not easy to know where to begin in [...]