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Anglian Home improvements for UK home owners

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Chris and I have been working on our own home renovation pretty much since the day we moved into our home 6 years ago. Frankly I’m getting tired of constantly being in a state of renovation and at the point where I’m almost ready to hire a company to finish what we’ve started.

If you happen to live in the UK and you are interested in renovating your home, or perhaps you’re like my husband and I and you’re ready to give up on your DIY home reno you might want to visit the Anglian Home improvements website.

Anglian has been in business for more than thirty six years and they have become renowned for their high quality home improvements.

Check out their Conservatory page to see the lovely work they’ve done creating conservatories in some of their past projects. They’re just lovely.

Anglian can help you with your home improvement project whether it’s a kitchen upgrade or a whole new door or front window. Visit their site and see what they can do for you.





It feels like I’m walking on a toothache …

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Well guess what? I got my gardening done. Or pretty much done.

Chris was puttering around outside yesterday evening. He was supposed to be doing one small thing then he was going to come back inside let me know he was done and then we’d go out and start working on putting compost and mulch down on the garden beds.

Well he puttered for two hours and by the time he finally came back inside it was at least 8 pm. So that’s when I went out and started working in the garden.

We returned inside at 3:30 am!

Yes I am a midnight gardener. Yes I am an extreme gardener.

The only problem was that when I took my shoe off I could barely walk on my left foot. It felt like what I’d assume walking on a toothache would feel like. Every step brought tears to my eyes.

Remember I said I’d injured both my feet in the past and that I thought the humidity was finally making them ache? Broken bones, sprains, strains and oh yeah a torn posterior tibialis tendon count as some of the past injuries. So the foot that was hurting like it’s never hurt before was the one that had had the torn tendon a few years ago. That was a gardening accident from overuse! I literally ripped the tendon while planting roses for 14 hours and didn’t know how bad I’d hurt myself until two days later!

My back hurts too … and yeah my stomach/abdomen is still aching as well.

Who says gardening is passive???

I guess you could say I’m a lump of pain today.

But the gardens done!

Thoof is a great way to gain visitors to your site and measure your posts popularity

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Have you joined Thoof.com yet? It’s a site where you can go to read news articles, view photographs and videos and or posts from websites and blogs.

Members may submit their stories to Thoof when they’ve created a post that they’d like to share with the world.

Submitting your stories is actually a great way to drive traffic to your site. I know a number of bloggers who have been using Thoof regularly since they discovered it, and they’ve said that they get new visitors every day. There’s even a Thoofit button that you can drag to your bookmarks that makes it even easier to submit a story or article that interests you from any site on the web. You can find that button on the submit it page.

What’s more, when you visit Thoof and search for a particular type of story, photo or video the site will remember the choices that you’ve made so that the next time that you visit stories, photos and videos of a similar nature will be on the front page when you sign in. In this way Thoof can become your own personalized news site.

Thoof has recently added a new feature to their site. When you submit a story you’ll get a ThoofRank badge that you can add to your site. This badge will measure your stories popularity on Thoof.

I think this is a great idea. Other than looking at our sites stats or how many comments we get on a particular post we have very few ways to measure the popularity of the various posts we create. Now, when you submit a story to Thoof and use the ThoofRank badge you’ll have another way to measure how interesting your story is to others.

I think I’m going to start using Thoof more often. I mean other bloggers have said they are getting traffic to their site from the stories they’ve submitted and they’ve also said they like the stories they are reading on the site. It’s a great way to keep up with other bloggers.

I’ll start by submitting this story. It’ll also be a great way to test out the new ThoofRank badge. I wonder just how popular this story might be?

So who’s going to join me at Thoof?

Funny spam

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Do you ever get spam email that makes you laugh? I’ve always got quite a bit of spam, probably as a result of the mailing lists I run and my website that’s been online for 12 years, but lately I’ve been getting all kinds of spam for sexual supplements.

I’m not going to mention the products by name as it will probably end up bringing more spam to this blog – like I need any more! I’m sure you’ve probably been getting this spam too though.

It’s basically stories about how someone had an accident and it destroyed their sex life until they found such and such a product. I think the stories are funny.

Have you been getting this kind of spam or other types that make you laugh because it’s so ridiculous?

Visit Taps4Less if you are updating or renovating your bathroom

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If you are renovating or updating your bathroom you should take a moment to visit a site called Taps4Less.com. They specialize in the sale of Taps and all kinds of bathroom related items such as bathroom furniture, bathroom accessories, showers, electric showers, cabinets, bathtubs, shower enclosures and many more items.

Being both a nurse and gardener I’m partial to taps that have lever handles so that you can turn them on and off as well as adjust the flow and temperature of the water using your wrist. I’ve never thought about using an electric tap in our home, but it would accomplish the same goal.

I was pleased to note that Taps4Less.com has several of the lever handle type of taps that I like as well as a great variety of other tap styles and bathroom accessories.

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you know I’m planning on renovating our tiny upstairs bathroom sometime in the near future. So we’re looking at all kinds of bathroom furnishings and accessories as we plan our reno. We still haven’t decided if we’ll expand the bathroom or leave it the way it is. If we leave it the size that it is we need a small sink and or bathroom cabinet.

Taps4Less.com definitely has some small cabinets that would fit perfectly into our current bathroom. I’m pleased to see that of course since it can be hard to find small cabinets. I really like their Reflections: Taunton complete wall hung basin set. It’s a large ceramic basin that sits on a tiny cabinet that’s more shelf than cabinet except for the fact that it has two small drawers. The set also comes with a free standing cabinet in black and white with chrome legs. It’s very modern and I just love the look.

As I said, if you are looking to update your bathroom take a look at the items at Taps4Less.com. I’m fairly certain that you’ll find some things that would suit your personal style. The prices also appear to be reasonable as well.

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