There is a shortage of houses across England and Wales. This continued lack of housing has driven house prices up to record levels, with more people being pushed out of the housing market and forced to rent. There have been ten months of consecutive decline in the number of houses listed by estate agents across the country, with an average 21% decline. The county of Gloucestershire has experienced a record fall. Continue reading Gloucestershire housing shortage continues to drive up prices →

We’ve all seen the signs on the doors to malls and restaurants telling us that no animals are allowed other than service animals. Some specify simply “service dogs” while others are more generic. Then we invariably see people inside who are disabled or obviously having difficulties. Do you ever wonder why those people aren’t using a service animal to help them? Could it be they don’t know where to go to get that sort of assistance? Continue reading These Great Charities Provide Service Animals to the Disabled →

Computers have only been around for a relatively short time, and yet already it seems impossible to imagine quite how we managed without them. For the new generation of teenagers, a world without the ability to contact your peers at all times of the day and night via smartphones and tablets seems positively archaic, and yet these devices have only been with us for a few years. Continue reading Could Membership Management Software Transform Your Organisation? →

If you are struggling with rapidly rising energy bills, the chances are you’ll be highly motivated to find ways to lower them! Happily, it’s easy to see the impact of frugal measures with your energy usage. Let’s take a look at five quick wins: Continue reading Soaring energy bills? Five ways to cut your costs →

Tenerife is the biggest of the Canary Islands and the most populous of all the Spanish islands. It is also one of Spain’s premier tourist destinations. Stunning beaches, Spain’s famous warm climate and breathtaking scenery make Tenerife into an absolutely wonderful place for a getaway. Continue reading Why It Could Be the Right Time for a Holiday Home in Tenerife →

London’s property market has started the new year in the same fashion as it ended 2015: dominating the business news. Halifax, Britain’s largest mortgage lender, confirmed in February that house prices and sales continue to rise sharply in the capital, where the average asking price for a residence has reached an astonishing £643,843. Continue reading Hot home staging techniques for moving that London property →

In a world where consumers are presented with an ever-expanding number of choices about the products and services they make use of, quality matters like never before. Products that fail to work as promised are quickly discarded and, even if these problems are fixed at a later date, a legacy of bad reviews can prevent even the best products from gaining a foothold on the market. Continue reading Why we simply must reduce software errors →

Flooring for high traffic areas obviously needs to be tough. If it is not resilient enough, it will quickly start to look scruffy and you will end up replacing it more often, which will end up costing you more than installing a quality solution in the first place. Continue reading High traffic flooring options: durable doesn’t mean ugly →

The austerity following the global financial crisis of 2008 wasn’t limited to the heady spheres of politics and macro-economics. It also affected our approach to fashion, art and decor, with simple functionality replacing the bling and conspicuous luxury of the boom years. The slow return to relative prosperity has not occasioned a rush back to the grand and ornate; rather, we have developed an enduring appreciation for the uncluttered, skilfully crafted designs of the war years and their immediate aftermath. Continue reading Wartime interiors: carefully crafted austerity →