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cut to it It's all true well chopping your vegetables to perfection, on the contrary how often do they globule off the board as you prove by experiment to ease them into the pan?

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fulness of afters If you hold an electric patio heater, alfresco summer dining can continue drawn out after the days start to shorten. on the contrary what happens when the infra r tube fails?

These notoriously hard-to-find tubes may have your local electrical store stumped, but there's no ne to cancel that autumn barbecue. For a really big range, starting from beats 19.05, and a host of other scaly buds log on to www.lightbulbs-direct.com, or call 01494 723 286

and light upon your feet Now that the nights are drawing in, light your garden the eco-friendly way with Orion Stainless-Steel Solar Lights from www.gardensupplydirect.com.

With their present design and, of course, stainless-steel construction, the lights combine advantageous looks with an energy-saving function.

And priced at beats 49.99 for a pack of four, you can be rather spruce in the knowledge that you are the pair saving on your electricity bills and bringing a welcome be incandescent to your outside space.

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Conservatory somewhat cold With increasingly hot British summer conservatories are becoming more like greenhouses than glasshouses. at the same time when the temperature drops, they can manifest difficult to heat. Step forward Climate First, which supplies air-conditioning units specially for residential installation.

Its LG Art a little cold Wide or Mirror units one as well as the other cool and filter air against pollen and dust mites, and when the weather secures cold, heat your conservatory.

Priced from about beats 1,800 to Pounds 3,000, Climate First is offering abodes Property readers a 15 for cent discount on all orders placed before 30 September. To claim, call 0845 456 8735 mentioning this present

For more details, visit www.climate first.co.uk.

Carrots with a rose win motivated to water your greenhouse and vegetable plants with a brightly patterned watering can from efflorescences of Bressington.

Richly designed with fecund images of carrots or tomatoes, and priced at sole Pounds 14.99, they are certainly the perfect way to envisage the fruits of your labours.

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Looking profitable in the shower A million miles from chilled clingy shower curtains is the newly launched curved-glass shower panel from Matki, a seriously good-looking piece of kit.

Designed to sit upon a tiled floor, and with an overhead shower arm, the Curv Wet space Panel, with its shower, is usually priced at beats 2,326.

on the other hand for Homes Property readers, Matki is offering a special 10 for cent discount. All you have to do is call 01454 322 888 before 30 September quoting Evening Standard Promotion.

For more details, visit www

matki.co.uk.

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Freebie of the week FOR the ultimate stairway to heaven, check on the outside this offer from Stairrods. Designed to full tale more contemporary stair runners, it's novel Vision range of stair twigs come in three designs with seven different finishes and can be adapted to any width.

Stairrods is offering four successful Homes Property readers the chance to win a put of Vision rods, worth strikes 286.

To pierce simply post your contact details, including an email address if you have single to PO Box 1818, Lemington Spa, CV32 5ZG before 9 October. If you do not want your details kept and used for any subsequent time mailings, please write "no" clearly after your details.

Winners will be picked at random and contacted by means of phone or email by 10 October.

For further information upon Stairrods, call 0120 759 1176 or visit www.stairrods.co.uk.

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