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The convenience and flexibility of the online learning environment allow students to develop new skills and enhance their education no matter where they live. However, online learning can sometimes feel isolating for students and teachers. Therefore, the question is, how does a teacher create a sense of community during online courses? One approach is to…

A washing machine is an expensive bit of kit usually dumped in a kitchen or utility room and used and used without much care or attention until one day it dies in a spectacular fashion usually involving holding your clothes hostage in smelly water. It’s pretty easy to ruin a washing machine and here a…

Sometimes a shop-bought cleaning product is fantastic, I’m not going to do them all down. However sometimes the old fashioned cleaning methods – and eco-friendly cleaning – are just as good, if not better. Here is the most basic of starting points in the world of old fashioned cleaning. Prepare yourselves now, dun, dun duuuuuuun bicarbonate…

More often than not when I find a cardigan or jumper in a charity shop it will have a cluster of bobbling or piling somewhere and it used to be off-putting until I discovered an easy way to remove bobbles from Fabric Sweater, completely by accident. How To Get Rid Of Pilling I use velcro…

For my entire life this time of year has signalled purple fingers and perma-scratched ankles because it is blackberry picking season (or bramble depending on where you and your family are from). A time you’ll find me with my back to the world and my head buried in a bush. Going back to school always…

Over time and with a battering from bodies, products and washing machines, towels can soon become a rough, sandpaper instrument of torture with the absorbency of well….something not very absorbent at all. You know if you go and look at the back of your washing powder or liquid it will have instructions including a recommended…

I’m always surprised by the amount of very clean women who take pride in their appearance but still somehow, manage to have filthy, grubby Wooden hair brushes. I know it isn’t a huge, big thing in the grand scheme of life but a dirty hair brush gives me the shudders, especially when you consider how…

Hopping into bed at night can reveal the true lack of warmth in the air. Not all of us want to sleep with the heating on and more importantly, few of us can afford to. Here are a few simple tips for keeping warm at bedtime. HOW TO STAY WARM IN BED IN WINTER  1.…

Following my previous Housewifery post Cleaning with Bicarbonate of Soda, I'm going to tell you all about one of my other favorite cleaning products. The clue is in the title - vinegar. And no, your house won't smell like a bag of chips, unless - y'know, you scatter chips across your living room. So here you go, cleaning with…

On Tuesday I talked about foraging for blackberries and today I’m going to show you easy recipe of blackberry vodka.It is the start of the black berry season and we got a bit excited about the prospect of free food. We foraged around 2-3lb and ended up eating most of them in puddings and cakes…