EcoForce Competition WinnerThings For The House by Mrs C - June 7, 2012The Random Lucky Winner of the EcoForce Competition is Hazel Rea aka @BeachRambler on Twitter.Hazel wins a Year's Supply of Fab EcoForce Products . Congratulations Hazel! You should receive your prize soon. Enjoy!
EcoForce CompetitionThings For The House by Mrs C - May 22, 2012May 22, 2012EcoForce is one of those companies I happily give TheThumbsUp to! What's not to love when it comes to green household products?!I have a Fab EcoForce Giveaway for you. EcoForce & TheThumbsUp are offering you the chance to Win A Year's Supply of 'Green' Spring Cleaning Products Worth £50! This will include lots of the full EcoForce range of sponges, scourers, cloths, dusters, pegs, peg
EcoForceThings For The House by Mrs C - May 22, 2012I'm not really a Monica or even an Aggie or a Kim but I do like my house to be cleanish & definitely tidy.Wherever possible I try to 'do the green thing' and am always on the look-out for greener options when it comes to buying cleaning products and the other paraphernalia associated with keeping a clean house.It's so much easier to find 'green'
MUNIO CANDELA Soy Wax CandlesThings For The House by Mrs C - January 18, 2012March 2, 2016 I love a nice candle I do and would happily buy a new one every time I went shopping if I could. My cinammon-scented Christmassy candle has just died so it was time last night to light a new one.Recently I've become really conscious about avoiding sooty candles and so the MUNIO CANDELA soy wax candle (which has quite literally been poured into a paint
Note to Self: Check Smoke Alarms!Things For The House by Mrs C - October 25, 2011November 25, 2011Just a quickie to remind you all not to forget to put your clocks back this weekend.Yup - we get an extra hour in bed this Saturday night! Don't you just love it when that happens? Anyway on a serious note, the bods at Fire Kills want us all to get into the habit of checking our smoke alarms regularly and so they thought
Who is Tom Everhart?Rants and RavesThings For The House by Mrs C - October 11, 2011Mr. C and I were in Vegas when we happened upon an exhibition of some brilliant, fun paintings and posters by Tom Everhart. Coincidentally we were in the market for some new pics for our living room wall and so we ended up buying a couple. The one at the top of this post adorns our living-room wall and the other was bought and framed
A Bloke and A BlenderFood and DrinkThings For The House by Mr C - October 5, 2011October 5, 2011Why would I want a Russell Hobbs blender? Isn't it just another kitchen implement? Those were my thoughts until I saw the new Russell Hobbs 'Desire' Hand Blender. It's actually a very smart-looking piece of kit with a sleek, black body, bright red switches and a shiny stainless steel blender head.It really looks the part, but will it deliver? I was very impressed by how
Blackberry 8520 vs HTCRants and RavesTechie StuffThings For The House by Mr C - January 18, 2011March 5, 2011The subject of mobile phones has always been a touchy one here at Chateau C. There have been more raised voices, slammed doors and general warfare as a result of mobiles than any other subject, except perhaps the filling-in of a Weightwatchers online tracker, which is on a par with announcing a student fees rise in a fire extinguisher factory.There are so many mobiles on
Coffee SnobberyShopping and About TownThings For The HouseTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - September 24, 2010January 28, 2011We don't smoke, we drink very little, we have been known to throw away some inhibitions and pig-out on the odd culinary extravagance now and then. I suppose in many respects we are very easily pleased when it comes to our social vices. However, don't let that lure you hostelries out there into a false sense of security: when it comes to one particular vice
Round the RoombaThings For The House by Mr C - May 18, 2010September 17, 2021 In my last post I started enthusing about technology and its many benefits. Not only can I fit my life story, with illustrations, into a chip the size of my little fingernail but there's more.I was once told by an old friend about a time when his work commitments didn't allow him time to be home to let tradesmen get on with jobs at home while