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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
When I read that I was really surprised. An American teenager from a little town called Marlboro decided that he had enough of the dirty streets around the place he lived. He loved his town and thought that it would look better and nicer if someone put some effort and ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Here is a thing that makes me angry. Fortnightly rubbish collections. What a nonsense!
More and more councils throughout the UK have reduced their rubbish collections to once every two weeks. And yes, you guessed right - council taxes will continue to rise regardless of the fact that they are in ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
On the 27/03/08 I visited the Carpet and Windex exhibitions at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.
I expected large exhibition hall similar to the NEC in Birmingham. To my surprise it was much smaller that that. The show was specialised into just carpet cleaning and window cleaning. On the other hand ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
What is wrong with this world? While everybody is trying to go green and trying to reduce its harmful impact on nature and human kind, some unscrupulous personal care household products manufacturers in the US label their potentially lethal stuff as organic and natural. A recent research by the Organic ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
The latest trends in shopping are to go for "green products". But what does "green" mean? What is "green" and what is not?
Well, researchers from the Good Housekeeping Institute in the US have tested many environmentally-friendly cleaning products and have the concluded that "green" products were made from plant-based as ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
That is what I call a cool and convenient invention. Soon garments made of wool and silk may need no dry cleaning or other special treatment in order to remove marks and stains - just expose them to sunlight. It is all due to a nano particle coating already in ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
No wonder Honda Racing Team is offering £1,000 bonuses to everyone including their cleaners for every race won. I don't think bosses at Honda are in any danger of paying large bonuses to their cleaners this season. I had a quick look at their race winning history to find ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Latest tests have revealed that new uber-dishwashers with steam cleaning (and much more expensive price tag) are only slightly better than standard dishwashers. In fact a dishwasher costing only half the price of the steam cleaning one can get your dishes sparkling clean. Why spend the extra money then? I ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Well, roadside signs, roadside promotion or "bandit" signs as people often call them, are illegal according to US law. Companies or individuals advertising on those signs are liable for a fine of up to $500 for each sign. That can be a lot of money if you ...
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