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Family Life & parenting

Improved home security with Philips Hue lighting

A short while ago we experienced an attempted break-in. Luckily it was foiled by our secure back doors, but I think part of the reason our house looked so tempting was because we had no working security lights. With winter getting ever closer, and the nights getting longer, I have looked at the Philips Hue

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Family Life & parenting

Stuck in a chain and moving nowhere

An email arrives from my mother. “Hi John, any house news?” she asks, a reference to our plan to move to a new family home. If she were with me in person, I can just imagine her cheery tone as she asked that question. Alas, she’s not with me and so I respond in writing,

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Reviewed: the EverBrite solar powered security light

As I revealed a few weeks ago, we recently had a horrible experience when someone tried to get into our house while we were all asleep inside. I went to town the next day putting a number of extra security measures in place.

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Reviving our carpets with a Rug Doctor

Going back several years, Mrs Adams and I made a big mistake when we failed to put a mat underneath our dining room table. After a few months of young children eating at the table and dropping food on the floor, it looked horrendous. We vowed to get a new carpet and to place some

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