I am looking for ways to earn more
money. I have a spare room in my house and
both my wife and I have considered letting
this out. Is it true I can do this tax-free?
I am a high earner and had a large tax liability to pay in January. How can I make changes to reduce my tax liability and save tax?
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Late summer can often be a rather tricky time for our gardens. The colour and abundance of earlier in the season can
often feel like a fairly distant memory as many of our favourite perennials will begin to look tired and faded.
Of all the months of the year, June is arguably the most colourful for our
gardens. With typically warmer temperatures, long days of bright
sunshine (hopefully), and still plenty of moisture in the soil from the spring,
A well-designed garden will feature a pleasing blend of different types of plants. We’ve got trees to provide height, structure and shade.
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Do you have a compost bin or heap in your
garden? If not, maybe this spring could be the time to put that right.
Whisper it quietly, but spring is here
(horticulturally at least). Late winter is often a cold and drab affair, and many of us yearn for the brighter and warmer (hopefully) days of early spring.
Last autumn, I wrote about a few of my
favourite evergreen shrubs, and this month I want to continue on that theme but with a focus on those that flower in late winter.
Since the advent of arable farming, the
chaffinch and other seed-eating birds have
congregated on farms in great numbers at
harvest time to feed on the piles of chaff, the grain debris left over from threshing
(thrashing) sheaves of cereal grains
Ring-necked parakeets are in the news again. Although they’ve been in the UK since the 1800s, and first bred here in
1969, over fifty years ago, periodically a news item with dire warnings about invading parakeets is dusted off and broadcast.