Summer jobs around the house

As the summer DIY jobs get under way (more paint stripping tonight), thoughts wander out to the garden - often referred to in our home, as the 'nicest room in the house'. Not because it is so beautiful... more because it doesn't need decorating!

Even your garden can be easily spruced up for little additional cost with discount landscape lighting and ornaments, furniture etc... We are planning to buy a garden swing-seat this year (or possibly next), one of those with a canopy so that you can gently swing in the sun without getting burned, drink in hand and BBQ gently sizzling away...

The only draw-back with 'investing' in garden furniture is that in the UK, we can't trust the weather to be consistent enough to justify it...