We have lived in this house for nine years and regularly injure ourselves on the brass door handles.  They are on all the doors on the ground floor – all six of them.  That’s twelve chances of an injury as we move about our home.  The doors don’t open widely and the handles are positioned [...]

You could be forgiven if you find this hard to believe – I do!. As Victor Meldrew would say, **I don’t believe it!**  For those of you who are not familiar with the British sit com ‘One Foot in the Grave’ check the link for a small clip of the catchphrase.
Just two days after the [...]

Our cat door/flap has been looking a bit fragile lately, and today it finally broke.
Replacing a cat door is a simple enough thing, you would think. You’d be wrong to think that when it’s our cat flap!  It went like this.
2pm.
Mo: “Babs, help me mark where the screws go for this new cat flap.”
Babs: (going [...]