How to use a lemon to clean your oven in seconds without ANY scrubbing An Australian mum has used the juice and pulp from a lemon to clean her oven Posting on Facebook, Ilone said she was very impressed with the results She spread the lemon onto the oven and left it for 25 minutes … Read more
Q&A by Xantha Leatham What is the Great British September Clean? The Great British September Clean is, in fact, the postponed Great British Spring Clean, which had to be mothballed in March when the country went into lockdown. How can I get involved? Anyone who wants to take part can do so by registering via … Read more
Boris Johnson calls on the nation to ‘roll up our sleeves’ and clean up the rubbish discarded during the lockdown. The Prime Minister is throwing his weight behind a fight against litter being backed by the Daily Mail. Pubs and restaurants being closed for months has led to parties in parks, on beaches and at … Read more
Deliciously Ella reveals she was ‘petrified to have an opinion’ because ‘people looked to her for answers’ which she was ‘still figuring out’ after she became the ‘poster girl for wellness’ Ella Mills, 29, from London, set up a food blog Deliciously Ella in 2012 The food writer revealed she was afraid of having an … Read more
A massive nationwide campaign to clean up Britain backed by the Daily Mail is relaunched today after being postponed by the coronavirus crisis. Shocking pictures have shown the lockdown litter blighting the nation’s beauty spots in recent weeks. From the countryside to the coast, thoughtless people have left piles of waste and plastic while meeting … Read more
There are an estimated 170 million pieces of so-called ‘space junk’ – left behind after missions that can be as big as spent rocket stages or as small as paint flakes – in orbit alongside some US$700 billion (£555bn) of space infrastructure. But only 22,000 are tracked, and with the fragments able to travel at … Read more
Extraordinary footage shows how three months of coronavirus lockdown have cleaned the Bangkok skyline Footage shows air pollution in Bangkok, Thailand has significantly reduced after three months of lockdown Tropical skyline was clouded in a toxic smog made of harmful PM2.5 particles at the start of the year Astonishing footage taken in Huai Khwang this … Read more
Brewers’ hops could be used to filter out iron particles from Germany’s River Spree that have run into the water from open-cast coal mines The River Spree is turned brown by run off of iron compounds and heavy metals Researchers hope to create ‘filter bags’ made using by-products from brewing These bags would hang in … Read more
Is this the one area of the home you HAVEN’T cleaned during lockdown? Five steps to spruce up your radiators and help save on energy bills TV cleaner Aggie MacKenzie explains dusty radiators are less efficient Five tips to help keep them clean include making your own radiator brush Experts also suggest avoid using cleaning … Read more
As Britons prepare for the end of lockdown, after months of isolation at home, I thought it might be helpful to offer a guide to various terms which have fallen into disuse and which some of you might have forgotten ever existed. Tie: Traditionally, an item of clothing by which the management class distinguished themselves … Read more