1 week agoWorld LeaksComments Off on Lidl drops £4.99 gadget that keeps your house warm without putting the heating on – and it’ll reduce your energy bills
WINTER is right around the corner.
And while millions of Brits feel like they were robbed of a good summer, it’s important for your purse not to be robbed by winter energy bills.
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LidlThe draught excluder launches on Sunday 29 September[/caption]
LIDLIt comes in cream (above) or brown[/caption]
September usually marks a turning point in the weather as temperatures start to fall and the evenings get darker.
It’s also the same time that Brits get nifty with preparing for the cold weather, and ensuring they’re not spending needless money on energy bills when the chill kicks in.
Fortunately, this just got a lot easier thanks to a new gadget from Lidl.
Set for release in store on Sunday, the Livarno Home Draught Excluder will cost you a cool £4.99.
The product description reads: “Keeps out cold air – helps reduce heating costs.”
The nifty tool is also made partially with recycled polyester, with the whole interior stuffing being made of repurposed plastic.
It is designed to cover gaps around doors and windows to block cold air from seeping into your home.
Lidl’s new Livarno Home Draught Excluder is 90cm long, and it comes in two colours; cream or dark brown.
The most common door frame width is 76.2cm in England and Wales, or 72.6cm in Scotland.
That means the foamy gadget will likely cover the full width of your door, and thus any gaps underneath it that may let a draught in.
It is said draught excluders can reduce heat loss and save up to 30 per cent on energy bills in extreme cases, and 10–20 per cent in less extreme situations.
Cushion draught excluders like Lidl’s are brilliant because they require no insulation, glue or drilling, are super cheap compared to replacing windows or doors, and are renter friendly.
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They can also be washable for easy maintenance.
And depending on the design, they can be a festive decoration if you choose one in a seasonal design, such as Christmas-themed.
Simply peel off the wrapper and stick around your window and door frames.
5 ways to keep your house warm in winter
Property expert Joshua Houston shared his tips.
1. Curtains
“Windows are a common place for the outside cold to get into your home, this is because of small gaps that can let in air so always close your curtains as soon as it gets dark,” he said.
This simple method gives you an extra layer of warmth as it can provide a kind of “insulation” between your window and curtain.
2. Rugs
“Your floor is another area of your home where heat can be lost and can make your home feel chilly,” he continued. “You might notice on cold days, that your floor is not nice to walk on due to it freezing your feet.
“Add rugs to areas that don’t already have a carpet, this provides a layer of insulation between your bare floor and the room above.”
3. Check your insulation
Check your pipes, loft space, crawlspaces and underneath floorboards.
“Loose-fill insulation is very good for this, and is a more affordable type of insulation, with a big bag being able to be picked up for around £30,” Joshua explained.
4. Keep your internal doors closed
“Household members often gather in one room in the evening, and this is usually either the kitchen or living room,” Joshua said.
“This means you only have to heat a small area of your home, and closing the doors keeps the heat in and the cold out.”
5. Block drafts
Don’t forget to check cat flaps, chimneys and letterboxes, as they can let in cold air if they aren’t secure.
1 week agoWorld LeaksComments Off on I had the same procedure as tragic BBL mum, I was moments from death & live in constant pain, they must be banned NOW
WHEN mum Bonnie-Louise Cooper heard about the tragic death of mother-of-five Alice Webb, 33 who underwent a liquid BBL she broke down in floods of tears.
“I read the story and was instantly hit with waves of fear and anxiety,” the mum-of-one explains.
Bonnie-Louise Cooper fought for her life after having a BBL nine months agoSuppliedSuppliedThe mum-of-one contracted sepsis and was lucky to be alive[/caption]
FacebookAlice Webb died after her BBL procedure ‘went wrong’[/caption]
“It’s heart-breaking. My heart goes out to Alice’s family. I knew this was going to happen eventually.
“It could have been me. I have been begging authorities to ban the procedure.
“Just like Alice I had the same procedure and within 36 hours I was so ill consultants and hospital teams warned my family I was hours away from death.
“I was diagnosed with rapid onset sepsis and have long term tissue damage from the liquid BBL.
“This was just nine months ago, and I am still recovering.
“How many people have to suffer and die before action is taken?”
In March this year Bonnie Louise exclusively told Fabulous about her near-death experience after paying £1,500 for a liquid BBL.
Single beautician Bonnie, from Swanage is mum to five -year-old Kash and decided to have a liquid BBL in the UK rather than jetting to Turkey as many others have done.
“I was too scared to fly overseas to Turkey,” she says.
“I thought that opting for a clinic in the UK would be a safer alternative. I’d seen it advertised on social media with lots of likes.”
The standard surgical BBL involves the patient having fat harvested from their own body and re-injection into the buttock area.
A non-invasive liquid BBL uses a range of dermal fillers including hyaluronic acid which is injected into each buttock using a large cannula to add volume.
The liquid BBL is promoted as relatively pain free because the filler contains lidocaine, a local anaesthetic.
For Bonie it seemed like the perfect option and the mum had the procedure done in Romford Essex in November last year.
She recalls: “I was told I was having 250 mils of filler injected into each buttock. In total that is half a litre of filler injected into my bottom. That’s a lot.
The mum had her bum injected with filler in a hope to get a pert bottom and while the results were good she almost lost her lifesuppliedsuppliedWhile the mum has made a recovery she says she’s in constant pain[/caption]
“I was given some lidocaine, but I wasn’t prepared for the pain of the cannula injection.
“I’m a beautician and I wasn’t asked the standard health questions I ask for when I do basic eyebrow dying.
“I gave birth and thought that was the most painful experience. It’s nothing compared to what I experienced.”
According to Bonnie her liquid BBl injections were administered while she stood up in a ‘beauty salon environment’ not an operating room and caused unrelenting pain.
“It’s stomach-churning pain,” she says.
“I could feel the cannula needing to be pushed across my bottom under the skin. It wasn’t what I expected.
“I was in shock after the procedure. I tried to put on a brave face. I was told I was likely to feel a bit odd because of the lidocaine.
Alice's tragic death
Alice Webb, 33, was having a non-surgical BBL at a studio in Gloucester when it “went wrong”.
The mum-of-five was travelled from her home in Wotton-under-Edge to a clinic in Gloucester for a training session where she would learn how to perform the procedure before having her own done.
Her devastated partner Dane Knight, 38, posted a tribute online saying: “Want to say a heartfelt thank you to all family and friends that were here for us at our time of need, including all of the kind messages sent to my children and myself.”
Alice’s “second mum” Dianna Webb, 58, said she told her younger cousin she did not need the procedure only hours before she died after going under the knife.
A tearful Diana told The Sun: “We had talked about it a lot before she went to have the procedure.
“She had told me she was going to have this done and I said she didn’t need it – she already looked beautiful.
“And she was stunning on her own.
“We were on the phone for two hours before she went. Alice said they seemed really professional and put her at ease about the procedure.”
Two people were arrested following Alice’s death, one of them Jordan James Parke, a Kim Kardashian-obsessed TV star dubbed the “Lip King”.
“I asked if I should drive home and was told it was fine.
“That didn’t make sense to me. I’d just had half a litre of filler injected into my bottom. I thought I’d be offered a special pillow to sit on.”
Bonnie claims she wasn’t given any after care instruction and was sent home without antibiotics.
“By the time I got home I was screaming in agony and couldn’t get out of the car and I’d started vomiting and fainted trying to get into my house,” she says.
“If my sister hadn’t been there to help me, I’d have collapsed in the driveway.”
“I rang the clinic in agony. They told me they’d send antibiotics around the next day and to go to bed.”
Bonnie explains she couldn’t keep any water down and was grateful her sister, Lisa Hughes,32, a stay-at-home mum, was visiting that night.
“I’m a single mum. I couldn’t keep the water down. I’d been told to take some codeine and paracetamol but the pain I was experiencing was worse than childbirth.
The next morning Bonnie’s temperature had skyrocketed.
According to her sister Lisa she was shocked at Bonnie’s condition.,
“She was screaming in pain, sweating and vomiting,” says Lisa.
“She tried to get up to go to the toilet and fainted.
“My sister was making no sense and hallucinating. I knew she needed to go straight to hospital.”
Ambulance officers were so concerned about the young mum’s condition she was blue-lighted to hospital and rushed to Intensive Care in the ER department.
Bonnie’s tests revealed she had rapid onset sepsis.,
She was given morphine regularly for the next four days and intravenous antibiotics to fight the injection.
“My sister was told I could die,” Bonnie says.
“It was only her quick thinking that prevented that. My son would have been orphaned.
“I had an emergency MRI scan, and it revealed the procedure had caused muscle damage. It was so serious I was given a referral to Salisbury Plastics for dissolving procedures.”
Alice should not have died. Her legacy must be the banning of these liquid BBLs
Bonnie Louise Cooper
It took almost five days before Bonnie was well enough to be sent home.
“I had to take two different types of antibiotics for another month and am still on painkillers today,” she says.
“The antibiotics promised by the clinic never arrived and I was never told, despite asking what type of filler they used.
“The hospital tried to call the salon, but they didn’t answer. It was awful.
“I felt like I’d been thrown to the wolves. I was left with no aftercare and no follow up.”
Almost a year later Bonnie still has pain when sitting and continues to experience pain down her left leg.
“I know I agreed to the treatment but if someone had explained even in extreme circumstances, I could end up in hospital sepsis,” she says.
“I know as a single mum I would have reconsidered.
“To this day I still don’t know what was injected into my bum. It could have been any combination of fillers or dermal injectables.”
Bonnie still has nightmares about the pain and hallucinations she suffered after the procedure.
“When I read Alice had died, I cried for her children, her family and the fact no one is listening to survivors of this deadly procedure,” she adds.
“Alice should not have died. Her legacy must be the banning of these liquid BBLs.”
Save Face, a national, government-approved register of accredited non-surgical treatment practitioners says complaints about non-surgical BBLs have risen at an ‘alarming’ rate.
Save Face is calling for the procedures to be banned, while the Local Government Association has asked the government to take urgent action.
GP and MP for Stroud, Dr Simon Opher, said the death of Ms Webb is “absolutely tragic”. He also urged people not to have BBLs, as it is unknown whether the procedure is safe.
Gloucestershire Police’s major crime team is now investigating, and the two arrested people have been released on bail.
“This should have happened earlier. Too many people think they can have ‘lunchtime procedure and it’s like getting your hair done. It isn’t,” says Bonnie.
“I know people want the cheapest, quickest option to ‘; looking good’ but I found out the hard way it’s deadly.
Bonnie is continuing her campaign and using all women who have liquid BBL booked in Britain to cancel their procedures.
“I am alive to wave my son goodbye at the school gates. Alice isn’t and we must change that.
“Alice’s death and the near-death experience of countless other women must not be in vain.”
suppliedBonnie is urging for a ban on the dangerous procedure[/caption]
1 week agoWorld LeaksComments Off on I’m a chef and I swear by my ‘sleeping bag’ storage hack to keep your cucumbers fresh and crunchy for WEEKS
CALLING all cucumber fans – we’ve found a super simple hack that will keep your beloved salad topper fresh for longer.
Although the summer salad season may be over, if you’re a fan of cucumber and want to keep eating your greens, then you’ve come to the right place.
GettyA chef has revealed her simple storage hack that will keep cucumbers fresh for weeks[/caption]
With this ‘sleeping bag’ trick, you’ll need two kitchen itemstiktok/@katcancooktiktok/@katcancookThanks to a piece of kitchen roll and a silicone bag, your cucumbers will stay super fresh[/caption]
With this tasty staple being the perfect addition to many lunches, including sandwiches and salads, we’ve found a quick and easy trick that will keep it fresh for weeks – yes, you heard that correctly.
So if you’re fed up with buying cucumber, only for it to go soft and mushy before you’ve had a chance to use it all up, then this ‘sleeping bag’ storage hack is one you’ll need to try.
It turns out that keeping cucumbers fresh for longer is all about how you store it.
And luckily for you, a chef and recipe developer took to social media to share her quick and easy trick to keep your cucumber fresh, leaving many open-mouthed.
Kat shared her now-viral clip with the caption ‘money saving cucumber storage tip’ and said: “These cucumbers are 10 days old. I’m going to show you how to store cucumbers so that they stay nice and fresh and crunchy and they don’t get soft in like, three days.”
The food fan, who confessed she can’t stand throwing food away, stressed the importance of removing all packaging from cucumbers.
She claimed: “The way that produce is transported is often not the way that produce should be stored, so get it out of jail.”
After giving her cucumbers a rinse, Kat then gave them a pat dry with a paper towel and confirmed: “Produce really has two enemies – oxygen and water – too little or too much of either one is going to make them turn on you.”
Kat stressed that cucumbers are full of water, so it’s key that you do what you can to soak up the moisture.
As a result, Kat revealed that to store your cucumbers correctly, you’ll need two things – a silicone bag and some kitchen roll.
She continued: “The first thing I’m gonna do is take a silicone bag, you could use a Ziploc bag if that’s what you have, we’re gonna make my little paper towel sleeping bag.”
After adding in a piece of kitchen roll, she then advised: “Put in your rinsed and dried cucumbers, seal it, and put it into the refrigerator.”
Hacks for Keeping Food Fresh in Your Fridge
IF you want your food to stay fresh, you'll need to try out this useful hacks...
Herbs in Water: Store fresh herbs like parsley and coriander in a glass of water, then cover with a plastic bag to keep them fresh for weeks.
Wrap Greens in Paper Towels: Wrap leafy greens in paper towels before placing them in a plastic bag. The towels absorb excess moisture, preventing wilting.
Use Mason Jars: Store salads, chopped vegetables, and even leftovers in mason jars. They are airtight and keep food fresher for longer.
Revive Stale Bread: Sprinkle a bit of water on stale bread and pop it in the oven for a few minutes to make it fresh again.
Baking Soda for Odours: Place an open box of baking soda in your fridge to absorb odours and keep food tasting fresh.
Freeze Herbs in Olive Oil: Chop herbs and freeze them in olive oil using an ice cube tray. This preserves their flavour and makes them easy to use.
Keep Cheese Fresh: Wrap cheese in wax paper instead of plastic wrap. Wax paper allows the cheese to breathe, preventing it from becoming slimy.
Store Avocados with Onions: Place a cut avocado in an airtight container with a slice of onion. The sulphur compounds in the onion slow down oxidation, keeping the avocado fresh.
Use Vinegar Wash for Berries: Rinse berries in a mixture of water and vinegar (one cup of vinegar to three cups of water) before storing. This kills bacteria and mould spores, extending their shelf life.
Egg Freshness Test: To check if eggs are still fresh, place them in a bowl of water. Fresh eggs will sink, while old ones will float.
Implement these clever hacks to maximise the freshness of your food and make the most of your groceries.
Using a piece of kitchen roll in this storage hack will help soak up excess moisture, which in turn, will keep your cucumbers fresh.
FOOD FANS BEAM
The TikTok clip, which was posted under the username @katcancook, has clearly left many open-mouthed, as it has quickly amassed a jaw-dropping 4.4 million views.
Thank you! I literally needed this tip
TikTok user
Social media users were thankful for Kat’s advice and many flocked to the comments to express this.
One person said: “This is so helpful.”
Another added: “I needed you in my life, thank you for the info.”
A third commented: “Thank you! I literally needed this tip.”
1 week agoWorld LeaksComments Off on We bought the ugliest house & transformed it with DIY hacks – people are stunned by how it looks & it’s doubled in price
A COUPLE have revealed how they bought the “ugliest house on the street” and with a few simple DIY’s they’ve increased the property price by more than double.
Elena and her husband Bob bought a rundown and outdated home for £208,000, with the intention of flipping it, and selling it on.
TikTok/Thishouse5000The couple described their house as the “worst” on the street[/caption]
YouTube/@Thishouse5000When Elena and bought first bought their home, it was incredibly outdated[/caption]
YouTube/@Thishouse5000The place now looks unrecognisable[/caption]
However, they were so impressed by how it turned out, that they decided to stay living it.
When they first purchased the property, it looked incredibly unfashionable, with white lacy curtains, dated glass cabinets and cheap looking flush-mount dome lights.
The carpets were beige, portraits hung at odd angles on the walls, and a garish, giant gold mirror took up most of the wall in the dining room.
The bathroom was bright pink, the ceiling fans looked archaic, and none of the furniture looked like it had been replaced in at least 50 years.
The couple, from Canada, set to work straight away on transforming the property, and completely gutted it of the previous owners’ belongings.
They stripped the walls, removed the flooring, and knocked down walls.
The couple worked tirelessly, repainting the entire house, adding in a new staircase, and replacing the carpets with tiled flooring.
The house now looks completely unrecognisable, and Elena and Bob have described it as being “priceless”.
Sharing a video of the transformation to their YouTube channel. @thishouse5000, they revealed the ugly chandelier in the dining room has been replaced with a chic glass light fixture.
The walls have been stripped back to reveal stylish exposed brick, and hanging plants cascade from the bedroom ceiling, giving an elegant waterfall affect.
The bathroom has been completely covered in black and white tiles and the kitchen door has been knocked down, to create a stunning exposed brick archway.
The house is now worth £445,000, meaning that it has more than doubled in price.
The transformation has likely left many people impressed, as the video has racked up a whopping 1.5 million views on the video sharing platform.
YouTube users raced to the comments section of the video to share their thoughts.
One person said: “You guys did great. What a beautiful home. Congratulations!”
A Second person said: “Amazing job, the best part of getting your own place is getting to turn it into the spot you can’t wait to get back to!”
A third person said: “Beautiful! Amazing what a little bit of vision and a lot of hard work and sacrifices can do… great job guys!!”
A fourth person added: “That is an amazing transformation.
“It was pretty bad and now it’s like a paradise.
“You are both really talented.”
Home upgrades that add the most value to a house
The best renovation to add value totally depends on your property, the local market and your potential buyers.
Zoopla shared a list of upgrades that will instantly add value to your home.
Loft conversion – increase of 15%
Off-street parking – adds £50,000 to property price
New kitchen – increase of 15%
Garage conversion – increase of 15%
Cellar or basement conversion – increase of 10-15%
1 week agoTelevision GenreComments Off on Israel-Hamas war latest: Smoke rises from Beirut’s southern suburbs after a night of Israeli attacks
Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah targets pounded areas around Lebanon’s capital overnight. The streets of Beirut’s southern suburbs were empty and smoke was rising as the sun came up Saturday. The United Nations says the number of those displaced by the conflict from southern Lebanon has more than doubled, with more than 211,000 people now displaced.
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The latest results of Russia Gosloto 7/49 are out, following the draw on Saturday, 28 September 2024. Russia Gosloto 7/49 draws daily at 10:30 am (Moscow time), 13:30, 15:30, 17:00, 19:00, 20:30 and at 22:30. The Gosloto 7/49 draws for today produced the following winning numbers: Russia Gosloto 7/49 Results Time Gosloto 7/49 Results 21:30 […]
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