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FREEK Outdoor Carpets from Encompass Furniture

 Freek Outdoor Carpets from Encompass Furniture

Freek up your life! Freek outdoor carpets offer the possibility of colours textures and fun for outdoor spaces.

Limited edition striped rugs along with bright, bold and funky mono colours, extend the modern interior into the garden, roof terrace, or around the pool: The carpets are made of polyethylene and nylon yarns and have a pile height of 30 mm. FREEK has 2.250 grams fibres per square meter and a total weight of 3.865 grams per square meter Good water permeability and outstanding U.V. stability make this carpet heavy duty and perfect for outdoor use.

An attractive range of colours to choose from:

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Dobbies Offer Up To 20% Discount On Garden Games

 Dobbies Offer Up To 20% Discount On Garden Games

Online garden centre Dobbies.co.uk has slashed the online price of many of its garden games by 20%:

Tumbling Tower Game for £49.00 is among the discounted items.
It contains 56 bricks (18cm x 4cm x 6cm) and builds from approximately 75cm to as high as the player dares! The object of the game is to build the tower then take turns to remove a brick at a time without making the whole tower tumble.

Traditionalists might enjoy the Giant Chess Game priced at £29.00. The set contains a full complement of chess pieces (10cm to 20.6cm tall) and an 89cm x 89cm PVC board mat, with carry box.

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Bag A Great Seat This Summer With The Stol

Bag A Great Seat This Summer With The Stol

As the first signs of summer herald a mass exodus to our Nation’s beaches and gardens, festival season gets underway and more people choosing camping holidays; this year’s shrewdest buy has to be the Stol – the light and portable chair for all occasions from Cleverlittleideas.com.

The Stol (Swedish for chair) is a unique ergonomic chair, developed for situations when your back doesn’t have proper support:

Designed for strength and durability, the Stol is hand made in varnished birch and canvas textile.

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Flower Power For A Glamorous Summer From Millets

Flower Power For A Glamorous Summer From Millets

Founded in 1893, Millets’ core values still hold true today; to offer a comprehensive range of outdoor clothing and equipment at great value for money from friendly, knowledgeable staff.

World-renowned textile designer Celia Birtwell, has developed a new range of distinctive camping gear and accessories, exclusively for Millets.

This year’s collection has been inspired by long hot Indian summers and the prints bring to life everything from tents to wellington boots.

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Aquatic Therapy In An Endless Swimming Pool

Beneficial Aquatic Therapy In An Endless Pool

Because it is nearly gravity-free, aquatic exercise is the preferred therapy for many medical conditions; thus an Endless Pool, can provide aquatic therapy at the ideal temperature and pace for your needs, in total privacy and at your own convenience.

The Endless Pool’s adjustable current allows for an easily monitored progression of exercises.

Leslie Krichko, a professional water therapist and trainer, advises “therapy in an Endless Pool actually helps people with injuries recover faster,” for several reasons:

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The White Company’s Stylish Summer Entertaining

Stylish Summer Entertaining With The White Company

Founded in 1994, The White Company specialises in supplying a wide range of stylish home accessories and clothing, principally in white.

Nothing captures the carefree spirit of summer more perfectly than dining with friends outdoors and The White Company provides the perfect formula for stylish outdoor living, in the timeless elegance of white.

Guarantee the party atmosphere lasts well into the evening, with mix and match hanging glass lanterns, tea-light holders, white ceramic and paper lanterns and dot them around the garden.

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Unique Endless Swimming Pools For The UK

Endless Pools was established in 1998 to provide an exercise swimming pool enabling people to swim at home.

To date the company have installed over 10,000 pools globally and hundreds of Endless Pools have been bought across the UK.

The Endless Pool is perfect for the British climate as the modular design makes installation possible even in small spaces indoors and all components fit easily through a standard doorway or stairway.

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Gooseberries & Gondolas Will Inspire You At Tatton

If fun, friendly and relaxed is how you like it, then visit the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park (18th – 22nd July), which has plenty of treats in store for garden lovers.

The Show gardens will endeavour to inspire you with a plethora of creative and fantastical designs:

Tatton Park’s own flowerbed in conjunction with Cheshire County Council, will be using a gondola as its centrepiece to pay homage to Venice and the estate’s Italian gardens.

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The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2007

Family, food and the environment take centre stage at Hampton Court Flower Show this year from 3rd to 8th July.

Key themes include inspiring children about all things horticultural, growing your own fruit and vegetables and sustainable gardening for today’s world.

The show champions the RHS campaign to ‘Grow Your Own and many of the show gardens reflect this:

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Marks & Spencer’s Exclusive Pure One Digital Radio

Marks & Spencer has launched an exclusive edition of Pure One DAB radio, so that Jazz fans can lounge in style this summer and listen to all their favourite tunes at the touch of a button.

Exclusive to M&S, the radio is priced at £49.50 and has a special button, which connects listeners direct to ‘theJazz’ – a new sister station of the enormously popular Classic FM.

The sleek white radio with chrome controls, is both mains and battery powered and also offers a rechargeable battery pack (optional at £29.50), to enable listeners to enjoy around 20 hours of portable DAB listening.

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