Spit and Polish: Old-Fashioned Ways to Banish Dirt, Dust and Decay Book by Lucy Lethbridge Foliage Garlands Create your very own little

Create your very own little woodland display right at your own back door

Position: Best in full sun

2 x Local Beers or Ciders

In addition to its delicious fruit

Spit and Polish: Old-Fashioned Ways to Banish Dirt, Dust and Decay Book by Lucy Lethbridge Foliage Garlands Create your very own littleIn the late nineteenth century, general housework in the British home was so labour intensive that it required an army of servants to undertake it. Since then, the ways in which we look after our homes may have changed dramatically but the best and simplest of methods from that time still work for us today. From floor to ceiling, and leaving no awkward corner untouched, here are the tricks and techniques that generations once took for granted,