http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Chas+And+Daff Gardening Chas And Daff Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=200923&ca=Gardening Natural swimming pools are based on ponds and pools that were once found so abundantly in the landscape. They are a chemical free combination of swimming area and aquatic plant garden, and so form an intimate part of the garden landscape. Natural swimming pools can also make a very important contrib... Wellness, Fitness and Diet Chas And Daff Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=200929&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet There are all sorts of reasons for dieting. For most people it is a question of losing weight by eating less. Your eating habits, food preferences, your desires are not much changed. For most people this is what dieting means – same old food, same old body, but rather less of both (you hope). It is... Gardening Chas And Daff Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=200939&ca=Gardening Wild flower meadows are a hot landscaping topic these days. Why should this be so ? Should you attempt one? Wild flower meadows are fashionable for many reasons. Firstly a wild flower meadow fits our ideas of conservation. To re-establish them is to revive the past. This applies equally to prairie l... Travel Chas And Daff Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=195834&ca=Travel I’ve just spent the day removing the mud from between the stones of our house in Brittany. The mud stands in place of lime or cement mortar which were unavailable or unaffordable when the house was built. The process gave ample time for reflection on what should be done when an old house is modernis... Travel Chas And Daff Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=195841&ca=Travel The long term trends look poor. There are 500,000 English owned properties in France – that’s half a million families that will no longer be renting holiday cottages in France. We have to say that it doesn’t quite feel like that for us. Every year we seem to manage sufficient “fullness” to be happy...