<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675631952050937329</id><updated>2011-08-01T12:05:48.758-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Begin-Again Links</title><subtitle type='html'>Links to and info about fab small companies in and around the UK</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://begin-againlinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2675631952050937329/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begin-againlinks.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Begin-Again News</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07299837952775440545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UK2RCi04o74/SrJXUxFzVaI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jjNYK_5YHOI/S220/leaf+logo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675631952050937329.post-4301605834917270341</id><published>2009-10-19T08:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T08:18:14.199-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Powerfresh Systematics - everything's coming up smelling clean!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;I'm sure I'm not alone in dreading the trips to put the rubbish out and bracing myself for that horrible pong that greets us everytime we open the wheelie bin - Eurrghh! Not nice!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I happened to notice a team of guys in the back street recently who seemed to be tackling this problem head on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I asked them about their services and was delighted to find out that this service is avavilable to anyone locally, they're based in Ryton, Gateshead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;Even more astonishing, to find out that they don't just clean your wheelie bin every month, they clean it inside AND out, sanitise it AND remove all those horrible awkward sticky labels that keep appearing on the bin lids!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;And all this for an incredible £3.00 per month!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They also offer concessions for senior citizens, who only pay £2.00 per month, and also do family bins for only £3.50 per month!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, to me, this is an incredible bargain and well worth it - I personally have donned protective clothing and rubber gloves and have tried, in vain, to disinfect my wheelie bin and after using several bottles of bleach was disheartened to find it made virtually no difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not great.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But when you consider that these professional guys can take that awful job off your hands, leave you with a clean and fresh smelling, sanitised wheelie bin for only £3.00 per month - you can't beat that can you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ged Knowles, who owns Powerfresh Systematics (est.1999) offers a friendly and efficient service with locally employed personnel and will tackle household bins, recycling bins and gardening bins all for the same great, low price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was also impressed to read that Ged also offers a 6-monthly or annual payment plan for his services too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prices are as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 Monthly payments - £18.00, £12.00 for Senior Citizens, family bins £19.00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Annual payments - £36.00, £24.00 for senior citizens, family bins £38.00 per year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This gives you added flexibility and you can pay by cash or cheque (made payable to Ged Knowles), and means you don't have to worry about missing the guys when you've just popped out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;Another thought, if you have an elderly relative or friend, why not get this service for them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With such affordable prices, it's a service we can all afford, even in these hard times - a true credit-crunch beater!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And let's face it, no-one appreciates that horrible smell that comes from the bins any time of year, and despite all the latest bin liners, bin bags etc, it still doesn't seem to have an impact on the state of the bin or the smell!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I've signed up with Ged and his team, and look forward to having a nice clean, fresh-smelling wheelie bin by the back gate now instead of hurrying past it every time I go out!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some might say, it's no big deal and it doesn't really matter, but think about it - MUCH cheaper than bottles of bleach, MUCH better for you than breathing in bleach fumes and trying to clean the bin yourself and MUCH better for the environment to not have to use bottles and bottles of bleach!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These guys take a horrible job off your hands for a very very affordable price, which give you more of your free time back too - now THAT'S worth £3.00 a month to me! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contact Ged now, on: Tel 0191 413 7527,&lt;br /&gt;or Mobile: 0770 3883073&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Email Ged on: &lt;a href="mailto:geddyk94@yahoo.com"&gt;geddyk94@yahoo.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #20124d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="background-color: #6fa8dc; 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font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;With gorgeous flowers, bulbs and the most divine handmade bags, soya wax candles and fresh Lavender sachets among many, many other wonderful handcrafted beautiful items that Pam puts her heart and soul into making, then hurry on over to Hortensia and check out Pam's gorgeous handcrafted goodies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hortensia.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553ca616f88340120a5a564b0970c-400wi" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://hortensia.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553ca616f88340120a5a564b0970c-400wi" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hortensia.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553ca616f88340120a55d0cab970b-400wi" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://hortensia.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553ca616f88340120a55d0cab970b-400wi" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://hortensiadesigns.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;http://hortensiadesigns.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #351c75; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #351c75;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hortensia.typepad.com/"&gt;http://www.hortensia.typepad.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #4c1130; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;Pam has the most gorgeous blog, certainly the prettiest and most colourful, charting her events and happenings in the most colourful way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #4c1130; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;Simply stunning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #4c1130; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;She offers the most gorgeous plants for sale as well as making the most gorgeous handcrafted items I have seen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #4c1130; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;I was enamoured by her fresh Lavender sachets the first time I saw them and had to have them!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #4c1130; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #4c1130; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;And a new item to me, was Pam's divine teacup candles - made with soya wax and housed in the most adorable, pretty and delicate Royal Doulton teacup with saucer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #4c1130; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #4c1130; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;Another new idea to me was Pam's gorgeous crochet flower brooches - these are so pretty and adorable!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #4c1130; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hortensia.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553ca616f8834011570f6c55d970c-400wi" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://hortensia.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553ca616f8834011570f6c55d970c-400wi" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4c1130; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;Pam also creates fabric-covered sketchbooks, so for all the writers, artists and even doodlers out there, why not give yourself a treat and a fabulous start to your artwork or your journal and pick up one of these gems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://hortensia.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553ca616f8834011571276091970c-400wi" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://hortensia.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553ca616f8834011571276091970c-400wi" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4c1130; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4c1130; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Pam also makes the most gorgeous bags with exquisite exceptionally high-quality fabrics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://hortensia.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553ca616f88340120a557a949970c-400wi" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://hortensia.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553ca616f88340120a557a949970c-400wi" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4c1130; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4c1130; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;If you're interested in any of Pam's products, email her for more information at:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #20124d; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:hortensiadesigns@gmail.com"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;hortensiadesigns@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4c1130; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2675631952050937329-8003907710463936670?l=begin-againlinks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://begin-againlinks.blogspot.com/feeds/8003907710463936670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://begin-againlinks.blogspot.com/2009/09/hortensia-blooming-marvellous.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2675631952050937329/posts/default/8003907710463936670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2675631952050937329/posts/default/8003907710463936670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begin-againlinks.blogspot.com/2009/09/hortensia-blooming-marvellous.html' title='Hortensia - Blooming Marvellous!'/><author><name>Begin-Again News</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07299837952775440545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UK2RCi04o74/SrJXUxFzVaI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jjNYK_5YHOI/S220/leaf+logo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
