Letting agent Ultra Lets in Hull suggests homeowners and landlords should start to prepare properties for the winter now. The following tips offer ideas on how to handle seasonal home repairs. Water damage to ceilings Whenever there is a roof leak, you need to act fast to stop mould issues occurring further down the line. You […]
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The Tudor home of the Seymour family, setting of Hilary Mantel’s books, has been discovered in the grounds of a later manor in Wiltshire
The Wolf Hall made famous by Hilary Mantel’s historical novels, has been unearthed, 500 years after it was razed to the ground.
The magnificent home of the Seymour family, where the Tudor king Henry VIII first showed an interest in his third wife, Jane Seymour, fell into ruin 40 years after it was built. Over time it became unclear where the house was located or what it looked like.
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Help to Buy is a government scheme which can help you to buy a property with just a 5% deposit. Find out how the scheme works and how to qualify in this blog by Money Advice Service. Content provided by OnTheMarket.com is for information purposes only. Independent and professional advice should be taken before buying, […]
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Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: I can only imagine how powerful the sweetness of ivy flowers is to insects with high-energy lives
On the brightest of days, the road into autumn is a frenetic gyratory for wasps, bees and hoverflies around outcrops of ivy. The yellows and browns of their bodies are the colours of changing leaves, the blur of their wings is mist over rivers, the sound of their flight is of the last crazy dance of the year fuelled by an intoxicant that makes them invulnerable.
Whether the insects sense that this is the last of the fine weather, as the forecasters predict, they are joining the dots between ivy flowers that open in the final fling of warm sunshine. Arranged in five or more umbels on each stem, there are 20 or so flowers in each. The individual flower is a green knob enclosed by five sepals that roll back to cup an inner orb. Between the sepals, five yellow stamens spring out above the central stigma, and the orb is sticky with nectar.
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