I call it my humble abode – my cottage with its sprawling garden. Some people say it is rich – with Nature's bounty but to me nature is a part of me and I have now grown with it.

With a $20,000 budget, a homeowner's ambitions can widen to include significant changes to the kitchen. A complete kitchen renovation is likely too expensive, but significant improvements are possible, including adding granite counter tops, new floors or

For Mary Moore's eighth birthday party her father produced a set of bathroom scales and invented a game that involved guessing the weight of each guest. 'He was very accurate - within a couple of pounds,' she says now, over 50 years later, and clearly

THE three kids held prisoner with their mum in Austria's House of Horror lived without ever seeing daylight, police revealed yesterday. Monster dad Josef Fritzl fathered seven children by daughter Elisabeth in the 24 years he kept her as a sex slave in a

When it's 'sweeps week' for TV news, sex always sells... By Cliff Bostock.For the better part of four months every year, Nielsen Media Research gathers data to measure audience size of TV networks and local stations. The numbers are important because a