Kits and Mortar

Max Fraser: Living roofs are green houses, important for biodiversity, good for the environment, and facilitating better rain runoff. Old Mayor of London introduced a scheme to promote them, important in cities.
Introducing Joe Swift, presenter of Gardeners’ World, here to talk about living roofs and green walls.
Joe: Ken Livingstone was into living roofs, [...]

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I’ve just spent the last hour or so wandering round the main exhibition space, which is split into several themed areas: Grand Build, Grand Interiors, Grand Gardens, and Grand Kitchens + Bathrooms. There is a lot of stuff here - far too much to see in one day.
I’m also slightly hampered by not having [...]

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Grand Designs Live 2008 started on Saturday, but today has been the first day I’ve been able to make it along. There was supposed to be a press launch this morning with Kevin McCloud, which I’d been really looking forward to, but his filming schedule has rather got in the way and it was cancelled. [...]

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