Make Your Own Christmas Felt Stockings

Whether you are cultivating a dry, sunny southern slope, or a flat, damp northern plot you can create a garden full of Mediterranean style and sizzling colour. Learn how to plant a profusion of Mediterranean plants, such as lavender and rosemary. In-situ pictures of established courtyard gardens and plants aim help you to decide on a look and step-by-step pictures take you through the processes, from getting your soil into shape, growing vegetables from seed, to painting terracotta pots. There is...

This book is an easy-to-follow guide which will appeal to both novices and experienced dressmakers. With clear, step-by-step guidance, the reader will be shown the easy way to take accurate body measurements and draw up basic patterns for skirts, shirts, dresses and trousers, plus collars, sleeves and necklines. In addition there are also quarter-scale patterns for a basic dress, blouse, jacket, trousers and skirt with helpful hints on how you can grade patterns up and down in size. This is an invaluable...

A mixture of how-to and history, this book sets out the rules of joke-making and joke-telling (with lots of hilarious examples) and explores our fascination with japes, jibes, jokes and jesters. Psst! It's true! This is the best book on Jokes you'll ever read! Knock knock. Who's there? Max. Max who? Max my brain bulge to read this book! Discover the secrets of riddles, hoaxes and tongue twisters. Invent side-splitting jokes in easy-to-follow steps. Tickle your bunny phone with the truth about trifle...