The sun is out: catch it while you can because it’s probably for a limited time only. Not like last year, aka The Best Summer In Living History. (At least for those of us born after 1976. Those who were around for 1976 do like to harp on about how that was the best summer in living history, like it’s some sort of Top Trumps heatwave game.)
Is your garden a little lacklustre" Is your roof terrace filled with bits of broken chair and an old chest of drawers that needs carrying downstairs so that you can drive it to the tip" Is your once-cute courtyard basically just a dog loo" If the answer to any of the aforementioned questions is yes, then read on. I have some incredibly quick and easy ways to transform your outside space. None of the following ideas require electricians, builders, landscapers or even any sort of manual labour; just click, buy and jazz up your al fresco area. Instant improvement and – if you’re renting – it can all be transported to your next home if and when you move. Hurray!

No-Fuss Lighting
We’re having building work done (gluttons for punishment) and the electrician asked if we want cables run through the ground to have accent lights on trees and/or Barry the Iron Giant. It sounded like a royal pain in the arse to me so I started researching solar lights. Not the crap ones you get at the well-known cut-price supermarket chains, but proper lights with big solar panels that – when charged ̵...