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The Sun
01-07-2025
- Business
- The Sun
B&Q slashes £78 off garden summerhouse bar this July – perfect for alfresco drinks on summer evenings
B&Q has slashed the price of a garden bar that could add some pizzazz to your outdoor space this summer. The reduction plunges the price from £427.99 to £349.99, saving £78 off. 1 The heatwave is continuing into July, and there's still time to make the most of the hot weather. If you have outdoor space, you don't have to spend lots of money on days out when you can just step out through your back door to enjoy the sun. B&Q has a unique garden addition on sale right now - the Waltons Garden Bar, which creates a fun area for parties. It comes in three different sizes, but it's the 6 x 4ft size that's reduced to £349.99, and the compact size could even fit into small gardens. The bar is made from pressure-treated wood, which is protected against decay, and it comes with a 10-year guarantee. The slanted shape of the roof allows rainwater to run off the top, ensuring the inside of the bar stays dry in rainy weather. It might be a simple design, but the natural would fit seamlessly into most garden, plus it's easily jazzed up with some fairy lights or bunting. If you're a household that's always entertaining friends and family, it's a great option for creating a pub garden from home. For a real bar experience, you could add some stools so your guests can get comfortable - although they might become regular visitors. Designed with a bar-like countertop around the inside perimeter, and a side entrance, all you need to do is pick a designated barman and you're good to go. If you're partial to a cold tipple, there's plenty of space inside the front of the bar, so you could easily store a mini fridge or cooler box out of sight. During the summer holidays especially, having a great garden set-up keeps kids entertained - and a garden bar will occupy the adults too. B&Q isn't the only home and garden retailer to drop its prices amidst the heatwave - read on as Argos launches summer deals including slashing the cost of outdoor essentials including lawnmowers and parasols. Solar lights are a great way to add some atmospheric lighting to a garden without using any electricity, and you can take a look at our pick of the best solar lights for the garden.
India.com
02-06-2025
- Business
- India.com
Rs 36961423200000 World's richest family is much richer than Mukesh Ambani, Adani, Narayana Murthy, Premji combined, their business is….
Waltons was started by brothers Sam and Bud Walton in 1962. Walmart operates 10,750 stores worldwide out of which 4,600 stores are in the US alone. It is one of the biggest retail corporations in the world. The Walton family has once again been recognised as the richest family in the world, with a collective net worth of $432 billion. It is higher than the GDPs of Greece and Hungary combined, and even of Iran, according to Bloomberg. The founder of the organisation was Sam Walton. He passed away in 1992 at age 72, and his brother Bud died three years later. Their legacy was carried forward by their next generation like Rob Walton, who was Walmart's chairman until 2015. Now Greg Penner who is Sam's son-in-law now leads the board. Penner and his family have expanded the business beyond retail. In 2022, they purchased the Denver Broncos NFL team for $4.7 billion which was one of the most expensive franchise acquisitions in history. The Waltons also have stakes in major sports franchises, due to family connections with sports icons like Stan Kroenke who is the husband of Ann Walton, Bud's daughter. It includes Premier League club Arsenal, Los Angeles Rams, Denver Nuggets, and Colorado Avalanche. Nancy Walton Laurie, another of Bud's daughters, owns a $300 million superyacht. It was acquired from Qatari royalty and it is currently the largest yacht in the world owned by a woman.
The Age
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
A feminine tale with a twist
Knife man, clothes prop man, dunny man, Rawleigh man, Waltons man and the Bebarfalds man (C8). Granny's been waiting for the sisterhood to get around this over-blokey thread, and Brenda Kerrigan of Speers Point has obliged: 'My recollection is the Rawleigh lady. She rented my nanna's garage and filled it with all her potions. My sister and I took great delight in unscrewing tins and sampling the contents, unbeknown to our nanna. I think she was also the first distributor of Twisties, which we also sampled and 'weren't they the most delicious things we had ever tasted?'' Cristine Doherty, 79, of Greenway (ACT) still has a tin of Rawleigh's Antiseptic Salve, 'which I bought at the Royal Easter Show approximately 50 years ago. It's 'medicated', I can't see any expiry date. So, still good to go then?' 'It's no wonder my brain is having trouble with recent memories, when it has stored images of the Lan Choo tea packet (C8), and that you needed a minimum of 36 coupons for the most measly gift from the catalogue,' writes Robert Hosking of Paddington. 'Although, our green Pyrex baking dish did serve us well for many years, and I'm sure is still around somewhere.' Robert Roobottom of Taree wants to over-complicate the complicated when he informs Peter Riley (C8) that 'when Sussan Ley's taxpayer-funded trip to purchase an investment property became news, I simply changed the spelling of her name to $u$$an.' Here's another missive from the black-and-white world (C8), this time from Corinne Johnston of Gymea Bay: 'I was watching the 1938 film The Lady Vanishes with my granddaughters, aged seven and 10 recently. After a few minutes, Miss Seven said: 'You completely forget there's no colour because the story is so good'. A mini Margaret Pomeranz, perhaps?' It didn't go quite as well for Pauline McGinley of Drummoyne: 'Watching some old newsreels when my son was little, he was bewildered as to why 'people had to walk so quickly in the olden days'.'
Sydney Morning Herald
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
A feminine tale with a twist
Knife man, clothes prop man, dunny man, Rawleigh man, Waltons man and the Bebarfalds man (C8). Granny's been waiting for the sisterhood to get around this over-blokey thread, and Brenda Kerrigan of Speers Point has obliged: 'My recollection is the Rawleigh lady. She rented my nanna's garage and filled it with all her potions. My sister and I took great delight in unscrewing tins and sampling the contents, unbeknown to our nanna. I think she was also the first distributor of Twisties, which we also sampled and 'weren't they the most delicious things we had ever tasted?'' Cristine Doherty, 79, of Greenway (ACT) still has a tin of Rawleigh's Antiseptic Salve, 'which I bought at the Royal Easter Show approximately 50 years ago. It's 'medicated', I can't see any expiry date. So, still good to go then?' 'It's no wonder my brain is having trouble with recent memories, when it has stored images of the Lan Choo tea packet (C8), and that you needed a minimum of 36 coupons for the most measly gift from the catalogue,' writes Robert Hosking of Paddington. 'Although, our green Pyrex baking dish did serve us well for many years, and I'm sure is still around somewhere.' Robert Roobottom of Taree wants to over-complicate the complicated when he informs Peter Riley (C8) that 'when Sussan Ley's taxpayer-funded trip to purchase an investment property became news, I simply changed the spelling of her name to $u$$an.' Here's another missive from the black-and-white world (C8), this time from Corinne Johnston of Gymea Bay: 'I was watching the 1938 film The Lady Vanishes with my granddaughters, aged seven and 10 recently. After a few minutes, Miss Seven said: 'You completely forget there's no colour because the story is so good'. A mini Margaret Pomeranz, perhaps?' It didn't go quite as well for Pauline McGinley of Drummoyne: 'Watching some old newsreels when my son was little, he was bewildered as to why 'people had to walk so quickly in the olden days'.'
Sydney Morning Herald
13-05-2025
- General
- Sydney Morning Herald
Flush with excess
Having been reminded by our friend Carmel Kenniff of Randwick that she reads Column 8 over breakfast and having been informed by Graham Lum of North Rocks that 'the ongoing anecdotes about dunnies (C8) are becoming a pain in the butt,' we think now might be a good time to can the toilet talk, but not before we get an archival perspective from Wendy Bull of North Turramurra: 'I remember my history teacher in the '60s, telling us to count our blessings. The ancient Romans used a communal 'sponge on a stick' (called a 'tersorium') which they dunked in troughs of salt water and if there was no sponge available, they'd use shards of old pottery. If they were out in the country then soft growing moss was used. Think I know what I'd prefer!' 'If you were a brewer, Jim Dewar, You'd gather that steaming manure, Set up a still, On top of the hill, And brew Dewar's Pure Cow-lua.' For this offering, we thank the epical George Manojlovic of Mangerton. Richard Stewart of Pearl Beach has been a C8 contributor on and off for a few decades or so and wants to convey in strongest of terms 'I despise fitted sheets and fitted sheets despise me.' 'Years ago the circus, was parked next to our farm,' writes Kate Fraser of Scone. 'It was a very noisy night as something seemed to have disturbed the lions. Next morning, 300 upset dairy cows (C8) were pressed as close as possible to the shed gate. Milk yield was down for a few days.' Kelvin Atkinson's (C8) premium offering has reminded David Prest of Thrumster that 'nobody's mentioned the man from Waltons who helped housewives plan their budgets.' On hearing that New Zealand's Finance Minister Nicola Willis said that people leaving the country for Australia was 'an ongoing challenge', which could be addressed by growing the economy, Bill Leigh of West Pennant Hills recalled a statement made in the 1980s by then NZ prime minister Robert 'Piggy' Muldoon when commenting about the increasing exodus: 'New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries.' 'Not so sure about the wet newspaper test of sharpness (C8),' says Geoff Carey of Pagewood. 'I remember getting into a lot of trouble for using my mother's dressmaking scissors to cut paper. Apparently, paper blunts the blade.' Not with the good scissors, Geoff!
