A friendly, family-run business established 35 years ago. Everything roofing, best describes their services! They also specialise in GRP flat roof systems and were the first in the area to offer a genuine 100% solution to the usual problem of leaky flat roofs, carrying a Top Seal backed 20-year warranty.

Their customers write very complementary things like...... "How nice the workforce were" and "how pleased they were with the finished result" comments we don't tend to associate with anyone in the building trade! My neighbour just used them for his roof and he was delighted with the value for money and quality of finish.

www.westcountryroofsystems.co.uk

A real success story here - novahomes.co.uk only started early 2006 and already there is a rapidly expanding group of independently owned internet-based agents covering an ever increasing area of the South West and beyond. KaaBoom has been working closely with the office covering Bridport to Axminster and surrounding villages (DT6-7 & EX12-13).

The biggest advantage of this type of agency is the money saved in selling your home (0.85% fee). You might be forgiven for thinking that for such a small price the service and standards would suffer. However, the opposite is in fact true. The very personal service includes full colour sales details with up to ten photographs, floor plans, accompanied viewings as well as considered advice when ever you need it. Everything an estate agency service should offer (but often doesn't!) including frequent communication, negotiation of the sale and progressing the sale to completion.

David Younge has building in his blood. “The Company was started by my grandfather Bob from his back yard in South London about the time of the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, as a master bricklayer, along with my great uncle Brian, a carpenter and later my father as a designer”.

David has brought things bang up to date these days and now offers some really exciting bespoke designed timber-framed houses at quite simply, remarkable prices! From a small park home in kit form from £35,0000 through to large detached ‘villa’ style houses with an integral swimming pool, all things are possible.

Enter the ‘hidden world’ of Rogers close-up macro photography and you are on a voyage to a different world. When I came across his work, I knew I had discovered something a little special! Take a trip through his on-line galleries and invest in a signed print or two, mark my words, this is a name to watch in the future.

Roger has already had photographs in Claudine Beaumonts gardening section in the Daily Telegraph and big coverage in May editions of Dorset Life and Somerset Life magazines. His first period focused on Botanicals (with a difference, take a look you will see what I mean!) and he is now working with his Jurassic pieces to great effect.

He has a number of exhibitions during the summer (details on his site) and all the signed prints are available for sale from his website. Using advanced Giclée printing techniques and high-quality papers his prints are guaranteed light fast for a minimum of 100 years.

Ken Evans (1924-1987) produced some of the most thought-provoking images of his time. Painting at a time when a lot of the artists were experimenting with new painting techniques and materials, a lot of which have not stood the test of time, Ken chose to use the same processes that the old masters used. His dedication and persistence have paid off as his paintings have stood the test of time and are likely to be there like his counterparts, 100’s of years later.

Some humorous, some moving, others quite spiritual, why not take a look at the website and see what you like? Currently only available as prints or greetings cards, maybe one day soon, his family will be persuaded to sell one or two originals. It will be exciting to see what interest there is in some of these now a quite iconic images.