If you know how to hay fever-proof your home, you can feel better and wean yourself off Sinutab in a matter of days.
Spring is the worst month for allergy sufferers but if you don’t allergy-proof your home, you could end up sniffing and sneezing all through the year. Dust, bathroom mould, too many soft furnishings and pet hair are all allergy triggers in your home, which means that minimalism and air purifiers are your friends. Embrace tiles and shun carpets, pack away your knickknacks, redundant scatter cushions and net curtains.
Petrol costs are sky high, yet in the blistering heat of your summer holiday destination there is no 
alternative to turning up the portable air conditioner in your rental car, something which keeps you cool and looking fresh but eats up petrol like there’s no tomorrow. Wouldn’t it be nice if there could be a way to power an air conditioner, or indeed a mini-bar fridge in a brand new SUV with nothing more than the motion of the automobile?
Air conditioners, both of the portable air conditioner and installation varieties, have changed where we live, the design of homes and office units and improved our standard of living and day to day comfort. Most of us didn’t grow up with them but if asked to give them up now, we would politely decline. Yet there was life before air conditioning.
How did they do it?
