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...While the demand for domestic cleaners halved in one day, removals and handyman services more than made up for what we lost. By April 2021 we were 10 per cent up on our 2020 profits....
...As well as birdwatching, Harald loves carpentry and DIY. His true passion is plumbing and “he could spend hours happily lying under the kitchen sink”. Dream on, señora....
...“Look at Ireland — they’re struggling to get a vaccine,” says John Murray, a retired handyman in Glasgow....
...It could have been “Life of a Handyman”. There’s not much carpentry on LinkedIn but there are a few construction industry award ceremonies....
...The company also plans to launch SuperMano, its profitable DIY handyman service, in the UK after trialling it in France with over 1,800 handymen for the past 14 months....
...Netflix and chill: EU edition From April 1, EU consumers will be able to access online subscriptions like Netflix and other TV streaming services anywhere in the bloc....
...But New Hampshire is also filled with people like Affliction’s protagonist, Wade Whitehouse, the police officer cum snowplough operator cum handyman struggling with three jobs, trailer-park housing, single...
...San Francisco-based laundry service Wash.io raised $13m from investors and then shut last autumn. Happy Home, a handyman service company, raised $7m from investors before closing down last year....
...It was a handyman who had completed a job on his house a few months earlier. The man took the dog....
...As a boy growing up in Maine, Mr Chouinard would watch his father, a French-Canadian handyman, extract his own teeth with a pair of pliers and whiskey for anaesthetic....
...If you’re too busy — or too baffled — to assemble flat pack furniture, apps such as TaskRabbit can put you in touch with a local handyman (or woman) from as little as £15 an hour....
...Lonergan has remixed his two blighted children into his most assured work to date, the story of troubled Boston handyman Lee (Casey Affleck) who returns home to take care of his nephew after his brother’...
...It also recently launched a corporate email service, designed to take on Microsoft and Google, and Amazon Home Services, its push into the handyman market....
...Because Uber, Lyft and other sharing-economy companies such as handyman platform TaskRabbit or courier service Postmates treat workers as contractors not employees, those workers need to track their business...
...Some fear that companies such as TaskRabbit, which acts as an intermediary for people to buy and sell “home services” including housecleaning and handyman repairs, is contributing to that....
...After a day skiing in Morzine, Tom Ball, the chalet’s do-it-all handyman-cum-driver and Nathan Benson, its exotically-named “snow boy”, pick us up in a Land Rover....
...In the Netherlands, he works as a handyman, making up to €100 cash a day – less than his Dutch counterparts – and paying no taxes or social insurance....
...Stuart Wellstead, a handyman, says: “I can’t understand why there is an open-door policy when so many of our own people are unemployed.”...
...To broaden his skills, he attended theatre school, paying his way by working as a handyman, carrying out repairs and building sets. He also took up acting....
...Lying between Cambridge, Huntingdon and Peterborough, it lacks convenient rail links and bus services are patchy....
...Another venture, Tesco Home Services, which offered handyman services, has also closed. Mr Clarke is due to unveil his strategy for turning round Tesco’s UK business in two weeks’ time....
...“Professor Monti [was like] a postman: an officer of public services, belonging to a fuzzy and academic liberalism that risks being dangerous,” Mr Ferrara complained....
...The Financial Services Authority dropped an investigation into Mr Rambourg concerning his allocation of trades to favoured brokers....
...However, more obscure assets, such as magazines including Birds & Blooms, Country Woman and The Family Handyman, could prove harder to offload....
...Lorbottle Hall, a six-bedroom country house on a 19-acre estate at Alnwick in Northumberland, 320 miles north of London, includes an apartment for the housekeeper and handyman....
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