1. Last week I visited my friend Pete in the new home where he lives with his wife and daughter. Pete used to spend his holidays travelling the world, visiting the pyramids in Egypt or scuba diving in the Caribbean. Nowadays he prefers to spend his holidays and weekends making his house look more beautiful. Like hundreds of thousands of other British people, he's discovered the joy of DIY (Do It Yourself), which means if there are any things that need fixing around the house, he will try to do the job on his own. On Saturday morning he'll visit his local hardware store, get out his toolbox and settle down to work on his next DIY project.