Microwaves are great for defroting and for a quick warm up on foods ut will never substitute the oven, specially the crispness you can achieve with the oven and this is only to mention one of the advantages. I rarely use my microwaves, unless for reheating some foods.

It is the Blum SERVO DRIVE which is the mechanism for the touch opening http://www.cucinelube.it/en/lube-plus/blum/servo-drive/ Here you can watch videos which illustrate various Blum mechanisms, including SERVO drive. http://www.cucinelube.it/en/lube-plus/blum/video/

We have a small inner-city backyard with three chooks. They live in a chicken tractor which we built to sit on top of our raised veggie beds. After a harvest is complete, the chooks clean up, till and fertilise the soil. They get let out to free range, and we throw any garden clippings in there, as well as all the food scraps from our kitchen (we have a toddler so there's no shortage of scraps). I buy pellets for $1.50/kg from our local pet wholesaler and they eat about a kilo per week. The coop is totally vermin/fox proof because it's on raised veggie beds, and it doesn't smell at all. It makes our veggie gardens much more productive, with very little work from us. Plus we get 2-3 eggs every day!

I picked tidy & organise the home, due to the fact we rent & would love useful information & photos of how to store things with limited space & making it feel more like a home without breaking the budget, would love to win the beautiful book for a dear friend who has had a rough couple of years & I know enjoys cooking, she deserves to be on the receiving end of something nice