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Everything that starts with M ...

As those who check my reviews out from time to time or have my in the COT will know I tragically lost my mother on 8 November. She was 75 which is not particularly old these days and had, until very recently indeed, been very healthy and led an active life. This made her very sudden demise ... Read review

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My mum, a celebration and the colour purple

Advantages: She made me what I am
Disadvantages: Some might refer to the advantages

...critic. She knew just about everything that makes me tick and would on occasion use such knowledge ruthlessly to get my to do things she considered important. Equally, she could convey a message in a far more gentle and subtle way though I do not think subtlety was a particular strength of hers any more that it has become one of mine.

A little further on in this review you will read a potted history of my mothers life in the form ...
...and in the final days everything seemed to go wrong. I had a terrible feeling and I was called to the hospital with my poor father three successive nights as her condition took increasingly serious turns for the worse. The first two times mum was still fighting but the third time she had passed away between us receiving the call and reaching the hospital. I really felt for my father and it took me a week to let out my own grief.

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andrewfleminguk 25.11.2007 (25.11.2007)
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Mmmmm........Miso

Advantages: Tasty, very good for you, unusual
Disadvantages: Quite salty, bit expensive, can be hard to find

...Then there is the taste: everything from salty, barbecued meat through to subtle and delicate sashimi (raw fish), tangy tsukemono (pickles) and warming noodle dishes. One of the staples of Japanese cookery and one which features in almost every meal is miso. Not only is this delicious when presented as miso soup (its most basic form) but it is also extremely versatile and can be used not just in traditional Japanese dishes but also in more familiar ...
...product for a few years now I wanted to bring it to the attention of more people and try to convince you that it's not just for health food freaks. ☼☼☼What is Miso? ☼☼☼ Miso is typically found in shops as a thick, salty paste with a colour ranging from creamy white through red to very dark brown, depending on the type. It is the result of fermenting soybeans or some type of cereal (usually barley or rice) together ...

cladach29 14.12.2006 · Read full review
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MISSING

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...of paper and written down everything that could possibly have happened. Murder. Suicide. Abduction Accident. Elopement. They were all improbable to the point of impossible. Their Ellie? Quiet studious Ellie. For goodness sake in the days before mobile phones she left route cards in her kitchen when she went walking, just in case. She did go walking though, alone, and in the wildest places. Looking at the paper again…each and every possibility was ...
...not come home. No-one who saw her go noticed her particularly. Why would they? She often went away. To leave with a suitcase or a rucksack and not be around for a while was normal. Her neighbours said she was quiet, polite, easily missed. Except no-one had. Until it was too late. Now she was missed. Sometimes with a sadness that pressed tears from eyes, dry with crying. Sometimes with a hatred, for her, for whoever took her, for whatever it was ...

hiker 04.02.2005 · Read full review
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Steerpykes musical musings

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I thought that it was about time that I put some of my thoughts down regarding the writing of one category of review. Those that know me will be aware that music is one of life's great passions and writing reviews on the subject one part of this. I have found that, like many things in life, music reviews are easy to do, but doing them well takes a lot of thought and effort, and for every good writer there are ten who seem to be missing the point ...
...ideas via the written page. It also seems that those ten all seem to be writing somewhat helpful Green Day reviews. I'm not writing this from some sort of self-established ivory tower, I am no more an expert than any other passionate musophile (my spellchecker says that's not a real word but then what would a machine know about music?). This is in no way meant to be a carved in stone guide or "how to…" article, as that would just be condescending, ...

steerpyke 10.02.2006 (11.02.2006) · Read full review
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Mad About Movies, My 600th Ciao Entry

Advantages: Hope for aspiring writers
Disadvantages: Remarkably un-fluid (is that aword?)

As I find myself at my 600th Ciao article I realise it's been 200 articles since I last gave a piece of myself to this website that to me is home, while I'll openly use other review websites I'm happy to say that this is my true home. Now more than ever Ciao is my home, because Ciao has been shaping my future. My strongest memories as a child revolve around movies; it was the one time our family joined together for a bit of group participation. ...
...a major event, and more recent titles would be well pre-empted. Some movies would be advertised a month before they were screened, TV and movies combined were a much bigger thing. In my mind I can still see my mother in her chair, sister (before she went mad) on the sofa, and my father sat on the floor back to the sofa because of backache with the family dog Judy laid beside him. I would be sat in my chair, conveniently the one closest to the TV, ...

sghawken 08.02.2008 · Read full review
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SNAILS MAKE GREAT CRICKET BALLS?

Advantages: They're food for wildlife
Disadvantages: They eat garden plants

Slugs and snails! Just the thought of them munching their way through my favourite hostas and nibbling the tender shoots of my emerging perennials is enough to have me declare death and destruction on what is, essential, just another of nature’s creations. As much as I hate them, I certainly wouldn’t want all of slugs and snails to disappear. That wouldn’t be fair on the thrushes, hedgehogs and frogs that enjoy making a meal of them. I just wish ...
...only become pests when the balance is wrong. A few in the compost heap can be a good thing; a whole army of them around my hostas most certainly isn’t. Slugs and snails are gastropods (they have only one foot), moving by creeping along on the single ‘foot’ beneath their bodies (their stomach is actually their foot as they absorb food through it), contracting and expanding a band of muscles so as to create ripples that push them along. Very clever, ...

CherryBlossom 27.05.2004 · Read full review
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everyone else to decide whether or not I achieve it! x. Which is your favourite of all your ops? I've got two that I particularly enjoyed writing. There's "How not to get fit" in Member Advice on Exercise Routines about my experiences with a RoboRoller. The other is "The Monster" in Everything that starts with M, which tells of the time I spent learning to play the piano. These are the opinions which probably show more of the real me than any of my other opinions. In terms of an opinion which I feel I got just about right then it's "Saving the planet one day at a time" about Ecover Laundry Liquid. xi. Comments written to date: I've written 15144! The words 'gobby' and 'piece' have just sprung to mind! xii. Do you write a comment with every rating? I've rated over 30,000 opinions, so it works out at about one comment ...

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