Advantages: tender and movivng Disadvantages: The first few chapters
An interesting or unusual title makes a book more alluring to the reader. I have often picked up a book on the strength of the title alone. When the novel "Swallowing Grandma" by Kate Long was suggested at my book group I had to vote for it, as I was curious about such an odd title.
The book is a coming of age saga centred on the life of 18 year old Katherine Miller and her unconventional family in Banktop, a fictional mining village supposedly between Wigan and Bolton.
Katherine lives with her professional northerner of a grandmother Poll, as her father died before she was born and then her mother abandoned her shortly afterwards. The book is about Katherine's (or Kat as she wants to be known) quest to find herself and ultimately her mother. Katherine's story is intertwined with her mother's tragic story of coming to terms ...
Advantages: Slightly relaxes you Disadvantages: Doesn't send you to sleep
So after a few restless nights where I was going to bed at around 5am because I just couldn't sleep I thought about looking for a sleep aid and looked for a product in my local asda. I was stuck between a choice of kalms sleeping tablets and nytol herbal tablets. Having experienced kalms in the normal form and having had little results I decided to try the nytol herbal tablets. These were most costly being priced at £4.83 in asda so I thought well I'll just give it a try and see what happens.
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The nytol herbal tablets come in a green cardboard box containing 30 tablets. There is a nice illustration of a cloud and a moon which I guess its supposed to make you think of a nice peaceful night snoozing. It says on the front that it is a new formulation and that it is "A blend of herbs to soothe and so aid ...
Advantages: Easy to swallow even with a sensitive throat Disadvantages: None
Having just been diagnosed with tonsillitis, which has caused lack of sleep, I have been feeling totally shattered and aching from head to foot as a consequence.
After suffering 2 nights of little sleep and then on the 3rd no sleep at all I decided to take serious action in knocking myself out one way or the other, so I went to my local chemist for advice on the matter.
In exchange for £2.75 I came away with 16 easyswallowcaplets, which are ideal as I’m finding it extremely hard toswallow saliva (gross but true) let alone anything that resembles a house brick (as tablets do at this sensitive time).
Tucked away in their little blue box with the word Nytol flying high on a picture of a cloud on the front I turned to the reverse of the box for directions.
Here in quite extensive detail it informs you that Nytol is ...
