date. Supplied with one SP20 Eyecam

Advantages: Very hardy, nice fruit, elegant-looking tree
Disadvantages: Thorny, not good container plant, needs hot summers to fruit well

...yourself from seed is excellent value for money, as the average price of a packet of seeds is only £1.50 or so, and from this you can often obtain many plants, as long as you have the patience. In the case of Chinese Dates, I paid £1.20 for a packet of 5 stones, and although 4 of them germinated, I only kept one plant to grow to maturity. Although it has taken five years, I now have an attractive fruit-bearing shrub which cost me only £1.20 as I have not incurred any additional costs such as fertilizer or compost. I purchased my seeds from Chiltern Seeds (www.edirectory.co.uk/chilternseeds), which at the time also sold seeds of the related Buffalo Thorn (Zizyphus mucronata). However after checking their website, it appears that they no longer stock Chinese Date. It is possible to obtain seeds from another online supplier though, namely Nicky... Read review

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Advantages: comprehensive kitchen range and product selection. in store designers. good literature and web presence
Disadvantages: don't visit your home. no stock in local store. can't return surplus items.

...I spent just over £5000 on my kitchen from MFI. The changes the company have made following the recent year of bad losses seems to be helping. A room full of cabinets and appliances arrived on schedule, no damages, everything is well packaged. The delivery guys put the stuff were I asked them to. You have 72 hours to make sure nothing is missing and up to 5 days to inform the company that any item is damaged or not the correct one. With my own large order, 2 minor items (fixings and screw bags) were wrong, customer services dispatched the correct ones which arrived by courier 2 days later. The fitting instructions for my kitchen were also not supplied but this was sorted after a couple of phone calls, I was able to download it from the web site. The schreiber cabinets are of standard (chip-board) quality, the doors, architrave... Read review

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Advantages: Simple to apply.
Disadvantages: compared to traditional gloss paint, fails.

...I want to tell readers about a paint supplied by Homebase because I feel strongly about their description of the paint as a "one coat gloss". The name implies that a person would only need to apply one coat of paint altogether, and what is very misleading is that what they mean is that you only need to apply one coat of gloss, although of course, you need to prime, undercoat and maybe even add knotting compound to areas of wood where knots are leaking. THE POT ITSELF A standard litre pot is available at approx. £11.99. I say approximately as it was bought for me in the U.K. It's a buck standard pot, with instructions on the outside that tell you how to wash your brushes (i.e. with white spirit) and give you generalised instructions. Opening the can is every bit as simple as other makes, although here, the similarities with other... Read review

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