Advantages: Stylish
Disadvantages: Noise

...The Belling XOU487 is a stylish double electric oven in staniless steel which is very pleasing to the eye and after istallation made our kitchen look more modern than it did before we had it. TOP OVEN Has the following controls Off Half Grill Full Grill Fan Grill Fan Oven Fan Only Light only BOTTOM OVEN Off Fan Oven Conventional Oven Base Heat Top Heat Fan Oven with Base Heat Light only There is a clock (digital readout) with six buttons for adjusting the clock and setting the timer for cooking. Note the clock is not the easiest to set even when you follow the instructions. The Oven has four shelf position in both the top and bottom and comes with plenty of shelves and looking trays, including a Anti splash tray and food support rack. There is also a grill for the top oven. The instruction manual is first class with thirty eight... Read review

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Advantages: Stylish
Disadvantages: Noisey

...The Belling XOU487 is a stylish double electric oven in staniless steel which is very pleasing to the eye and after istallation made our kitchen look more modern than it did before we had it. TOP OVEN Has the following controls Off Half Grill Full Grill Fan Grill Fan Oven Fan Only Light only BOTTOM OVEN Off Fan Oven Conventional Oven Base Heat Top Heat Fan Oven with Base Heat Light only There is a clock (digital readout) with six buttons for adjusting the clock and setting the timer for cooking. Note the clock is not the easiest to set even when you follow the instructions. The Oven has four shelf position in both the top and bottom and comes with plenty of shelves and looking trays, including a Anti splash tray and food support rack. There is also a grill for the top oven. The instruction manual is first class with thirty eight... Read review

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Advantages: Works a treat, looks fantastic, self-cleaning, energy efficient.
Disadvantages: None that I can think of

...When my husband put in our new kitchen a little while ago, I had a field day choosing all the different appliances I would need to go with my new units. For the cooking area we chose a separate hob (Electrolux) but decided to opt for a different manufacturer for our oven. The one we opted for was a Belling built under electric double fan oven - XOU593. After shopping around various places we found the cheapest we could find was from Sainsbury's on-line. We bought our hob and kitchen units from B&Q and the salesman desperately wanted us to buy the oven from him too, but it would have cost us approximately £55 more if we had, so we decided to go with Sainsbury. We paid £465.00 plus delivery and it arrived within 3 working days! We've had this oven now for about eighteen months and never had any bother with it at all. What attracted... Read review

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Disadvantages: please see opinionheading

...Pros: Small, friendly people, a lot of nature. Cons: Crowded in the summer, the weather. The Bottom Line: Visit Holland soon and love it too! Recommended: Yes I already wrote about my town, Maastricht, now i write about my country; the Netherlands. Capital: -------- The capital is Amsterdam. In this town live about 700.000 people. Its a very historical place and has more to offer then drugs and the redlight-district. The most important musea and buildings of the Netherlands are build here. There is a streetmarket that is opened 365 days a year and you can buy there everything xou can imaging or not imagine. Den Haag: --------- This is our second "capital". Here you find our queen Beatrix and all government buildings. Daily politics are made here. It is almost completely build in the 1920s and has a lovely architecture... Read review

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Advantages: a long joke
Disadvantages: a little stupid

...Quasimodo died, and the bishop of Notre Dame Cathedral was desperately looking for another bell-ringer. He put an ad in the town square but no one came at the appointed hour. Finally, when he was about to go home, a man arrived at the cathedral, a man with no arms. "I'm here for the bell-ringer position," said the man. "But you have no arms!" said the Bishop, astonished. "No problem," said the man. "Just watch." He ran at the bell and hit it with his head. Beautiful music rang out. The bishop was delighted, believing that he had found a new bell-ringer. But his first day at work, a tragic accident took place. The new bell-ringer ran at the bell, missed, and fell out of the steeple to his death on the street below. A crowd quickly gathered, attracted by the lovely music they had heard. The bishop hurried down... Read review

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Advantages: pretty
Disadvantages: none

...Ding dong it's a bell flower. I have several bell flowers in my garden the chalky soil seems to suit them These plants grow quite well on most soils as long as they are free draining. The bell flowers are plants of the species Campanula. There are tall bellflowers short bell flowers and creeping bellflowers. In my garden I have some of the shorter species and a creeping one too. The Scottish blue bell, campanula rotunda, the harebell is one of the campanula species and can be found in the wild in Scotland and some other countries. You can grow them in your garden seeds are easy to buy. These flowers in late summer /early autumn. The flowers growing up to about 18 inches tall. When I was a child I can remember planting some Canterbury bells and so proud when these tall plants with blue bell like flowers appeared. I am... Read review

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Advantages: Loved by children and adults alike
Disadvantages: Only the possibilty of having songs stuck in your head as you wash up!

...This is an enchanting story, different but by no means worse than the book I remember as a child. Belle is the beautiful, only daughter of a slightly eccentric inventor, who loves reading books. Gaston is the vain, overbearing 'dreamboat' -admired by all the women in the village except Belle. When he is made to look a fool after Belle turns down his marriage proposal, he plots with the official of the local lunatic asylum to get Belle's father committed. In the meanwhile, having lost his way en route to an inventors fayre,Belle's father happens upon the Beast's castle (similar plot here, handsome prince turned into beast but all the household staff have also been turned into household objects). Here he meets the Beast who is not a very hospitable person and throws him into the tower. Belle looks for her father after Phillippe the horse... Read review

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Advantages: reliable
Disadvantages: None

...Reliaility and quality make P.B. a system to be reckoned with. I have a Packard Bell PC which I bought 18 months ago and have found the system to be reliable and trouble free. I have previously bought systems fro other lesser name retailers and always experienced serious problems with them. With Packard Bell I am pleased to say that I have had none of these problems at all. The system came pre-installed and running correctly but also has a restore disk to re-install the system to its factory defaults should you hit a problem.... Read review

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Advantages: An important piece of American history.
Disadvantages: longer in the queue than inside.

...The entrance to the Liberty Bell Center is on market street, just opposite independance hall which is also the backdrop of the bell when you finally come to see it in its glass chamber. It is open throughout the year until around 5pm, though that time may vary depending on the time of year. The new Liberty Bell Center itself is not the original site of the bell and is a fairly modern structure of concrete and glass surrounded by a well maintained lawn. The exhibit is free to enter but the queue is more often than not extremely long and very slow moving because of the huge security measures as you enter. (I am talking airport style xray machines for all bags, walk through metal detectors and the occasional pat-down search. Once you finally get inside you walk through a long wide hall with display boards giving the history of the bell... Read review

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Advantages: Brilliant -
Disadvantages: None

...Beauty and the beast This animated movie tells the story of a young shy woman Belle who lives with her father in Paris. He is an inventor and the whole town thinks he's crazy. Gaston is the man of the town, very popular with the ladies - every man wants to be him and all women want to date him - type of man. He has a soft spot for Belle and wants to be with her, but when she ignores his advances he sets out to win her heart. When her father sets off to a inventors convention belle is left alone at home. As Belle sits at home alone Gaston pays her visit but she hides and runs down to the valley so she doesn't have to deal with him. Down by the valley, she comes across the horse her father had taken to the convention, so she then knew something bad has happened to her father so off she goes to find him. Her father had got lost... Read review

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