The Butler Did It!

Advantages: Delicious!
Disadvantages: Lack of nutritional information; expensive

...thought hot chocolate was meant to be made out from cocoa powder, it was nice having a hot chocolaty drink while watching TV or surfing the net so my fingers won't shake while typing! Anyway . . . I had butlers hot chocolate drink as a Christmas gift from my uncle who lives in Ireland and is married to a lovely Irish lady. It had arrived to me as a parcel with a Christmas card inscribed with one word only . . . ENJOY! It may sound lame but to be honest I was gutted to receive such a gift, I was expecting more! However, I had a look and I was surprised to learn that it was supposed to be drunk not eaten! I never heard of this brand and never knew that hot chocolate can come in pieces! The only hot chocolate I knew was the cocoa powder or chocolate powder! Subsequently I took the box and had a close look; I wanted to...

karimkha 07.01.2009 (08.01.2009) · Read review
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Book butler

Advantages: ---
Disadvantages: ---

...book butler is a online search engine that focuses on getting you books cheap. It Searches 116 online shops, marketplaces and exchanges for good prices and fast availability including loads of major book retailers such a as amazon and amazon secondhand. It then brings you all the prices with and with out delivery charges. You can then pick the cheapest option for you saving bundles of cash really quickly. This has been vital for me as I have spent about 80quid on books which if I paid full retail price at first hand would have cost me approximately 110quid! A Tasty 30quid saving for no extra work! It is easier to use this site if you already have your book in mind but it does give you plenty of different search options. The ISBN is usually the best to search with. Beware though the site is mainly American so a few of your choices...

jonahea 14.11.2008 · Read review
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Butlers Hot Chocolate Drink

Advantages: Attractive packaging, attractive price point, simple to make.
Disadvantages: Not chocolatey enough!!

...Firstly, I would like to point out that although this product comes under the category of "Cocoa (Instant)", it is not cocoa - it is Hot Chocolate! That means that it is a drink made with "real" chocolate, not with cocoa powder. I have mixed feelings about Butlers chocolates in general - I have tasted many of their products, and I love some of them, and am not so keen on others. So, it was with interest that I tried this new product. It has only just become available here in Ireland, I am not sure you can buy it in the UK as yet. First things first - the box itself is very attractive. It is a rich chocolatey brown colour with the Butlers logo in gold, and a photo of a pair of hands holding a teacup with a delicious looking chocolate drink in the cup, and a piece of the chocolate that you find inside dropping into the drink...

NickleIckle 06.11.2008 · Read review
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Richard Butler - Richard Butler

Advantages: mature, inventive, beautiful and emotional
Disadvantages: really can't think of any!

...Richard Butler is best known as the charismatic rasping voiced singer in the Psychedelic Furs. After 25 years fronting the band this is his first solo album, and those expecting simply inferior Furs tracks are in for a wonderful surprise. All the songs are co-written with Jon Carin (often a member of Pink Floyd over the past 20 years or so) and all, without exception, are beautifully constructed, grown up, mature songs. Smooth keyboards and rythmn tracks slightly disguise extremely clever songwriting and some devastatingly heartbreaking lyrics. Both men lost their fathers during the prolonged making of this album and a sense of personal loss and longing permeates the album. But there is also hope and light at the end of the tunnel and despite the occasional depressing lyric this is not a doomy album in any way. Every song leaves...

adams66 16.09.2008 · Read review
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BUTLER BHO 3010 ELECTRIC CERAMIC HOB

Advantages: NONE
Disadvantages: VERY POOR AFTERSALES SUPPORT

...BUTLER BHO3010 PURCHASED 30TH JUNE 2006 I connected the hob to the mains and found that it did not heat up I wasnt aware that you had to connect up 3 links to make the unit work Somebody came and fixed it for £40.00 as it was not a warranty job The hob worked well up til March 2008 and then one of the touch circuit boards stopped working. I contacted the main contractor for repairs who said that I had to pay £69.99 call charge which was taken from my credit card there and then.An engineer called and said that a circuit board had gone down and it would cost £110.00 for the part. The repair was done and I was £180.00 out of pocket. I wrote to the Managing Director of Butlers at Maidstone but NEVER received any sort of reply. I sent them an email on yheir web site again with no reply. On boxing day 2008 the hob went again...

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I'm Going Nuts For Butlers

Advantages: Delicious, handmade chocolate for the connoisseur
Disadvantages: A bit pricey and you have to hide it from the kids.

...***The Product*** Butlers' Milk Chocolate Hazelnut Praline Bar is a chunky chocolate bar. Each bar weighs 75 grams and is individually made with a hazelnut praline centre. There are six chunks to each bar and inside each one, surrounded by the soft praline, is a delicious hazelnut. Praline is a mixture of powdered nuts and chocolate and the praline used in this confectionary is made to an old family recipe. What makes this product different and a little more expensive than other similar ones is that it is handmade to a recipe that has been used at the Butlers' factory, in Ireland, for many years. I have to admit that this is certainly a quality product and one that all serious chocoholics will want to try. . ***Availability*** The first challenge when it comes to reviewing this chocolate bar is actually being...

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Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz - 17" TFT

Advantages: nice screen, good battery life, fast specs
Disadvantages: large size (price?)

...Apple mac-books, where to start... ok, so to start, it is an apple, that means you get a solid quality product and on the whole very good customer are. this particualar apple is deffinatly more suited to being a media center than other laptops. At first glance you realise that it is a fairly large laptop, this allows for a big screen, which being an apple ffers clear vivid displays, unfortunatly the big screen increases the overal size and also uses more battery, however, the 4.5 hour yattery is still very good for an entertainment laptop. The laptops technical specs include a very fast 2.5 ghz dual core proccesor which is very fast, the dual core allows it to tackle multiple tasks quicly as well as increasing the overall speed of the laptop. The price is quite steep however, but i believe, if given the money, it is...

pieceofmind 29.04.2008 (30.04.2008) · Read review
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A Book Lover

Advantages: Well-drawn characters. Creative use of words.
Disadvantages: A little difficult to adjust to the changing style of writing

...The Book Thief written by Australian author Marcus Zusak was published in Australia in 2005 as an adult novel and in America in 2006 as a children?s novel. It finally came to the UK in 2007 published by Doubleday and Black Swan in both adult and teen-age versions. Though I have to admit, I do not know what the differences between the two versions are! My copy and the one I am reviewing is the adult version. The novel proved to be a triumphant success greeted by glowing accolades from a wide range of literary reviewers ? excerpts of which can be found in the book. The most apt from The Irish Examiner, ?A peculiar tale, whose deceptively plain language and cryptic style describe the most profound of human emotions and the most hideous of human actions . . . an unusual and compelling novel? Set in Nazi Germany during the Second World...

MAFARRIMOND 03.06.2009 · Read review
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Whodunnit? The butler?

Advantages: Great story, very entertaining
Disadvantages: Too many big names

...unrecognisable, then there is something wrong as far as I am concerned. The Murder at the Vicarage is, thankfully, not like this - it actually stays close to the book. There are some changes, mainly from the point of view of the characters and their behaviour, but basically, the story is the one I know so well. One slight annoyance is the supposed love affair that Miss Marple had with a married man when she was young - this is not mentioned in the books, and the flashbacks are unnecessary as far as I'm concerned. I think the aim is to give Miss Marple a more rounded character, but I didn't like it. I have always liked this story. It is quite a complicated one, with lots of red herrings, yet it is still easy enough to follow. It is not, however, one of Christie's best, and I think that ultimately it shows here. I did, of course, know what was going...

sunmeilan 15.02.2009 · Read review
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John Butler Trio Grand national

Advantages: Great guitars, high level of musicianship
Disadvantages: A little self indulgent

...I first heard John Butler when I was in a record shop in Perth (that?s Oz, not Scotland) and asked for some cool local grooves. JBT was the first thing the assistant played and I can still remember the moment: I wet gangbusters on him, as they say Down Under. Since then I?ve bought all his albums, travelled to London (and Manchester) to see him and all in all been a bit of a fan. Although this new album is not as immediately brilliant as the last album, ?Sunrise over sea?, it?s still JBT and he can do no wrong. If you?ve not heard of him, Butler is a fantastic guitarist ? he?s got to be one of the best in the world ? and plays electric rootsy folk. However, even as a fan I can admit he can go on a bit: his twin loves are the environment and playing long, complicated guitar sections. My other half doesn?t really like him for this ? he...

JeroBear 15.06.2007 · Read review
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