Roses are Red....

Advantages: Beautiful flowers, wonderful variety
Disadvantages: Take a lot of care

...As part of my review into roses, I plan to review the main areas of rose growing in detail. The areas that I will cover are, how to design gardens to incorporate roses, the preparation of the soil and the physical planting of roses and the routine care required for rose growing. Unfortunately, I think this may be quite a long review, as I have so much to say about them! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESIGNING WITH ROSES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The beauty of the rose family is that it doesn't matter whether you choose old garden roses, for their gracious growing habit, foliage and scent, or whether you choose to grow modern roses for their very long flowering season or their fantastic blooms, the massive diversity of the rose family means...

SnowiestElf 11.01.2006 · Read review
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Not quite a bunch of roses : Cadbury's Roses

Advantages: Nice chocolate, a couple of good fillings
Disadvantages: Lack of variety of fillings, lots of old flavours are now missing

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I was feeling a bit sorry for myself the other day (no specific reason why - just one of those days), and when in that frame of mind, there is only one thing which can ride me through until a better mood is upon me.......chocolate! While in Morrisons, I looked all through the usual offerings of things like Kit-Kats, Bounty Bars, Maltesers etc., but none of them seemed to appeal to me. Then, my eyes rested on a wire trolley-load of boxes of Cadbury's Roses, on special offer, at £1.99. My eyes kind of lit up, my spirits lifted slightly, and I dumped one of the boxes in my trolley. I actually forgot I'd bought them until I got home and unpacked the shopping. Now, I don't trust myself with this amount of chocolates, especially if I'm using them as comfort food, as I can be in danger of eating the whole box all at once - so, I divided...

CelticSoulSister 22.11.2009 · Read review
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Why are they called Roses?

Advantages: Lovely cadbury chocolate
Disadvantages: Centres not as good as they used to be.

...Before Christmas several shops had offers for tins of chocolates and I bought a big tin of Cadbury Roses. We are still digging into them but I have sampled them all, even the ones I dislike! My tin contained 1.05kg, I do wish I had counted how many chocolates were in the tin, but on second thoughts I don't want to know how many we have consumed although they have been shared with friends and family! Best before date is April 2009, I was surprised to see the contents are stamped on the base although different chocolates could be replaced if necessary. There is information on the makers Cadbury Trebor Bassett and contact details, if you need to complain. Although it does say there could be a white bloom if the chocolates have been left in the sun or exposed to heat, which is harmless. There is a list of ingredients and a note that Soya...

jo145 06.02.2009 · Read review
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Do you prefer daisies or roses?

Advantages: Versatility, great flavours, high quality
Disadvantages: No strong smell

...Every now and then, my dear mum decides to treat us. Whether its on a day out, a trip to the cinema or a special meal for tea, she usually makes a big effot at least once every two to three weeks. I love these times, when me, my mum and two younger brothers go out for a posh meal to a big fancy restuarant or we drive 3 hours to a theme park and spend the night in a hotel. Sometimes though my mum is slightly tight for money and has to put the treat off untill the next week, although she doesnt do this often, when she does she feels really bad and she always trys to make it up to us- introduce Cadburys Roses. Couple of months back, my mum had just paid for a trip to Germany and was slightly strapped for cash and so our monthly treat was going to have to wait. So, around that time when she had just popped to the shop for milk...

SweetTooth93 09.03.2008 · Read review
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Rose Fantastique

Advantages: Great quality, innovative - great shades available
Disadvantages: This shade is not easy to get your hands on,

...ensure that it's safe to use. Depending on how sharp you like your point, you shouldn't need to sharpen this too often either, so you'll definitely get your money's worth out of this pencil. Price and Availability Speaking of getting your money's worth...the Bourjois Khôl & Contour eye-liner pencil retails at £4.20 at Boots. However, getting your hand on the Rose Fantaisiste shade could prove tricky, since it's not available on the Boots website. I can't say whether or not it is still available in store, as I haven't had any reason to look out for it since I bought it. I've had mine for over a year now and it's still going strong. If you're interested in other shades, the Boots website has 7 different shades (albeit it two different black shades and their new, double-ended black and white Khôl Contour pencil). The Bourjois website...

lora44 18.10.2009 · Read review
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Purple Roses (!)

Advantages: Wonderful tale of cinematic fantasy
Disadvantages: None

...by ~ Woody Allen ~~~~~~~ Overview ~~~~~~~ I would agree with the overview on the reverse of the DVD, which states that the film is one of the best movies about the movies ever made. It continues, "?Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo slips through the looking glass of comic fable about life, love, illusion and hope." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The film & Comment ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The film, is quite simply a masterpiece, and a typical example of the escapism and fantasy many of us long for and look for outside and beyond the somewhat and often typical mundane ness of our every day lives, whether it be looking after the kids, working in an office, or even playing Premiership football!! Books and films in particular, are two areas that allow us to escape into another world and concentrate on something else entirely for either a few...

newty1977 14.04.2006 · Read review
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Wake up and smell the roses

Advantages: Light, unusual, delicate, feminine
Disadvantages: Delicate notes are not noticeable

...Launch date: 2007 Available: stores, online Top notes: rose, violet Middle notes: rose oil, green tea, magnolia Base notes: cedar wood, musks The bottle As you would expect from Paul Smith who is famous for revisiting the classic and redefining it by adding modern contrast to it, the bottle of this very airy and delicate fragrance is quite heavy, with a thick bottom that makes up about ¼ of its entire height. The shape of the bottle is also unusual, it widens to the middle then suddenly comes to a short, stumpy neck that is slightly elongated with the simple, cylindrical metal cap. The box features the rose developed by Paul Smith bearing his name and first presented in 2006 on the Chelsea Flower Show. The fragrance A unique technique is used to capture the smell of the Paul Smith Rose...

lillamarta 31.12.2007 (30.12.2007) · Read review
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Audrey Rose: Is she or isn't she?

Advantages: Very watchable, interesting storyline, quite scary in parts
Disadvantages: Rather dated, a little stilted acting here & there

...isn't in the slighest a film about possession/devils/ghosts or anything else of that nature, as some people interpreted my review on DooYoo. It's about the concept of reincarnation. It has to be said that I personally found the novel far superior to the film, as the novel goes very deeply into the philosophies of Eastern religions, reincarnation, karma, nirvana etc., whereas if the film were to encompass everything the book has to offer, it would probably be about six months long! All the same though, Audrey Rose as a movie is, though somewhat dated, a very good 120-odd minutes' viewing. The best part about the film for me, is that there's little or no idea of what the ending is going to be until it actually happens - and, I am left wondering - why (assuming for a moment that the film is real life, and not a group of actors...

CelticSoulSister 06.12.2009 · Read review
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Roses, Roses Everywhere!

Advantages: Traditional Christmas Chocolates
Disadvantages: There are none left by New Year

...The time for celebrating the birth of Jesus is approaching and for some reason, I know not why, we seem to eat more chocolate at this time of year than any other. Go round any supermarket at this time and there are random heaps of tins in all corners, they are on special offer, or two for one offers, or just there, but you can't miss them. Our favourite and the most traditional that we can remember are Cadburys Roses. When the children were little my parents always bought us a tin for Christmas and we opened it on Christmas Eve, there was nothing left in the tin by new years eve but by then we had had enough chocolates to last us most of January. My birthday falls in the second half of January anyway so by the time we got the fancy for chocolate back I usually got some which we could share. Now, over the years we have seen...

solamarie 19.11.2004 · Read review
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A rose on the rockery.

Advantages: Good for a rockery and excellent for wild life .
Disadvantages: none

...A rock rose is a Plant that many of you may have in your garden. The rock roses Helianthemum are from the genus cistus. There are about 17 of this species from the wild rockrose Helianthemum nummularium to the many cultivated plants we see in our gardens and parks. Rockroses are small to medium sized shrubs. As you can detect from the name these plants like a rock soil to grow on and are a useful plant in the rock garden. We have a couple growing on ours they like a well drained soil. They like the chalk soil I live on and do like to be watered occasionally The rock rose is really a native from the Mediterranean area and it likes a sunny position. This plant is not common in Cornwall or in west Scotland but grows well in other parts of the country .Although the name is rock rose this plant is not a rose but the flowers are rose...

mumsymary 23.02.2007 · Read review
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