John Lewis

Advantages: Great range of services
Disadvantages: None

...John Lewis is a department store with 29 shops around the UK. They offer a wide range of high quality goods in departments such as: gifts, lighting, pictures, china and glass, linens, haberdashery, furnishing and fabrics, womenswear, lingerie, beauty, nursery, menswear, audio, toys and kitches/kitchenwear. Within the store they stock not only their own range of goods but also other branded names such as, Jigsaw, Joules, Levi and Warehouse in clothing, Bobbi Brown, Clarins and Clinique in the beauty section and Bose, Apple and Canon in electricals. As you can acertain they sell a wide range of products from knitting needles and wool to high end audio systems. All items are of great quality and if anything falls below the standard you will expect they have a great returns and refund policy with a flexible 28 days. They will even return...

rachieb123 12.10.2009 · Read review
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Dishwater or British pride? (Carling Lager)

Advantages: Cheap.
Disadvantages: Weak watery taste.

...I like beer, as do many of us, but after a recent holiday in Belgium I have come back a bit of a beer snob. The beer in Belgium (mainstream beer too) is wonderful, full of rich flavours and has a decent kick to it which is different to many mainstream beers found in the UK. I know you can get good Real Ales in the UK but I thought I would look at a selection of the more popular beers you can get easily throughout the UK starting with Carling. The tin of carling I have chilling in my fridge contains 440ml of 4% vol beer and cost me £1.09. The tin is black and white and boasts that Carling is made with British barley and has been for over 30 years, the beer is made from 100% British barley and that the beer offers a complete flavour and refreshment for all. I will put the latter to the test shortly. The tin also contains nutritional...

StephenPhillips123 20.10.2009 · Read review
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Carling! MMMMMMMMMMM!

Advantages: It tastes great
Disadvantages: It gets you drunk

...The official sponsor of The Leeds Festival 2007. The Carling story dates back to 1818 when Thomas Carling, a farmer in England's Yorkshire district, took his family to the rich farmlands of eastern Canada settling at what is now the city of London, Ontario. During his first year there Tom Carling cleared a small area. Then,in accordance with the custom of the day, he called on his neighbors to help at a "stumping bee", a cooperative effort in which each man brought his own oxen and tools and the land was cleared of tree stumps. All that these helpful neighbors asked was that they be refreshed and fed Thomas Carling's refreshment, a home-brewed ale, was of such quality that soon he was brewing it for other stumping bees. In time, it grew so popular that he abandoned farming for full-time brewing. The first Carling...

damob123 29.08.2007 · Read review
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"Spirit" - Leona Lewis

Advantages: Great voice, great songs, fantastic reviews
Disadvantages: A couple of dissappointing tracks

...Being a huge fan of "The X Factor" (A UK Entertainment television show), I was a massive fan of the 2006 winner Leona Lewis, & absolutely loved her first single "A Moment Like This". However, it wasn't until the following November when Leona's album "Spirit" was released, following her hugely successful number one "Bleeding Love", which stayed at the top of the charts for a seven week run. TRACK LISTING Bleeding Love The second single to be released by Leona, this single was the best selling single of 2007, and due to it's international release, was also the best selling single of 2008. It has reached the top spot in an incredible 34 countries - and you can see why. It's a brilliant track, perfectly suited to Leona's voice, but with a tune and a sound that anyone would like. Young and the old alike are bound...

Sonic4290 21.01.2009 · Read review
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Creaking about in my back passage

Advantages: Compact. Easy to use.
Disadvantages: Loud. Bouncy. Footplates seem fragile.

...a bit of Googling I came across the Carl Lewis Glide Trainer and found that Amazon are selling it for £79.99 with free Supersaver p&p although I paid extra for next day delivery. If you pop along to the actual Carl Lewis website, you'll see the machine is being sold for £84.50. I then cashed £35 of survey reward vouchers and placed the order. Five previous purchasers had left small reviews, 2 of which were negative so I crossed my fingers and hoped for the best. Assembly When I finally got the machine delivered by the courier company which could be a review in itself and proves that sometimes, shouting and being downright rude to people who lie does actually work - I found much to my relief that the machine is about 95% assembled. All I had to do was screw in each arm pole and screw on the front grip pole, clip...

Amazingwoo 15.07.2008 · Read review
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Interactive Carling review

Advantages: very refreshing
Disadvantages: can be too good

...Please join me right now for a refreshingly wet, cold, long, twangy (it's your first one of the day, and you haven't sneaked a quiet one already) pint of Carling. Now I perfer it in a Carling imprinted special pint glass, others who are a real lady perhaps little nervous may perfer a half glass which is not as special as the pint glass:) but does the trick all the same. Today, I've gone a little crazy and have bought you a pint out of my own "Carling p up the wall account". This is an interactive experience that could catch on. Ok, lets start... Hold your horses....Now observe the subject matter first. The colour is a yellow ochre and changes in darkness depending where you are. The smell has a slight sweet nectar scent that lingers around the subject and reacts seductively with your brain it tells me. "take me I'm yours...

1st2thebar 09.04.2007 · Read review
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True Picture Book Classic (The Very Hungry Caterpillar - E Carle)

Advantages: great text, artwork and story
Disadvantages: none

...This book is a true children's classic - and rightly so. I am not normally fan of Eric Carle, despite his perennial popularity and great hype, but this one is a winner: I suspect that all his fame was built on this one book. I don't know what it is about caterpillar themed books that appeals so much, although I suppose it must be the (unbearable, obviously) suspense of transformation, and the contrast between wiggly, faintly repulsive caterpillar, crawling on the ground or on the plants, and the beauty that is a butterfly, who, on top of everything, also can fly! Carle's story chronicles a week in a life one one caterpillar who goes on a rampage devouring huge quantities of fruit (in fact, there is a method to that, as it eats one on Monday, two on Tuesday etc). The book brims with concepts and educational opportunities...

magdadh 26.04.2009 · Read review
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John Lewis Wedding Service

Advantages: Great variety, great service
Disadvantages: None

...John Lewis Wedding Service John Lewis Wedding List I got married last year and probably one of the most exciting parts (ok marrying the love of my life was pretty exciting too but?..) was the gift list!! We didn't have to think for very long about where we wanted to go. We had considered Debenhams but they didn't have enough of a range to pick from and we wanted something a bit more upmarket shall we say! So, we decided upon John Lewis as they just have some lovely things in there. We got married in October so we went into the store in Milton Keynes in about August to set up the list. The list only goes live (this is when people can access it and actually buy you presents) a couple of months before the wedding so there is no point in doing it early. Also, as we were helpfully told, if you pick something very early to put...

Spottydog11 11.08.2008 · Read review
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CARLING'S not my Darling

Advantages: It's wet and it's cheap
Disadvantages: Pretty bland

...Remember those adverts on the telly? The ones where the buxom blond barmaid leans over the bar, displaying her ample assets for easy ogling by completely male clientele in a dingy, smoky pub, then smiles sweetly as the order is shouted, "HEY MABEL! BLACK LABEL!" Mabel didn't have a speaking part, but at the end of the commercial, she gave the TV viewers a friendly wink (quick spell check - yep, that's wink). You don't remember? Well you wouldn't. Unless you're of an age that as a youngster, you thought feminism was some sort of kinky game where you dressed up in your mother's clothes (or was that just me!) - and you watched these ads in glorious monochrome. It didn't matter that the CARLING* logo was black on white - the TV only had one other colour anyway.....grey. But that was long ago and advertising trends have changed...

proxam 13.11.2003 · Read review
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I bet I drink Carling Black Label

Advantages: It's Beer
Disadvantages: Hangovers (if you have to stop drinking)

...As a kid I didn't know any better. When I first started hitting the pubs I used to drink bottles of K cider, pints of mild & bitter. I even, and I'm kind of ashamed to admit this, bought the odd half every now & then. It's not something I'm proud of. There's nothing wrong with bitters if you're middle-aged & have a beard, cider is also fine if you have leanings in that direction and if you're a pensioner and can still find it then drink mild by all means but if you're a youngish man (or lady in some more relaxed areas of the country) then lager should be the alcoholic beverage of choice. The best selling lager in the UK is Carling and in my opinion it's the only one that tastes correct from a can or a glass. If you want to drink lager from the bottle then go with Bud (buts that's a different review). Carling currently...

pert_abacus 15.08.2009 · Read review
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