Fun with feathers!

Advantages: Great fun, good exercise, cheap to buy
Disadvantages: None for us!

...When we were adopted by our handsome cat, Mew, we decided that he should have some toys to play with. It was with this in mind that we went to Pets at Home to see what was on offer there. We came back with a couple of little balls ? hubby said that they would be good as Mew hadn?t got any of his own! Actually even though they had bells inside them Mew wasn?t interested. We got a little sack of cat nip which Mew completely ignored! The real success was the Feather Chaser Wand (yes I know it sounds like some sort of sex toy but trust me on this one!). It is made by a firm called Willow?s and the full name of it is Willow's Feather Chaser Wand Catnip Toy for Cats and it cost just £2.99. It is supposedly infused with cat nip but as I said earlier this wouldn?t make a blind bit of difference to Mew as he doesn?t react to cat nip...

SusanLesley 04.03.2009 · Read review
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Light as a feather

Advantages: nice light skateboardcan
Disadvantages: can become expensive sport

...the equipment is usually expensive and in skateboarding this is no different, a skateboard can last anything from a month down to one skating session, depending on where the skateboarder is skating and what tricks they are doing, as you can imagine this is a very expensive hobby. My son has often dragged me round skateboard shops every birthday and Christmases, looking at trucks, wheels, boards, grip tape and numerous other shops for the right trainers, clothes, ect for skateboarding and I now consider myself educated on the subject of what?s good and what?s not. Element Bam Feather Skateboard Deck is pretty good. Bam Margera has put his name to this skateboard deck he has a very good rep as a skateboarder, ranking high amongst the well known like Tony Hawks, whom, if you have never heard of ,you can get his playstation skateboarding games to...

Sunnysmiles 14.07.2009 · Read review
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Scarlet Feather

Advantages: Excellent cannot put down
Disadvantages: none whatsoever

...I have to admitt - lm a Maeve Binchy fanatic - l have read all her books and Echos is my favourite, but lm not hear to tell you about that book, its her latest and apparently her last novel - Scarlet Feather. The 2 main characters Cathy Scarlett and Tom Feather - they attended catering college together and always had the pipe dream to run thier own catering business - suddenly it looks as though this dream may well indeed come true. The story is weaved around the lives of these two central characters and is an enchanting tale. As with all of Binchy's novels it is set in Ireland - this one is based in Dublin. She tells a tale and describes the area so well that its easy to close your eyes and picture exactly what she is describing. As usual l found the book hard to put down - in fact l read it in about 3 days - and it was her...

purdy 05.03.2001 (21.05.2001) · Read review
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BRITISH EMPIRE - THE FOUR FEATHERS

Advantages: Solid remake of a well used storyline.
Disadvantages: Never quite makes the top grade, not emotive enough

...--- Combining a wide range of emotions including love, friendship, trust, heroism, loyalty and romantic rivalry this film tries to cater for all needs, but at times satisfies none (I would though recommend it as a stereotypical his and hers film as it manges to give action and a love plot). Involving a British officer who resigns his commission before going against Sudanese rebels, he is presumed a coward and is given four symbolic white feathers by his friends and fiancee. As a way of dealing with this he goes to Sudan to find his comrades and goes through prison, fights and general pain. In the end he finds most of them and obtains there forgiveness and understanding to why he resigned. Although well made the film constantly leaves you with the false belief that something really good in terms of plot, action and special effects is going to happen...

Puma1000 03.04.2004 (06.04.2004) · Read review
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Scarlet Feather

Advantages: Heartwelming and enjoyable
Disadvantages: none

...This book gives a modern insight to Dublin life, through the eyes of various characters. Cathy and Tom, founders of catering company, Scarlet Feather, and their dysfunctional friends and family members. The perfect read for a rainy day. Heartwelming and enjoyable, i could not put this book down. if you are a fan of Maeve Binchy (author of Cirlce of Friends, amongst others) then you are garuntied to enjoy this book. The main story is about the set up of catering buisness Scarlet Feather', accounting the highs and lows of the buisness. We get to know all of the characters equally well, with some suprising twists, which were welcomed, although unexpected. The mischeivious twins are one of the highlights of the book, creating humour and happiness at some of the darker times. Cathy and Tom, the main characters are realistic...

knittingdolphin 04.04.2005 · Read review
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Feathers and stones may break my bones

Advantages: Vocals, music, lyrics
Disadvantages: Hard to find, not to everyones taste (unlucky them)

...Keeping to the same formula as my past few music reviews this one might as well follow suit, despite it's much more obscure artist (compared with Katie Melua, The Streets and Arctic Monkeys, it's not really anything against Mr Baxter himself). After seeing Tom Baxter on www.myspace.com I actually wrote little blurb for my own private site about the young man: "The unsigned Londoner claims to sound like "Tom Baxter", so at least he's honest, he fails to mention he also sounds a bit like Elbow, with a dreamy sound of an apocolyptic future wearing down on his mind. A guy who has been compared to two artists I'm fans of (comparasions by The Evening Standard to Jeff Buckley and Nick Drake). After his first album, released in 2005 ("Feather and Stone), his follow up, has just recently been released on iTunes, "SKYBOUND". Check it out...

iamasadlittleboy 03.08.2007 · Read review
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Black And Decker PV 1205 Cyclonic Dustbuster Pivot

Advantages: Reliable, Trustworthy and High performance
Disadvantages: Doesn't vacum plaster dust well

...I was delighted when my husband bought the Black and Decker PV1205B Dust buster for my birthday. Whilst the price might seem high anything with lower voltage is a waste of time and money. Lower voltage dust busters just don't work you need something with a bit of power, one that performs well and does the job you need it to do. The Black and Decker PV1205B Dust buster is powerful, practical and efficient basically you cannot go far wrong in purchasing this and I would recommend it to anyone. My dust buster has always been reliable and it has never let me down yet. It makes the perfect gift for any occasion and will last for years. I have a 3 year old child and I cannot tell you enough how helpful this Dust buster has been with my child. You know children, they make a mess don't they? Then you have to clean it up, sometimes it feels...

Mickie26 19.03.2009 · Read review
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Black Attack!

Advantages: Realistic weapons and gameplay, everything can be destroyed!
Disadvantages: Borrring story!

...Black is a first person shooter brought to us by the makers of the hugely popular racing game series Burnout, Criterion Games. It stars a young man called Sergeant Jack Keller, and Black Ops soldier. He is currently undergoing investigation four days into the future, and you have to go back in time to complete the missions he has been appointed. Later to be revealed, why exactly he is under investigation. Black is set in western Russia, and our hero has been briefed on a named terrorist group called the 'Seventh Wave'. Keller's first mission sees him and his team battling against the forces of the Seventh Wave. Keller eventually reaches a checkpoint, but disobeys orders and enters into a terrorist controlled building where he is ambushed by a terrorist. However it is revealed that the terrorist is actually a former CIA operative, who...

41ggo 11.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Black (PS2)

Black Hawk Down

Advantages: Excellent Film
Disadvantages: Not many

...Recently there was an article which really sparked my emotions, both sadness and anger, surprisingly it was in The Sun (the most professional and reliable of the daily papers) the article was on the sate of Somalia and the history of the wars going on in the country. Quoted in the article was a film called Black Hawk Down, which I had heard of but never, had the opportunity to watch and had no clue about, later on when in discussion on the article, somebody brought the film up and highly recommended it. Buying the Film I bought the film in Blockbuster when I was returning a rental; it cost £4 which I thought was highly reasonable for a DVD, especially one which was recommended and according to the front of the DVD won two Oscars, and looked to carry an exciting cast set. Director The film is directed by a man called Ridley...

amyloop 18.08.2009 (20.08.2009) · Read review
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ALWAYS BET ON BLACK.......

Advantages: Smells gorgeous, fragrance lasts for hours, cool packaging and unique bottle
Disadvantages: Price, size of bottle

...It would appear that the subtle hints dropped throughout 2003 by Badger Boy were not in vain as on Christmas Day he opened three, yes three presents to be presented with each fragrance in the Bvlgari range. Bvlgari fragrances first came to my attention a number of years back when an ex girlfriend wore the Pour Femme version of their best selling fragrance. The smell to this day still haunts me, but still gets my nostrils tingling when I walk past someone wearing it. Happily, she couldn?t stand the smell of Bvlgari Black and I instantly fell in love with it after winning a bottle in a prize draw a few years later. Bvlgari are a well known fashion and design house famous for their jewellery and watches more than their actual fragrances, however, the chances of me actually owning the latter are slim to zero due to the extortionate...

Badger_Boy 21.01.2004 (09.04.2004) · Read review
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