The French Horn

Advantages: Great food, good service, location
Disadvantages: Service a little too over the top and food a little cold

...throughout. All of the staff were French (although I will admit that I didn?t check each of them individually!) which adds a nice authentic touch. They were constantly attentive. The one annoyance was that they were too attentive at times. They kept topping up wine glasses without checking if you wanted a top up first. This annoyed Mr Tart as he wanted to drink different wines with different courses and had to be constantly on guard of his glass. I as also annoying for Mr Tart?s mum as she was driving and they kept filling her glass. We all wanted them to be attentive but asking would have been better! We were shown to our table and had bread and butter (you can tell it?s a classy place when they stamp the butter!). Then came the starters. I had asparagus with hollandaise sauce which was really good. You could tell that the asparagus...

tartlette83 06.08.2009 · Read review
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French.

Advantages: LOW CALORIE
Disadvantages: NONE

...I often buy multipacks of Walkers French Fries as they are lower in calories and fat than standard Walkers crisps, I also find them more interesting and fun to eat plus it seems as though you get more in a bag as each crisp is so thin. The multipacks contain three flavours; Ready Salted, Salt & Vinegar and Cheese & Onion. You can also buy Worcester Sauce flavour, but these are only available as single bags and not everywhere stocks them. A French Fry is not strictly a crisp, according to Walkers Snacks it is a 'crispy potato stick' with each 19g bag containing less than 100 calories. The flavours are quite strong which really satisfies my craving for something savoury and flavoursome. The Cheese & Onion ones are my favourites out of the multipack because they are deliciously salty and have a lovely onion flavour, going easy...

swanleaf1232 06.02.2009 · Read review
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The Black Pig - Pigassu French table red wine

Advantages: Great with very many meals especially red meats
Disadvantages: Non

...UPDATED FURTHER!!!!!! I buy a lot of my wines direct from Laithwaites wine company based at New Aquitaine House, Exeter Way, Reading and they are great. There is one wine in particular as I am a red wine lover caught my eye on the laithwaites website that is only available from mid June to mid July each year called Pigassu nicknamed the black pig and comes from France. I have found it great with very many meals. It is very full bodied and has a very smooth sweet taste on the palette and the nicest of very many other french red table wines I have tried over the years. As far as comparisons against other French red table wines that I have tried over the years is it's unique quality. It is totally naturally produced from the best red french grapes, well matured 2002 vintage or whichever year you buy it after, like next years...

Jeser 13.08.2003 (14.08.2003) · Read review
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Learn French in your own time

Advantages: Flexible study
Disadvantages: You need a lot of self-discipline.

...(I have now revised this to include information on course fees.) The range of Open University French courses goes from beginner to advanced and can lead to a formal qualification, such as a certificate or diploma. It is not possible to gain a Bachelor's Degree in French as the number of courses is insufficient, but you could combine French with Spanish, German, or a number of other courses in the field of arts/humanites. For a thirty-point course you will need to set aside about seven or eight hours a week for studying, and twice that for a sixty-point course. Most courses start in February, terminating with an examination the following October. The beginners' course commences in November and finishes in October the following year. You can study from the Republic of Ireland and continental Europe, but fees will be considerably higher...

denella 28.09.2006 (29.09.2006) · Read review
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french fingers!

Advantages: no sticky guides, good quality polish, drys quickly
Disadvantages: not sure about the 'miracle brush'

...On the rare occasions my nails are all the same length I like to have a French manicure. For special occasions I don't mind paying a professional but the rest of the time I am more then happy to have a go myself. This can have varying degrees of success ranging from looking ok to having white polish and those little guide stickers all over the place. I hate the little white stickers you use as guides for painting the tips of your nails. I can never get them on straight and then when I take them off they tend to smug the varnish. So when I saw this manicure kit from Bourgois I thought it could be the answer. The kit comes in a pretty pink and white box. It has a picture on the front of a brush with curved bristles painting the tip of a finger nail. It claims that it is a miracle brush, specially designed for nail tips. The kit is...

rachael23 02.06.2008 · Read review
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Not the best of Nicci French

Advantages: Well-written, fast-paced, lots of twists and turns
Disadvantages: Too many sub-plots, ending was a disappointment

...I've read a few novels written by Nicci French in the past and thoroughly enjoyed each and every one of them so I snapped up a copy of 'The Safe House' when I saw it in a charity shop. Her novels are generally quite intense thrillers - the literary version of films that make you jump at the slightest movement because the tension has been built up so much!Despite reading other work by this author, I only recently discovered that 'Nicci French' is actually a pseudonom for a husband and wife team, Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Had I known this beforehand I might have been put off from reading their work, as I'm not a fan of collaborations. I can honestly say that this novel, as well as others I've read, show no signs of being disjointed whatsoever so somehow this writing partnership really seems to work! The principal character...

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Where's The Wine?

Advantages: Quite Tasty
Disadvantages: Covered In Sugar

...I got home a couple of nights ago, turned on my PC and settled down to eat a packet (or at least part of a packet) of Fruit Pastilles only to discover in horror, that in my hurry to pick up the local newspaper and something to chew on, on the way home from work, I'd made a bit of a boob and must have picked up a packet of Wine Pastilles in error. The look on my face must have been comical, my other half said I looked like a little spoilt child with my bottom lip stuck out, and eyes bulging like they were about to burst. I must admit I hadn't actually had Wine Pastilles before so after the initial disappointment had worn off I decided to give them a try. The Background Wine Pastilles were originally made by a company called Maynard's who are the same people that make the Fruit Pastilles and Wine Gums. Maynard have been making...

micksheff 13.08.2005 · Read review
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Fine Virgin Wines

Advantages: Great value boutique wines
Disadvantages: The on-line wine auctions are addictive!

...I have been buying from Virgin Wines for about three years and I have been consistently impressed with the quality and value for money of their wines. They have got a very good range of wines from all around the world, which vary in price from as little as £4 right up to £85 for a bottle of Dom Perignon 2000. I belong to their Wine Bank, which is effectively a loyalty programme. You pay £20 each month into the Wine Bank and every three months Virgin Wines will add another £20 in interest, so when you come to buy your wine you effectively get 25% off. You can pay more into your Wine Bank if you want to and you will be rewarded with a reciprocal amount of interest (i.e. £30 a month would attract £30 interest and so on). Because most of the wines they stock are generally small production 'boutique' wines, you cannot buy them anywhere...

staceyjwall 22.07.2008 · Read review
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I can't speak, French..

Advantages: it's still Dawn French, attractive cover, good opening
Disadvantages: dull

...I was given a late birthday present last month, and I was not so much shocked by how late it was, but more so what the gift itself was. One of my closest friends has bought me 'Dear Fatty', the autobiography of Dawn French. I cannot lie, I was delighted by this as it was something my eye had been on for months. Though I was surprised as I never really talk about Dawn French. She's one of those celebrities I secretly adore and take every opportunity to watch her work. I love autobiographies and have a very good feeling about this one! First off, the cover of the book itself is quite pretty. I've seen a lot of autobiographies where the sleeve is white, or occasionally black, but this one is a gorgeous blue shade. It's so bright and attractive, a very happy colour indeed! There is a head shot of French on the front, smiling away at us. It...

Amy69 13.06.2009 · Read review
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French @ Nottingham University

Advantages: Seems well organized and pretty supportive.
Disadvantages: Lack of contact hours and spoken French.

...I'm going into second year studying French & Politics at Nottingham, so can give my experiance based on first year but wont be able to say much about the year abroad im afraid (though im looking forward to it!). My experiance in the French department so far has been a good one. Its fair to say I've found the year fairly hard - after A-levels the amount of independant learning necessary is a bit of a shock. As a joint honours student you still take the same language module as the straight french people, so you're expected to be just as good at french even though you're doing 3 less modules to practice it in. In terms of the language there is one grammer lecture each week, a language workshop every week and an oral class every week. The grammar lecture is taught in English, as is the workshop for the most part. The only serious...

Miskin 15.06.2008 · Read review
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