Our Sun Jar- A Golden Gadget!

Advantages: Free lighting and a lovely glow.
Disadvantages: Recharging difficult in cloudy weather and indoors not as successful as outdoors.

...Recently when my husband turned 50 he received a present from my daughter called a Sun Jar. My youngest daughter is a great eco warrior and always chooses gifts with a saving the planet theme in mind. These can be purchased from Amazon at around the £15 mark, and I think they make a great present. I have also seen them on many other websites including my favourite Ethical Superstore at www.ethicalsuperstore.com. The Sun Jar is basically a solar powered lamp which you place on a sunny windowsill during the day or outside, and at night the jar automatically lights up. The way it works is that there is a solar power cell which recharges the battery to produce an energy efficient LED light. As the jar is opaque the light is diffused by the frosted glass, so the glow of the light gives a warm natural tone. The lamp is made in the shape...

Violet1278 04.12.2009 · Read review
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Jars on a plain

Advantages: great place to visit
Disadvantages: getting around is not so easy

...The 'plain of jars' is one of the must sees in Asia - similar to Stonehenge and the figures on the Easter Island nobody knows the origins of these small to big stone jars. They are located close to Phonsavan in the north-east of Laos close to the vietnamese border. Phonsavan is easily accessible from all major cities. You can go by local bus or by minibus - Local bus from Luang Prabang was 50000kip and the minibus was 85000kip. There are 3 jar-sites whereby Site was is the most easily reachable. You have 3 ways to visit the sites: - by tour: every GH will offer you tours. Expect to pay 80000 for Site 1 and 150000 for all 3 Sites. I found that the tour was overly rushed and you didn't have enough time to see this impressive place. - go with a TukTuk: Find a TukTuk driver to take you. It will be a lot cheaper than with the tour and you...

sun-is-shining 01.06.2009 · Read review
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Honesty Under The Bell Jar

Advantages: Honest, poignant, truthful ending
Disadvantages: The sense of hopelessness - not very encouraging if you're suffering from depression yourself

...I think that this is the kind of novel that takes on a new kind of dimension if you can personally relate to it. Don't get me wrong: you will still enjoy this story if you've never had the misfortune to suffer from depression, but being able to empathise with the main character probably makes you think of it in a different way. Plath's analogy of the bell jar (that you're stewing in your own fetid air) was particularly poignant to me. Esther is an academically-gifted young woman who doesn't know exactly what she wants from life. At one point, she compares herself to someone sitting in a fig tree and each fig representing a different life option, but by choosing one fig she has to lose the others. She finds it so hard to decide which one to take that they fall off the tree before she has a chance. She finds herself stifled by her own...

DoubleFantasy11 21.11.2005 · Read review
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Tiny Kitchen for Tiny Children

Advantages: Colourful and the right size for very young children
Disadvantages: Flimsy and low value for money

...Bubble Cook Mini Chef Kitchen Tiny Kitchen for Tiny Children We wanted to buy my daughter a kitchen for her birthday and being only small, we didn?t know whether the larger kitchen toys would be too big for her, so when we saw this Bubble Cook Mini Chef Kitchen in Asda for half price at £15 instead of the usual £30 we jumped at the chance. On the box it looked great and we felt that it would be perfect for our daughter. ****************** PACKAGING ****************** The kitchen comes in a rather large box which is a little misleading to the actual size of the toy. Unfortunately we didn?t come equipped with a tape measure on our visit to Asda, so had to guess what the measurements were ? and me being me, got it slightly wrong. The measurements are on the box in smaller print at 49 x 28.5 x 66.5 cm which I knew was small though I...

elfbwillow 02.12.2009 · Read review
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Marco's Kitchen

Advantages: Marco, celebs getting flustered
Disadvantages: not long enough

...I was once told that I was just like Marco Pierre White. Taking this as a compliment I mearly assummed that they were referring to how incredibly talented I am when working with food. Sadly this was not what they were getting at. I have recently discovered that it was more down to the fact that a lot of the time I say things which make no sense whatsoever! This is one way is what can make Marco's Hell's Kitchen so funny. I never watched it when Gordan Ramsey was doing it. But since Marco has taken over I've become completely addicted to it. Down to the fact that they've cut down the programme from what was 90 minutes to the hour, the amount of cooking where we actually got to see how they were doing it has been decreased. Appareantly due to the fact that ITV are 'skint' they couldn't afford to get any celebrities of a high standard...

crezzie 25.04.2009 · Read review
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Philosophy Hope in a Jar

Advantages: Light, a glow to the skin
Disadvantages: Expensive

...off label which has directions and ingredients written on the inside. On the top part of the label is: Hope in a Jar Therapeutic moisturizer original formula for all skin types. MY OPINION I have fell in love with this moisturizer, it is perfect for my skin, it's nice and light unlike other moisturizers I have tried for my very dry skin. I find most moisturizers for dry skin either leave my skin very itchy or the moisturizer is so thick and doesn't sink in and a terrible base for make up. This is the complete opposite, it sinks in whilst I massage it into my skin and the lightness of it means I hardly use any. The cream is silky soft and has a single cream consistency. It takes me about 3 months to use a pot and that morning and night and some times in the summer I put it on just to freshen up. My make up sits really well...

bohoangel 26.05.2009 (27.05.2009) · Read review
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Gifts from the Kitchen

Advantages: See Review
Disadvantages: See Review

...Gifts from the Kitchen ? Ann Kleinberg: I have a thing for cookbooks, I have loads of them and I love nothing more than snuggling up on the sofa and just looking through them. This particular book was a birthday present from my Mum last January and now that Christmas is here, (woohoo), it has been getting plenty of use. Gifts from the Kitchen is a very pretty and girly hardback book from marks and Spencers. It is styled in a very kitsch way with lots of pretty pictures, pink and gingham! It is the sort of cookbook that instantly makes me want to a don a pinny and morph into a 1950s house-wife! The theme of pink and pale green flows throughout the book and teamed with the beautiful photography it works perfectly to get you into the mood to make lovely edible gifts which is, of course, the theme of the book. There are forty recipes in...

donnabroom 23.11.2009 · Read review
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Dream Kitchen @ Trade Prices - NOT!

Advantages: I'm not sure there are any!
Disadvantages: Expensive, Persuasive

...My partner and I are in the process of renovating our property. An extension is going on the back of our house and as we have to knock out the kitchen window as access, we will be replacing our very old and much neglected kitchen. I had searched around on the net and found a few kitchen companies and requested some brochures. I came to the kitchen direct website and entered my details for brochures to be sent. I had to enter my telephone details as well as postal address for them to send the brochures out. Within 2 hours I had a telephone call from the company wanting to come and do a design appointment in my house. I agreed and made the appointment for when both my partner and I would be home. Meanwhile, I researched some kitchens and prices online. We knew roughly what we wanted and how much we could afford to spend, so we...

abcdefg 21.03.2007 · Read review
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Hell's kitchen 3

Advantages: Good entertainment
Disadvantages: Not live - well it is when the presenter's talking but it show's last night's service

...Hell's Kitchen is a reality television programme broadcast by ITV. The programme consists of ten celebs such as singers , actors and televesion presentets to name a few.Their task is to work in a kitchen and provide meals for the diners in the restaurant - sometimes up to 80 people. These celebs cannot cook but they are helped by four proffessional chefs. *Presenter * Hell's kitchen is presnted by Angus Deayton.He's is very commical on the show.He makes me laugh with his quick tounge. * Head Chef * The programme is now running on it's third series and this year's head chef is English Chef Marco Pierre White.He was born in Leeds , England on 11th December 1961 which means he is forty five years old.He is known for being nasty. *Soux chefs * Each team has two proffessional chefs to help them.One of them on this year's hell...

xdonzx 08.09.2007 · Read review
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Not in my kitchen!

Advantages: None that I could see
Disadvantages: expensive, time consuming, poor customer relations

...I will come clean from the outset and tell you that this opinion is incomplete. It is incomplete in so much that I did not choose to buy my new kitchen from Kitchens Direct ,so I can?t tell you what the product and fitting are actually like ,if one went through with the fitting. My reason for writing this review is because I was so unhappy with the parts of the process we did go ahead with that I would like to warn you to think hard before giving them your hard earned cash or bank loan! We are having massive restoration work done on our Victorian house. We totally ripped out the bathroom .I designed that myself and the builders did all the work. The same happened with my study and I am thrilled with the results. The kitchen is our current project. We share the house with my fairly aged Mother in law .She wanted her own kitchen as...

water-witch 24.09.2004 · Read review
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