My new Nissan Figaro called 'Hiliary Duf'.

Advantages: It's small and easy to park and nippy around town. It's like being with a celebrity and it looks brilliant and sooooooo cute. I've fallen in love with it.
Disadvantages: I can't fine any apart from you wouldn't want to sit in the back for a long journey but I won't be as I'll be driving. Not a lot of storage space but okay for 2 small overnight bags and 2 adults.

...I recently bought a Nissan Figaro from a private dealer in Hartfield in the Ashdown Forest near East Grinstead (DTN Trading - Theo). He has been importing Nissan Fig's for the last 2 years and has 2 garages in his garden and a mechanic working with him and about 20 Nissan Figaros in various states of renovation. He sold us a lovely pale aqua Nissan Figaro (my favourite colour) for £4,800 and it has been re-conditioned to a very good standard. It has a new roof, re-conditioned leather interior, original floor mats and mud flaps, all the bodywork and chrome is in excellent condition with no dents or rusting, it beeps when you reverse, and the only thing that isn't working is the CD player but the cassette and radio work. He fitted an imobiliser to the car and he converted the km's to miles for me. It's a very cute baby and in the last...

poochielong 03.05.2006 · Read review
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Love and Marriage

Advantages: Great series, funny
Disadvantages: None

...I received The Vicar of Dibley box set for Christmas and have not been disappointed. I am making my way through the DVD's (5 in total) and have just finished with the DVD of the second season. This one is entitle Love and Marriage. I feel like the Vicar of Dibley is somewhat of a national treasure in British sitcoms, combining a classic, much loved comedian with a quintessential British village portraying a very funny side of British life. The TV sitcom ran from 1994 to 2007. The story revolved around the fictional village of Dibley and their new vicar, who in the beginning, unbeknownst to the weird and wonderful villagers, turns out to be a woman. Dawn French plays the part of Geraldine Granger, the vicar, a larger than life, not your average, typical vicar. The rest of the supporting cast is fairly small but I think that makes...

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The Amateur Marriage

Advantages: heartwarming
Disadvantages: heartwrenching

...I got married last October, and when my husband asked me what I would like for Christmas from him I hummmed and haaahhed - because I knew what I really really wanted was Anne Tylers latest book. I had seen it reviewed, and knew that good review or bad I wanted to (no, I HAD to) have that book!!! The only thing stopping me from asking was that damn title. 'The amateur marriage' I didn't want my husband to think I'd already begun to subscribe to self help books ...so early on in our married life. Needless to say, my NEED to read this book was greater than the embarrassment factor - I asked and I got! You might have guessed, I am a big Anne Tyler fan, I only discovered her last year, and have only read four of her books so far, but I am nevertheless hooked!!!! Lets start with clearing this up. The amateur marriage is NOT a self...

Evelyne 22.06.2004 · Read review
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Marriage - Outdated Or Traditional ?

Advantages: Tax breaks, same name, unity
Disadvantages: Divorce, dodgy wedding guests, expense

...Marriage, a dream for many women across the land, to be like a princess on her wedding day, the beautiful dress, the horse drawn carriage, walking down the aisle to the wedding march, a tall handsome man waiting for you, tears in his eyes he has never seen anything so beautiful. Screeeeeeeech Back to reality. With religion being at an all time low in the popularity stakes, it's not surprising that many people are choosing not to get married, preferring to 'stay as they are'. 'If you are happy what difference does a piece of paper make' is usually the answer - and that is usually from the men! My two friends and I were discussing marriage in summer 2007 (I remember, it was raining). One friend who has been with her other half as long as I have (7 years) said she was happy why should they change anything. The other had hopes...

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PART 2. A LIVING MARRIAGE WITH BI-POLAR

Advantages: Renewed hope.Courage to continue.
Disadvantages: See Review.

...or whether even- if Joseph will live or die, but one thing is sure.......- I am living proof that coping with bi-polar is possible in a 22 year marriage. Yes. It will be 22 years since Joseph and I have been married. Testament that there are enough good times and happy times to counter balance the bad. Are you ready for the journey? Then Lets belt up and go! 5...4....3....2...1........... INTRO : PART 2. "A LIVING MARRIAGE WITH BI- POLAR." MANIC DEPRESSION Here he is, my Peter-Pan. Fly high oh cloud streaked with burning sun! Paving heaven paving hell Whisper beauty in my ear Then smash it down in one fell swoop. Laughter frothed upon bitter anger Wretched misery curse unspeakable Blind grope in the dark we giggle and play. Anything to forget today. How did it come to these long years? And still survive beyond...

christina44 24.01.2004 (09.05.2007) · Read review
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Mixed Race Marriage

Advantages: It is God's arrangement
Disadvantages: There will be some that people that will be be hostile to you, ignore them, and concentrate on those who care

...Mixed Race Marriage. There is an increasing number of mixed race marriages, our is one of them. Both my partner and I have been married over 28 years, and during those ’turbulent times’, our marriage was like any other marriage. Looking back being black and my partner being white, did have some set backs. My in laws were reluctant at first to accept me, but proving myself a capable wife has won them over. Like any marriages, it is never an easy task. Nevertheless, as time goes you learn to cope. We wanted our marriage to succeed. 'God was in our marriage'. When we were courting and fell in love, nothing mattered so long as we had each other. We did not talk too much about racial problems, I hated discussing this, and felt life should go on no matter what the consequences were. I was naive, who would visualise what...

Elainebaba 20.07.2001 · Read review
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The Art of a Successful Marriage

Advantages: You can be well on the way to being happy
Disadvantages: A little effort needed and persistance

...Why do so many marriages fail these days (according to the media)? This really depends I think on whether marriages were really ever that successful in the first place. We do not really know whether people stayed together because the couple were so happy or whether they just stuck together because society expected them to. I suspect the latter. From what I see of my grandparents, I feel that they were unhappy. My mother's father did beat his wife. My father's mother seemed to have her husband wrapped round her little finger. Needless to say, neither is a good basis for a happy marriage! When I met my husband, he adored me. But then he started to emotionally abuse me, constantly putting me down about everything I said and did and how I looked. None of my friends, who are married, are happy, although most are still together. Discussions...

muralees 14.01.2008 · Read review
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Marriage without the 'GAY' Abandon

Advantages: You decide
Disadvantages: Divorce; Cost

...“With these rings we share together, Love so close to last forever, This special day – two special hearts, Let nothing keep this love apart.”(R H Cooper) There may appear to be some hypocrisy between the title of this opinion and the verse above (‘appear’, it’s blindingly obvious!). Would people really assume that because I’m gay that I am also anti-marriage? Maybe. To find out, read on… Up until a few months ago I would have said unequivocally that marriage is just a piece of paper: a ceremony that ‘hets’ go through in order to get gifts; show off; and in order to stand on the higher moral ground to the rest of the population who weren’t as ‘fortunate’ as them. What’s it got to do with me anyhow? According to the Oxford English...

HappyBunny 17.08.2001 · Read review
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Marriage limbo.....

Advantages: It can be an amazing experience
Disadvantages: yes there are some when things arent right

...Marriage needs above all else to be an equal partnership...i dont mean that you both have to do the washing up together but that all things within a marriage both partners have to take the responsibility for. Communication is the key, keep that going ALL the time and your half way there. There is no doubt that it has to be worked at, but by both parties equally on every single level. This plays for a good balance, it means that while one cant the other can, and visa versa in all situations. Things start to go wrong when situations get swept under the carpet and left there to rot, situations that need to be talked through at the earliest time like right now. Not left and left until one or the other has forgotten about it, thats when resentment sets in and negativity embellishes the marriage. With each situation it just gets worse...

kiria 28.09.2005 · Read review
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Is marriage necessary

Advantages: emotional and financial security
Disadvantages: can be hard work

...I have read many contrasting opinions on this subject over the last few months and decided that I might put in my two-penneth. I have been married and also co-habited for a long time, so can see this from both points of view. I was married for eight years and immediately on leaving the marriage co-habited for 11 years. In some respects there is very little difference, so is there any point in taking the plunge? It is easy to consider that marriage comes from a religious standpoint. Others would say that it is only a piece of paper. I would not agree with either of those views. I believe that the role of marriage has changed significantly over the last 40 odd years. Society has changed almost beyond recognition and marriage, like many other things has changed in order to conform to new sets of values. Whether or not this is...

water-witch 08.10.2002 · Read review
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