Waking you up with style.

Advantages: Great coffee.
Disadvantages: An expensive way to make coffee.

...I wouldn?t say I?m not a coffee drinker, some days I can?t live without caffeine, but I?m certainly not one of those people who goes into starbucks and orders a ?grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n?-Low and one NutraSweet? so I am usually a little sceptical about this sort of thing, however I received this as a gift so my hands were tied. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised. The Delonghi ESAM 5500 Perfecta (Who comes up with these names?) was very easy to use. Just fill up with water and milk, chuck some coffee beans in (literally if you feel like a spot of basket ball) and off you go. It allows for a large variety of coffees, although not as many as starbucks does, and allows you to change lot?s of settings to fine tune your coffee such...

anakha6 07.06.2009 · Read review
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I Lick My Cheese - While I Eat It !

Advantages: Hilarious. Very Real. Relatively Cheap on the internet.
Disadvantages: May not be stocked in all book stores

...This first time I came across this book, was is in WHSmith, just before the Christmas rush, where books line the shelves and then suddenly disappear as a new must have crowds the shelves. This quaint looking book was isolated on its own isolated shelf and so appealed to me as I love things that are odd and outstanding. While waiting for my dad to buy his usual stationary to claim back on his work card, I stood and read the first few pages before realizing that this was in fact a book of notes written by different people. Brilliant people. Strange people. "Perfect...a sneaky peep into the lives of weird people like myself", I thought. As I delved deeper into the book, I found this book becoming even funnier; with notes such as "the washing up you didn't do is in your bed, cheers", making me hysterically laugh. Unfortunately...

Schnappi 26.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of I Lick My Cheese and Other Notes: From the Frontline of Flatsharing - Oonagh O'Hagan

Send Him Back!!

Advantages: Free, Board book, Nice Story
Disadvantages: Hard to open flaps and quite bare pages

...perfect...a puppy. Which or course is an animal that most zoo's have! I think not! Of course the idea that the zoo would even send out animals like this is rather silly but being a kids book the idea really is quite good. The pages are rather plane with only a sentence of black text on a white page on every left hand page. The right hand page only has the picture of the basket and the flaps that show the animal inside along with a small sentence of text underneath making the plain white background again seem rather boring. The pictures are very basic with not overly vibrant colourings to them but show well the animal in which they are talking about. I find the flaps are somewhat difficult to open and you really have to hook them open with a nail so compared to other lift the flap books I have this is probably to most awkward...

newby2 24.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Dear Zoo: Lift the Flaps - Rod Campbell

Exactly what you expect

Advantages: It's watchable
Disadvantages: It's not a great film!

...Most people are probably aware that pop princess Britney Spears has recently released her own movie - Crossroads... **~~WHAT'S THE FILM ABOUT?~~** The film opens on three little girls: Lucy, Mimi and Kit, aged about 10. The bury a box underneath a tree which contains all their dreams for the future and they vow to always stay friends. They plan to open the box at midnight on their high school graduation. Cut to years later, the day of the girls graduation. In their high school in Georgia, it's pretty clear that the girl's have grown apart - Lucy (Britney Spears) is Little Miss Perfect...a straight A student who everyone teases for being a virgin. Kit is the popular girl, the girl, who she thinks, everybody wants to be. She's engaged to a guy at UCLA. And Mimi is pregnant and a branded loser. Lucy and Kit had no intention...

PerfectlyPink 30.03.2002 · Read review
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Review of Crossroads (DVD)

UTTERLY AMAZING

Advantages: OHHHHHHH great build quality, looks great, features
Disadvantages: head phones are ok

...supprised at how easy it is too use, recording is easy, and thanks to the helpful instructions, I was recording, and editing in 15 minutes! It's that easy. You are able to add labels to the songs, edit their lengh, play order, etc, and a stack of other things. The player is feature packed, with things like the mem bank, storing names so you don't have to type them out again and again, 40 sec anti shock (IT NEVER SKIPS!!!!), ability to record in mono and double mini disk lengh, a great remote enabling you to edit of it (it's back lit too!!!!), infact alot of the controls are do able from the remote! The remote is clear and looks cool, with a handy clip on the back, which actually works! So it's easy to record, but what's the sound quality like? In a word, stunning, crystal clear, it actaully puts my large stereo too shame. It's perfect,a nd...

code_kev 02.05.2001 (17.01.2002) · Read review
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Review of Sony MZ-R91

A classy looker and an impressive performer

Advantages: Looks good. Solidly made. Excellent coffee once you learn how to use it!
Disadvantages: Takes time to learn how to use it and get good, consistent results.

...Perfecta) . No two coffees taste the same. My machine does not have a doser (if you want that facility you may want to consider the Baby Dose) so the measurement of coffee and water is done by eye. Providing you wait the required 6 minutes the temperature is optimum for an espresso. Making a cappuccino is slightly more difficult to perfect - I recommend the use of a stainless steel pannarello frother (rather than the plastic one provided) and jug for best results (I've tried with plastic and it is too easy to scald the milk). Even now, a year later, if I don't concentrate it is still possible to scald the milk (which makes for an unpleasant almost UHT-like flavour) or make the cappuccino too cool - but I get it just about right around 90% of the time. It is achieved by pressing a steam button to charge up the steam and then releasing it...

JonnyCarpo37 24.10.2008 (27.10.2008) · Read review
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Review of Gaggia BABY Class

the BEST Wedding venue in Lanarkshire.

Advantages: All you have to do is turn up
Disadvantages: none

...macintosh style chairs and gorgeous white fairy lights in the ceiling along with regualr lighting. He sat us down and talked us through everything. They have a room which is used for the ceremony.Its a long room with lots of lovely arched windows, room for an aisle a top table to sign the register and room for a piano and cameraman etc. It was perfect.A beautiful rich red colour (which would highlight the red in his kilt and show off the blue in my bridesmaids dress beautifully). He then took us through to the next room which is where he said we would have the meal, this again was beautifully decorated in ivory and gold (My dress colours!)everything was coming out perfect! He the took us to an area that was being built, a huge extension was planned, you could see that it would be vast in size and had a rough idea what it would look like...

feebleeona 20.09.2002 (24.10.2002) · Read review
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Review of Everything that starts with B ...

An Extra Diamond...

Advantages: !
Disadvantages: ?

...understood it, the question leading to the answer which is meant to be the high-point of the performance is simply perfect...a hand goes up, ah, now you'll have the proof that you know your craft, you'll hear IT, and what you hear is "Can I go to the loo?" Variations: someone falls off their chair/belches/farts/the loudspeaker announces that the following day will be free for a winter sport outing or because it's too hot/a pupil from a neighbouring class comes in to look for something they've forgotten and it's NEVER there...Off with all of them to Room 101 and the key thrown into the loo! And then there are the colleagues. In the staff room I sit at a table together with six others, four of them committed garlic lovers. They all teach French among other subjects (German teachers must teach two different subjects) and tell me it's their human...

MALU 18.10.2002 (09.09.2004) · Read review
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Review of What I'd put in room 101

The only review youll need!!!!!!

Advantages: Awesome everything!!!!!!
Disadvantages: I couldn't find anything that would decrease game play

...on Spira, then you?ll know what I?m talkin? about. Each character is detailed to suit his/her own character personality in the game. Auron?s cloak or whatever and his sort of dark personality go well together. Wakka?s and Tidus? clothes are both colorful and suit their personalities perfect(a Caribbean dude and an upbeat teen). The emotions that are put into each of the characters reactions and just the whole emotion of each character was very well executed and for instance when something outrageous happens, one of the characters is going to let you know what happened. It?s really cool and I just can?t get over how much the character emotion in the faces and movement would help your gaming experience so much. After playing Final Fantasy X and then going back to play some FF7 and FF8, I just couldn?t play for more than 2 minutes...

Jamuke 30.10.2003 · Read review
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Review of Final Fantasy X (PS2)