Besides the sea

Advantages: "We joined the navy to see the world?."
Disadvantages: "And what did we see? We saw the sea." (Irving Berlin)

...and overpriced headland of the same name to the Isle of Purbeck and stride off down the South West Coast Path that begins on the far side. Don?t worry, I?m not going to ask you to walk the full 630 miles. For the first few miles you will be on the beaches of Shell Bay and Studland Bay, between the dunes and the sea. As you know, I?m not too wild about beach views and this one is not improved by the nudists, who are mostly ugly, male and not worth looking at. It is enormously improved, though, on a clear day by the Needles of the Isle of Wight looming out to sea in the east and by the mirror-image chalk cliff spikes known as Old Harry and his Wife, adding drama to the point of the headland up ahead. Once past Old Harry and round the point, you have entered the World Heritage Site known as the Jurassic Coast. The first stretch doesn...

torr 23.10.2009 · Read review
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SEA SPRAY FOR MERMAID HAIR

Advantages: non sticky, enhances curls, hair stays soft, good hold
Disadvantages: boring packaging, not a very exciting smell

...When it comes to beauty products, make-up, hair care and the like I am a somewhat fickle individual. I have cupboards full of things I?ve used once or twice but I always seem to find an excuse to buy more. I?m sure when I go shopping for such items the sensible part of my brain just shuts down and I become an advertisers dream, seduced by rows of eye-catching packaging for things I don?t just want but obviously really really need. I bought GHD Sea Spray hairspray at the hairdressers; I find I become especially vulnerable at the hairdressers. It?s bad enough in Boots where I can just pick and choose what I want to buy but in the hairdressers where a plastic pumped, collagen filled botox beauty is persuading me that I simply cannot live without said product, I find it all too easy to give in. I?m sure I am not the only one who just...

coolcam7 29.04.2007 · Read review
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The sea-side flavoured treat!

Advantages: A twist on the original of my youth.
Disadvantages: Made entirely of sugar!

.... The difference between then and now, which would be the modern twist I mentioned earlier are the flavours of the contents. In the pack is ?orange sparkle?, ?tangy raspberry? and ?zingy lemon?, the stick, which is used to scoop the afore mentioned sherbets from the pack with, you now the routine, lick and dip, is candyfloss flavoured. There is also a culmination of brands with the stick supposedly being part of the ?love hearts? range, with the stick even having little phrases running down one side of it! To eat you simply tear the top of the packet off. To save my poor floor I tend to concertina the pack onto itself, then when the top is removed I pour all the different colours and flavours of sherbet into a bowl, the lick and dip method is much easier from a bowl rather than an ever increasingly soggy paper bag! The sherbet itself is quite...

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All at sea in the hands of a Doctor

Advantages: Nice light comedy
Disadvantages: The story and most of the film in general

...Simon Sparrow is now a qualified doctor and working as an apprentice in a practice in London. He finds that not only is he doing all the work while his boss heads off to play golf but his bosses daughter is dead set on getting her hands on him. Deciding his only recourse it to run away he does the time honoured thing of escaping to sea. He manages to get a job on board a merchant navy ship... with no women on board! A trip to a port is something all the crew look forward to but on their first stop on this trip they pick up a couple of passengers, the Chairmans' daughter and her friend, a beautiful young singer. How will the arrival of two women affect all the lonely men on board? Doctor At Sea (1955) was the second of the seven Doctor films made throughout the 50's and 60's and is, like the first in the series, very typical of British...

Ailran 30.05.2009 · Read review
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The dark side

Advantages: GOOD TO LISTEN TO
Disadvantages: NONE

...I wrote this review yonks ago thought I would find it out as last night we watched a tv prog about Pionk floyd Dark side of moon and it brought nback all those magic adolescent moments for me , This record is certanly magic to listen too we have it on cd now. Saturday Morning I was dusting and came across these large round black discs that have a groove running around the it and a hole in the middle. It was encased in a matt black cardboard sleeve , with a white line of light entering it from one edge entering a triangle in the centre front changing to a rainbow of colours going from the other side of the triangle you’ve got it, it was a record I have stacks do not listen too them that often these days use c d’s .I came across this one that I have not listened since I don’t know when so I have put it...

mumsymary 21.12.2002 (11.02.2006) · Read review
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An Octopuses Garden By The Sea

Advantages: underwater tunnel
Disadvantages: vastly overpriced

...of the exhibits. I really think that it is one of the most over hyped attractions within Scotland and you get the feeling that they are only interested in extracting as much cash from the visitor as possible whether they enjoy themselves or not. Kids do enjoy Deep Sea World and on the plus side it is somewhere that you can visit on a cold and wet day but it is still very low down on my list of places to visit in the area....

wigglylittleworm 19.10.2009 · Read review
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Silver side up, Nickelback side down

Advantages: Great riffs, vocals
Disadvantages: Not followed up well

...**Introduction** I'm sure all of you have at least one cd in your collection from an artist you really only like that album from them. One such band that I feel this way about Is Nickelback. Although I do like some of their other stuff there is not enough consistency on any of their other albums for me to buy any other Nickelback albums. Nickelback Chad Kroeger - vocals, rhythm guitar, production Ryan Peake -lead guitar, backing vocals, production Mike Kroeger - bass, production Ryan Vikadel - drums, production **Silver Side Up. They released their third studio album Silver Side Up on that fateful day 11th September 2001. This album is wrongly given as their debut because of the success of the album compared to their previous two albums which performed badly. Chad Kroeger wrote the lyrics and the whole band wrote the music...

jcneil 08.07.2009 · Read review
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Sea Kelp

Advantages: Boosts energy, good value for money, natural
Disadvantages: Horrible taste if you let it dissolve in your mouth.

...I first heard about Sea Kelp after enquiring what the many supplements my friend was taking daily were. I had heard of all of them before, except kelp and wanted to know more about it. Basically, it is sea weed and it's supposed to be very good for you. It gives you more energy which boosts your metabolism and aids cell growth, so you nails and hair should grow faster among other things. It is also a natural source of iodine, although this is not a recommended daily requirement. I have found Kelp in all health stores stores I've visited and also a few chemists too. I was surprised to find that Boots didn't stock it, but did find it in other high street chemists. Holland and Barrett sell it at £2.49 for 250 tablets and this price is comparable in other stores, although does vary depending on quality and quantity etc... You are...

Faitho 12.07.2001 · Read review
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  (SEA) MONKEY BUSINESS!!!!

Advantages: amusing, entertaining, cheap,
Disadvantages: none really.

...It was my son's Birthday a couple of weeks ago, I was wondering around Toys r us when I came across the educational section, My son loves Science at school so I thought I would buy him something scientific. I saw these Sea Monkeys and thought they looked interesting, I didn't really know too much about them at the time but thought for £6.99 they were the perfect present. What are Sea Monkeys? *************************** Well I wasn't sure myself at first what these things are, but apparently sea monkeys are just tiny eggs in a packet that are kept in suspended animation until you hatch them into the water. They are kept in instant life crystals for years, which preserve their lives until they are ready to be hatched. Sea monkeys have been around since the late 70's but are uncommon. They are a hybrid variety of brine shrimp...

Lynzie 02.09.2005 (22.11.2005) · Read review
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See sea holly in flower soon

Advantages: Pretty , attractive to butterflies
Disadvantages: Spikey

...I treated myself to a garden plant this weekend a sea holly, Eryngium bourgatii. This is a very pretty plant with green leaves divided into spikes in a frost pattern. This mound of dark blue/green leaves have silver veins in them. A stout branched stalk will grow up from the leaves to about 60cm. This stalk will have small dense, blue cone shaped flowers these each have a spiky silver blue rosaceous collar of leaf underneath it. This plant is very attractive. The flowers are really a fantastic Oxford blue colour. Eryngium bourgati is a native of Spain,, the Pyrenees and Med coast . It likes chalky sandy soil well drained soil so I hope it will like my Chiltern chalk. The best position for this plant is full sun. It is a perennial frost hardy needs little water so should be simple to look after. I bought my plant for £5...

mumsymary 09.07.2009 (12.07.2009) · Read review
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