Cotton Traders - A Good Source for Wardrobe Staples

Advantages: Easy to use. Good quality merchandise. Good service.
Disadvantages: Inconsistent fit. Clothing is functional and unexciting.

...INTRODUCTION Cotton Traders (CT) has become a staple source of clothes for me. In my darkest days, pushing almost 25 stone, it was my only reasonably priced, mainstream source of outsized clothes that did not carry the psychological baggage inherent in ?Big & Tall? and ?High & Mighty? type shops. With sizes up to 4XL for T-shirts and polo shirts, and waist sizes up to 52 inches, it was a godsend. The only downside was that ordering from them helped perpetuate the illusion that my size was OK. In fact, it was when I started struggling to get into CT?s biggest clothes that the penny finally dropped and I took decisive action to manage my health. The good news, for readers at least, is that I have ordered clothes from them for going on three years, in various sizes, and have built up enough experience ? both good and bad ? to be...

Hishyeness 27.05.2009 · Read review
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SILK

Advantages: SCARY SCI-FI
Disadvantages: SUBTITLES

...SILK. This film has some advanced theoretical science in regard to worm holes, electromagnetic waves and Anti gravity. It deals with Japanese scientist, Hashimoto who is the inventor of the 'Menger Sponge'. When used it traps all free energy within a small radius. With it he can walk on ceilings, slow down time and even trap 'Ghosts'. The film starts with the hideous deaths of some residents of a block of apartments. The specialist team is brought in and soon they have a ghost trapped, the ghost of a young boy with a sad and disturbing past. But soon the team start dieing, who is he escaping from the impenetrable room. What is he wordlessly saying? What horrors is he about to inflict on the world? Does the ghost and the Menger sponge hold the secret of immortality? And how will Hashimoto turn it to his advantage...

MaldivesHoliday 11.04.2009 · Read review
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Sci Fi with a Twist of SILK.

Advantages: A SPOOKY FILM !!
Disadvantages: Nothing

...SILK. ****** ~Introduction~ Japanese scientist, Hashimoto, has invented the 'Menger Sponge' which is a black hole for electromagnetic waves. The Menger sponge traps and stores energy and when it is full it can defy gravity, basically "Anti Gravity". But with unexpected side effects, Very Scary side effects. ~Synopsis~ In an apartment block a man has died, a horrible ghastly death. The Menger team are brought in and find a ghost, the ghost of a young boy. They spray the room with Menger spores to trap him inside and then set about trying to discover who he is, why he died, what he is doing there and what is he saying when he speaks, wordlessly. The inventor of the Menger sponge brings into his team, a kind of super cop. He is clever, fast and has a special talent. He can read lips, perhaps even the lips of the dead...

Maximus-Qualitus 20.02.2009 · Read review
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Rogue traders are being watched

Advantages: tries to keep the general public informed
Disadvantages: none unless you're a rogue trader of course

...No this is not about the Nick Leeson movie starring Ewna McGregor and Anna Friel, nor is it concerning the group who gave us ?Voodoo child?, it is about a simple BBC program which brings helpful information to the general public. Although the title may sound as though this show follows some dodgy traders around whilst they go about their business of ripping people off, maybe glorifying them in some way, well let me inform you that is not? in fact it is the complete opposite. * What is it? I hear you ask. It is a fact based Consumer show which began its life on the BBC channel in 2001 and has become so popular it is now in its 7th series It is presented by Matt Allwright, an investigative journalist, and Dan Penteado, a private investigator, who travel around the UK, and even Europe, on a Honda Super Blackbird motorcycle...

blissman70 17.03.2009 · Read review
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Will Geoffrey Replace His Silks For Silks?

Advantages: Yet another 'Francis' Novel to educate us . . . this time about legal processes
Disadvantages: Some similarities to other minor plot lines . . . .

...A melodic tune broke into my concentration. I pulled my Pumpkin coloured RAZR out of its case and answered the phone by flicking it open. "Hello?" . . . . . . . . "Is that Mrs James? This is Tettenhall Library. The Dick Francis book you reserved is ready for collection." . . . . . . . . "Is Wednesday okay?" . . . . . . . . . "Certainly; you can only borrow it for a fortnight, though, as it is still on the reserve list, you know!" . ~ ~ ~ ~ SILKS: ~ ~ Racing Silks and Legal Silks? ~ ~ ~ ~ This novel, the 41st of the "Dick Francis" enterprise, centres round an amateur jockey, Geoffrey Mason (known on the track as 'Perry' because his PAYING job is as a Barrister) who rides his own horse, court cases permitting, in steeplechase races reserved for amateur riders. This is his TRUE passion, having been...

jesi 01.12.2008 · Read review
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Dove Body Silk

Advantages: Smell, packaging, moisturisor itself
Disadvantages: Perhaps a bit pricey just for a body cream?

...Dove Body Silk is a fantastic moituriser which is far more luxurious than your bog standard body lotion. It's very thick and creamy, and seems to melt into your skin like ice cream rather than being thin and runny like a lot of lotions on the market. It comes in a tub, as opposed to a bottle, so you scoop out the contents, which I think is fab! The packagine of Dove Body Silk is, like the rest of the range, simple but stylish. The 300ml tub is curved, made of white plastic with the familiar 'Dove' logo in blue italics. It also carried a picture of a gold dove, which I like is quie classy! It has a screw lid, and you use your fingers to take out the moistuiser as you want it, so there is no danger of squeezing out too much and losing it. The downside of this however is that it can be a bit messy, but not that badly. The cream...

drunkenabby007 17.06.2002 (29.06.2002) · Read review
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High fondle factor of Silk

Advantages: Easy to shop, Good delivery.
Disadvantages: Cons, some may feel a limited selection of products and colours.

...One thing that I could never be accused of is being a follower of fashion. As you get older warmth and comfort start to be far more important than wearing the latest thing. I liked a good long walk in rough country, mountains and moreland. This is all very well but weather can change rather quickly at times and you can soon become wet and cold. I am a bit slower these days now than I used to be but I can still get just as wet and cold as before. Good clothing is essential. Water and wind proof jackets can be vital, but a lot of waterproof trousers can be rather heavy. I know that they are hardly the most fashionable item, but I had some long johns that were German made. After a fairly long life and much washing, they finally gave up. So something new was called for. A quick search found this site. Patra Silk. Here I could go...

Coloneljohn 29.03.2006 · Read review
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Dove silk glow beauty bath

Advantages: moisturisind and loads of bubbles
Disadvantages: can make you itch if you use to much

...in the bath. Ingredients Aqua, sodium laureth sulphate, glycerine, cocamidropyl betain, parfum, cocamide MEA, isopropyl palmitate, acryylates copolymer, guar hydroxypropyltrimonium chloride, glycol distearate, ppg-12 laureth-4 sodium chloride, citric acid, sodium benzoate, alpha-isomethyl ione, benzyl alcohol, butylphenyl methylpropional, hexyl cinnamal, limonene, linalool, cl 16255 cl 47005. Despite all those ingredients that sound like they might do your skin no good I would recommend dove silk glow, it left my skin replenished and feeling great. It does what is says and im impressed....

Crazykurst 06.05.2009 · Read review
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From straw to silk.

Advantages: silky soft hair with no tangles.
Disadvantages: smells a bit too strong and synthetic (in the tub)

...% off in Superdrug recently, I use Hair Silk. The wonder comes in what I call a 'scoopy' tub. It's shallow and wide, and you get the treat to scoop out the product in big handfulls, rather than having to squeeze it or pour it into your hands. Scooping is so much more satisfying, don't you think? Ok, that's just me then. The tub is typical Dove - blue and white, with the gold Dove and a pink box that tells me I bought hair silk for 'dry/damaged/coloured hair'. Yes, all of the above. There's a sticker on top of the lid which reads 'deep care - doesn't weigh hair down', which is exactly what I was looking for. Softness, but not greasiness. The only thing that annoys me about this tub is that because of the way it's labelled, when I try to twist the lid back on, I end up twisting the whole label around the pot. But that's a small thing...

PrincessGem 31.03.2004 · Read review
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Rogue Trader

Advantages: Great story line, true life
Disadvantages: Difficult to understand

...waving, finger signals, shouting in the trading room, and this is where one of his assistants mucks up. Instead of buying a contract, she sells them. This causes a loss of £20,000. Coming up to Christmas the losses grow up to £10,000,000. Through good luck, and hard work he manages to trade of of that position and makes all that money back. Trying to recover all that money he has to recruit more people onto his books. Pierre Bo Marche is his answer. This guy is one of the biggest traders in town and the commission Nick earns off him is massive. But he hasn't made it because he's only really made a loss into a break even figure. Never the less, it shows up on the balance sheet as a profit of £10,000,000. Nick is a star, and gets to go to London to host speeches and so on. Into the New Year then, Nick gets a shock...

TheBroomCupboard 04.09.2001 · Read review
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