Advantages: Great flavour and attractive shape
Disadvantages: none

...I have been a lover of Marshalls pasta products for years. Marshalls is a Scottish company and has been producing pasta products since 1935 although the company started in the 1880’s producing Semolina and Farola using only the finest durum wheat. Basically only well known in Scotland in the past, the company’s products can now be found in English supermarkets as well and are fast becoming a leader when it comes to pasta products. In recent years Marshalls have expanded their products into all forms of pasta which includes……………………….. Tagliatelle Twists Lasagne pasta Macaroni Spaghetti And ofcourse Spirals which I am reviewing here today. I love the shape of Spirals and as the name suggest they look similar to the ending of a corkscrew. That’s the best way I can think of to describe them. For best... Read review

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Advantages: Stunning songs and production; complex and thought provoking
Disadvantages: May offend some

...There can be few bands more deserving of the recognition and critical acclaim that they have recieved from the music press than Nine Inch Nails. Never afraid to experiment with new and innovative ideas, their albums are always impeccably produced and thought provoking. In my opinion, the sign of a great album is whether it challenges you as a listener and whether you can listen to it for the 50th time and still find something new in it. I find that every NIN album I own meets these criteria and I would class them all as musical masterpieces. NIN is essentially the creation of Trent Reznor, who provides the main vocals as well as writing, arranging and playing most of the instruments on the albums. Released in 1994, The Downward Spiral still sounds as fresh and has as much impact now as the day it was released. In terms of style... Read review

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Advantages: delicious, cheap, nice size, practical
Disadvantages: cheese aint the most slimming food in the world...!

...Browsing the tins on the shelf at Asda, my attention was cast across to a little tin, located near the childrens' pasta shapes and spaghetti options. Mounted on its green and silver label was a comic character of a little pasta spiral, with its own pair of teeny square glasses which looked as if they had been drawn on. Although it was obvious that this product was aimed at young children, I was in no way hesitant to pop the cheesy spirals into my trolley! I decided to sample this new product with my tea; a chicken and broccoli lattice, carrots and peas. It seemed like a fair combination, and only hoped the tastes combined as successfully! Pulling back the ring-pull, a thankfully simple and mess-free procedure, I plopped the gloopy contents into the bowl; a pale yellow shade of sauce coating a nice amount of spiral shaped pasta. I... Read review

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Advantages: Creates fantastic patterns
Disadvantages: difficult for smallchildren to use

...It was recently my daughter's 4th birthday and as she seems to have been showing some great artistic tendencies, I was on the look out for something which was very arty and she would enjoy. I stumbled across Spiral Art in the Early Learning Centre and was immediately reminded of Spirograph which I knew and loved as a child! As the age range was between three and ten years I decided that she would have to have it! The Spiral Art kit comes in a reasonably sized box and contains 1 outer frame, five inner frames, four felt pens, six cogs, twenty sheets of paper and, most important of all, a set of instructions! The frames are all made of fairly sturdy plastic and so are the cogs. The paper is A4 size and it is slightly disappointing to find this bent, because the paper size is bigger than the box. My daughter was very excited when she... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to move around with and easy to put away
Disadvantages: Unsuitable for a large gardens

...to manage to march back and forth wielding a heavy watering can throughout the entire summer. A plumber was contacted and an outside tap duly installed. The only place to install it, unfortunately, was underneath the kitchen window, right behind the patio table and chairs, just where we’ve developed a pretty gravel garden. Having an ugly plastic hose reel hanging on the wall just wouldn’t be aesthetically pleasing and this is, after all, a garden; a place for relaxation, contemplation and quite repose. Aesthetics are important. The choices we were left with were either one of those mobile trundly cart type hose reels that you move around the garden with you or a spiral effort that stretches with you. A friend of ours has the cart type and as I’m in charge of tending her garden during the week while she’s away, I’ve tried and tested... Read review

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Advantages: Great industrial music. An album you can listen to all the way through.
Disadvantages: A little heavy for some people. Couple controversial type songs

...I searched through my cd collection, trying to find that one perfect album. I looked at some Smashing Pumpkins, Our Lady Peace, Furnaceface, Hayden, KMFDM, and so on, and so on. But the one cd that I had in mind to begin with just kept sticking out, so I'm going to go with it. Nine Inch Nails masterpiece, The Downward Spiral. A Little Background... The Downward Spiral was released in 1994,