Advantages: 3 sizes, auto-closing
Disadvantages: none

...For those of you who already have little children in the house, you will agree that safety in the home is paramount. Even if you have eyes in the back of your head, in your arms and legs and in every single room in the house, your child will still manage to wonder off undetected. It's great when they start to move, at first they progress slowly but it's only a matter of days before then can go from 0 -100 in the blink of an eye. So when our little one began to move we needed to start looking at stair gates, before he dive bombed down the stairs. At this point to me a stair gate was a stair gate, a gate that you fix across your stairs or to the entrance of a room to prevent children having accidents, or escaping from rooms. So how long would it take to purchase two gates! How wrong was I? There are millions (well not literally... Read review

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Advantages: Smooth, even and easy application, lasts, gentle to skin
Disadvantages: Expensive

.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Golden Gate Blush ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Golden Gate is one of BareMinerals most popular blushes, it creates a radiant rose colour on your cheeks with a hint of sunkissed glow. It is made from 100% pure minerals and looks and feels natural on your skin. Golden Gate has complexion boosters that infuse colour into your skin making it look like it's coming from within. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Use & Effects ~~~~~~~~~~~ It is recommended that you use Bare Escentuals Full Coverage Kabuki Brush or Bare Escentuals Taper Blush Brush when applying Golden Gate to your skin. I personally use the Taper Blush Brush. I would actually agree with the recommendation, as I do find it makes a real difference and maximises the effect on your skin. After you have applied your foundation, and I would really recommend using BareMinerals SPF Foundation, it is the same... Read review

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Advantages: no screwing involved
Disadvantages: none

...I'm live in a strange property and the door frames are smaller than average, so I found myself in quite a dilemma when I needed to choose a security gate to keep babs out of the kitchen and falling down stairs. I needed a gate that was extra special as I knew that I would have to fit it between two walls. Thus, I needed a gate that was extend able. Then the second and even third problem hit me. I'm hopeless at DIY, and the walls are that solid, nothing will go through. I was flicking through an Argos book, and then I saw the answer to my problem. A gate that needs no screws. I'd been saved. So, for an extremely reasonable £19.99 I bought a gate, and within about 5 minutes of arriving home, it was fitted. For those who like things permanently fixed there was even the walls cups and screws to attach on the wall. So I had my... Read review

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Advantages: Nice, sturdy, gate, no drilling required
Disadvantages: None

...I bought two Lindam Alarmed Safety gates from Boots online at £24.99. Check their site regularly as they often have offers for free delivery or extra Advantage card points on baby items. The gates arrived well packaged and with easy to follow instructions. FIXING IT TO THE WALL These gates can be fixed to the wall by adjusting the four pressure "bars" they come with. Lindam's advice - for extra safety - is to secure the two top pressure points to the wall by using screws (included in the package). Personally I have only used these screws for the gate at the top of the stairs for extra safety as, once fitted, the gate is pretty sturdy. I pushed it with all my strength and the gate didn't move an inch! UNLOCKING IT/TWO WAY GATE The gate is white and comes with a blue handle. To open it, you need to press a button... Read review

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Advantages: Great, Huge, non-linear Game.
Disadvantages: Time-consuming and un-exciting

...Balder’s Great is Gate! (whoops!) Balder’s Gate is a great Role Playing Game. It has a very free-structured story unlike Japanese style RPGs (like final fantasy), which have a lot less choices. You also have a lot of choice about your character. These mean that you can play the game through 2 or more times and it will be different every time. In the game you control Gomrath, an orphan raised by the monks in Candlekeep. One day without any warning you are told to get all your belongings and leave Candlekeep for you are in grave danger. What danger this is, isn’t revealed until later in the game (I won’t spoil this for you). In your adventures around the sword coast you meet many friends like Imeon, a young friend of yours and an expert thief, and Minsc, everybody’s favourite ‘nutter’... Read review

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Advantages: no. 1 safety, difficult operating mechanism for children to use
Disadvantages: none that I can think of

...When I moved into my new home the only thing I was unsure of was the fact it had split level bedrooms, the master being downstairs and the smaller upstairs. Considering there was just no way I could fit a double bed in the upstairs room after weighing up all options and what ifs to do with my daughter being upstairs with a gate fixed or downstairs and near to the front door and easy walk through access to the rest of the house including kitchen! I decided I had no option but to hunt around for a top of the range safety gate that wouldn't let me down so that I could rest at night knowing she was safe upstairs. I did at first buy an extending gate as the opening to the top of my stairs is wider than average as it has a large step at the top which you have to turn right off of to step onto the landing but I didn't feel at all... Read review

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Advantages: Unique narration, Historical accuracy with interesting fiction
Disadvantages: Some heavy themes

...'s tale" of the Spartan way of life and the events leading to and including the battle of Thermopylae. Gobartes was the historian assigned the task of accurately compiling Xeones' account and sending it to King Xerxes. That document is, in essence, "Gates of Fire". Thus, the story of "Gates of Fire" can be split into two different timelines. The novel begins with the "current" timeline and everything taking place there is printed in italics. It actually is the historian's own notes and remarks, as he fills out the details between Xeones' narratives and provides additional information on the grander scheme of the war and the Persian view of the events. The meat of the book takes place in Xeones' timeline. He quickly connects with the reader by describing his last moments at the Gates and then progressively tells his story, growing up... Read review

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Advantages: Good film
Disadvantages: Unrealistic

...Introduction ~ Yet another world war two war film except this is one with a difference. When we think of world war two we most likely think of England, Germany and America. But Russia actually paid a huge part in the war, that is often left out of films. Enemy at the Gates is about the war between Russia and Germany. Enemy at the gates is very unusual in the way that it is a film from the USSR’s point of view. To get an idea of how unlikely that would have been 20 years ago, imagine a Hollywood epic about the heroic lads of Iraq or Cuba. The exclusivity of what it takes for a story to get a greenlight in Hollywood is why there are still so many great true stories yet to be told, and Enemy at the Gates, depending upon how truthful you think it is (varying authors and experts dispute the existence of Tania, the heroine played... Read review

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Advantages: Great range
Disadvantages: Should make bigger tubs

...General When I was pregnant I was really sure that I was going to breastfeed, I did for a while. But things were a bit hard at the start when my little baby girl was born. , I was having a phenomenally long labour and was getting really tired and emotional. I had been in labour for 13 hours so I gave in and asked for some more pain relief Pethidine, I was only using gas and air and a tens machine at first. The pethidine had an effect on my baby Ella and made her really tired so she wouldn't feed probably from me. By the time she was ready to feed and awake my breasts were engorged and she couldn't latch on so I ended up giving her some formula milk, which I bought as a back up. I had bought cow and gate premium Babies first milk. At first I was giving her both breast and bottle. But to give her breast I had to use a breast pump... Read review

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Advantages: Long game, interesting story, party members seem more real than in previous games
Disadvantages: Fighting is sometimes frustrating, game requires a better computer than it should do

...Unlike most people I wasn't that impressed with the original Baldurs Gate, I found the game a bit boring as it progressed and slowly got fed up of it before I reached the end. Baldurs Gate 2 on the other hand is one of the best RPG's I have played in recent years, it improves on the original in just about every way leading to a very good game. The game is an RPG and not in the same way as games such as Diablo. As well as gaining experience to improve your character and having choice over what items you outfit your character with you also have a wide range of classes to choose from, dialogue options to play the game the way you want to and many other things that give you more choice over how you play than has been seen before. The game continues the storyline from the end of Baldurs Gate but does not require you to know... Read review

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