Energy Mind Consciousness - Mystical Sun

Advantages: Green energy, lots of hot water when it's sunny
Disadvantages: High-pressure selling, less hot water when it's cloudy

...We had been considering solar panels for some time and, when renovating our house, deliberately installed an unusual hot-water tank (dual-coil thermal-store) with the express intention of having solar panels installed at a later date. In the meantime, I researched solar water-heating companies. Coincidentally, a leaflet from SmartEnergy dropped through our letterbox. As we were in the market for panels, I sent off the reply-paid card, and SmartEnergy duly made contact by phone. The salesman that arrived a week or two later was pushy in the extreme. Fortunately, because I had already carried out some fairly extensive research into the subject, I could decipher the facts from the sales-talk, but nevertheless I was fairly impressed with the standard of engineering of the panel-section he brought with him (I'm an engineer myself by... Read review

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Advantages: Dark Electro and heavy beats
Disadvantages: Nothing amazing but nothing bad either.

...Slave of My Mind is a dark and twisted journey into the sub consciousness mind. This second album from Kiko is a mixture of Italo techno, electro and house. You can almost say it has a gothic feel to it with undertones of Depeche Mode and Blue Monday's, but in a much darker sense. This is generally music to make you feel parodied or feel unease, but, don't let that put you off the album, though. The most accessible single is the self titled 'Slave of My Mind', long distorted electro notes, keyboard sample loops, driving bass line and Benoit Bollini's vocals preaching voice, this pretty much sets the tone for Kiko's album, a dark mind trip. If don't believe me, check out the video to Slave of My Mind on Youtube, pretty much sums it up in my opinion. Quite honestly there's not much more a can really say about the album, I can... Read review

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Advantages: great fun, entertaining
Disadvantages: not great with only two people, can get dead ends, quite big

...the Castle. It is possible for knights to become king, in which case occupying the Castle is a way to win the game. Because of the way Mystic Wood is designed, no one knows at the start of the game how the cards will be laid out. The special cards could be anywhere and there could be some awkward arrangements of dead ends. This means you get a different game each time which adds enormously to the fun. Unfortunately, this can lead to areas being unreachable because of dead ends. Only once, we've had a game where we've been unable to move away from the start because of how the cards were placed. It also means that the game can take a little while to set up. Also, it does take up rather a lot of space. A big table works well, or a patch of floor if you don't mind sitting on the carpet. ~ Small Cards ~ These cards are the people... Read review

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