Advantages: Just good music Disadvantages: none it's a great Album
Perhaps at this time of year a little nostalgia can ease those tired parts of the body which have been slightly abused over the festive period. The ears in particular may have taken a severe pounding from your nephew or neice's latest CD. let me guide you calmly back to a time when music was......................well music.
I have always been a fan of Kate Bush and when I was given this album ( The Whole Story ) as a Christmas present I was very pleased indeed. It's a trip into the mind of one of the most popular songwriter's/performers of our time. You will have over the last decade or so heard many of the tracks many times, but this does not deter from their quality in fact it simply endorses it. This is an Album that I shall be listening to for many hours during the long cold winter nights and it shall as Kate has always done ...
Advantages: makes toast.. sort of... and will test your smoke alarm during use Disadvantages: unpredictable, unreliable and can be nerve racking
this?trust me, it is life threatening).
Anyway, as I said, I have had this Bush for a while now and in my typical luck I have found it to be one of the worst ones I have had the misfortune of using.
It seems to have found a mind of its own when it comes to making toast, choosing to either burn the slice, burn one side of the slice or even take so long to toast the slice that it would have been quicker using a ?zippo? lighter, no matter what setting number I chose.
It also tends to decide which elements it wants to turn on when I slide the bread into the silver ?dread the bread? machine, each element coming on at different times so I know they are not burnt out, just stubborn little devils, thus creating a varied and sometimes rather bizarre colour scheme on one single slice of bread.
The actual design looks nothing new, having four ...
Advantages: Filling, tasty Disadvantages: Makes your jaws ache
almonds and raisins wouldn't look out of place on a bar of Fruit and Nut either, were it not for the addition of cereal pieces to the image.
The current price is £1.55 for a whole kilogram. That's over 20p less than a 500g box - half the size! - of similar own-brand cereal. Bags, of course, are more awkward to store: irregular in shape, and you'll need one of those plastic clip things to keep the contents airtightly fresh. But this is a minor inconvenience.
I elected to cut the packet open rather than pulling the sides apart, which in my experience usually ends with airborne cereal particles, and poured myself a decent helping.
The first thing you notice is the vast quantity of raisins. In most cereals I find the fruit has been distributed with a very miserly hand, so that I'm lucky if I manage to get a raisin in every spoonful. Here ...