Advantages: No more grated knuckles Disadvantages: None I have found
With all the well broadcast 'advice' last year (and on-going) about eating our five fruits and vegetables, I decided during last summer that salads where the order of the day. The 'easy' way of getting the suitable mix, of course, was to buy a packet from Tesco's. That is, until I saw this item on QVC.
Cook's Essentials is one of QVC's own brands - so obviously this is the best place to buy it. As a kitchen gadget I have found it to be one of the best - and unlike most others it has remained out (and in use) on the worktop in my kitchen.
I have to say that I already had a mandoline slicer - top quality with all the required attachments - however, once the novelty had worn off, like many other new toys, it was relegated to the bottom of the cupboard - mainly because it was too much trouble to get it out and fiddle about ...
Advantages: nice cast and beautiful scenary Disadvantages: not Nicholas Cage's normal type of role
It?s 1941 and the Second World War is in full swing. The Italians have just aligned with the German troops and invade Greece. The soldiers from Germany and Italy land on the Greek Island of Cephallonia where they are to have an occupying presence.
They put a number of soldiers and captain?s into people?s homes to keep a close eye on things on the island. The beautiful Pelagia (Penelope Cruz) and her father (John Hunt) have to put up with Captain Antonio Corelli (Nicholas Cage). They don?t like his presence but unlike the other soldiers and officers he seems a little friendlier, especially with his passion for the Mandolin.
When Pelagia?s fiancé (Christian Bale) heads off to fight the war the relationship between Pelagia and Antonio starts to really flourish as the circumstances bring them closer together. The rest of the story ...
Advantages: The Book is ten times better than the film Disadvantages: nothing new
The war is at its peak. Girl meets boy and their love blossoms in the midst of the fighting before everyone lives happily ever after. Does this story sound familiar? I had this ignorant tone when I was recommended Louis de Bernières, ?Captain Corelli?s Mandolin.? I could not refrain from thinking that it was exactly the same as every other war novel I had read or heard about. However, from the moment I opened the front cover to the moment I closed it I found myself captivated into the world of Cephallonia and into the minds? of the characters. It was much more than a simple love story with a perfect ending but incorporated numerous issues, experiences, characters and emotions that kept me unable to believe that this was a fictitious story
Bernières style of writing is extremely effective. The novel, made up of a mixture of both first ...
