• warming, calms emotions, relieves anxiety and stress
• used for sprains, strains and spasms, swollen joints and painful muscles.
• in burner, used for asthma, bronchitis, poor circulation, coughs, physical exhaustion, headaches, tension, insomnia, sinusitis, anxiety, nervous tension and stress.
• in bath or massage blend, used for arthritis, back pain, poor circulation, colds, detoxification, fatigue, heartburn, insomnia, painful periods, migraine, muscular pains and spasms, rheumatism, anxiety, and grief.
• marjoram oil blends particularly well with lavender, cypress, cedarwood, chamomile, bergamot, eucalyptus and tea tree.

I’m not impressed. I’ve eyed up the ranged of hideously overpriced craft/card making mags before, but was determined to treat myself to one after my exams. This was the second-cheapest, at £3.95, and seemed like a good first experiment. Plus, the pictures of the freebie paper (you can’t get at it to see, as the whole thing is plastic-wrapped) looked nicer than the one in the more expensive mag.

So, the mag: not impressive. There are a lot of adverts, and a great deal of the ‘inspiring’ features are too heavy on the use of a particular stamp – not the easiest thing to modify to your own tools, methinks!

On the plus side, the technique explanations are really good. There’s maybe one or two I fancy trying… which isn’t value for money.

Oh, and the pretty paper? A6-sized, one bit of each design. And I really don’t understand the bra/knickers designs… O.o

If it was £1 – like the much better Do Crafts mag – I’d give it a ‘wishy washy’. But at nearly four times the price… nah!

Stayed very moist. Nice flavour, if a little drowned out by everything else. Still one of the nicer onion bhajias I’ve tried.

It’s… mush, quite frankly. But nicely tasty mush (albeit not too spicy)!

Not sure I’d go out of my way to buy this again, right enough – it’s very nice, but didn’t add huge amounts to the meal.

Definitely the spiciest thing in the meal! Yum :)

I’ve owned this book for years, felt I ‘should’ read it as one of the big sci-fi classics, knew I liked the story from the (bizarre, hard-to-follow) film, and yet… Actually, I kept putting it off, thinking it was going to be one of those slogs through hard-going text, but that would be worth it in the end.

Well, I was half right – it was worth it! :)

There is a lot crammed into the 500-odd pages here – I imagine in this day and age, the one book would be done as a 12-volume series. This compression of story does mean you have to keep your wits about you a bit, but it’s really not that hard to follow. In fact, my biggest problem was trying to forget the stray bits of movie imagary stuck in my head, so I could actually focus on a more coherent version!

Story-wise, there is a feel that you’ve come into things halfway through (hence the sequels, prequels and everything else!), but that does up the tension. The start is still a bit slow, scene-setting, but the whole thing is just huge in scope of imagination.

What a… strange… movie!

Yes, it’s funny – most of the audience was laughing out loud at some of the situations, myself included at the beginning. Although I confess, some of the anti-pc stuff was a bit too close to just generally rude as the film went on. Still, at least it’s rude across the board: homosexuality, dwarfism, race and religion all get at least a bit of a prodding. And fat people (excellent scene!). And if none of that offends you, there is a LOT of swearing.

However, the bulk of the film is actually quite dark. After a hit goes wrong, the two hitmen involved go on the run to Bruges (“I don’t even know where f’ing Bruges is” says Colin Farrell in the opening voice over. Long pause: “It’s in Belgium”.) Eventually we get a flashback to the crime (and pay attention: there’s a passing comment a while later that explains the why of it), and a lot of lingering shots of the pain showing on Colin Farrell’s face. It’s actually a pretty good topic, but it does take a while to explain enough not to feel a tad slow.

Overall I did enjoy this: there’s just something surreal and dark and done with a great deal of humour underneath it all. Still, I’m surprised at the solid ‘worth consuming’ here, and an 8 rating on imdb – I can easily see people could be bored with this, or not accept that it’s not all belly laughs.

Three each of four different snacks: onion bhajia, spinach pakora, vegetable samosa, and aloo tikka.

I do love the kind of meals that come with plenty of interesting asides, especially as it’s not something I can do too often when cooking for one. So, full marks to this for making a nice curry even more interesting, but marks off ‘cos all four varieties – while nice enough – were just a bit on the bland side, really.

I’ve been searching for ages for a way to make my dad’s favourite toffee-coated muffins: and this pretty much does it! In fact, it’s much nicer than the shop version as long as you’re willing to suffer a few sticky fingers ;)

This is incredibly sweet toffee sauce – tasting very much like fudge or tablet. It separates somewhat, which lets me use just the really gloopy bit. Does go a bit runny on hot muffins, but … mmm! :)

I quite enjoyed this! A very short series – just 9 episodes – and no clue yet if there’ll be a round two, but it was an intriguing little filler between Termintor 2 (I think you have to ignore the third movie!) and the new one due out next year. I confess, I’m not up enough on the movies to really spot a lot of the continuity, but I think this ‘explains’ some of the inconsistancies.

All that aside, this is about a very driven woman, setting up her own little missions to try and prevent Judgement Day, all the while preparing her son to survive that war. Lena Headey is alright, the young John Connor not too annoying, but my fav character has to be the new Terminator – Summer Glau, perfectly pitched as the machine trying to be human.