Leatherman Kick Multi Tool with Leather Sheath
April 22nd, 2008
Leatherman Kick Multi Tool with Leather Sheath
Look sharp and get a grip. The Leatherman tradition for exquisitely made pocket tools has received another significant boost with the arrival of the Kick!, a slimline 10cm device crammed with an array of handy implements that even the Swiss Army couldn’t do without. The Kick! is a full-featured tool, chock-full of innovation, including a straight-knife, no fewer than three extended screwdrivers (including the ultra-useful Phillips head), a bottle opener, needle-nose and regular pliers, a wire stripper and more. And to help you keep a firm handle on affairs, the Kick! comes complete with patented Zytel(r) grip to give you the firmest of firm holds. It’s even got a 19cm ruler on the outside, just in case you need to measure the length of your own cleverness at having made the wisest of wise investments. And if that’s not enough, the chaps at Leatherman have gone a step further, providing - no, insisting - you have a 25 year warranty, which is about the length of the average mortgage here at HQ. So even after our houses are all paid off, we’ll still be able to do those tricksy DIY tasks with the same tool. Wonderful.
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Kid’s Tote: Garden Tote with Tools for Children 
Perfect for aspiring young gardeners! This quality canvas tote comes with three 8″ sturdy garden hand tools: a trowel, rake and shovel. Decorated with a friendly frog and ladybug, this tote has seven deep pockets and a roomy interior that expands to 8″ in diameter.
Price: $49.99
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto 
What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists-all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not “real.” These “edible foodlike substances” are often packaged with labels bearing health claims that are typically false or misleading. Indeed, real food is fast disappearing from the marketplace, to be replaced by “nutrients,” and plain old eating by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Michael Pollan’s sensible and decidedly counterintuitive advice is: “Don’t eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food.”
Writing In Defense of Food, and affirming the joy of eating, Pollan suggests that if we would pay more for better, well-grown food, but buy less of it, we’ll benefit ourselves, our communities, and the environment at large. Taking a clear-eyed look at what science does and does not know about the links between diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about the question of what to eat that is informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach.
In Defense of Food reminds us that, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, the solutions to the current omnivore’s dilemma can be found all around us.
In looking toward traditional diets the world over, as well as the foods our families-and regions-historically enjoyed, we can recover a more balanced, reasonable, and pleasurable approach to food. Michael Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives and enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy.
List Price: $21.95
Amazon Price: $13.17
Used Price: $11.86
Customer Review: Excellent book
Infomation on food that is a priority to health,very detailed on today’s food sources. I’ll keep mine for reference use, bought second book to give as gift.
Customer Review: Four simple steps to a healthy diet
The steps presented are not so simple, but you can make of them what you want. The real draw from this book is that it makes you rethink Universal Healthcare. Considering the role of the FDA in authorizing what’s healthy and what isn’t.
The Complete Guide to Decks: A Step-by-step Manual for Building Decks (Black & Decker Outdoor Home) 
Customer Review: Nevertheless, building a deck is not a piece of cake..
GREAT book!!! Everything is detailed and explained. Reliable and thorough text. Step-by-step pictures. However, if you are a casual handyman you’ll find out that building a deck isn’t just a weekend’s work. Best results come with a bit of help from a smart friend or relative… A friend of mine who overestimated himself set out for a deck and ended up with a horror that had to be taken down half way through :-)))) I’m doing just great with mine. Good Luck!
Customer Review: Buy this book and you will be able to build your own deck
Buy this book and no matter what your skill level you will be able to build your own deck. I read this book and was even more convinced I could build my own deck. The deck I am planning to build is very large, will have a hot tub in it and be multi level. I have every confidence that I will be able to do it myself and when visiting local timber merchants who sell decking I discovered that I knew more than them. It stops them from giving you BS. I posted the book to my father-in-law who’s is going to help me. He phoned me two days later and reckons that the book has given him everything he needs to know in order to build the deck. If you are planning a complex or a simple deck this book has it all.
Philips QC5170 DIY Hairclipper 
The QC5170 hair clippers from Philips are ideal for successfully cutting your hair yourself thanks to its 180? rotating head.The ergonomy of QC5170 hair clippers? body as well as the rotation of its head enable you to reach the most difficult zones with ease. In addition, the choice of length cut, from 0 to 10 mm?and from?10?to 20 mm guarantees a precise cut irrespective of the zone and gives a regular finish.The QC5170 from Philips is rechargeable and wireless. It is very user-friendly and has a long life battery that has an autonomy of almost 100 minutes.?
Customer Review: Why go to the barbers ?
After 20 odd years of going to the barbers, sitting in the chair talking about the same old stuff you know, football, holidays, the weather etc and even leaving a tip for a job well done. I decided to invest in these clippers i’ve got to say I was a bit dubious about doing it myself after reading other reviews about other types of clippers. I need not have worried ! These are absolutley brilliant. I have fine hair and just have the grade 2 all over once a week dead easy to use, no chance of altering the grade switch therefore no patchy hair and easy to shave the back of the head due to the rotating the swivel head, lightweight, excellent battery life. These clippers will have paid for themselves in another month.
Customer Review: Definitely worth the high price.
These clippers are well worth the money. Phillips have surprised me on this. It cuts brilliantly, absolutely no patches left behind, every one I know is amazed that I cut my hair myself. I am 30 and have been a hippy with long hair for 15 years and now I have a crew cut & I fit in:) So far these clippers have no flaws but then again I have only used them once, I hope they last. Excellento.
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