Resetting iCloud bookmarks.

Hello everyone,
As the subject says, I'm having trouble resetting the iCloud bookmarks.
I own an iPhone and recently bought an iPad.
The iPhone is running IOS 8.xxx and the iPad is still running IOS 7.xxx (not planning on changing to IOS 8.xxx).
Now, when I installed the iPad I thought it was time I resetted the bookmarks, because it was a mess.
I've had this problem for a while, but didn't care before I bought the iPad.
The first thing I did, was turning off the iCloud synchronization for safari on both the devices.
I did this and they asked me to delete all the bookmarks from iCloud.
I agreed with this and it deleted all the bookmarks.
So I began testing it, adding some bookmarks on the iPhone and then adding some on the iPad.
Then I re-enabled the synchronization for iCloud.
Instead of syncing between the 2 devices, all the old bookmarks reappeared and I couldn't find the new ones I created.
I repeated the steps twice and can't seem to find a solution.
I've tried searching online, but all the solutions required a mac.
Since I don't have one, I have no idea what to do and hoped someone of you could help me out.
Pardon my English, I'm from Belgium.
Thanks in advance

Havent tought of that myself.
Is there no other way ?
SInce iCloud duplicated everyrhing, i've got 100+ bookmarks.

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