Monty's Project - Montagu Don

Advantages: Easy to read. Beautiful photography. Great recipes.
Disadvantages: Makes me feel inferior!

...My gorgeous cousin bought this book for me Christmas 4 years ago, a couple of months after we had moved into our 'smallholding'. I had heard of the series on TV but had never actually watched it as I assumed (wrongly) that it would be about flowers. I don't do flowers. How wrong I was! This is a fabulous book, written month by month. It starts with info about Monty and Sarah Dons life. How they changed things in their house, how they created the garden etc. You then go through the months - What to plant, where to plant it. Whats good to eat, relevant recipe's. There are nice little comments regards family life etc. The info regards the actually planting and sowing, thinning out, harvesting etc are very good and easy to understand. I find many 'gardening' manuals are full of blurb that I would only understand if I knew what i... Read review

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Advantages: One of shakespeares best plays
Disadvantages: Hard to unerstand the language in some parts

...***WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE*** William Shakespeare was a famous poet and playwright, born in 1564 and died in 1616. He was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, but he moved to London where he lived as an actor and a writer. Biographers know very little about Shakespeare's life and there has been a lot of speculation about whether his works were actually written by another playwright. Some of his most famous plays include Macbeth, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet which have been performed all over the world, and his use of the traditional, stylised language is what defines him and makes him unique. His plays are put into three categories; Comedies, Histories and Tradgedies, the play Romeo and Juliet is a tradgedy. ***ROMEO AND JULIET*** The two families The Montagues and the Capulets have been sworn ememies for years, and the play begins... Read review

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Advantages: Epic book even for non horsey people
Disadvantages: none

...An epic book by the man who has changed the way we treat our horses by communicating through body language, rather than whip or spur. The Man who listens to horses tells of Monty Roberts' often distressing childhood, his grit and determination to find a better way of training horses to take a saddle and ultimately his goal to change the way we treat our horses for ever. I thoroughly recommend this book not only for horse owners or trainers, but also to those who don't even like horses as his methods can be used on how to treat other people as well. Packed full of pictures of his early childhood days, his trip to see the queen and his race horse success story Blushing ET, this book is a fantastic read and will make you think.... Read review

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