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for Monologues

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  • 5 Stars
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  • 3 Stars
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  • 2 Stars
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  • 36 of 36 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Pastynicholls

    4 Stars It was only 14 hours! (Adrenaline is brown) 30/08/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages I was there

    Disadvantages Disadvantages I was there

    14 hours. Not a long time, say, a nice long family day out? A long journey in a car from Cornwall to Scotland with a nice long break somewhere? Or 14 hours of sweat, fear and hell… I’ll tell you about it. It’s 1999 and I’ve been sent to Pristina, in Kossovo, Yugoslavia. I’m sent because I’m a RAF fire fighter and I’m part of a team which keeps the airfield open as there are no qualified fire fighters at that time (indigenous ones at least). My arrival in Macedonia (no military aircraft were allowed at Pristina airport – thanks my Russian friends) saw temperatures below –20 degrees, its cold ... more
  • 96 of 96 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    motherjoanb

    5 Stars How We Used To live 04/08/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Good Community Spirit

    Disadvantages Disadvantages No luxuries and rationed food

    I have often wondered how housewives of today would cope if they exchanged places with the housewives of the World War 2 years. Today we have everything we want, washing machines, fridge freezers, vaccuum cleaners, electric irons, central heating, instant hot water and as much food as we can afford to buy, with most of it prepacked, frozen, ready made meals and more. The housewives of 1940's had none of these luxuries I remember growing up during this time and watching my Mum and Grandma doing their everyday chores and shopping. Instead of a washing machine the laundry was done in a dolly tub ... more
  • 46 of 46 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Elffriend

    2 Stars I want to be me again 23/04/2004
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Maybe this will help me

    Disadvantages Disadvantages maybe I am boring fellow Ciaoers.

    Setting............... Indoors, on the sofa, outside it's a lovely Spring day, so why am I sat here brooding. ANGRY... I'm fed up of being a victim, to life, to love, to health and depression, I want to turn the clock back. Sequence.............. October2002, I am looking after my mum, when she has a stroke, six months of hell watching her losing her dignity, speech and memory.She died in my arms on May 27th, just like my dad in 1996. My ex-partner "A" walked away every time I cried. June 2003. My daughters wedding, a lovely June day, I was so proud of you, I wish mum and dad had been there to ... more
  • 91 of 91 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 Soho_Black

    Member since 30/08/2002

    Reviews written: 575

    5 Stars Long Way Down 03/02/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Another piece of fiction...

    Disadvantages Disadvantages ...For another century of reviews

    It has become something of a personal tradition that I mark every century of reviews with a rare piece of fiction writing. As much as I've enjoyed review writing over the years, I've always worried that once I allowed my imagination free rein to travel where it wishes, it would discover it doesn't really have anywhere to go. But I've found that I enjoy creative writing just as much as review writing and so, some 3 ½ years after my first attempt and just shy of 2 years after my second, I choose to mark my third century of reviews in the same way. And who knows what may happen if I ever make it ... more
  • 187 of 187 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 jillmurphy

    Member since 08/07/2000

    Reviews written: 284

    5 Stars My Wedding Ring Review with images 21/07/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages I like it!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You might not!

    My daddy worked in a factory. He left school at fourteen and started work in a factory, in a job sponsored by my uncle. That's how it was then, in 1950. He worked for the same man, with my uncle, for the next twenty years. When the owner retired, he made everybody redundant but my uncle and my father used the redundancy money to buy the machinery and set up for themselves. Their old boss made them a good deal. He was fond of them. My daddy's factory smelled of hot metal. It was dark and dirty and… heavenly. Inside, they bent long pieces of tube, worked on big, big sheets of metal. Sparks flew ... more
  • 276 of 277 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 gizmogizmo

    Member since 31/10/2003

    Reviews written: 25

    3 Stars A Bus Journey 12/07/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages You Decide

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You Decide

    The woman on the bus looked just like you or at least there was something about her that reminded me of you…not that I could put my finger on it, it was just something you see. She got on the bus singing, singing in this sharp shrill voice, then, humming a tune softly to herself she sat down beside me…her head tightly wrapped in a swirled blue and grey scarf, folded in a triangle and knotted under her chin. I think that’s what made me think of you because it was just like the ones you used to wear over your rollers. You know she wore American Tan tights…I think that was the shade, and when she ... more
  • 85 of 85 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 Katieshaz

    Member since 01/11/2002

    Reviews written: 121

    3 Stars The Customer is not always right 24/08/2004
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages none

    Disadvantages Disadvantages lots

    This review is for all the stupid customers out there. I can see that most Ciao users seem to be very pleasant people. The sort of customers whom I would be happy to help and have a chat to as I ring their items up. However...there seem to be a growing amount of people who moan about shop staff. Well imagine the below scene, played out day after day: Happened to co-worker of mine. Paperchase is a concession inside Borders. Well...this pair of elderly stuck up women (note women not ladies...) wanted to order in a book. My co-worker explained that they had to go the information desk. One of the ... more
  • 73 of 73 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    j3ssica

    4 Stars I've left school!! 10/05/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages -

    Disadvantages Disadvantages -

    ----------------------------------------​----------------------------------------​----- Today I officially left high school. I have always moaned and whinged that I hated school and couldn't wait to leave, but now I want to go back! We had an assembly at 8.45am this morning, where we were told we were free to leave, so that we couldn't flour or egg the rest of the school at hometime! After getting my shirt and leavers book signed, I then went with my friends to the nature park place nearby, where we had an egg, tomato ketchup, flour and baked bean fight and jumped into the lake, as tradition ... more
  • 11 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 4 badongism

    Member since 16/12/2005

    Reviews written: 77

    3 Stars Metrosexuals 17/05/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Good if you hate them

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Bad if you like them

    Well, this is actually a song written for my band. But since there's no lyrics section, I'll have to see if it will wedge in here. You can tell That I’m a metrosexual You can tell by my smooth skin And the skintight clothes that I’m in That I’m a metrosexual. Ain’t got time Ain’t got no time for greasy food My Vespa scooter is my favourite toy And I’ll only eat tofu and bok choi That’s right baby, I’m a metrosexual. I’m gay in every way except when I’m rolling in the hay, I’ll take you’re girlfriend shopping, because she just loves the way That I colour coordinate my shoes with my eyes I’ll ... more
  • 41 of 41 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    CareBear

    3 Stars Of life and love 17/06/2004
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Just one woman talking

    Disadvantages Disadvantages She is good

    It hasn’t always been like this, you know. In fact, it was never going to be like this at all. I had visions, you see. And dreams. Dreams of the perfect life. A house perhaps, with the proverbial roses, a husband who worked during the week and played with the children at weekends and a life so sweet and twee that every Trollope-reading vicar’s wife would be jealous of me. I had the chance, you know, to become a vicar’s wife. He was older, training in the church. A beautiful watercolour artist too. I got scared. A life of cream teas and village fetes didn’t beckon me. He’s with an inner city ... more
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