Advantages: The grim history of the building - and some amazing rooms with period furniture. Disadvantages: If you really are looking for ghosts and presences... perhaps look somewhere else.
Plas Teg, situated only a few miles from my hometown, stands back from the passing dual carriageway and it's a building I've driven past frequently with the same uneasy glance at its stony front.
Why?
It is described as 'the most haunted stately home in Flintshire' - the stories are infamous, the building; imposing and impressive.
So - naturally - I jumped at the chance of spending a night within its 'haunted' walls. My friend booked for the five of us and we arrived at half past eight with bated breath and semi-nervous laughter (each stating that we were the most sceptic and therefore less likely to be scared at all. Even a little. Nope, not a bit?)
Walking through the large front door of the house, we entered a huge fire-lit room, pleasantly warm but somewhat scruffy looking and dirty. Of course, this only served to heighten ...
Advantages: Decent storyline Disadvantages: Very dull, drags on alot, too long
Cal had first thought.
After being called one of the best thrillers of the year I had been really looking forward to watching State Of Play and after it finally began showing on Sky Box Office on Monday I jumped at the chance to view what everybody else had been writing rave reviews about.
State Of Play starts off at a quick pace with a double murder happening in the first five minutes however from there on things start to go downhill. The film becomes very slow and bogged down, it seems that the director has chosen an overcomplicated plot to market this film as a tense, clever suspense thriller which this film most certainly is not. Having said that, this film isn?t too difficult to follow it was simply the fact that I found it so dull I quickly lost interest and therefore the plotline became slightly lost on me. I had such high ...
There are many reasons for an overprotective "nanny state" to emerge; but eventually I believe it all boils down to two major factors; these being firstly the culture of blame proliferating the country's legal system, and secondly as an excuse for our government to cut the unemployment figures by introducing people into these pointless non-jobs of a perceived health-and-safety role.
The first point is simple: people are starting to try and make a quick buck on the legal gravy train by suing for petty and minor incidents which in the past would have simply been brushed off. A twisted ankle used to be seen as a small annoyance, an accident which was the fault of nobody, affecting a person for two or three days and then just as easily ignored. Now, however, should you twist your ankle in the workplace, it is the company's fault. Should it ...
