Ennerdale Country House Hotel Cleator

Advantages: Lovely location, excellent food and staff. Rooms were great.
Disadvantages: A bit remote, Noisy shredder in the toilet.

..., and I'm not sure if they are in all of the rooms, but it became bearable once we knew what set it off! There were ground floor rooms available for the less mobile. The grounds of the hotel were lovely and it would be an ideal location for a wedding. There were events on in the hotel every day and night of our stay and although we were in the room above, we were not disturbed at all. The staff remained polite and extra helpful although they were clearly busy. We booked this hotel with superbreak and got an unbeatable deal for the May spring bank holiday weekend. We would say that the Ennerdale country house hotel is not the ritz, but for great value for money, lovely central surroundings great food and rooms it's certainly worth a look....

lindahiggi 27.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Best Western Ennerdale Country House Hotel, Cleator

In A House In The Country

Advantages: Welcoming service, excellent food
Disadvantages: Chintz!

...Lydney House hotel is a former Georgian Merchant's House, based a few minutes walk from the centre of the market town of Swaffham in Norfolk. It is a place that my parents always choose to stay at in the area, and for my step-dad's birthday last month, I got to visit it too. Swaffham is a pleasant enough town, with a nice church, the shops aren't great and there are a lot of fast food and takeaway type places, but generally it is a good location for seeing much of Norfolk. The hotel is a family run place and we were greeted by one of the owners, given our keys and shown our rooms. To be honest the décor throughout the hotel is a bit twee and chintzy for my personal taste, but it does suit the Country House style. On the bed (which uses sheets, blankets and a bedspread as opposed to a duvet), as well as lots of cushions, were...

Essexgirl2006 11.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Lydney House Hotel, Swaffham

Villa country House Hotel

Advantages: Friendly staff, clean
Disadvantages: Pricey, can have a few problems

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trance-princess 27.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Villa Country House Hotel, Preston

I Want A House With A Pink Roof!

Advantages: excellent price, comes with furniture and doll's, good quality for what you pay!
Disadvantages: tiny hinges make assembly a bit faffy.

...Last year my daughter joined a new nursery and fell in love with the wooden dolls house they had. Deciding this would be a perfect Christmas present, I started having a look around. My first port of call was my old trusty, ELC. They do stock a beautiful doll's house, unfortunately it's £100 price tag was really pushing my budget, especially because the doll's and furniture weren't included and had to be bought in sets ranging from £15-£25. My quick calculations priced the total cost of the doll's house, a set of doll's and the bare minimum amount of furniture to be bordering on £200. I then saw an advert on TV for a Christmas catalogue with a doll's house for just £39.99. I looked it up on the website, and was impressed with how it looked. What swung it for me in the end was that it also included a set of 4 doll's AND 5 sets...

Rhiana 26.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Chad Valley Wooden Dolls House

Big Country

Advantages: Bryson's dry, stinging wit
Disadvantages: A little repetitive...I say, a little repetitive

...I'm a fan of Bill Bryson. I like his dry, acerbic wit, and the way he bombards the reader with lots of dry facts yet manages to still keep it entertaining. The latest book of his I read (although not the latest written), was Notes from a Big Country. As I said, delivering trivial facts and figures in an amusing fashion is Bryson's forte and when those facts are about the land of his birth (USA), and are compared then related to his once adopted homeland (UK), I can visualize him virtually drooling at the prospect. And so, following his return to live in New England after 20-odd years domiciled in Olde England, when the editor of the British newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, asked him to write a weekly magazine column documenting his return home, you would imagine he'd leap at the chance. Actually, he kept complaining that he didn...

proxam 26.01.2009 (27.01.2009) · Read review
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Review of Notes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson

* The Bunny House *

Advantages: Funny , Plot
Disadvantages: May Send Out Wrong Message To Young Girls!

...Recently I have been swapping DVDs with my friend ; I've been borrowing her 'up-to-date' movies and she's been watching my 'rom-coms'. One of the DVDs which I borrowed from my friend was a film called ' The House Bunny'. The House Bunny is an American romantic comedy film released in the United Kingdom on 10th October 2008. This film stars Anna Faris , (who's previous films include , Just Friends and My Super Ex Girlfriend). Running time of the movie is ninety seven minutes (seven minutes over one hour and a half). Shelley (Faris) is a playboy playmate living a luxury life in the playboy mansion. Soon after her twenty seventh birthday , she is told that she is now too old to be a playboy bunny and so it 'thrown out' of the playboy house. Feeling upset and lonely , she tries hard to fit in with other girl groups , although soon...

xdonzx 21.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of The House Bunny (DVD)

A VERY BIG HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY

Advantages: Um.. can't think
Disadvantages: Never trust a stranger

...The idea of spending a night at someone’s house for $1 million is like a dream come true… if the house wasn’t haunted that is. The House in question used to be a hospital for the mentally disabled and they were all quite gruesomely tortured to death by the doctors and some kind of evil spirit. It is now the home of amusement park millionaire and his ‘show wife’ who insist that they didn’t send invitations to the four people who have turned up to spend 24 hours in their home. Anyway, it’s not too long into the story when the house suddenly becomes sealed and bodies start disappearing. As frightening as it may sound, there a few scary moments in this movie. Well, less than what I’d expect anyway. The only real scene that I found awesome in the way of effects was when they were...

michellej 04.09.2000 (04.03.2001) · Read review
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Country House Murder

Advantages: 1930s setting, a Communist main character, some fun with Golden Age style characters and settings
Disadvantages: A very slow beginning, wishy washy liberal hero

...A guest at a country house dinner party collapses and dies, and it soon becomes clear he has been poisoned. Two of the other guests are convinced that this was murder, and set out to discover who did it and why. This is a classic opening associated with Golden Age detective stories written in the 1930s, and Sweet Poison pays a sort of homage to that tradition, and in particular perhaps to Dorothy L Sayers (who introduced her most famous characters in a book called Strong Poison). Sweet Poison is a historical mystery, set in August 1935. The Duke of Mersham has invited some influential figures to dinner to discuss relations between England and Germany. The dead man was General Sir Alistair Craig VC, and the other guests include a newspaper tycoon, his wife and stepdaughter, a Conservative politician, a pacifist bishop and a German...

elkiedee 25.04.2004 (26.02.2005) · Read review
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Review of Sweet Poison - David Roberts

For the Country in the City - Pollok Country Park

Advantages: Free Entry, Open All Year, Beautiful, Lots to See and Do
Disadvantages: None Whatsoever!

...will cost you £1 if you park by the Burrell Collection, but it's free elsewhere within the park. Pollokshaws West railway station is practically at the gate to the park and First Bus services 45, 47, 48 and 57 all stop on Pollokshaws Road, opposite the gate to the park. A free shuttle bus runs at various times through the park from the entrance to the Burrell Collection and Pollok House. The park is always open and entry is free. So what can you see? HIGHLAND CATTLE The park has its own herd of Highland Cattle which it breeds. There are always some of these very photogenic beasts at the roadside; at the right time of year the cutest calves are in the fields too. If cattle are your thing, Pollok Country Park also hosts the City of Glasgow International Highland Cattle Show each September. HEAVY...

carcraig 02.06.2009 (08.09.2009) · Read review
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Review of Pollok Country Park, Glasgow

Noisy, Smelly, Tatty Hotel Stuck In The 1970's

Advantages: Close To Manchester Airport
Disadvantages: Too Many To List, Needs A refurb, Needs A Good Clean, Noisy

...BACKGROUND ******************* Ahh the Britannia Country House Hotel, a couple of miles from Manchester airport, the perfect place to stay the night before jeting off on our honeymoon, thought my new wife and I in August 2006. We booked online and only paid £64 for a double room with champagne on arrival, and it looked so modern and the name country house just added to the picture in our heads what a perfect start to our honeymoon. How wrong can you get. ON ARRIVAL AND CHECK IN ********************************** We arrived on a Saturday afternoon having got married on the Thursday and stayed a couple of nights at the hotel we had got married in, and as we parked on the large car park to the front and walked up to the front we noticed there was a wedding going on and they were having some photo's taken outside, the exterior...

johnny040676 13.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Britannia Country House Hotel, Manchester