For Cyril and Lily...the best grandparents.

Advantages: They are like your parents, only nicer and more lenient!
Disadvantages: They have to get old and frail:o(

...This is my offering in response to CheekyGrannys challenge to me. Thanks Paula, it was a great idea and I have enjoyed writing it! I look forward to reading others! For Cyril Claude (Aka Grandad Bodie!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My paternal Grandfather, Cyril, died in the 70?s. I remember the night, well. He had been ill for sometime and we were staying at my maternal grandmothers house to be near the hospital should we be needed. We weren?t, he went very quickly at then end...and left a gaping hole in my life. I didn?t know that at the time. I do now. He spoiled my brother and I rotten, not always with material things but with fun and laughter, and the cheeky things that you can only do with your grandchildren. When Ian and me stayed with him; it was like an indulgent holiday. In the summer he was an almost permanent...

kazziebears 14.12.2002 · Read review
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Review of Everything that starts with G ...

mathematically marvellous

Advantages: Quick and easy to use for all areas of A-Level Maths
Disadvantages: Lacks depth in some areas of the course

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hermione_granger123 17.04.2001 (10.04.2001) · Read review
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Review of Longman A-Level Study Guide: Mathematics - Cyril Moss, Michael Kenwwod

World Beating OCR

Advantages: Brilliant with typescripts
Disadvantages: upgrade to v6 too expensive

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Gerryhill 23.07.2002 · Read review
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Review of ABBYY FineReader Pro Cyrillic Plus 5.0 Complete package

Love, Pirates and Six Year Old Progidies

Advantages: Charming, hilarious, superb characters.
Disadvantages: None - just 100% light-hearted pleasure

...Love Over Scotland is the third in the 44 Scotland Street series and is about... er... love. Matthew , having recently acquired £4 million from his father, now acquires a girlfriend - after a lot of misunderstandings. Angus Lordie is missing Domenica badly, as she studies pirates in the Malacca Strait. His greatest love, of course, is his dog Cyril and he is devastated when Cyril is stolen from outside Valvona & Crolla. Will he get Cyril back? Will Domenica come back or run away with a tattooed pirate? Meanwhile, Irene decides that her prodigy son should audition for the Edinburgh Teenage Orchestra - despite Bertie being only six and a saxophonist. Bertie is immensely embarrassed by this - it's bad enough that he's forced to do yoga with a bunch of babies and go to psychotherapy. However, in the course of this book Bertie does end up...

DoubleFantasy11 10.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Love Over Scotland (44 Scotland Street) - Alexander McCall Smith

High Hopes : A wonderful Mike Leigh movie

Advantages: Very watchable, amusing, very well acted, good social comment
Disadvantages: The voice Heather Tobias adopts while playing the part of Valerie

...RELEASED: 1988 RUNNING TIME: 101mins MAIN CAST:- Cyril (Philip Davis) Shirley (Ruth Sheen) Valerie (Heather Tobias) Mrs Bender, Cyril & Valerie's mother (Edna Dore) Martin (Philip Jackson) Letitia, nickname 'Tittie' (Lesley Manville) Rupert (David Bamber) PRODUCERS:- Simon Channing-Williams Victor Glyn WRITTEN, DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY MIKE LEIGH = High Hopes is a Mike Leigh film which doesn't have a specific storyline, merely concentrating on a section taken from the lives of a few individuals who are related to or connected to one another in some way. This film is set in London during a time when the yuppie culture had well and truly installed itself. People, especially the young, who had good jobs and were in receipt of a high income, were buying up...

CelticSoulSister 29.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of High Hopes (DVD)

Fabulous Metro

Advantages: Decorative, cheap
Disadvantages: Sometimes crowded

...The underground service deep beneath the city of Moscow is absolutely amazing. Each station is decorated in a particularly ornate style, and you can see works of art and chandeliers. It is totally different from a trip on the London underground because as well as travelling you get to experience some Russian culture. The trains seemed to be relatively frequent and the only problem we had was being able to read the names of the stations as they were all in the Cyrillic alphabet! However, it is a good way to get to visit different parts of the city as it covers many areas....

weebagpuss 30.09.2000 · Read review
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Review of Getting around in Moscow

The greatest cartoon ever shown

Advantages: Its just the nicest cartoon imaginable
Disadvantages: No violence, swearing, killing etc

...This has got to be one of (if not the) best cartoons it is possible to see. I have been an avid watcher of the Racoons for over 10 years and must have seen every episode dozens of times, and it still doesn't bore me !!! The Racoons basically concerns a group of Racoons and other animals who live in the evergreen forest. The main character is Bert, an accident prone hero who is normally resued by his more sensible friends. The programs are always funny, and contain gentle moral messgaes. Basically, everyone is nice and no one every gets hurt. Even the villian, Cyril Sneer is portrayed as more of a misunderstood and lonely man than a true villian. The animation is good for its age and the plots are complex enough to keep you watching. Basically, this is one of the nicest, funniest cartoons you can watch. It is...

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Review of BBC1 - Raccoons

Paris, Pirates and Paramours

Advantages: A chance to catch up with the regulars
Disadvantages: Too much time spent away from Edinburgh

.... Indeed, the opposite is true as far as Alexander McCall Smith?s characters are concerned ? with the possible exceptions of the awful Irene, Bertie?s pushy mother, and her psychotherapist friend Dr Fairbairn ? for the most part, I?ve grown to like them and to take as genuine an interest as it?s possible to take in the comings and goings of a group of fictional beings; probably because each character has been thoughtfully created and given thoughts and an identity of their own, even down to Angus?s faithful dog Cyril. When he?s ?dognapped?, you understand his fears perfectly; which of us hasn?t dreamt of being in a place we don?t recognise and feared that we?d never find our way back home? Cyril?s ?doggie? persona is so convincing that there are moments when you have to remind yourself that you aren?t actually reading the thoughts of a real...

silverstreak 07.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Love Over Scotland (44 Scotland Street) - Alexander McCall Smith

Bert Raccoon Rules

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...The Raccoons was one of my favourite shows when I was younger. The Evergreen forest that was quiet peaceful serene, that was until Bert raccon woke up. It features the madcap adventures of the 3 racoons Bert, Melissa and Ralph as they try to write their newspaper and look after the forest to save it from the evil clutches of Cyril Sneer. Bert is a madcap calamity machine and causes danger and trouble whatever he seems to do. This was a great cartoon and one I rarely missed as a kid....

FarQRecords 28.09.2000 · Read review
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Review of BBC1 - Raccoons

Don't get the hump

Advantages: Funny in places
Disadvantages: Not as good as some

...Hawtrey ... Captain Le Pice Joan Sims ... Zig-Zig Angela Douglas ... Lady Jane Ponsonby Peter Butterworth ... Simpson Bernard Bresslaw ... Sheikh Abdul Abulbul Anita Harris ... Corktip John Bluthal ... Corporal Clotski William Mervyn ... Sir Cyril Ponsonby Peter Gilmore ... Captain Humphrey Bagshaw Julian Holloway ... Ticket Collector Larry Taylor ... Riff William Hurndell ... Raff The film follows the adventures of an English toff played by Jim Dale who after being accused of cheating at cricket by his love rival cannot face the disgrace and leaves England to join the French Foreigh Legion, naturally he takes his personal valet with him. The best performer in this film is as ever Kenneth Williams who plays the camp German leader of the foreign legion fort the two English men are stationed...

fuzzybear967 23.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Carry On Follow That Camel (DVD)