Family Fortunes!

Advantages: A great read
Disadvantages: none

...I have always enjoyed Rowan Coleman's books so I'm always pleased when I spot a new one of hers. I was especially pleased when I picked up The Accidental Family because I realised it is a sequel to one of her earlier books - The Accidental Mother. I had read this a while ago and really enjoyed it so it was interesting to see what happened to the characters afterwards. Having said that though, The Accidental Family can be read as a stand alone novel although it does have an added value if you read The Accidental Mother first. In the first book Sophie Mills suddenly finds herself looking after her best friend's two daughters after a fatal car accident. At the end of the book, the girls' long lost father has reappeared and Sophie has fallen in love with him. They all move to Cornwall and this second book follows what happens as they start...

kingfisher111 13.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Accidental Family - Rowan Coleman

What a family!

Advantages: Everything.
Disadvantages: None.

...This review is of the complete first series of My Family, on DVD. Copyrighted BBC 1996, it holds the rating of Parental Guidance (PG) due to mild swearing and references to sexual activities or similar. The main storyline is around the Harper family, who live in suburban London. They are as follows: Ben Harper (Robert Lindsay): the dad, and a dentist. Just likes to be left alone to watch the TV, read the paper and drink beer (but in no particular order). Thinks that he is the vice of reason in the family, but is constantly being proved otherwise. Susan Harper (Zoe Wanamaker): the mum, who is a tour guide and (she thinks) a gourmet cook. Wants to be involved in her children's lives, but is constantly reminded by their actions that she is unable to reason with them on their level. Nick Harper (Kris Marshall): the eldest son...

dynamicnurse 27.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of My Family - Series 1 - Complete (DVD)

Keeping me in touch with my Family and Friends

Advantages: Unlimited calls between 4 or 6 vodafone numbers (max 60mins call)
Disadvantages: Only between vodafone numbers, no reminders if on PAYG

...Vodafone Family (& Friends) is a nice little add-on available for both contract and Pay As You Go users of the network. For just £5 a month unlimited calls can be made between up to four different Vodafone numbers, and if bigger group is required then there is the option to increase the group to six for £7 a month. I?ve been using the family option for a couple of years now, starting on Pay As You Go (PAYG) and then continuing when I moved on to contract. Set up on PAYG is a little convoluted, it took me quite some time to get through the options and the phone needs £5 of credit on it before the group can be created (£7 for a group of 6). It?s a good idea to write down the numbers you want to add to the group before calling 2345 and working your way through the options. As soon as the group is created £5 (or £7) is deducted from your...

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Review of Vodafone Family

Meet the stone family

Advantages: Easy to watch and an array of well known actors
Disadvantages: It isn't the most interesting film you'll ever watch

...I bought the family stone for one reason only and that was because the cast was a mix of well known faces! I know I should look for more than this but, being a Sex and the City fan I am always keen to watch anything with Sarah Jessica Parker in! Along with a variety of others who I have seen in other films and enjoyed then it was surely to be a winner wasn't it? Released in 2005 the film was written and directed by Thomas Bezucha. The story: The stone family are very close knit and celebrate Christmas together every year. When the favourite son, Everett, decides to bring his girlfriend Meredith with him to meet his family it doesn't quite go to plan! He has plans to ask his mother for his grandmother's ring to propose to Meredith but, his family pretty much take an instant dislike to her and find Meredith to be too uptight...

frankiecesca 10.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Family Stone

The Panda family

Advantages: good toy
Disadvantages: small pieces

...Playmobil make many small plastic toys. These toys are good for creating play scenes. There are many people figures of all walks of life also many Animals. The playmobil toy I am talking about today is the panda family. Playmobil have been making toys for over 25 years. Their toys are all a good quality sturdy and will last a many play hours. They are suitable either for a child care centre /nursery/school or for home. There is a playmobil zoo and many other animal sets the panda family would make a great stand alone toy or an addition to another playmobil toy. The playmobil family set consists of a grass green base this measures approx 5 inches by 3 inches. There are a few plastic tufts of green grass that stand on this base. Also there are two bamboo trees and a bush the tallest is about 9 inches high. This set has 3...

mumsymary 17.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Playmobil Panda Family

The demise of the royle family

Advantages: fantastic humour and great banter
Disadvantages: the end is nigh

...If for some reason you have never head of the Royle family, (and I don't mean the posh ones living in London in that big house? ) then I will have to give a brief rundown of the series: It all started in 1998, 21 episodes running for 3 series and finishing in 2000--involving the lives of a small family living in a council house somewhere near Manchester. The entire series being filmed inside the house was almost like a fly on the wall documentary, watching the day to day lives of a working class family living on the bread line?as the family spend most of their days sat watching the television? ** The main characters throughout the series were: * Jim Royle, (played by Ricky Tomlinson), is the head of the household and a rather lazy slob whose life revolves around the television and the local pub called the Feathers...

blissman70 03.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Royle Family - The Queen Of Sheba (DVD)

For all the family

Advantages: fun fun fun
Disadvantages: getting hold of one

...I have a large family and one problem is trying to keep them (and myself) entertained, school holidays can be a particular problem. Last Christmas I was so happy to have got a Nintendo Wii, it has added another entertainment opportunity for us all. When we opened the box I soon realised that this would not be too difficult to get it working. It came complete with the main console, a controller called the Wii remote, another controller that is used in some games and attaches to the Wii remote through a cable, a small sensor that goes either above or below the television as well as all the leads needed and an instruction book that made the getting it up and running sooo simple. It also came with one game called Wii sport, this is quite an easy game to play, it has different games like boxing and tennis that gave us all an idea...

caz34 10.08.2007 · Read review
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Family Forever :)

Advantages: Soppy family poem!
Disadvantages: I wrote it! teehee :)

...Hello fellow Ciaoers!! Was looking for something to review and instead decided to write a poem about family!! Not my family, just family in general, why they mean so much to us, and where we keep them, even if they aren't around us anymore. If I think of a title, then I'll put it in later. If anyone has any suggestions about a title though, suggest away!! A piece of you belongs to them forever, ever more Mothers, daughters, sisters, nieces, Fathers, brothers sons and nephews, All your family, gathers here, Each one, takes up a sacred place, With love and heart and grace they bring, Into your heart, for all of time, Your family forever, they will always be. Your family does have hearts of gold, That’s why they weigh much on your heart, They’d go to the ends of the earth, For a smile from you and a reason...

LR_17 08.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of Family Poems

A typical family with a stroller

Advantages: enables a child to play out real life senarios
Disadvantages: none really

...Let's play happy families. Come on play with me and one of my grandchildren's toys. It's the playmobil family with a stroller. The playmobil world is massive houses, castles, farms, hospitals and fantasy worlds. Playmobil is a company begun in 1876, making locks and other metal work by Andreas Brandstätter a locksmith. In 1958 in 1958 the hula hoop craze gripped the world, and Horst Brandstätter made hula hoops for this company after this success began making other plastic toys. Playmobil toys made of colourful plastic , they are very good strong and long lasting there is plenty of play value in their toys. Children love to re-enact their lives and make up pretend stories for their playmobil people and their equipment. Playmobile is easy to clean and is often the choice for children's play centres and schools. Playmobil...

mumsymary 14.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Playmobil Family with Stroller

MY FAMILY

Advantages: just to share
Disadvantages: None

...I asked Ciao if I could add this category as I know there are a lot of Ciao writers out there that have family poems that they have written and they now have a category all of their own. Enjoy it. This is my humble offering. I wrote a better one earlier, and Ciao cut me off !!! MY FAMILY ---------------- My family remembers things that happened long ago, When we were young because the memories were precious ones, And something that you take with you wherever life may go, The child within my heart still leaps, through summer meadows goes. Where life in its simplicity was good and full of joy, Where hope was our horizon, and roast Sunday dinner good, It?s the kind of thing that?s precious to each little girl and boy, And I?d snatch the chance to go back then, if only someone could. As adulthood has changed those people that...

thingywhatsit 10.01.2004 · Read review
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