On the farm

Advantages: Good time piece models
Disadvantages: none

...This farming family 40954 made by Britain's has been around for several years I have played with it in several different play venues. Britain's makes authentically detailed farm equipment models scale 1:32 There are tractors combiners and other vehicles plus animals for the farm. So to tend the animals, drive the vehicles we need some people. The people in this farm family group are about 5cms tall .Recommended for over 3 year olds. This farm family mum, dad, girl and dog are dressed ready to work on the farm. They look a bit old fashioned really. They all stand on a base of brown mud plastic and all wear green wellies (except the dog who is not standing on mud but on his 4 legs.) . Farmer dad has brown trousers and jacket and wears a trilby hat. One hand is on his hip he is carrying a stick in the other. Mum sports a hat on her...

mumsymary 10.02.2009 · Read review
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A wooden farm.

Advantages: Good play opportunities
Disadvantages: the 2 d animals

...I have played with this farm (alongside a child) at a play centre and would like to tell you about it. . This farm is a wooden farm it comes with a thin wooden plywood base that is painted green to represent grass and has a blue area to represent water painted on in one of the corners. A few flowers are also painted on the green board as well as a path of stepping stones. . There are some farm buildings. The buildings are natural wood coloured with red roofs. There is a dog kennel, a windmill the sails do rotate. An open fronted wooden building with a few shelves this is stabling for the horses or shelter for the cows the chickens can roost on the shelves. Then a wooden building for the pig sty, perhaps as they do just fit inside it. . The essential feature of the farm is the animal,s I will admit The farm I played...

mumsymary 14.11.2009 · Read review
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Chapel Farm

Advantages: a nice break
Disadvantages: British weather

...I fancied going away for the weekend but didn't want to go far or spend a fortune, I didn't even want to spend £100 a night for a basic hotel so I searched for guest houses in the lake district as we don't live far from there and the countryside is lovely. I couldn't find any vacancies so I suggested a caravan to my husband, he agreed as we both think it's great for children to be outside and they love it. I search the Hoseasons website and we decided to go on Friday after school and work etc and stay until Monday as the children were off school then. We wanted a fairly basic site as we were going to take games to play at night and the netball post and maybe the swingball. After looking I came across Chapel Farm Caravan Park in Little Asby. The Hoseasons site had a caravan available for 3 nights at a cost of £165, fairly cheap...

rojm 28.10.2009 · Read review
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Flat animals for a toy farm

Advantages: Last well
Disadvantages: flat bodies

...I often play alongside children with these pin toy animals and other animals on a toy farm. I think a toy farm is an excellent toy for children. Included in this set of farm animals from Pintoy are 2 cows, 2 pigs. 2 lambs, 2 ducks and 2 chickens. These little animals are made of Rubber wood which is harvested from a replenishable forest. These animals are fair representative shapes of real animals but not as good as some other the animals that I have seen . The cows for example have a thick rectangular flat sided body the head is rounded though. The other animals although not really realistic you can tell what they are. The shapes of these animals are chunky easy to hold and play with. They all have eyes, noses, or beaks and smiling mouths look friendly. These animals are all coloured the colours you might expect those...

mumsymary 28.12.2009 · Read review
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Animals on the Farm

Advantages: Great photos, educational for young children.
Disadvantages: None

...- The Book - This is a non-fiction book and as the name suggests it's focus is on farm animals. There are 7 double page spreads, each one focusing on a different aspect of the animals: * Farm Friends The first double page has two flaps to lift. There are 7 farm animals introduced: sheep, chicken, pig, duck, goats, horses and cows. * Farm Families These two pages show three animal families and give the names of the male, female and offspring: goats (nanny, billy and kid), ducks (duck, drake and duckling) and chickens ( hen, cockerel and chicks). There are three flaps to lift. * Favourite Foods On this double page spread we are told that sheep like to eat grass, pigs eat porridge, horses eat hay, goats eat leaves and chickens eat seed. There are also three flaps to lift. * Happy Homes There are three flaps to lift on one...

neenn 08.08.2008 · Read review
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In the night garden ninky nonk train set

Advantages: strong, versatile, compact, nice bright colours, fun to play with
Disadvantages: none so far

...I decided to buy the in the night garden ninky nonk train set from Amazon as my young daughter is a big fan of in the night garden and whenever it comes on TV she gets really excited. So as my daughter already had some of the other characters from the show I wanted her to have the whole set and since buying it the train set the ninky nonk train set has become one of her favourite toys to play with on a daily basis. The train set can come apart and be attached on many different ways and my daughter enjoys looking at the nice bright colours and putting some of the other in the night garden characters onto the train set even though it keeps falling of now and again it keeps her busy and sometimes I hear her in fits of giggles. The train set is very cute and versatile and its great as children such as mine can have hours of fun with it...

jmarlene 02.11.2009 · Read review
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Hanging Gardens of Wellington

Advantages: Nice stroll, good plants
Disadvantages: Steep

...If you only can spare time to seek out one plant in New Zealand, it would have to be the most famous of all its plants - the silver fern. If, on the other hand, you are a nature lover and you find yourself with a free afternoon to spend in Wellington (New Zealand's capital city), then I strongly recommend the Botanic Garden for its plants, scenic views and pleasant strolls. For everyone else, I'd still recommend it, but only after you have taken your fill of the Te Papa museum (which is my number one "must-see" recommendation for Wellington). The gardens span some 25 hectares and if you are anything like me, they will fill as much time as you have to spare and then some. People with bad knees or small children be warned though - it's pretty steep and you may struggle a bit! There are some mobility scooters available though. I came here...

beckyXX 28.12.2009 · Read review
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Spot on The Farm

Advantages: a great book
Disadvantages: none

...Spot Goes To The Farm - by Eric Hill Everyone must surely be aware of the Spot books Eric Hill first created Spot back in 1980 and the cute dog character has been a firm favourite for pre-school children ever since. I have fond memories of my childhood when these books were pride of place on my bookshelf and today they are pride of place on Jack book shelf. Spot is a cute, chubby and friendly dog that gets up to all sorts of mischief. In this book I am reviewing Spot takes a trip to the farm. This particular book I have is a board book but the same book is available in hardcover with paper pages or indeed soft paper cover with paper pages. The book still costs the same though and that price is £4.99 pence. These books are widely available in every bookstore or they can be found easily online at places such as Amazon...

newby2 29.04.2008 · Read review
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The Constant Gardener

Advantages: Excellent plot, superb acting, stunning location
Disadvantages: Emotionally draining

..."In Africa there are no murders, only regrettable deaths." The Constant Gardener is an adaptation of a John Le Carre novel, a thrilling adventure of immense social relevance which highlights commercial exploitation and political corruption in Africa, whilst simultaneously celebrating the astounding beauty of the landscape, culture and people. The political focus of this movie is cleverly interwoven with the struggle of a British diplomat to discover the truth behind his wife's murder, to learn who she really was, and to realise a greater love and trust in her than he ever had when she was alive. The Main Cast Ralph Fiennes ...Justin Quayle Rachel Weisz ...Tessa Quayle Hubert Koundé ...Arnold Bluhm Danny Huston ...Sandy Woodrow Bill Nighy ...Sir Bernard Pellegrin Donald Sumpter ...Tim Donohue Archie Panjabi ...Ghita...

VC81 03.11.2005 · Read review
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The Inconstant Gardener

Advantages: Strong performances, beautiful cinematography
Disadvantages: Rather long and too eager to tie up all the loose ends

...the viewer. Where the film falls down is in its insistence on retaining as much of the source material as possible. This results in an unwieldy running time and an overwhelming impression that the story would have been better served with a TV mini-series than a film. So the pacing often feels slow and the breathless excitement is allowed to drain away. Jeffrey Caine's thorough screenplay must shoulder much of the blame for this plodding pot-boiler. Even if I wasn't previously aware that "The Constant Gardener" was based on a John Le Carré novel, the format would have tipped me off. The many and varied narrative strands are brought together very quickly during the last twenty minutes, when they are all neatly tied up. Every single incident within the convoluted plot is resolved; the bad people are all punished and the good people all die...

afy9mab 19.03.2006 · Read review
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