The First Year

Advantages: Good info, handy, food recipes
Disadvantages: None

.../information books but I have been pleasantly surprised by reading this. The Complete First Yeat Planner is a guide to help you enjoy a healthy pregnancy and a stress free and healthy first year including over 80 delicious recipes for you and your baby. If you are looking for a one stop book to see you through the whole time then this is definitely for you. Generally I always find that there are books for preganacy and then there are books regarding how to deal with the first year but not many are combined so this is a good book for that. The first section of the book has a really good nutrition section for the expectant mother. I found this to be quite comprehensive compared to some other books I have read. I liek the fact that it points out "superfoods," those whicha re going to be very beneficial for your health and it makes it easy to stick to...

Spottydog11 07.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Annabel Karmel's Complete First Year Planner - Annabel Karmel

~ Frank's First Three Years ~

Advantages: Excellent tracks and good covers
Disadvantages: some tracks not so great

...Even though I am not a major fan of Frank I have a huge liking for this album and thought I had to tell you about it. I only own this album as I mostly download my songs but as I was going to buy ?Love Ire and Song? but decided on this one instead which i was greatly impressed by. Who Is Frank Turner? I wouldn?t know why anyone wouldn?t have heard of him but for those who haven?t Frank Turner is a Folk song writer and singer who was a former vocalist for the punk band Million Dead. He was born in 1981 and has released several successful albums including the compilation album ?The First Three Years?. Frank became known when he joined Million Dead in 2001 and stayed with them for four years releasing two albums; after they spilt he decided to become solo and has done many shows around London. The First Three Years As...

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Review of First Three Years, The - Frank Turner

First Three Years Those Were The Days

Advantages: Brilliant vocal technique, wonderful songs, Reasonable price
Disadvantages: Some may find it a bit boring depending if they like folk music or not

...Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frank Turner has been busy in his first three years travelling all over the country with a guitar in hand playing his own type of folk-punk. A few years ago, Million Dead hardcore group were loved by many fans who followed them everywhere getting into fights and drinking till they dropped. When the group of four decided to split many fans were horrified that they were losing a quality music band. Lot's of tears were shed, but Frank Turner decided to keep the legend going. Only this time, he'd do it on his own. So Frank Turner set off on a journey to launch his solo career. Unfortunately at first he was still living in the shadow of Million Dead, but now his past is gone and he has had a great amount...

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Review of First Three Years, The - Frank Turner

The First Years Soft Teething Beads Dangerous?

Advantages: Brightly Colored
Disadvantages: Falls Apart.

...I bought The First Years Soft Teething Beads two days ago for my daughter, and I can tell you that this product is not safe for teething infants. The First Years Soft Teething beads are brightly colored and claim that they contain a super strong cord and come with a ring-lock bead to keep the beads from breaking free. The reason why I bought The First Years Soft Teething beads was the fact that it had bright colors and my baby loves bright colored objects. The first day I gave this to my baby she poked a hole into one of the soft beaads! Then the second day I gave the toy to my baby she somehow got the beads apart and the beads were in her mouth luckily she didnt choke!...

Scofie517 22.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of The First Years Soft Teething Beads

Leftovers from Frank's first two albums, albeit some gems

Advantages: Some hard to find tracks and great covers reworked with an individual stamp
Disadvantages: A bit of a mishmash; the new original material doesn't really stand out.

...With a nod to Black Flag's The First Four Years, this is a gap-filling collection that puts together the missing pieces from so far in Frank Turner's career. There's a bunch of early singles and EPs making up the first half and some totally unreleased tracks for the second. Collectors need read no further; you'll want this for them alone. As is typical for such collections there are a number of cover tracks but these are no mere runthroughs and get a total reworking in inimitable Turner style: They range from the sublime (The Outdoor Type by the Lemonheads and Fix Me by Black Flag) to the ridiculous (Dancing Queen and You Are My Sunshine) although those with a sense of humour should still appreciate the latter two. There's even a revisiting of Smiling at Strangers on Trains, a song from his former band Million Dead. That said, there...

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Review of First Three Years, The - Frank Turner

Smiling at Stangers

Advantages: Some amazing tracks in there
Disadvantages: A couple of tracks missing

...OK ? I know what your thinking ? ?another Frank Turner review, we know the guy?s a legend but Jesus?. Well I thought I can?t review two albums and not the rest of his catalogue. ?First Three Years?, as the title perhaps suggests, is a compilation of Frank?s first three years of solo music, and was initially released in December 2008, which is only available from Xtra Mile Recordings. In January, it was released to the general public as ?Love Ire and Song + First Three Years?. I decided to go for the album on its own, since obviously I already have ?Love Ire and Song?, however they are pretty much the same price ? £9.99 for album on its own, or for £8.99 for the double album. Over the years, Frank has released a couple of odd bits that only the real fans tend to bother to get, his first EP, ?Campfire Punkrock?, was released in 2006...

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Review of First Three Years, The - Frank Turner

Frankly, It's Great

Advantages: Musically and lyrically entertaining
Disadvantages: The nature of the collection does provide a couple of patchy moments

...When Frank Turner left Million Dead, he expressed a desire to keep playing songs and to keep touring, but didn?t want to be part of a band any longer. Three years later ? hence the title ? after a couple of EPs and a couple of studio albums, we have this collection. ?The First Three Years? contains the tracks from both the EPs as well as collecting together material he recorded with other artists early in his solo career and a few other random tracks. The album begins with the title track from his second EP, ?The Real Damage?. It?s an interesting song that rather worryingly proves to be an accurate reflection of far too many nights in my own life recently and it?s such a vivid story of life that most people would find something in the lyrics that they can identify with. Musically, it?s a heavily folk influenced tune with a quite...

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Review of First Three Years, The - Frank Turner

The first 4 and possibly the best 4!

Advantages: Some Hardcore punk at its finest
Disadvantages: The vocials arn't for everyone

...Before Henry Rollins, before the 6-minute metal breakdowns, , Black Flag had already become a prominent force in the just-beginning California hardcore scene, and in the process had become the bane of every L.A. cop's existence. They inspired literally countless other bands to take their anger out through music, and it's no surprise. If ever there was a perfect introduction to hardcore punk, this album is it. From the moment the opening chords of "Nervous Breakdown" hit you, you're hooked. This is punk rock at its leanest, meanest and downright loudest. Despite the fact that "The First 4 Years" is actually a compilation made up of several LPs (including the legendary efforts "Nervous Breakdown," and "Jealous Again"), it still sounds remarkably cohesive. Every song has a distinctive edge to it, despite the fact that nothing here...

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Review of First Four Years, The - Black Flag

And so it lives on

Advantages: informative, exciting, full of pictures
Disadvantages: /

...I have been EastEnders' biggest fan for about five years now (and that's a fact!). There was a time when I would watch each episode three times - I'm just glad I am out of that phase as with iPlayer now, I dread to think how often I would watch it! I was lucky enough with the fact that my Mam watched it almost religiously once upon a time, so she still had the 'The First Ten Years' EastEnders book that was of course released in 1995, ten years after the show aired in February 1985. The book was passed on to me, and I was in heaven! The book itself is hardback, and has a very attractive cover. The background is a large version of the scene with the Thames, and mounted on that is pictures of various characters: Phil and Grant, Pauline and Michelle, Angie and Den. The BBC logo is at the top, and the word 'official' is at the bottom to...

Amy69 22.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Eastenders: The First Ten Years - Colin Brake

Harry and his First Year...

Advantages: Exitment. Well Written.Enjoyable...
Disadvantages: -

...but didn't seem to bothered about it so I put it in the " Look at later pile ". I opened the rest of my gifts and later in the day after my lovely christmas lunch, the Harry Potter book re appeared when I was cleaning up my rubbish from the wrapping of presents... I picked up the book and took it to my room with a hot chocolate and sat and relaxed, looked at the blurb and I was quite ammused by the witchcraft and wizardry background. I had never read a book like this before and the first word that popped into my head was " Wow ", this JK Rowling has a great mind. So I began to start reading the book and wow I was very ammused, so instead of looking at the book I thought I would try and read it all... Now that was when I was so impressed with the book back in 1997, but in the last year I have been reading the whole Harry Potter trilogy...

Jordan2493 16.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling