HAVE YOU GOT MY BEST SIDE THERE LOVE?

Advantages: It's BIG. Wonderfully Colourful. Great Free Entertainment. Carnival Atmosphere.
Disadvantages: Huge Crowds. Big queue for the loo. No day for a stroll in the park.

...This is certainly not the easiest or most "comfortable" review that I will have produced since starting out on ciao all those months ago. I am approaching this one rather as a challenge, having seen the category sitting there on Ciao last week, as yet, unwritten. Strange that, as according to the organisers there were over 120,000 people present at this years Gay Pride Parade, almost as many last year. Yet nobody has actually seen fit to review this very large event. I was indeed chatting to a few of you over the weekend about our attendance at this particular event on Saturday and fully intending to watch the Parade pass by then rush home and pen a really topical "hot off the press" type piece that same evening??. ??..then it occurred to me that it really was going to take a little more thought and consideration than that. To...

RICHADA 08.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of Gay Pride (Brighton)

Pride of Place

Advantages: Stunning scenery
Disadvantages: Nothing

...Suki and Linus are lion cubs. They are adventurous and eager to learn what life will have in store for them. Their mother is a patient and loving lioness, part of the pride, peacefully residing in the beautiful landscape of East Africa. That is, until they are attacked by two Wanderers, male lions who are not part of their pride. The fight results in the death of one of the other lionesses and ignites Suki?s awareness of the rest of the world around her. In fact it ignites her discovery flame so brightly, she wants to see for herself what lies beyond the dangerous crocodile infested river the Wanderers had crossed over from. Setting out on a journey of self-discovery and natural curiosity, Suki has to take the rough with the smooth in a typical teenage rebellion of defiance and self-importance. This is the journey of her life...

wendybull 02.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Pride (DVD)

My Pride and Joy!

Advantages: Easy to use
Disadvantages: Care needed

...oven soon wore thin! But I know the oven must be clean to work efficiently and for health reasons, so clean it, I do. I have tried sprays, pastes, scouring with soap filled pad, you name it I've bought it and tried it. We had invested in a steam cleaner a couple of years ago, so one day I was using it in the bathroom and thought, I'll try the oven next. The dirt was beginning to slide off with the powerful steam, when BANG! The glass door broke into little glass balls. I had to buy a whole new door and glass panel to replace it, so decided the steam cleaner was banished! How to keep my oven clean? It became worse over the next months and one day I read about another product called Oven pride. Not likely to be any better than all the other things sitting under the kitchen sink, but reviews recommended it, so I slipped one into...

jo145 02.10.2006 · Read review
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Review of Oven Pride

I'm no scrubber I have Oven Pride

Advantages: Easy to use and reasonably priced
Disadvantages: Corrosive

...My Dads cousin came for a few days visit and last night we were all going out for a meal, so yesterday I thought it was time to clean my oven as I would not be using it to cook any tea. I had a couple of boxes of oven pride stored away in one of my cupboards that I had bought from my local Home Bargains for £2.99 a while ago so I decided it was time to give it a try and if there is one job I HATE and HATE with a passion, it is cleaning the oven but the box states "the effortless way to clean your oven and BBQ!" so an effortless way of cleaning it sounded fantastic. I opened the box and read the instructions simply put your racks in the bag, pour in the solution, wait, rinse off your racks, dispose of cleaning solution down the drain. Stop I thought, dispose of down the drain, we have a septic tank, so I rang the telephone...

paulpry118 19.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Oven Pride

Carve Her Name With Pride. A classic DVD

Advantages: A true story of a young woman during WW11
Disadvantages: May be uncomfortable viewing for some

...Review of 'Carve Her Name With Pride' DVD The DVD First released to cinemas in 1958 and on DVD in 2007. The DVD has a run time of 115 minutes and carries a PG certificate. The DVD is filmed in black and white and there are no special features or extras included. Cast, Producers, Writers and Directors Actors: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Denise Grey, Alain Saury Directors: Lewis Gilbert Writers: Lewis Gilbert, Leo Marks, R.J. Minney, Vernon Harris Producers: Daniel M. Angel, Earl St. John, Hugh Perceval The Plot Carve Her Name With Pride is a dramatic story. It follows the true story of War heroine Violette Szabo. Violette, a fluent French speaker, who after the death of her husband, volunteered during the Second World War to be parachuted into France as a secret agent to re...

brittle1906 27.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Carve Her Name With Pride (DVD)

How Pride and Prejudice grew on me

Advantages: Cleverly constructed, multi-layered, funny if you're used to the language
Disadvantages: Period language could be awkward to some

...Jane Austen - not exactly "forbidden fruit". Lady Chatterley - certainly. Moll Flanders - possibly. But Jane Austen? Starched cravats, tea parties and everybody calling each other "Miss Bennet" or "Mr. Gardiner" insteady of Lizzy or Edward? To my eleven-year-old self, absolutely! Costume dramas weren't really staple viewing at home when I was smaller - my parents watched Cracker instead - so I missed the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice serial and became quietly obsessed with reading the novel. I never studied Jane Austen at school (to my annoyance) but perhaps it's just as well - studying every little detail, identifying symbolism and deciding what role or stereotype each character represented might have ruined the book for me. Although "bright", I was too unfamiliar with period language at eleven to fully appreciate Pride and Prejudice...

KateHurst 06.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Disney's Pride Too

Advantages: Good storyline
Disadvantages: Songs are not as good as the first movie

...The Movie Lion King II: Simba's Pride is a sequel to the film Lion King. The storyline puts Kiara, Simba's daughter, as the main character to which the story evolves. This is a direct-to-video film so it didn't have the chance to be seen on the big screen unlike the first Lion King movie which gained much popularity and media mileage. I personally didn't even know there was a sequel until I saw the poster online. I loved the first Lion King film so I decided to watch this one. The Plot The young Kiara The movie starts with Rafiki (the old monkey) holding up a lion cub on the Pride Rock presenting it to the inhabitants of Pridelands. The cub is the child of Simba, the Lion King and Nala. The cub looks like male to me but it turns out that this lion cub is a girl named Kiara. Kiara is as adventurous as his father when...

browndoll 15.11.2009 (18.11.2009) · Read review
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Review of Lion King II, The: Simba's Pride (Animated) (DVD)

The Pride of Auntie

Advantages: Good story with a classic loyalty/romance/disloyalty ring.
Disadvantages: Too much 'hype' surrounded this film, in the end it turned out to be quite disappointing.

...Pride is a specially made drama which was aired on BBC 1 on bank holiday Monday Christmas 2004. It follows the adventures of a pride of lions in the Serengeti. The actors are real lions but their 'voices' are given by famous actors like Robbie Coltrane and Kate Winslet. I first heard about this drama in the Radio Times. At first I was excited about it. After all, the BBC has always made dramas for television and a lot of them are quite good even though the actors in some of them are relatively unknown. Naturally, the Radio Times described the drama as the best thing you could watch on television that evening. They even made a few side comments about Disney's classic 'The Lion King'. In an interview with the Radio Times, Helen Mirren, the actor who lent her voice to Macheeba, one of the characters said that 'The Lion King' doesn...

cranefly 13.06.2005 · Read review
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Review of Pride (DVD)

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Advantages: Actors' performances, not too serious.
Disadvantages: Sometimes confusing.

...Jane Austin's famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice' is a well-known classic, and definitely a favourite of mine. So as you can imagine, when I heard a film was being made about it, I was ecstatic. The movie's brilliant acting and modern touch is combined with the excellence of Elizabeth Bennet's romantic story. Keira Knightly stars as Elizabeth, and the unsociable Mr Darcy is played by Matthew Macfadyen. .Plot. The following may contain plot spoilers, so don't read it if you want to watch the film for yourself! The film is set in a rural part of England at the start of the 19th Century, where the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, lives on a working farm. Also living with her are her four sisters; Jane, Mary, Catherine and Lydia, and her parents Mr and Mrs Bennet. When Mr Bennet dies (which will apparently be 'soon'), the farm will be...

CaimheKnox 01.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Pride And Prejudice (DVD)

Pride of Derby

Advantages: Excellent stadium well designed
Disadvantages: The team are struggling, prices don't reflect this

...I started University in Derby in September 1997, just a month after Derby County Football Club started the new Premiership season in a new stadium. From the main entrance of the Pride Park stadium you can still just see the floodlights of the now derelict former home ground, The Baseball Ground. Although, as many other clubs moving to a completely new ground feel, it is not easy moving from a ground that holds so many great memories but just pulling up outside the new stadium you realise that this is a move forward for the club. Whether you support Manchester United or Hereford United, you can?t help but be impressed with the fine looking structure that would look more at home in Milan or Rome than on the outskirts of Derby. My first trip holds mixed feelings. October 1997 and Derby were riding high in the Premiership under Jim...

Benniash 18.01.2004 · Read review
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