All In One Piece - Really?

Advantages: Fun to read humorous story with an element of real life to it!
Disadvantages: None

...All In One Piece by Jill Murphy *I thought that I would review this children's book, as a tribute to all those parents who understand just how difficult it is, to get ready for a rare night out.* ***What's it all about?*** Well, this is another in a series of books about the Large family - a family of elephants and the evening when Mr and Mrs. Large get to venture out, to the office-dinner dance. Of course the children can't go and so grandma comes to babysit. Granny arrives at tea time and the children are bathed and ready for bed. Granny lets them do some painting, whilst mum and dad go upstairs to get ready in peace. However? Luke watches his dad shaving and ends up getting the foam on his trunk. Dad tells him to go away. Whilst Mrs. Large is concentrating on doing her hair and make up, she doesn't see baby...

LAURALILIA 20.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of All in One Piece - Jill Murphy

All in one piece? Possibly!

Advantages: Good story and illustrations
Disadvantages: none

...All in One Piece' by Jill Murphy is a really fun read for little children and parents alike. Jill Murphy is quite a prolific children's writer and is well known for her 'Worst Witch' series of books. She has also written a number of books about a family of elephants, called the Large family,and this book is part of that series. This particular one was written in 1987 and has certainly stood the test of time! Although they are elephants, the Large family take on all the characteristics and traits of any normal family. There are six members of the family - Mum, Dad, Luke, Laura, Lester and the baby. In this story Mum is desperately looking forward to a well earned night out with her husband - I know the feeling! - they certainly don't come round often enough when you have small children! Granny has arrived early to babysit so that Mum...

kingfisher111 26.10.2006 · Read review
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Review of All in One Piece - Jill Murphy

Pieces

Advantages: Alright slasher
Disadvantages: It's been done before. Lynda Day

...It's 1942 a young boy is playing peacefully I his bedroom. However, somehow it's a jigsaw of a naked woman he has and his mother is annoyed at discovering this and finding heaps of pornography hidden all over his bedroom. She demands that he goes and gets her the matches so she can burn it all but the weird child being a true blue porn fan instead gets an axe and brutally, albeit very unrealistically, kills his mother. He is then found in the blood covered room after cutting her into several pieces. Many years later and we have a random scene of a woman skating about on some University grounds before she crashes into two men carrying a mirror across a road. That scene seems pointless and is forgotten. But then another young woman is sitting on the lawn reading her book when she is disturbed by a man with a chainsaw cutting...

Phelthew 05.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Pieces (DVD)

Pieces of a jigsaw

Advantages: Great entertainment, hilarious!
Disadvantages: Not sure it's supposed to be funny!

...In the early nineteen forties, a young boy resents his mother's intrusion into his bedroom and takes an axe to her, pretending afterwards that he was an innocent bystander. Some forty years later, young girls on a college campus begin to be picked off by an electric saw-wielding madman. It seems that the killer must be someone on the campus, perhaps a teacher, and the police officers in charge of the case, along with a fast-thinking student, do their best to keep on the killer's tail. Yet the murders continue, each one gorier than the last. Will they ever catch the murderer? And what is the link with the young boy? For some strange reason, there is a following for horror films that are so bad that they are good - I, for one, am a fan. Pieces, or Mil Gritos Tiene La Noce (One Thousand Cries Has the Night) as it was originally called...

sunmeilan 28.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Pieces (DVD)

Bits and Pieces

Advantages: Some very decent music
Disadvantages: For the fans, the new songs are a bit of a let down

...strength of character too. It is this combination that has enabled her to release a greatest hits album "Pieces of a Dream" after only five years as a major label singer, yet still manage to pack it with hits. The album opens with the debut single, "I'm Outta Love", a song which grabbed me from the first and made me an Anastacia fan to start with. In five years, nothing has changed and I still love this song. It's a high tempo pop song, with soul undertones and a beat that has you dancing and unable to help yourself. At the time this was released, there was really no-one who combined soul and heavy pop the way Anastacia did and there are very few singers today who have the strength in their vocal to pull it off even now. The second track is also from her debut album. This time it is the title track from 2000's "Not That Kind". This...

Soho_Black 23.12.2005 · Read review
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Review of Pieces Of A Dream - Anastacia

The Piece Hall, Halifax

Advantages: Lots of history
Disadvantages: Only about 20 shops in total

...250 years ago the West Yorkshire town of Halifax was at the centre of the textile trade. A few decades later textile mills would spring up all along the valley in which Halifax sits but back in the 1770's most of the cloth was made in the local people's houses on handlooms. The Piece Hall opened in 1779 as a place where these traders could meet and trade their cloth. It was built to replace a smaller building called The Cloth Hall. Today The Piece Hall is a Grade 1 listed building. It stands in the heart of town centre and is now used largely as a shopping complex. I was in Halifax yesterday and The Piece Hall was one of the places that I wanted to see. I easily found the main entrance as it is clearly sign posted from everywhere within the town centre but upon arrival I was greeted by the not quite so quite imposing entrance to...

micksheff 21.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Piece Hall - Halifax

80 pieces for easy construction

Advantages: easy to fit together
Disadvantages: none

...Mobilo children?s construction bricks are really good for small children particularly those with poor dexteritory they are suitable for children aged 3 to 7 years old. Those at key stage 1 and 2. Be wary though with younger children as some of the pieces can be quite small and if children put them in the mouth it is possible they might swallow. This set is a fantastic set with 80 pieces it includes standard 1 and 2 cube brick pieces triangular slope pieces. Flat ladder like pieces of varying lengths a few heads and a few wheels there are connector pieces too. To describe mobilo bricks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are not conjoining bricks like Lego but open cubes that are joined together by flexible connecting disks. These discs fit into a mobile brick easily and another mobilo block is easy to join onto it. The pieces snap...

mumsymary 14.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Mobilo Starter Pack Bucket - 86 Pieces

One Piece Jigsaw!!

Advantages: Easy to use, Reasonable price, 2 year warranty
Disadvantages: None up to now

...also came with a two year guarentee which I thought was better than normal. It also has a dust extraction pipe on the back which can be connect to a hoover. The users manual is also very easy to follow if you need to read it!! I had a quick look at it out of interest before writing this review but I think anyone buying a jig saw knows how to use one. IN USE ********* I first used the jig saw the first day I bought it, on a laminate job and was very pleased with my purchase as I found it very easy to use. It is very comfortable to hold while cutting and there is very little vibration through the handle. It is also very easy to follow the pencil mark on your piece of work as there is a little pointer and also a little bar pointing down level with the blade which you just line up with your pencil line ( a bit hard to follow that bit I...

johnny040676 16.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Bosch PST 850PE - 620 Watt Jigsaw

Buy one now. Essential piece of kit!

Advantages: No more looking for working batteries.
Disadvantages: None other than being restricted by a wire if used whilst gaming,

...What an excellent piece of kit this is! I play on my Xbox 360 for very long periods at a time and was getting increasingly infuriated at having to keep recharging my batteries so that I could keep using my wireless controller. The Microsoft Official Xbox 360 Play and Charge Kit fits snuggly onto the wireless controller. It has a nice long lead that connects to the console via USB. If being restricted by the wire is not your thing seeing as you have wireless controller what you can do is connect the Microsoft Official Xbox 360 Play and Charge Kit to your controller and console then turn your console off. The console goes into a sort of standby mode until the controller is fully charged when it switches itself off completly. This means that you can game all day with no problem then connect your controller up and charge it by night....

RicME85 08.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Microsoft Xbox 360 Play and Charge Kit - Battery and charger NiMH

54 Pieces of Mobilo to construct your dreams

Advantages: Easy to manipulate
Disadvantages: none

...During my years working with special needs children I have grown to love Mobilo. Mobilo is a plastic construction system. The set I am reviewing today is a 54 piece set this comes in a square yellow bucket with a lid. The lid has shapes cut out of it so that the mobilo can be posted through them when it is tidied away. The plastic mobilo bricks come in bright red, yellow and blue. These shapes are not solid shapes. But open ones. They clip together with the connectors that are included in the set. There are a range of shapes in this box .The basic cube which measures 3.5cm. There are double cubes and triangular cubes single and double size. There are flat bricks which to me look a bit like a ladder. There are several sets of wheels. The wheels come as two which are attached either side of a fixing this is the width of 1 cube 3...

mumsymary 06.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Mobilo Basic Bucket - 54 Pieces