Picture this!

Advantages: Easy to play, endless fun, clear images
Disadvantages: None

...Picture Pairs is a classic game that I used to love playing with my brother when I was a child, but it wasn't until very recently that I started to play the game with Harry. We were staying with my parents for a little while, and my mum decided to get Harry some games to play with her. I wasn't sure what was suitable for his age (3.5 years), but she picked up this game, Picture Pairs, and Animal Snap. We got them home and Harry was eager to get stuck in, and so were we actually, and would you believe it's now his favourite game we have to play at least once a day! It's a game that can be played in so many ways, and is always fun for younger children to play. It is sometimes called Memory pairs but it's still the same principle and the same game. This particular version is made and sold in Early Learning Centre stores, and comes in...

mummy2harry 28.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Early Learning Centre Picture Pairs

Picture This

Advantages: easy to use for all ages
Disadvantages: words presented in kanji and kana mixed, but not just using kana, scenes are of a Western city

...I have to admit that I bought this book with some trepidation. I have encountered a lot of picture dictionaries in my time, and even as a child I can recall being disappointed with the low quality. Many seemed to be geared towards toddlers, a sort of "what is this" point and see the word in English sort of mentality. I find English only picture dictionaries a bit suspect, therefore, but with two children aged 6 and 8 learning Japanese, I thought perhaps a bilingual picture dictionary might aid in their vocabulary acquisition. As it was, it seemed that every five seconds I was being asked, "What is this in Japanese?" (Actually, my eldest points at something and asks, "Nani (what [is this])?" So I reckoned that if I got a picture dictionary that showed the common scenes and had the English word, followed by the Japanese word, it might make...

Shroud 16.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Let's Learn Japanese Picture Dictionary - Marlene Goodman

*Don't Picture It *

Advantages: Ashley Tisdale fans will like it
Disadvantages: Seen it all before

...A couple of years back , I was quite a fan of High School Musical , and now a few years on , I am still interested in other movies the stars have done. For I have watched both of Zac Efron's movies , Hairspray and 17 Again. So when I heard that Ashley Tisdale had a movie out called 'Picture This' , I was interested to see whether it would be as good as her previous work ; the High School Musical movies. Picture This is an American comedy movie released in the United States on July 13th 2008. This movie was directed by Stephen Herek and stars Ashley Tisdale (Sharpay in High School Musical). Running time of this movie is ninety two minutes (two minutes over one hour and a half). This movie is a 12 which means it should not be watched by persons under the age of twelve. Unpopular school girl Mandy is desperate for the...

xdonzx 11.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Picture This! (DVD)

Fisher price bounce and spin zebra..... A bouncing spinning Zebra

Advantages: Keeps the little ones happy
Disadvantages: Annoying music, noisy..... but thats just us ;o) the kids will love it

...My little one had this for christmas last year and it's still going strong today so yes it is pretty durable and tough! It's a super cute bouncy spinning zebra, which plays (annoying ahhem*) music!! It came in a rather large, heavy box as I remember, but putting it together was a doddle (even for me!!!) The green base snaps together with each triange then forming a hexagon, it fits around the base of the zebra (I had to put his handles on too) and then thats pretty much it (there may have been some screws I can't remember). My little one has had hours of fun on it (so have the older two) but it seemed a lot smaller than I expected?? At £45 it wasn't cheap but it was one of his big presents so I didn't mind. I bought mine out of the christmas toy catalouge, but they are sold in argos and toysrus for roughly the same price. It...

jadiep890 11.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Fisher-Price Bounce And Spin Zebra

Pretty as a picture we've seen before

Advantages: Good to chill out to. Nice if you like her voice!
Disadvantages: The album doesn't stand out. Annoying warbles here and there

...gone 4 times platinum and in October 2007, she released 'Pictures'. Amongst other high profile media outings, Melua took part in BandAid20 for the 'new' (and somewhat controversial) version of 'Do They Know It's Christmas Time' and has also been associated with numerous charity events, including Nelson Mandela's charity concerts and a goodwill ambassador for 'Save The Children'. Anyway?enough background?on with the album. Track listing: 1. "Mary Pickford (Used to Eat Roses)" - 3:12 2. "All in My Head" - 4:03 3. "If the Lights Go Out" - 3:14 4. "What I Miss About You" - 3:48 5. "Spellbound" - 3:00 6. "What It Says on the Tin" - 3:44 7. "Scary Films" - 4:02 8. "Perfect Circle" - 4:01 9. "Ghost Town" - 3:31 10. "If You Were a Sailboat" - 4:02 11. "Dirty Dice" - 3:39 12. "In My Secret Life" - 4:23 What do I...

MarcoG 03.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Pictures - Katie Melua

Katie Melua - Pictures

Advantages: Some good tracks, unique voice
Disadvantages: Not as good as previous albums

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About Katie Melua ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Katie Melua is a Georgia-born singer songwriter, in 2003 while she was still studying at the Brit School of Performing Arts in Surrey, Katie was discovered at just 18. 4 years later, she is still going strong as is a huge household name having sold more than 7.5 million albums and in 2006 becoming the years best selling British female in the world. Katie's first album Piece by Piece was released in 2005. Katie has had several UK number one tracks, with many others being top 10. Katie was awarded the Golden Camera Award for International Pop Artist at the start of 2007 and Katie was presented with the Echo Award for International Female Artist in March 2007. In 2008, Katie plans to do a world tour. ~~~~~~~~ The Album ~~~~~~~~ Pictures is Katie Melua's third album and was...

lilyellowfish 02.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Pictures - Katie Melua

No zebras were harmed in the making of this toy

Advantages: sweet rattle
Disadvantages: none

...Zebras, I've noticed play a fairly big part in little boys clothing. Before Scarlett was born we didn't know her gender so we brought some gender neutral clothes and some reduced blue sleep suits and vests, which featured zebras in various designs. Little girls are bunnies whilst little boys are zebras. Whilst looking round for Christmas presents for our little one we found this cute little zebra rattle. The zebra has blue and light blue stripes, small children must get a strange idea about animals! It has a smiley face and a playgro logo on the middle of it. It has a velvety, soft texture to it. Attached to the main body of the zebra is a clear plastic ring, with half of the ring showing and the other half in the zebra body. In the ring are six fairly large balls of the following colours, green,purple. Red, blue, orange and yellow...

ricci 06.07.2005 · Read review
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Review of Playgro Noah's Zebra Loop Rattle

Ice Station Zebra -- unable to put it down

Advantages: A really entertaining read
Disadvantages: none

...First and foremost forget the film, it is unable to capture the humour and intensity fully. This is one of my favourite books, containing just the right mix of intrigue and humour, whilst running along at a great pace . We start off meeting the major characters very quickly, and a battle of wits starts immediately, between commander Swanson and crew of a US nuclear submarine and Dr Carpenter, sent from London to join the Sub on a special mission to trace a missing ice station named Zebra. (needless to say this may not be the whole truth) ! Now the story begins with lies, subterfuge, lies, sabbotage, lies, murder, lies,one of my favourite lines comes from this book and if you read it, its the one about I almost believed it myself. The story twists and turns with some great descriptives along the way to really bring you into the story...

iany 01.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Ice Station Zebra - Alistair MacLean

Picture this!

Advantages: See review, too many to list!
Disadvantages: None for me but the Sony branding may put some off!

...In days gone by if you wanted to display your favourite photos then you had two choices, you either placed all the photos in big clumsy albums which you could pass round to visitors to browse through in turn or you could have dozens of photo frames all around your living room making the place look very, very cluttered. These days with digital cameras we all have even more images to display and now thankfully we also have a new way to display them. The digital photo frame has been around for a while now but they are coming down in price and improving in quality so much so that they are soon going to be the thing no house can be without. If you are going to go for a digital photo frame then you will want to look out for a few things, you will obviously want one that looks good, you will want one that can take a large memory card...

thebigc1690 10.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Sony DPF-V700 - Digital photo frame - flash 512 MB - 7"

Big smiles for Picture

Advantages: helpfull, non-judgeing
Disadvantages: rates rise and mortgage changing fees

...We delt with this company last year and have had no complaints with them at all.....until now but it's only a small one. Picture are just like the advert on the tv - very nice, friendly, chatty about everything under the sun. We chose them because they can offer up to 125% of your house value and their valuation is done online - not by sending someone out to do a drive by valuation and charge you for it like some companies. I spoke to my account manager a few times by telephone. I found him very helpful, non-judgmental and very friendly. I told him what i had been quoted from other companies and told him what i was looking for and he seemed happy to offer me just that. To give you a clearer 'picture' (haha) we borrowed £19,000 over 15 years. the repayments were calculated with an APR of 8.9% making our payment £234 per month...

marielou1860 14.06.2007 · Read review
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