Reginald Hill back on form

Advantages: Well-written, strong characters
Disadvantages: A bit too long

...Introduction I have to admit that the latest Dalziel and Pascoe books that I've read have not particularly impressed me. I thought 'Arms and the Women' was one of the worst books I have read for a long time and 'Dialogues of the Dead', although better, was so complex that I just gave up trying to understand after a while. So I wasn't really expecting this book to be much better. Luckily, I was surprised and Reginald Hill has come up with a plot much more of a standard with his earlier novels. The author Reginald Hill now lives in Cumbria, although he has spent part of his life in Yorkshire, where the Dalziel and Pascoe books are based. Good Morning, Midnight is the twentieth book featuring Dalziel and Pascoe, who first appeared in 'A Clubbable Woman' in 1970. Hill has also written a series of books featuring Joe Sixsmith, a West...

sunmeilan 12.12.2005 · Read review
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Taste the Tates?

Advantages: Wonderful fish and chips
Disadvantages: Too good to leave

...Have you tasted any good fish and chips of late? No? Then you haven't been to TATES at Boston, Lincolnshire. I am a Boston girl, and Tates fish and chips have been part of my growing up. The fish shop has been there on the site since 10th October 1904, but was only taken over or into the Tate's ownership in 1959 and has stayed a family run bussiness since. Tates are open 6 days a week, closed Sunday. Times as follows, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10-30am till 2-30pm only. Wednesday and Saturday 10-30am till 7-00pm, (Market days in Boston) Friday 11-00am till 9-00pm. You will find Tates in the centre of Boston on New Street just off the main market place. The building itself is triangular, and they serve take away as well as eating in. Whilst you are sitting and eating you will see that the take out fryers are never...

bostonianbeer 28.02.2008 (06.04.2008) · Read review
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Art for all - The Tate Modern

Advantages: It's free, vast and diverse collection, spectacular building
Disadvantages: Cafe and restaurant prices are steep

...The Tate Modern is housed in the former Bankside power station, (the building has to be seen to be believed), and was built during the Millennium year. Since that point it has developed into one of London's most sought after attractions. The artworks are spread over 100,000 square feet and are based around a massive turbine hall that serves as the building's entrance, a most spectacular sight! Access to the gallery is provided by two tube stations, London Bridge & Blackfriars, and I took the former route which involves a pleasant ten minute walk along the bank of the river and I combined it with a quick trip across the London Bridge for a truly stunning view of Tower Bridge, shimmering in the haze in the distance. The gallery is also served by numerous bus routes, so there really is no excuse for missing this magnificent attraction...

kepler3001 01.09.2006 · Read review
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FREE DVDs

Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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Catherine Tate - What a Liberty!

Advantages: Funny, funny, funny!
Disadvantages: Not as long as I'd like it to be!

...What a ******* liberty! This DVD is hilarious! I absolutely love the Catherine Tate Show and couldn't wait for this to come out on DVD! There are many different characters played by Catherine Tate. Nan: Opinionated, manupulative & damn right rude at times. What a ******* liberty! She is constantly curtain twitching and making some comment about one friend or another! Aga Saga Woman: Drop a needle and this woman would jump out of her skin! Absolutely brilliant that she's even scared of the toaster popping up! Paul & Sam: I know! Oh my god! Imagine a couple just like Janice from Friends and you have these two! Absolutely bursting with excitement about everything in life! A real happy duo and slightly irritating too! (I'm sure that they'd be even more irritating if we really knew them in real life!) Bunty: The Doncaster...

katyeverett 30.12.2008 · Read review
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Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

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Blake at the Tate

Advantages: great collection
Disadvantages: vey busy

...Opinions are divided as to whether William Blake (1757-1857) was a visionary genius or merely a deluded lunatic. Either way, there is no doubt that Blake is one of the most original and influential artists that Britain has ever produced. It was Blake who wrote the words to ‘Jerusalem’ and ‘Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright’. It was a Blake image (‘The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun’) that was central to the first of the ‘Silence of the Lambs’ series of novels. This exhibition at Tate Britain (the old Tate gallery) gives you the chance to make up your own mind. Blake belonged to the artisan class and was to be at odds with the artistic establishment throughout his life. He served an apprenticeship as an engraver and this exhibition includes some rarely seen examples...

aprose 30.01.2001 · Read review
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Tate Modern-The World's Largest

Advantages: Biggest gallery of modern art in the world
Disadvantages: Huge

...renaissance of the cultural milieu in this historic city and nowhere is this better emphasized than at the remarkable Tate Modern at Bankside. The world's largest gallery of modern art, Tate Modern is housed in the old Bankside power station which had actually been in "mothballs" since the 1980's. It was the creation of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott - who was well known as the designer of Britain's red telephone box - and this new sister to the existing Tate Gallery was designed by Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron to be accessible from all four sides. They employed a dramatic use of glass and there are fabulous views of the City of London. The place is linked to St. Paul's Cathedral by a new Millennium footbridge, designed by Norman Foster. Developed at a cost of 134 million pounds the Tate Modern is already being compared to the Musee d...

ashford 27.06.2000 · Read review
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Who is Catherine Tate?

Advantages: All of the best bits together at once
Disadvantages: None

...In case you have missed any of the hilarious episodes of the first series of The Catherine Tate Show, this DVD will get you up to speed with one of the funniest female comedians this country has seen for a long time. The characters have to be seen to be believed, from Bernie the frisky nurse to Nan, the stereotypical bad-tempered but changeable pensioner and her long-suffering grandson. This DVD provides an opportunity to discover characters which you may have missed if you did not see the whole series, and enables you to identify your favourites to watch out for in the next series. Catherine Tate has a wonderful talent for taking everyday people and picking out the humour in their situations, for example the couple who crease up with laughter at each others' daily "crazy" anecdotes. Who can say that they have never...

tina1979 17.11.2005 · Read review
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The New Tate Museum

Advantages: free
Disadvantages: llike shopping at Ikea

...The new Tate has been hyped for months in the press about being the best place to see Art, almost in the world. I have been to some of the largest and smallest Art Galleries in the world, and I have to say I even shocked myself at how disappointing the Tate Gallery is. The building is majestic and it would be awesome to have some space for quiet reflection on the Art, but it is exactly like going to Ikea on Sunday except theres more tourists. I have attempted to visit three times and each time I went day, weekend, night it was packed full of tourists attracted by the big FREE sign on the door,wailing children running around, nappies being changed in the areas meant for reading, and this last time tourists asleep on the leather sofas as if they were in some post modern train station. The experience is appalling and even outside...

suzanna 16.07.2000 · Read review
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