All Around My Hat - Steeleye Span

One Misty Moisty Morning

Advantages: Great variety of songs, enough tracks to keep anybody occupied for some time.
Disadvantages: Slightly genre-specific, I suppose.

, Celtic-inspired voice singing what would ordinarily be the choirboy's part. However, this album contains a further thirty-four tracks, most of which will not be familiar in this form to those of the public who do not venture into the folk-music scene. They are an eclectic mixture, of which my personal favourites are the heart-rending 'Lovely on the Water'; the gloriously mischievous 'Marrowbones'; 'Long Lankin', the band's take on the Northern folk-story; the wonderfully bouncy 'All Around My Hat'; and 'John Barleycorn', an electrified folktune whose melody established itself recently in my head and refused to decamp for a fortnight. I cannot say whether this album would be accessible to the general public, given that I am personally a fan of folk-music. What I can say, however, is that Steeleye Span are never static in their style ...

emma-regina 24.10.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Spanning The Years - Steeleye Span

Hats On !

Advantages: Looks elegant, keeps my eyes shaded.
Disadvantages: None whatsoever.

for around 20 GBP whereas the top products can fetch a retail price of 1000 GBP. What is the difference between fine and coarse hats? Weaving begins at the apex of the crown, a spiral of rings or vueltas spans out from there, it's the number of vueltas that determines the quality of a hat, the cheaper quality has up to ten vueltas, the expensive one can have as many as forty. From the net: " The greatest weavers work only by the light of the moon or when the sky is overcast. Constantly dipping their sharp pointed fingers in water, they split the fibres razor thin, and with all the virtuosity of a spinning wheel, plait ring after ring of palm into fabric so soft and dense that it equals silk. The hats are then pummelled and trimmed and groomed and scrubbed. . . . "The sides and crown are carefully beaten to even them out, but ...

MALU 20.07.2006 (27.07.2006) · Read full review
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Review of Panama Hats

my opinions on The Cat In The Hat (DVD)

Advantages: vivid color and great actors
Disadvantages: adult humor

This movie was hilarious. I think they did a great job transfering the book into a movie since the cast and the character matched up perfectly. the bonus features were great. I really loved all of the colors in this movie and the shapes, they matched the book perfectly. I would deffinetly recomend this movie to adults and teens, but I would not recomend this to children. Yes, its a kids movie, but it has very adult humor. It might be ok for younger children who dont understand the concept of the humor in this movie, but older kids might walk around copying the phrases in this movie and might just get themselves in a lot of trouble. Overall though, as a DVD, I would deffinetly recomend this movie. Its hilarious. ...

amistarr 10.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Cat In The Hat (DVD)