Cavern With Nightlife - John Butcher

Fit As A Butcher's Dog

Advantages: helps my fussy dog eat his food, resonably priced
Disadvantages: smells pretty awful

I have a Border collie that is bordering an anorexic, he sniffs his food and turns his nose up at it, so it's very hard to try and get him to eat. He is very skinny, although Border collie's are meant to be quite skinny; he's a little too skinny so I searched our local shop for some food that would encourage him to eat his meals. Here, I came across Butcher's Tripe - which he absolutely loves. Packaging Butchers tripe comes in a bog standard can (similar to a baked bean can) and it has a pull top lid making the tin very easy to open. The label around the can is primarily blue with a picture of a dog and its owner out on a walk. On the back of the label is all in information you could possibly want about the product such as the fact it is made with natural ingredients, no artificial colouring etc. There is also a feeding chart ...

daylehall 02.02.2007 · Read full review
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Poole's Cavern, Buxton, Derbyshire

Advantages: Lots of history, Educational
Disadvantages: Damp and dark, Expensive

lots of information relating to the history of the place. There is a certain amount of debate regarding how the Cave actually got its name, but there are two possibilities. Some people say that it derives its name from John Pole who was the man that owned this land that the Cave was discovered on. Others say that it was named after a famous local outlaw called William Poole, who is said to have hidden out in this Cave during the fifteenth century. Poole's Cavern became a popular tourist attraction during Victorian times but long before this time the Cave was used by the Romans and even before that by Prehistoric Man over 2,000 years ago. The Cave itself is over 2 million years old. Excavations from within the Cave have unearthed over 4,000 different artefacts, many of these dating from Roman times. The first part of the Cave is ...

micksheff 13.03.2007 · Read full review
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The Butcher of Smithfield

Advantages: Good twists, a lot of historical detail
Disadvantages: Can get a bit confusing and convoluted

"The Butcher of Smithfield" is the third in the new series Susanna Gregory is writing - the Thomas Chaloner stories. This comes after the success of the Matthew Bartholomew series set in 14th Century Cambridge. The Thomas Chaloner books are set in Restoration London and the main character is a spy who previously worked for Cromwell's government and has had to find employment with the new government after the Restoration of the Monarchy. The political backdrop of the new series is interesting and adds danger to Chaloner's exploits as he does not know who to trust. In "The Butcher of Smithfield" Chaloner has just returned from spying in Portugal and Spain on behalf of the Queen. His relatively new master, the Earl of Clarendon, is displeased with him and sets him to find the killer of a highly unpopular lawyer who was also corrupt ...

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Review of The Butcher of Smithfield: Chaloner's Third Exploit in Restoration London - Susanna Gregory