Coming Up For Air - Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam

COMING BACK TO ME - Incredibly honest

Advantages: Open, Honest, Entertaining
Disadvantages: Could have more about his cricket

England career was over. The book then skips back to his time as a junior cricketer and how, even just a schoolboy trip to Torquay left him uncontrollably homesick and wanting to go home. It then charts his course through his early Somerset days, the day when Duncan Fletcher saw him hammer Glamorgan?s bowling attack to all parts which eventually saw him selected for England, his early England career, that Ashes win in 2005 and eventually how the illness ?slaughtered? him. All through the book, however, despite cricket being the focus for the main part of it, every stage of his career has been, at least in a small way, hindered by the illness that eventually finished him. So, what is ?the illness? that I have already mentioned four times? Well, when in India ? Baroda to be more precise ? ?Banger? picked up a viral stomach bug, not ...

martin0201 09.06.2009 · Read full review
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Slam Stoppers

Advantages: Stops little fingers getting injured
Disadvantages: Cannot close door when using stopper

, with the Slam Stopper applied there will always be a few inches between the door and it's frame, meaning those little fingers are safe. The Slam Stopper is a brilliant idea, while not all kids will become obsessed with opening and closing doors like Christopher did there is always the risk that a gust of wind, or even a inattentive adult may close the door trapping the little ones fingers, the Slam Stopper means that there is never any risk of an injury to your child and also has saved me the stress of constant opening and closing of doors, even in his most evil of toddler tantrum modes a stroppy push on the door will not result in it slamming and causing headaches and annoyance for me, any visitors and neighbours, it also comes in handy in the same respect when you've got a sleeping baby and you don't want closing doors to wake them up. Being ...

piggypine 17.03.2008 · Read full review
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Doors Closing

Advantages: Compelling enough crime story
Disadvantages: Not a patch on the Rebus stories

(Cruikshank), frustration that the best pieces are hidden from public view in warehouses and corporate collections (Gissing) and frustration that the pieces that they would want to own will never come onto the market anyway (MacKenzie). They idly discuss the inequities of this and joke about how they could remedy the situation. They talk of stealing paintings but it is all in jest, these are nice middle class boys after all and cold blooded thievery such as this is not really very likely. However, one evening Gissing proposes a plan that is both plausible and achievable. Under cover of the Open Door day (the day when many private buildings open up to the public) they can go into the National Gallery Warehouse, swap masterpieces for fakes and leave no one the wiser. A perfect, victimless, white collar crime it would seem. Hmm, we?ll see about ...

brereton66 16.10.2009 (13.11.2009) · Read full review
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