Advantages: Great food, fair prices, good service Disadvantages: Nothing I can think of
I'm sure everyone - well everyone who likes Chinese - probably has a favourite Chinese restaurant that they keep returning to. For the area where we live - between Northampton and Market Harborough - the Han is our Chinese of choice. It's located in the small Leicestershire market town of Market Harborough and you can find it on St Mary's Road. For those who know the town, it's the road which runs from the Market Square towards the railway station. With the Square behind you, pass the new Starbucks on the left hand side and it's just a hundred meters or so further along.
From the outside your first instincts might be that it doesn't look that much like a restaurant. This is because the Han is on two levels and you will only be able to see the downstairs reception area. Here there are sofas and coffee tables where people usually wait ...
Advantages: Gloriously colourful, wonderful songs Disadvantages: Perhaps not for the older children
Looking through the umpteen titles of family films, I was amazed that nobody has mentioned Hans Christian Andersen. Certainly it is the one that stands out in my childhood memories and I wonder how many modern mums still sing the song of the Ugly Duckling to their children or read them the tale of The Red Shoes.
Made in l952 the film has retained a childlike innocence with Danny Kaye playing the part of Andersen to perfection, indeed I was surprised when I saw a painting of Hans Christian Andersen to see just how alike the two are. The film is not meant to be a biography, but is merely a fairy tale about a storyteller.
Colourful costumes and fantasy backlots set the first scene with Hans the cobbler, singing merrily to the children of Odense who are so enthralled by his tales that they skip school. This causes the Town Dignitaries ...
Advantages: Fans will love it! Disadvantages: None!
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It wasn't until recently that I knew about this DVD when I saw it sitting on a shelf in Woolworths for £6.
I enjoyed watching this ...
