Out & About - Cherish The Ladies

Get out and about

Advantages: 500 free days out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Disadvantages: Depending on where you live there may not be lots of ideas

This pocket sized guide is filled with 500 free days out in Britain. It was first released in 2005 and reprinted in 2006, but I have not found that any of the recommendations are out of date (I mean, none have closed in the meantime). The book costs £4.99, but you shoudl be able to get hold of a copy much cheaper than this. Mine was only £1.00 from The Works. It's worth the fiver, but obviously the cheaper it is, the better the value. The book is divided into alphabetically organised sections. It is organised first by country (England first, then Scotland, next Wales, lastly the Republic of Ireland), then by county within that country, again in alphabetical order. The name of the county is written down the side of the page so it's really easy to check you're still looking in the right place, especially on the pages where two counties ...

M.Newcastle 05.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of AA Free Days Out

Out and about

Advantages: storytelling
Disadvantages: dated look and feel, anticipation of lines, re-watchability

and is generally shown for a split second and then disappears. The audio is quite bad in terms of volume, is it extremely quiet in some places and found myself raising and lowering the volume on more than one occasion. Overall If you can look past the dated clothes and the few problems with the picture and sound the actual story is well laid out and very well executed, it is well acted although sometimes the timing of the lines are such that you can almost feel one actor waiting for the other to stop before delivering their own lines. I would be concerned about re-watch-ability value, after all a film is anything between 1.5 and 2 hours for a regular film whereas this involves a but more time investment, But for those that enjoy the Sweeney and Minder and other programs of that ilk, I thoroughly recommend this. This is currently ...

sjp1966 11.08.2008 (12.08.2008) · Read full review
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Review of Out - The Complete Series - Special Edition (DVD)

Out and about , in the cold

Advantages: excellent for children
Disadvantages: nothing

Out and about Shirley Hughes This book was published in 1988 by Walkers books. In this picture book a little girl and her baby brother romp through the year with poems about spring, mud, snow wind, sunshine, rain. Poems about climbing hills, splashing in water, playing on the beach, fireworks and snow. There are 44pages covered with delightful illustrations and the poems ones for you to read to your child aged 2 to about 5 a 6 /7 yr old will enjoy trying to read some him/her self. I found this book in the school library I shall use it for our weather topic. The last Poem in her book is about cold. Now the weather is getting colder I shall tell this to the children. Cold fingers, Cold toes, Pink sky, pink nose. Hard ground, Bare trees, Branches crack. Puddles freeze Frost white, Sun red Warm room, warm bed ...

mumsymary 18.10.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Out and About - Shirley Hughes