Advantages: Cheap Disadvantages: As good as original brands
Santa bought my four year old the lovely mountain train set made by tesco. He desperately wanted a train set and when we were in Toysrus we would look at the brio sets and then look around the other toys. It was not unitl near to Christmas that I actually decided to look at the price. I was horrified to discover how expensive brio train sets were. I looked in several other shops ELC etc but they too were too expensive. I found a cheap set in ASDA but it did not seem to be compatabile with brio or even near to the quality, so I decided not to buy the train set from there either. When we were shopping in Tescos my son pointed out the train sets and took a real interest in a lovely mpuntain train set which had had a wooden train set, a little bridge, wooden animals, trees, tunnels, trains, carriages,sign and mountains all for £24 ...
Advantages: perfect little gem of a film Disadvantages: none
(I?m Dick)?) emblazoned on the wall behind him? It?s not just the music itself but the whole culture of it that seeps into your mind watching this film. Some films are dated, some merely nostalgically, pleasantly representative of their time, this is one of the latter.
?You? belong? with?. ME!?
Coming away from Singles I hope you?ll feel, like I do every time, that you?ve seen a charming, touching, human film, laughed a lot, cried a bit, and recognised something of yourself in every one of them. It?s not often you come across a film where the different characters are unique and yet not stereotypes (except perhaps Cliff, and that strikes me as deliberate) and the interlinking is incidental rather than the main focus of the story. Paradoxically, the fluency is helped rather than hindered by the divisions in the film, because you ...
ruth_cole 29.12.2003
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Singles (DVD)
Advantages: Not quite the disaster you'd think from the press... Disadvantages: ...but you do have to keep your wits about you!
Trains - dontchajusthatem?!!? That Richard Branson, though?!?! - wouldn't mind an Open Return with him!?!! Geddit!!?! (That's enough Glenda Slagg - Ed).
All right then, for those of you who don't read Private Eye and are wondering whether I've gone quite mad (oh, all right then - madder), let's get back to the matter in hand. Namely, how to travel on the rails in this country without utter disaster. As many of you will know, I don't drive, and so I have no option but to travel by public transport - and given that Digbeth Coach Station is roughly equivalent to the sixth circle of Hell (used to be the seventh, but the vending machines work now), for any journey of much over 50 miles, that means going by train. I generally travel off-peak, so I'll concentrate on so-called "leisure travel" here.
The first thing you need to know ...
