Variations On A Master Plan - Conference Call

Advantages: Good rooms, well organised conference facilities
Disadvantages: If you aren't there for a conference, you could feel very 'left out'.

...I'm a member of an industry association that holds a two day meeting every year in spring and we move the venue around between different hotels, typically in the Midlands. Last year we were in Rugby at the Dunchurch Park which had excellent conference rooms but dreadful accommodation. This year, the organisers found a new place for us to use - Ettington Chase near Stratford upon Avon. I travelled down from the North West on the day of the conference and my sat nav had no problems finding the hotel. When I pulled off the road into the car park I found a very beautiful old building that looked like a Victorian vicarage but was completely swamped by the size of the new wing. As so often happens, the website shows lots of pictures of the old building and not so many of the rather characterless red-brick block that provides most... Read review

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Advantages: Classic Hip Hop
Disadvantages: Nothing specific

...scratch through the tune. **Five Stars** 6. "Paid in Full" The beat for this is one of the best creations Hip Hop has ever come across, giving it good reason to be countlessly sampled over the years by various names in rap. (However to those less familiar with this genre, the recent "Girls Around The World" song by the R&B singer Lloyd also uses the funky rhythm too. The track is also where Rakim's well-known phrase "Thinkin' up a master plan" was first implemented as Rakim showed how naturally he could mess around with the avaliable beat, coming out with interseting word-play and internal rhyme completely out of the blue. **Five Stars** 7. "As the Rhyme Goes On" This is an incredible tune from the pair and it shows that together they are capable of so much quality, and so with a deep riff by Genesis running through... Read review

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Advantages: looks great
Disadvantages: bendy, could be pricey

...Doctor Who, for me, is a great passion. I first fell in love with the family sci-fi show back in 2005 when it returned with Chris Eccleston as the Doctor. The Doctor is a Time Lord from Gallifrey. He travels around in his blue box, which is better known as the Tardis, saving the planets from evil races. Sometimes he travels alone but usually it is with a companion. In 2005, the Christmas episode, David Tennant took over to play the tenth Doctor after he regenerated. He took us through a further three series. In Series 3, we went to the end of the universe with the Doctor and Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman), where we met a mysterious man called Harold Saxon. Turns out this was actually the Master, a supposedly Time Lord. He was quite evil and basically had plans to destroy the Doctor! The character was fantastically played by John Simm... Read review

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