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[[Category:New Reviews|Home and Family]]==Home and family==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Barnardo1454955546|title=Dadcando: Build, Make, Do ... the Best Way to Spend Quality Time with Your KidsSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=45|genre=CraftsLifestyle|summary=The ideas in this book originated as a [http://www.dadcando.co.uk/ website] that Chris Barnardo set up for divorced and separated fathers to help them spend quality time with their children Now he's written 'This isn't a diet book that although aimed at single fathers . The last thing anyone needs is equally as useful for married dads, and mums too or grandparents or carers to inspire crafty ideas of things to make with kidsanother diet book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652011</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evany Thomas1635866847|title=The Secret Language of Sleep: A Couple's Guide to the Thirty-nine Positions|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=This volume takes the premise that the positions in which couples sleep together are an insight into their private mind. Therefore, with the help of the line drawings of 39 (apparently all of THE 39) positions, one might see where one is going wrong. It’s a chicken and egg situation where you might learn you’re with the wrong bed partner, and change either them or your nocturnal habits, or in order to change yourself alter things having reflected on the contents here – with the help as they suggest of a ceiling-mounted camcorder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1932416471</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLavender Companion|author=Fraser's Autographs|title=Collect Autographs: An Illustrated Guide to Collecting Jessica Dunham and Investing in AutographsTerry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and FinanceLifestyle|summary=There must be many of us who have at one time had an autograph It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book or something of the kind as children and asked friends, relations or even celebrities to for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'do something', written to celebrities in I visited the hope of obtaining author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a personally signed picture, or even waited patiently at of a stage door after slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a play or concert eagerly clutching a theatre programmerecipe in the book, record or CD sleeve which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and pen I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in handthe margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597525</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0760381267
|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life
|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago
|rating=3.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1394159544
|title=Recycling for Dummies
|author=Sarah Winkler
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vyvyen Brendon0760378134|title=Prep School ChildrenThe First-Time Gardener: A Class Apart Over Two CenturiesContainer Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=45
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn'Prep School Children'' t know where to start, this is Vyvyen Brendonthe book you need. It's second collection (comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you'Children of the Rajre going to grow, what you'' was the firstll grow it in (both containers and soil). It explores the pupil experience, using primary sources like weekly letters homewhere you'll put these containers, memoirs how you'll water and interviews, fertilise them and less immediate material such as fiction, school magazines and headmasters' biographies. I came to you finish the main part of the book with some questions: what was it like to be a boarder at handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a prep school? What difference did a prep school education make to life as an adult? good glossary. Why parents might send their children to such schools when the horrors were well-knownSo, many of the dads presumably having survived the experience themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847062873</amazonuk>is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tad Tuleja1529149800|title=A Dictionary of Foreign Words Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and PhrasesReduce Waste|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summaryauthor=Take a look at the cover design of this book, Eduardo Garcia and you'd be mistaken for thinking this was a trivia compendium for all those foreign words that have taken part in our English language since whenever they crossed over from their original homes. But the title is definitely honest, for this is a dictionary book first, for reference, and a browser for the trivia buff second.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089562</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Loose Women|title=Here Come the GirlsSara Boccaccini Meadows
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=This is We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the second volume by river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the panelists from fire. The animals laughed: what good was that nice ITV series, doing. ''I'Loose Womenm doing the best I can''. Just as promised on the cover, this book is an entertaining night with said the girlshummingbird. It turns out And that they're just like us. The faces are already familiar and even if you don't know them yet, with nine contributorsreally, you'll soon find a like-minded woman behind one of is the celebrity faces. The women are universally warm-hearted and supportive: there only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be many a lonely woman who reads this book and feels as if she sat down with a group of friends for the evening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444700154</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gill Hines and Alison Baverstock1849767009|title=ItIsn's Not Fair! Parenting the Bright and Challenging Childt Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=Home and FamilyFor Sharing|summary=I like parenting This could have been one of those books. So, even though my sons which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are now young adults, I looked forward the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to reading bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a new book about raising childrennot wearing clothes. I It'm in touch with many parents with children s a celebration of all ages, bodies: bodies large and small and am always interested in reading current recommendationsof every possible hue. The subtitle of this book is, 'Parenting the bright Bodies with disabilities and challenging child'markings. When I saw it, I wondered if it would be similar to the American book They'Raising your Spirited Child' (by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka) which I found extremely useful when my sons were youngerre fine. Spirited children are defined as those who are intenseIn fact, sensitive, perceptive, persistent and energeticthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749940468</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Mangan 1504321383|title=My Family Single, Again, and Other DisastersAgain, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Not living in the UK means that we don't have British newspapers. Even when we lived in England, we never bought 'You can'The Guardian'', so I had never actually heard of Lucy Mangan before being sent this bookt be happy and fulfilled on your own. That's probably You are not complete until you find a bad thing, since I began the book - a collection of her Guardian columns - without any preconceptions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852651244</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Brocket|title=Ripping Things to Do|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Right from the very moment I opened the envelope this book was delivered in, I had the distinct feeling this would be a real gem of a book, and how right I was. Though, initially, I was reminded of the Iggulden brothersman' ''Dangerous Book for Boys'' series, this book has a very different ethos, even though the subject matter overlaps somewhat unavoidably making it bear comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980966</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate BrianGraff_Find|title=The Complete Guide to IVF|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Each year some forty thousand cycles of IVF – in vitro fertilisation – are carried out in the UK and something like a million worldwide. About two hundred thousand IVF babies are born annually with some twelve thousand of those in the UK according to a recent article I read on a BBC site. Fertility expert Kate Brian has followed her [[The Complete Guide to Female Fertility by Kate Brian|Complete Guide to Female Fertility]], which we loved, with another indispensable guide – this time to IVF.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909706</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFind Another Place|author=Ali Valenzuela|title=Weighing It UpBen Graff|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=Although never having had an eating disorder myself, I have been interested in them since I was young. I was a competitive gymnast and that is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now IWhen Ben Graff'm s grandfather Martin handed him a mother plastic folder of three teenage daughtershandwritten notes from his journal, I worry about he didn't take much notice of it. At the subject from a whole new angleage of 24, especially as one Graff didn't realise the gravity of them is a size 6-8 and idolises those super-skinny celebritiesthe pages he was holding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna PatersonGoodland_Worth|title=Anorexic|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It might seem strange and somewhat ironic that an obese woman is reviewing a book on anorexia. But it is 's Worth a topic I have always found interesting. Despite my being at the opposite end of the weight scale to Anna Paterson, I could empathise with some of the things she felt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0952921529</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTry|author=Loose Women|title=Girls' Night InNicola Goodland
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I love watching This is how Nicola Goodland introduces her book, ''Loose Women'' on TV and feel itIt's like sitting down for Worth a good gossip with a load of girlfriends. Every time itTry''s on, I get involved in the debates and they spark discussions at home with whoever is around. My teenage daughters are fans of the show too.:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffrey DeanHigashida_Fall|title=The Fight Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Your LifeAutism|ratingauthor=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=This book is a wake-up call. Jeffrey Dean wrote it so that parents can understand the difficult world that their teens may have to face everyday, Naoki Higashida and through this understanding, they will be motivated to help their teens to survive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1601421109</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Diacono|title=Veg Patch: River Cottage Handbook No 4David Mitchell|rating=45
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=At a time Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the climate is changing and the economy appears to be heading south the thought of being able to produce your own vegetables is very tempting. Forget about food miles and consider instead how few minutes there can be between harvesting your vegetables and the cooking process. Doninternational best-seller ''t worry about pesticides and residues as youThe Reason I Jump'll know exactly what's been fed to your food. Mark DiaconoThe book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, head gardener on as told from the hallowed ground unique perspective of River Cottage HQa teenager with non-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, run or by tracing letters on the sainted Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstallpalm of a transcriber. Despite this slow and laborious method of writing, tells you exactly how he has published several books in his native Japan and manages to give public presentations to raise awareness of his condition. Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to go about it Naoki as a young adult in this, the fourth of the River Cottage Handbookshis 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595348</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John KayBialik_Girling|title=The Long and the Short of it: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the IndustryGirling Up|author=Mayim Bialik
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I was really intrigued by the title This book arrived on my desk to cries of therapist Glenn Harrold''Amy Farrah Fowler's written a book ?'' or ''Look Young and Live LongerNo, that's Blossom''depending on your generation. Could it be possible that Mayim Bialik is or was both, of course, but in addition to being a well-known sitcom actress, she is also a neuroscientist (and the only PhD on The Big Bang Theory, except for the characters). Aimed at teenagers, this book could deliver focuses on such growing up as a huge promise? Having been feeling more than a little jaded latelygirl, or ''Girling up'' if you will, I was willing and what it means to transition from school girl to give it a trygrown-up, via that hideous detour of teenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075288610X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Phillips and Barbara TaylorMattinson_Puppy|title=On Kindness |rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=As a title, ''On Kindness'' doesn't pack quite Choosing the same punch as Adam Phillip's earlier: 'On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored'. It put me in mind of an eighteenth century treatise, and, give or take a couple of centuries, that is exactly what the book provides: a thought-provoking exposition on a currently unfashionable virtue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144337</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPerfect Puppy|author=Olive Hickmott and Andrew Bendefy |title=Seeing Spells AchievingPippa Mattinson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I felt an immediate empathy with Olive Hickmott when I If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to read this book. We're obviously Too many people are carried away in the heat of a similar age and were taught reading the moment and spelling in a time before you were ''dyslexicmust''have a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the consequences. I found that They then have to live with the terms more commonly used were problems which 'not trying hard enough' and might'lazy'have been avoided for a decade or more. I did master reading although I was late by today's standards but I've always struggled with spelling: certain words The puppy and letter combinations still have terrors hidden within them half a century later and until we changed the format of Bookbag I used adult dog also has to warn reviewers that they should check whatever I uploaded onto the site as I was unreliable when it came live with an owner who might not be able to spellingaccommodate his needs. Olive and I have both been saved by the spellchecker[[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. I settled happily into reading, Olive less so, but we both made careers where numbers were important. I could read a set She doesn't try to talk you out of accounts like getting a story; particular breed or any puppy: she found a home in engineeringsimply presents the facts and allows you to make your own decisions. We worked in areas where intuition was important.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312209</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate BrianRaskin_Grow|title=The Complete Grow: A Family Guide to Female FertilityGrowing Fruit and Veg|author=Ben Raskin
|rating=5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=ItI worried when I looked at this book: 's tempting to say that every woman over the age of puberty should have access to Kate Brian's Grow'', it said, ''The Complete Guide A family guide to Female Fertilitygrowing fruit and veg''. The truth is that they should all have their own copies Why did it worry me? Well, it's a mere 48 pages and they should read the book until cover says that itincludes ''Games, stickers and MORE!'' I have weighty tomes which don's dog-eared t completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and falling apartveg, because I really canso wasn't think of this going to fall a better way to understand why some women are more fertile than others or some women have difficulty in conceivinglittle short? Well, it doesn't - not at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749927925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=India KnightMcgrath_Camping|title=The Thrift Book: Live Well and Spend Less Camping With Kids|author=Simon McGrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=A soon as I read the introduction I wondered if this When my daughter was really going young it used to be the book for me. Despite having two books joked that if a child asked on his fifth birthday to go camping and you told him that he could in the top ten best seller list India Knight knew the bailiffs well and was facing bankruptcy. It wasnfive years't that she wasntime, he't earning money – it was simply that she had no ability d be there on his tenth birthday, all kitted up and ready to handle itgo. Hmm – I have a horror of debt These days the discussions - and delaying tactics - are more likely to be about technology - and I can handle moneymobiles in particular. Was India Knight Whilst it's wonderful that children do embrace technology, it shouldn'really'' going to t be able to teach at the person who grew up with expense of getting out in the austerity fresh air, being free of postscreens and having an adventure -war Britain chomping at her heels anything about thrift? Plans were already forming to move preferably with all the book on, when slowly and inexorably I was won overfamily doing it ''together''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490372</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Schmidt and Robert MaslenWilliams_Son|title=The Shakespeare Handbook My Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures|author=John Williams|rating=43.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=William Shakespeare. If you're In 2012, stand-up comedian John Williams was encouraged by his work colleagues to write a fan of the theatre, you may see him show charting his experiences as the greatest playwright parent of all timean autistic boy. If youAfter registering the domain name: 're currently studying English at school'My Son's Not Rainman, '' he may be the worst thing that ever happened also decided to write a blog to youshare his funny anecdotes and experiences. Over the years, IAfter a shaky start (''ve certainly held both opinions, depending on where I was at the timehad a handful of followers. Part Three of this could have been because Ithem were my brothers''), like most school pupils, never had the blog eventually went viral as it increased in popularity with parents who felt a gentle introduction to Shakespeareconnection with John and 'The Boy'. If I'd had a This book like this fills in some of the gaps in the story, starting with 'The Boy's' early years of my schoolingchildhood and ending, appropriately, I suspect I may have come around to my love of Shakespeare a lot sooner than I didon his thirteenth birthday when he suddenly became 'The Teen'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184724615X</amazonuk>
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|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I love writing and over the last few years, I have begun to write my autobiography. While I find this Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a very rewarding processconsultant psychiatrist, sometimes it can be hard to stay motivatedhusband and father. It is easy to get bogged down in wondering if it's any good, if you are His career was going into too much detail or not enough. Sometimes you need a push in the right direction. ''Write Your Life Story'' by Michael Oke is ideal for this, as well as for anyone interested in writing their memoirs, but unsure how to startand he enjoyed making ill people better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845283058</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author= Niall Edworthy His marriage was solid and fulfilling and Petra Cramsie|title=The Optimist's/pessimist's Handbook|rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=With a publication date in early Novemberhis two children were exploring their potential, often through the passing Christmas shopper is clearly the target for this bookuplifting power of music. Life was good. ''The Optimist's/ Pessimist's Handbook'' isn't a self-help book, but a compendium of enlightening snippetsBut then. Off the shelf, I think you'd know immediately which relative or friend might enjoy receiving it. So I suggest eschewing Amazon in favour of a real-life bookshop, not least because there will be a shelf full of similar books for a surreptitious and delightful half-hour's browse before choosing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561411X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy ButterfieldAllingham_Beloved|title=Damp SquidBeloved Old Age and What to Do About it: The English Language Laid Bare Margery Allingham's the Relay|author=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=How do you pronounce We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a novelist from the word ghoti? Go on, say it out loud – you must recognise itgolden age of crime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and I dare say youexcellent plotting. Her last completed book was not a novel but ''The Relay've eaten one enough times. OK, I'll help. You know gh sounds like f, like it does in rough. You know o sounds like ia combined account of caring for three elderly relatives, just like in women. And ti is clearly the same as sh(Em, Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as in notionto how other people might achieve a good old age for their relatives. Yes, ghoti is pronounced fish. ItMargery died in 1966 and ''The Relay''s just a very blunt way of saying was never published in the rules that control the language, and how form in which it is spelled, pronounced, used, and changes over history are all over the placewas written.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199239061</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Crystal Rodgers_Peace|title=Shakespeare on ToastPeace of Mind: A Book of Calm for Busy Mums|author=Georgina Rodgers|rating=4.53
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=The promise of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, in the title, my job description (busy mum...well, that''Shakespeare on Toast'' claims s just one of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be for virtually everyone: those trying to find, peace of mind. I have to say, I was looking forward to some insightful revelations into changing my life. I think the problem, however, was quickly apparent in that are ''reading Shakespeare for like a busy mum, who is trying to wear a hundred masks at the first same time, occasionally finding him troublesomeand carry out a multitude of roles, think they know him backwards or have never set foot near one of his plays but have always wanted tothis book isn't entirely sure what it's trying to be, with everything from poetry and colouring to mindfulness and recipes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848310161</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marisa Peer Ehrlin_Rabbit|title=You Can Be Thin: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting... Forever |rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=After having my baby just over two years ago, I have found it quite hard to shed the weight which seemed to be sticking around. I used to be quite thin before having him, so to suddenly go up a dress size was a bit of a shock. I'm quite a petite person so even just a few extra pounds shows unfortunately. I decided I had to get rid of the weight, and so I turned to this book sent to me by The Bookbag.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441394</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep|author=Elise Lindsay|title=How to Get a Celeb's Body: Discover the Secrets of the Stars with Your Own Personal Trainer Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin|rating=25
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I Roger the Rabbit wanted to fall asleep, but somehow he couldn't, no matter how hard he tried. It wasn't that he didn't do not know Elise Lindsay - neither by name or reputationmuch during the day, because he did but sometimes he was so tired that he could fall asleep on the swings. I am optimistic and therefore think she must be One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to see Uncle Yawn, who had a great coach. A hundred plus pages with pictures show her posing very confidently in flattering sport outfits and she does seem quite fit. notice outside his house saying I am sure she can motivate her clients and make them do their best. Quite frankly though, I do not believe that should in any way have motivated anyone fall asleep and once Roger went home (it was actually quite difficult for him to write a bookget there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to bed and fell asleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718153375</amazonuk>
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