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[[Category:New Reviews|Home and Family]]==Home and family==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tess Daly1454955546|title=The Baby Diaries: Memories, Milestones and MisadventuresSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=3.5|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=One of the many side effects of pregnancy seems to be the need to read everything you can get your hands on about pregnancy and babies. I know that when pregnant with my daughter I trawled the library for any baby books they had, scoured the internet nightly for due date calendars, week by week guides and baby name dictionaries. I also became an obsessive baby-watcher, interested in any celebrity baby news and willing to speak to anyone 'normal' that I met who was pregnant too or who already had childrenThis isn't a diet book. This The last thing anyone needs is another diet book is aiming to be a sort of catch-all for pregnancy obsessives I think, as it.'s a mix of pregnancy and birth advice and information alongside of Tess Daly's memories from her pregnancies with her two daughters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935164</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fraser's Autographs1635866847|title=Collect Autographs: An Illustrated Guide to Collecting The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Investing in AutographsTerry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Business and FinanceLifestyle|summary=There must be many of us who have at one time had an autograph book or something of the kind as children and asked friends, relations or even celebrities to 'do somethingIt's strange, written to celebrities in the hope of obtaining a personally signed picture, or even waited patiently at a stage door after a play or concert eagerly clutching a theatre programme, record or CD sleeve and pen in hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597525</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sonali Fernando|title=Soul Mates: True Stories From The World of Online Dating|rating=2.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=Internet dating is no longer the new taboo it once was. These days, whatever type of person you are, and whatever type of person things that make you're looking to meet, you can take your pick from any number of sites. Yes, even 'Guardianimmediately'' readers can log on and look feel that this is the book for love specifically with, erm, other you. Before I started reading 'Guardian' readers. To do so, they just have to click through to The Lavender Companion'Guardian Soulmates', which is probably no different from I visited the author'Matchs [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there' or 'Datingdirect', though might count s a larger proportion picture of sandal wearing hippies among its members.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265202X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jethro Adlington|title=Online Therapy: Reading Between the Lines|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=You can get most things online these days and even therapy is becoming more widely available on the internet. It might seem like a simple step to take but many slice of chocolate cake on the signals beyond the spoken word are not available to the online therapisthomepage. In a faceI don't eat cakes and desserts -to-face situation body language is an added form of communication and even small changes in skin tone can give clues as to state of mindbut I wanted that cake viscerally. In a situation where these clues are not available it(There's essential to make the most of ''all'' the clues offered by the written word.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312748</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keith Hern|title=Bangers and Mash|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=Keith Hern found a small lump recipe in his neck and when the results of the tests came through he tried to put the appointment off as he had something more pressing to dobook, but which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the doctor book and I was insistent. He knew then that he had cancer. The lump in his neck was, in fact, told to make a secondary tumour with the primary being in the back mess of his tongueit. But for Notes in the secondary tumour the discovery of the primary might have been too late for successful treatmentmargins are sanctioned. Keith takes us through the discovery of his cancer, his reactions You get to fold down the diagnosis, his treatment and the titular meal corners of bangers and mash – the first solid food which he had attempted for some timepages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312772</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Donna Blinston|title=Make New Year's Resolutions and Keep Them Using NLP|rating=2|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's coming up to You suspect that time smears of year again – you know it's the one where you make resolutions about going on a diet, getting more exercise, stopping smoking or losing weight. If they last a week into the New Year you're probably doing well – and then you're left with butter would not be a feeling of failureproblem. Donna Blinston offers advice on how to make your resolutions and how to keep them – and I needed this advice as much as the next couch potato.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312845</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Vyvyen Brendon|title=Prep School Children: A Class Apart Over Two Centuries|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=''Prep School Children'' is Vyvyen Brendon's second collection (''Children of the Raj'' was the first). It explores the pupil experience, using primary sources like weekly letters home, memoirs and interviews, and less immediate material such as fiction, school magazines and headmastersloved' biographies. I came to the book with some questions: what was it like to be a boarder at a prep school? What difference did a prep school education make to life as an adult? Why parents might send their children to such schools when the horrors were well-known, many of the dads presumably having survived the experience themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847062873</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tad Tuleja|title=A Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=Take a look at the cover design of this book, 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 secondalready.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089562</amazonuk>
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|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life
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|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gill Hines and Alison Baverstock1394159544|title=It's Not Fair! Parenting the Bright and Challenging ChildRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler
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|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=I like parenting books. So, even though my sons are now young adults, I looked forward ''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to reading a new book about raising children16. I'm in touch with many parents with children 3 barrels of all ages, and am always interested in reading current recommendationsoil. ''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Brian0760378134|title=The Complete Guide to IVFFirst-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley
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|summary=At a time when the climate is changing and the economy appears If you've ever thought how good it would be to be heading south the thought of being able to produce your own pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is very tempting. Forget about food miles and consider instead how few minutes there can be between harvesting your vegetables and the cooking processbook you need. DonIt't worry about pesticides and residues as s comprehensive: you'll know exactly cover everything from why you should grow your own food, whatyou's been fed re going to your food. Mark Diaconogrow, head gardener on the hallowed ground of River Cottage HQ, run by the sainted Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, tells what you exactly how to go about 'll grow it in this(both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the fourth main part of the River Cottage Handbooksbook with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595348</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kay1529149800|title=The Long and the Short of itThings You Can Do: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the Industry|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Sometimes I wonder if authors set out to stop people reading their books, strange as this might seem. John Kay is an excellent example. He tells us that he expects his readers to be erudite and How to be readers of popular science. They'll never knowingly have dealt with Goldman Sachs and will pay tax at the 40% rate. At the other end of the scale they'll not be bad credit risks Fight Climate Change and just to cut out anyone hoping for a quick buck, they'll not be tempted to make a living from Stock Market speculation. If you don't qualify on all points there's not even a hint of a pass mark which might allow you to sneak into the checkout queue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954809327</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewReduce Waste|author=Glenn Harrold|title=Look Young, Live Longer: The Secret to Changing Your Life Eduardo Garcia and Slowing the Ageing Process Sara Boccaccini Meadows
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|summary=I was really intrigued by 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 title river and began taking tiny amounts of therapist Glenn Harroldwater and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. 's book 'I'Look Young and Live Longerm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird. Could it be possible And that, really, is the only way that a book could deliver on such a huge promise? Having been feeling more than a little jaded latelywe will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, I was willing to give it a tryhowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075288610X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor1849767009|title=On Kindness |rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=As a title, ''On Kindness'' doesnIt Isn't pack quite 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>}} {{newreview|author=Olive Hickmott and Andrew Bendefy |title=Seeing Spells Achieving|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=I felt an immediate empathy with Olive Hickmott when I read this book. We're obviously of a similar age and were taught reading and spelling in a time before you were ''dyslexic''. I found that the terms more commonly used were 'not trying hard enough' and 'lazy'. I did master reading although I was late by today's standards but I've always struggled with spelling: certain words and letter combinations still have terrors hidden within them half a century later and until we changed the format of Bookbag I used Rude to warn reviewers that they should check whatever I uploaded onto the site as I was unreliable when it came to spelling. Olive and I have both been saved by the spellchecker. I settled happily into reading, Olive less so, but we both made careers where numbers were important. I could read a set of accounts like a story; she found a home in engineering. We worked in areas where intuition was important.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312209</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewbe Nude|author=Kate Brian|title=The Complete Guide to Female FertilityRosie Haine
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|genre=Home and FamilyFor Sharing|summary=ItThis could have been one of those books which 's tempting preaches to say the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that every woman over nudity is OK and the age of puberty should have access to Kate Brianones who ''s know'The Complete Guide to Female Fertility'. The truth is that it's shameful will avoid it like they should all have their own copies avoid the hot-and they should read -bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book until itabout not wearing clothes. It's dog-eared a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and falling apartmarkings. They're fine. In fact, because I really canthey't think of a better way to understand why some women are more fertile than others or some women have difficulty in conceivingre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749927925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=India Knight1504321383|title=The Thrift Book: Live Well Single, Again, and Spend Less Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman
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|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=A soon as I read the introduction I wondered if this was really going to be the book for me. Despite having two books in the top ten best seller list India Knight knew the bailiffs well and was facing bankruptcy. It wasn't that she wasn't earning money – it was simply that she had no ability to handle it. Hmm – I have a horror of debt and I You can handle money. Was India Knight ''really'' going to t be able to teach the person who grew up with the austerity of post-war Britain chomping at her heels anything about thrift? Plans were already forming to move the book happy and fulfilled on, when slowly and inexorably I was won over.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490372</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Schmidt and Robert Maslen|title=The Shakespeare Handbook |rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=William Shakespeareyour own. If You are not complete until you're find a fan of the theatre, you may see him as the greatest playwright of all time. If youman're currently studying English at school, he may be the worst thing that ever happened to you. Over the years, I've certainly held both opinions, depending on where I was at the time.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania GlydeGraff_Find|title=Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking And LivedFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=43.5
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|summary=I suspect that IWhen Ben Graff'm like s grandfather Martin handed him a lot plastic folder of people who enjoy alcohol on a regular basis: there's a nagging guilt and suspicion that you might have a problem. Equallyhandwritten notes from his journal, therehe didn's St Augustine's approach to a sin: you're determined to do something about t take much notice of it, but not just yet. So, when ''Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking And Lived'' dropped through the letterbox on Saturday morning I wondered if this was a message from a higher authority.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686555</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Toms and Paul Sterry|title=Garden Birds and Wildlife|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=''Garden Birds & Wildlife'' has been created and published under At the auspices age of British Trust for Ornithology (though the actual publisher is24, possibly in Graff didn't realise the spirit gravity of penance for damage inflicted on wildlife by the motorcar, the AA). Accordingly, the main focus of the guide is, indeed, on birds. It contains a wealth of information: from birdwatching to bird biology and behaviour, including visual guides to eggs and nests; practical tips and guides to bird watching, feeding (what, how and where), creating a bird-and-wildlife- friendly garden and building nest boxes; it's all there, with copious illustrations, clear text and more interesting or practically relevant facts and tips in separate insert boxespages he was holding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749559128</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael OkeGoodland_Worth|title=Write Your Life StoryIt's Worth a Try|author=Nicola Goodland
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|summary=I love writing and over the last few yearsThis is how Nicola Goodland introduces her book, I have begun to write my autobiography. While I find this a very rewarding process, sometimes it can be hard to stay motivated. ''It is easy to get bogged down in wondering if it's any good, if you are going into too much detail or not enough. Sometimes you need Worth a push in the right direction. ''Write Your Life StoryTry'' by Michael Oke is ideal for this, as well as for anyone interested in writing their memoirs, but unsure how to start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845283058</amazonuk>}}:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy ButterfieldHigashida_Fall|title=Damp SquidFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The English Language Laid Bare A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell|rating=4.5
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|summary=How do you pronounce Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the word ghoti? Go on, say it out loud – you must recognise it, and international best-seller ''The Reason I dare say youJump've eaten one enough times. OK, I'll help. You know gh sounds like f, like The book was popular because it does in rough. You know o sounds like i, just like in women. And ti is clearly gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the same as shautistic mind, as in notiontold from the unique perspective of a teenager with non-verbal autism. YesNaoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, ghoti is pronounced fishor by tracing letters on the palm of a transcriber. It's just a very blunt way Despite this slow and laborious method of saying the rules that control the languagewriting, 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 Naoki as a young adult in his 20s and explains how it is spelled, pronounced, used, and changes over history are all over the placehis perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199239061</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Crystal Bialik_Girling|title=Shakespeare on ToastGirling Up|author=Mayim Bialik
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|summary=This book arrived on my desk to cries of ''Amy Farrah Fowler's written a book?''Shakespeare on Toastor '' claims to be for virtually everyone: those No, that are 's Blossom'reading Shakespeare ' depending on your generation. 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 first timecharacters). Aimed at teenagers, occasionally finding him troublesomethis book focuses on growing up as a girl, think they know him backwards or have never set foot near one of his plays but have always wanted to''Girling up'' if you will, and what it means to transition from school girl to grown-up, via that hideous detour of teenage years. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848310161</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marisa Peer Mattinson_Puppy|title=You Can Be Thin: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting... Forever Choosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson
|rating=4.5
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|summary=After having my baby just over two years agoIf you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, I you really ought to read this book. Too many people are carried away in the heat of the moment and ''must'' have a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the consequences. They then have found it quite hard to shed live with the weight problems which seemed to be sticking around''might'' have been avoided for a decade or more. I used The puppy and the adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be quite thin before having him, so able to suddenly accommodate his needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go up a dress size was a bit of a shock-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. I She doesn'm quite a petite person so even just a few extra pounds shows unfortunately. I decided I had t try to get rid talk you out of getting a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the weight, facts and so I turned allows you to this book sent to me by The Bookbagmake your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441394</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elise LindsayRaskin_Grow|title=How to Get a Celeb's BodyGrow: Discover the Secrets of the Stars with Your Own Personal Trainer |rating=2|genre=Home and Family|summary=I do not know Elise Lindsay - neither by name or reputation. I am optimistic and therefore think she must be a great coach. A hundred plus pages with pictures show her posing very confidently in flattering sport outfits and she does seem quite fit. 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 to write a book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718153375</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kathleen Burk and Michael Bywater|title=Is This Bottle Corked? The Secret Life of Wine |rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=Now, I'm the first person to admit I am not a wine buff. I know a lot more now than I did before my current relationship, but she is right to say I have a very masculine (ie dead weak) sense of smell. Added to that a blunt sense of taste and I'm left saying I know what I like when I drink it, and that's it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571241743</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicole Klieff|title=Baby Next Time|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=Nicole Klieff grew up with the same knowledge that most women hope to have. They'll enjoy themselves, eventually meet Mister Right, settle down and have a family. Well, most of it went according Guide to plan – it was just that bit about having a family which seemed somewhat elusive. After a period of trying for a baby in the normal way Nicole Growing Fruit and her husband Barry sought help from the medical profession and began the fertility treatments which were to dominate their lives for years to come. It wouldn't do their bank balance much good either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1434395138</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewVeg|author=Ursula James|title=You Can Be Amazing: Transform Your Life with HypnosisBen Raskin
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|summary=Ursula James is a hypnotherapist who has written I worried when I looked at this book to help you to instigate changes in your life: ''Grow'', whatever they may be – careerit said, relationships''A family guide to growing fruit and veg''. Why did it worry me? Well, your physical self. It is accompanied by it's a CD of hypnotic suggestions mere 48 pages and the cover says that it includes ''Games, stickers and MORE!'' I have weighty tomes which reinforce the messages don't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and exercises in the bookveg, so wasn't this going to fall a little short? Well, it doesn't - not at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846051975</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim ScrivenerMcgrath_Camping|title=Learning TeachingCamping With Kids|author=Simon McGrath
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|summary=It takes a year When my daughter was young it used to do be joked that if a PGCE. Some other people even do whole 3 year degrees in teaching. Not me. I did a 20 day course. Those other teachers may not need this sort of book, but gosh, did I, especially when a job offer came my way child asked on day 7, his fifth birthday to go camping and I was suddenly only a few short weeks away from having real live students at my mercy. There are two English as a Foreign Language (EFL) you told him that he could in five years'biblestime, he'. One is this oned be there on his tenth birthday, all kitted up and the other is ''How To Teach English'' by Jeremy Harmerready to go. Also known as These days the purple one discussions - and delaying tactics - are more likely to be about technology - and the blue one mobiles in our householdparticular. I like purple better, so Whilst it's this one wonderful that made children do embrace technology, it into my pathetic 20kg-for-a-year luggage allowance. Lucky for meshouldn't be at the expense of getting out in the fresh air, I chose well (being free of screens and Amazon users agree... having an adventure - preferably with all the purple one gets 5* customer reviews, the blue one only 2family doing it ''together''.5*)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405013990</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mathew Collins and Nicky BarclayWilliams_Son|title=Living and Working in the UKMy Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures|author=John Williams|rating=23.5
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|summary=In 2012, stand-up comedian John Williams was encouraged by his work colleagues to write a show charting his experiences as the parent of an autistic boy. After registering the domain name: ''My Son's Not Rainman,''Living he also decided to write a blog to share his funny anecdotes and Working in the UKexperiences. After a shaky start ('' claims to be I had a source handful of followers. Three of them were my brothers''all ), the practical information you need to live happily blog eventually went viral as it increased in the UKpopularity with parents who felt a connection with John and 'The Boy', whether you are a student, an expat or an HR professional intending to bring staff over. Unfortunately, it's nothing This book fills in some of the sort. Most of its bulk is a compilation of information easily available gaps in the public domain (the sources are scrupulously quoted) that at the first look seems excellent story, starting with 'The Boy's' early childhood and comprehensiveending, but whichappropriately, on more detailed perusal, is very, very disappointinghis thirteenth birthday when he suddenly became 'The Teen'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845280679</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ursula JamesMbaya_Brain|title=You Can Think Yourself ThinMy Brain Is Out Of Control|author=Patrick Mbaya|rating=54
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|summary=I wanted to read this book because I have always struggled with my weight since having my two childrenDr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a consultant psychiatrist, husband and father. Although more traditional diets have worked for me in the short term I never seem to be able to maintain the weight loss so I His career was fast reaching the conclusion that I needed to work on my mind as going well as my bodyand he enjoyed making ill people better. Ursula James' book ''You Can Think Yourself Thin'' came along at just the right time for me His marriage was solid and fulfilling and I have been absolutely astounded by his two children were exploring their potential, often through the effects uplifting power of reading this book and listening to the hypnosis tracksmusic. I had never tried anything like this before and Life was even alittle skeptical but not any more!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846051983</amazonuk>good. But then...
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane VassAllingham_Beloved|title=Daily Mail Tax Guide 2008/2009Beloved Old Age and What to Do About it: Margery Allingham's the Relay|author=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones
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|summary=I doubt that there's anyone who genuinely looks forward to completing We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a Tax Return. Even as an ex-Inspector of Taxes I'll freely admit that novelist from the thought golden age of it fills me with dread. It's tediouscrime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but important that you don't get it wrong. So, what do you do? Professional assistance can be expensive certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and isn't necessarily entirely reliableexcellent plotting. You can go along to your H M Revenue and Customs Enquiry Centre, Her last completed book was not a novel but their function is to answer your queries rather than give advice about where you could minimise your tax bill. Going it alone is free''The Relay'', but you need to have comprehensive knowledge a combined account of taxation caring for three elderly relatives, (Em, Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as to be sure that you're paying the correct amount of taxhow other people might achieve a good old age for their relatives. The Margery died in 1966 and ''Daily Mail Tax Guide 2008/2009The Relay'' will give most people all was never published in the information that they need to ensure that they're getting form in which it rightwas written.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680891</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lee SiegelRodgers_Peace|title=Against the MachinePeace of Mind: Being Human in the Era A Book of the Electronic Mob|rating=4 |genre=Home and Family|summary=Some people switch the television or the radio on first thing in the morning and only turn it off when they go to bed. For me, it's the computer and particularly the internet. It's my source of information, my work, my play and to an unfortunately large extent, my social life. To most it seems bizarre that I list amongst my friends people I've never met or even spoken to, but it's a fact. Whilst I might argue that circumstances have thrust this situation upon me and that life would be emptier without the computer it's still something which shouldn't be allowed to persist without thought. High-tech isolation and social famine are not necessarily the best way forward.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686970</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCalm for Busy Mums|author=Richard Reynolds |title=On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries Georgina Rodgers|rating=53
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|summary=The term "guerrilla gardening" promise of a book bringing me calm was first used too much to resist! There it is, in New York in 1973 the title, my job description (busy mum...well, that's just one of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to describe the transformation find, peace of a derelict private plot 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 like a gardenbusy mum, although who is trying to wear a hundred masks at the actual practice is much older. As an environmental movementsame time, guerrilla gardening is and carry out a form of direct action in which flowering or food plants are established on an abandoned piece multitude of landroles, without the ownerthis book isn't entirely sure what it's permissiontrying to be, saving the land with everything from neglect or misuse poetry and giving it a new purpose. It is also a political stance, challenging issues of land ownership, the misuse of urban land colouring to mindfulness and the deterioration of the urban environmentrecipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747590818</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andy Hamilton and Dave HamiltonEhrlin_Rabbit|title=The SelfRabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep|author=Carl-sufficientish BibleJohan Forssen Ehrlin
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|summary=Andy and Dave Hamilton practice what they preach. They grow vegetablesRoger the Rabbit wanted to fall asleep, they forage for wild foodbut somehow he couldn't, they cycle, they make-and-mend-dono matter how hard he tried. They donIt wasn't that he didn't live on a farm with many acres to play withdo much during the day, because he did but live in Bristol and enjoy what sometimes he was so tired that he could fall asleep on the city has swings. One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to offersee Uncle Yawn, but want who had a low-impact lifestyle. They haven’t renounced the real world. They realise that the whole hog of self-sufficiency isn't for everyone, hence the concept of "self-sufficientish" – doing what you notice outside his house saying I can, with what you have, make anyone fall asleep and with an eye on the environment, ethical living once Roger went home (it was actually quite difficult for him to get there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to bed and saving moneyfell asleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034095101X</amazonuk>
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