Advantages: Great way to stay fit and have fun Disadvantages: Injuries can happen
. The standard playing/training kit of t-shirt and shorts or a tracksuit belongs in most people’s wardrobe, even if it hasn’t seen the light of day since John Major was PM.
The essential pieces of kit will be a stick, which can be purchased for anything between £20-£25 and £120 upwards. The important thing to consider when choosing a hockey stick is how it feels in your hands. You will be carrying it around for 70 minutes during a game, and you will be waving it around a fair amount, so it is important that you have a stick which you feel happy with. This is purely an individual thing and I would never recommend buying a stick online. The major hockey stick manufacturers are Dita, Grays, Slazenger and Kookaburra. I am using a Slazenger stick at present, but have previously owned both Dita and Grays sticks. I prefer a lighter stick, but ...
Soho_Black 18.04.2003
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Advantages: comfortable, better fitting shoes at reasonable prices Disadvantages: limited range, most of them are quite ugly
First let me explain ?scone shoes.? When I first ordered shoes from the Shoe Tailor, experts in wider-fitting shoes, I measured my feet incorrectly and found that the only shoes in their catalogue that would fit me were their widest, ugliest, most orthopaedic, brown, granny shoes: the type you might wear to go out with your friends for a scone, in your later years. Hence my friends groaningly called them my ?scone shoes? and walked several yards behind me on the way to the pub every night.
They were very comfy! However, they fell apart after a couple of years of continuous wear, and once gone, same said friends took me shopping to some ?proper? shoe shops in Glasgow and I never once consulted my Shoe Tailor catalogue again.
That was about eight years ago, and although I?m not exactly old and doddery yet, I am finding shoes to be ...
molelover 06.10.2004
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Advantages: well thought out characters and a nice story Disadvantages: likely to make you cry
I first read Ballet Shoes when I was eight. It was the first of Noel Streatfield's books I'd read, and it remains my favourite. I put it away during my teenage years and forgot about it until Christmas 2007 when I watched the BBC adaptation with Emma Watson.
I went to Indonesia and got the film on knock-off DVD, and immediately after watching I rang home to get my parents to order me a copy. It was a great welcome home.
The book opens with 'Garnie' moving into a huge mansion, filled with fossils. She and her nurse (Nana) are moving in with her uncle. You don't really get any of their story until one day her uncle Matthew arrives home from a trip with a package, containing of all things... a baby! They agree to take the baby and name her Pauline.
Once Pauline is a bit older, and Great Uncle Matthew (GUM) is away again, another package ...
