Mum's cross with me, ' said Jennifer.' It's Mrs Green's fault, ' said Henry. But just who is Mrs Green? Henry knows that Mum is cross because Mr Moon has hooted at her; Mr Moon had been so impatient because he was fuming at being called 'stupid' by his wife; & his wife had been so irritable because she had been hurried in the supermarket
- Like a line of cascading dominoes, there is a whole string of very recognisable scenarios to absorb before the identity of Mrs Green can be revealed. Who would have thought that her high heels tapping about in a flat above had started the whole chain of bad temper! Internationally acclaimed for his books about Elmer the patchwork elephant, this picture book has earned David Mc Kee further popularity through its ebullient colour & wit.
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Who Moved My Cheese? is an amusing & enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze & look for cheese to nourish ...

Who Moved My Cheese? is an amusing & enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze & look for cheese to nourish ...

Landowners have had a huge influence on Scotl&. The castles, mansions, roads, churches & harbours they have built & the woodlands they created still survive in many parts of the country. In a bygone age, clan chiefs enjoyed unswerving loyalty from their followers & lairds had their own courts with the power to hang those who broke the law on their l&. Today, the landowner's power is diminished & the chieftain's link with his people is lost, but many old families continue to cling to vast estate. The traditional lairds have been joined in the ownership of Scotland by foreign businessmen & aristocrats, & by rock stars, pension funds & environment groups. 80 per cent of Scotland is still governed by lairds of one kind or another, whose motives are often less than altruistic. In WHO OWNS SCOTLAND NOW?, Auslan Cramb raises important questions. Should areas containing internationally important species & habitats be sold to the highest bidder? Should crofting estates be priced beyond the means of the local community? Should vast areas of be treated as occasional homes & managed, often to the detriment of the environment, for deerstalking, grouse-shooting & salmon fishing? ...

Chris Henderson formed the Chelsea Headhunters as well as the band Combat 84, the antithesis of middle-class England with its raw, uncut lyrics of punk & the thoughts of George Orwell. While the bands never acheived any lasting fame, the same could not be said of the Chelsea fans who earned a reputation as the most dangerous in Britain, with the name Headhunters put alongside the ICF as the most feared in Europe & governments taking an interest in them. After Stephen Hickey Hickmott's shock jailing in 1986, Chris took up the mantle of organising a small group of Chelsea fans who travelled to domestic matches by luxury coach
- the style which epitomised the travelling fan in the mid-1980s
- as well as touring extensively abroad with Engl&. No more British Rail specials or budget coach journeys
- this was the designer era of dressing & violence, the reinstatement of old meeting places combined with the shock of flare guns & the gas attack to a backdrop of the new music scene post-punk. Chris & his gang were the second wave of mass arrests & their show trial was meant to be the crowning glory of Thatcher's corrupt systematic squashing of football hooligans once & for all.


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Mum has just got a new job as a firelighter in some unheated volcanoes nearby.
It doesn't matter to Dad, who's at work all day
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Mum has just got a new job as a firelighter in some unheated volcanoes nearby. It doesn't matter to Dad, who's at work all day anyway. & it doesn't matter to Puffing Bill, who just blows smoke rings & backfires all day. But it does matter to Crossfire
- a lot. Who will sing his puff-a-bye at bedtime? When their new au-pair, Smokescreen, arrives & doesn't do anything like Mummy used to do, Crossfire is quizzical & upset. Gradually, though, as the rapport grows between the dragon au pair & Crossfire, he realizes that being with Smokescreen instead of Mum is lots of fun in a different way.
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