Dr Rob Hicks is instantly recognisable from his TV & radio shows & raids the kitchen & bathroom to show old-fashioned but effective ways to get better & stay healthy. In an age when many of us are looking for more natural remedies Rob explores two angles
- what do you need to fight particular illnesses such as arthritis or bad breath & what do kitchen staples (e.g. garlic) help to beat. How you can be healthy & save money by using old-fashioned natural remedies? He also looks at past disastrous cures including mercury for whitening the skin & teeth & belladonna for 'curing' fevers & headaches
- cures which generally killed or disfigured the patient instead. A fascinating book which will appeal to those who want to know more about what they're eating & its benefits or want to fight illness naturally.

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Catherine Alliott bestselling author of A Rural Affair" & "A Crowded Marriage" tells a hilarious story about the perils of helping someone in need in " The Old-Girl Network". Finding true loves a piece of cake
- as long as youre looking for someone elses true love... Polly McLaren is young scatty & impossibly romantic. She works for an arrogant & demanding boss & has a gorgeous if never-there-when-you-need-him boyfriend. But the day a handsome stranger recognises her old school scarf her life is knocked completely off kilter. Adam is American new to the country & begs Pollys help in finding his missing fiance. Over dinner at the Savoy she agrees
- the girls of St Gertrudes look out for one another. However the old-girl network turns out to be a spiders web of complications & deceit in which everyone & everything Polly cares about is soon hopelessly entangled. The course of true love never did run smooth. But no one said anything about ruining your life over it. & its not even Pollys true love... Step into Alliott country with " The Old-Girl Network". Praise for Catherine Alliott: " Possibly my favourite writer". (Marian Keyes). " Alliotts joie de vivre is irresistible". (" Daily Mail"). Catherine Alliott is the author of twelve bestselling novels: "A Crowded Marriage" "A Married Man" " Not That Kind of Girl" " Going Too Far" " The Old-Girl Network" " Olivias Luck" " Rosie Meadows Regrets..." " The Wedding Day" " The Real Thing" " The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton" " One Day in May" "A Rural Affair". She lives with her family in Hertfordshire."

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This book tells the story of Oldburys rise from overcrowded Victorian town to progressive municiple borough & its absorption into larger local authorities from 1966. Its success was built on coalmining metal working & chemicals. Further south off the coalfield lay the rural area of old Warley whose fields were lost to housing between the wars. Langley at the boundary of the coalfield was part industrial & part rural. Oldbury Langley & Warley Through Time describes the area in 1900 & traces its changes during the twentieth century. It shows some of the people organisations & events that made up life in this hardworking hard-living area. Much recorded here has become a victim of progress & we have only photographs reports & a few eye-witnesses to preserve the history of the place & its old lifestyle. ...

At your age people expect you to be calm dignified & sober... Disappoint them. Save water
- drink wine. Never eat healthy food.
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' At your age people expect you to be calm dignified & sober... Disappoint them.' ' Save water
- drink wine.' ' Never eat healthy
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is an Old Trafford legend. After three injury-ravaged years he blazed back to reignite his career & that of his club Manchester United. His fantastic goals have thrown out a challenge to the Abramovich empire which had emerged in his absence & risen to dominate the Premiership challenging Man Uniteds position as the worlds greatest club. Famous for his youthful looks & uncanny ability to score in the dying minutes of important games often coming on as a super-sub hes one of footballs most cerebral & naturally gifted strikers. His last-gasp winner in injury time against Barcelona in 1999s Champions League final helped secure the crowning glory of Man Utds glorious Treble. Plagued by a knee injury Solskjaer has nonetheless earned sixty caps for Norway & continues to put them away to deadly effect for his club who never tire of singing You Are My Solskjaer whether hes on the pitch or not. & hes committed his future to Old Trafford with the prospect of coaching duties after 2008 where his knowledge of the game skill & attitude can continue to benefit his adopted home. In this informative & insightful book sports writer Ian Mac Leay charts the highs & lows of The Baby Faced Assassins career to provide an in-depth look at both the man & the striker who looks set to go down in history alongside Denis Law & Jimmy Greaves. It is a must-read for any sports fan. ...

There are new arrivals in the Sawdust family & Olga is very keen to meet them. Who are the mysterious creatures living in a palace upstairs in the bedroom? It isnt long before Olga finds out
- & the lucky newcomers are just in time to hear her very first poetry recital!
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Lots of exciting things are happening in the Sawdust household & Olga da Polga is right in the thick of them. First of all she finds a strange jigsaw puzzle that looks good enough to eat & then she discovers a mysterious visitor in the garden who thinks that she looks good enough to eat! How is Olga going to get out of this sticky situation? More crazy schemes & outrageous tall tales from the fantastic Olga da Polga. ...

Olga da Polga goes visiting & meets Boris a Russian guinea-pig. Olga & Boris become firm friends & Olga is surprised to discover that Boris can tell even taller tales than she can! Soon the time comes for her to return to her own garden but Olga doesnt mind
- she cant wait to tell all the other animals about her trip & to give them a demonstration of her Russian dancing skills...
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Olga is delighted when the Sawdust family move her inside their house for the winter. She has her own box in the corner of the dining room where she spends her days watching the comings & goings in the house. But when she decides to do a spot of decorating things dont go according to plan.. . More fun & mayhem from the outrageous Olga da Polga & all her garden friends. ...