The Palladian Way is the brainchild of Cotswold walker Guy Vowles. It was born out of a previous idea for a long distance walk between Oxford & Bath but was extended northwards to Buckingham where the author was educated nearby. The realization that there was a Palladian bridge at Prior Park outside Bath to match the one at Stowe suggested a suitable title & the discovery of many classical houses & large estates along the route has helped to make the trail more than just another long walk. The majority of this 200km (125m) trail passes through beautiful countryside & many interesting villages with a wealth of historical background so that walkers can discover parts of England they would not normally visit. THE MAKING OF A LONG DISTANCE TRAIL The inspiration for a new long distance walk can come from many sources. In my case it was a loan of a book. The Wayfarers Journal" is an elaborate production describing a number of routes which a small rather quirky group of men who called themselves the " Viators" (Latin for "the travellers") started walking in the 1950s. They researched their routes & kept records. Some 30 years later a chance meeting with a journalist one lunch time at a pub close to Hadrians Wall led eventually to publication. Many of their walks or "iters" had Roman connections & ITER XXXVI particularly interested me. The cover pages contain a map of a route " South Cotswolds-Bath to Oxford 108 miles" but unfortunately there is no descriptive text. The book is out of print but I managed to acquire a copy & transposed the route on to modern OS maps. One January I set off to walk the first three days from Oxford. Their route was quite convoluted & I soon decided that I could plan something more interesting. I started the first walk over with a good friend with whom I had walked the length of Scotland & England a few years previously. We left Oxford via the tow path of the Oxford canal which we found to be rather unattractive with some of the houseboats described by my friend as "sinking assets A". He also enquired about the length of the intended new route which now fell short of the magic 100 mile mark. By coincidence about the same time I was talking to another friend about my old school Stowe & he commented that his own old school Prior Park also had a Palladian bridge in the grounds. This was an eye opener to me & set me thinking. Stowe is north of Oxford & a route via Woodstock & Blenheim would not only avoid the difficulties around Oxford but would also take the distance down to Prior Park & Bath to over the 100 mile distance." ...

With a focus on palliative care provision across a range of different clinical settings Palliative & End of Life Care for Children & Young People is a comprehensive new resource that explores care in the home the hospice & hospital. It looks at how & where families & young people can access palliative care & what support is offered to attain their preferred place of death. Bereavement support for families is discussed as well as a discussion of multi-disciplinary work interagency co-operation & resource issues. ...

This sensitive & compassionate book provides older people who are nearing the end of life & their loved ones as well as the professionals who work with them with a greater depth of understanding of spiritual issues surrounding death & dying. Illustrated with the experiences of many older people it explores important themes such as grief & loss; fear; pain distress & suffering; acceptance; transcendence; prayer; the healing of relationships; & intimacy & shows that the final journey towards death can be one of the most spiritually meaningful times in the life of an older person
- a time in which there is still hope & in which the person who is dying & their loved ones can grow spiritually strengthened by the difficult times they face together. Spiritual issues for older people with dementia who are nearing the end of life are also explored as are ethical & moral issues in death & dying & the ways in which bereaved partners & relatives may come to terms with the loss of a loved one. This concise & accessible book will be a valuable resource for those in the caring professions & a rich source of guidance & support for older people who are nearing the end of life & their families.
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Palm oil is the quintessence of West Africa
- it is complex an acquired taste & reckoned to be rather unhealthy. Small chop is
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Reveal the secrets of your personality through the ancient art of palm reading with this practical easy-to-follow guide. Lavishly illustrated throughout this comprehensive guide to palmistry explains all of the principles & practices necessary to read the palm of the h&. With sections covering fingerprint patterns & handprints interpreting the meaning of the life line love line & fate line & predicting key events from the details of your hands this fascinating book gives an insight into the world of palmistry. Step-by-step photography throughout explains how to read personality & health indicators from fingerprints discover your perfect career & assess relationships & compatibility. ...

Palo Alto" is the debut of a powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediacy & sense of place " Palo Alto" traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds struggle with their families & one another & succumb to self-destructive often heartless nihilism. Franco presents his characters in all their raw humanity while at the same time providing insight into the teenage mind. In the classic American tradition of story-cycles such as Sherwood Andersons Winesburg Ohio " Palo Alto" presents a stark vivid disturbing but above all compassionate portrait of lives on the rough fringes of youth." ...

From shattered dreams to lasting love. Every time Samantha went back to the flat Johns words rang through her head :I cant live with you any more
- Ive got to get out. Hes been seeing another woman & now she was promising him the one thing Sam couldnt give: a child. The man she had shared her life with her love & her laughter had lied to her. When the agency gave her four months on a ranch she thought they were crazy. Did they think a holiday would change her? She knew she was wild & untamable a lone free Palomino
- until she met the man who could break any horse on the range & entered a world of endless & enduring love.. .

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Palpation & Assessment Skills" has been designed & developed to help the student & practitioner to understand & acquire the palpatory skills that are the foundation of all effective manual therapy assessments & treatments. Subtlety & sensitivity of touch & the accurate interpretation of palpation findings & tests are essential aspects of all manual therapy professions. While it is difficult to learn these from written descriptions or static illustrations alone by combining a workbook approach with the use of video demonstrations & audio explanations on a DVD " Palpation & Assessment Skills" provides the student & developing practitioner with a portable workshop that they can access at any time." ...

The Works contains 120 of Pam Ayres' best-known poems including ' The Battery Hen' ' Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?' ' Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire Mother' & of course ' Oh I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth'. This edition

Includes:: a general introduction by Pam as well as individual introductions to these classic poems of the seventies & eighties many of which are now illustrated with specially commissioned line drawings by Susan Hellard. The Works is certain to delight Pam's fans of all ages.

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This work features the complete first series of the hilarious gardening comedy starring Pam Ayres & Geoffrey Whitehead. Pam & Gordon Grant are a couple at odds running a rural garden centre. While Pam still feels young & is determined to avoid the slippery slope into middle-age Gordon seems keen to dive in
- slippers first. Pams ally at the garden centre is teenager Carol a girl more than happy to speak her mind. If only Gordon complains there was something in her peroxide head apart from boob jobs alco-pops Johnny Depp & bronzed chests smothered in baby oil. Naive deputy manager Dave though older than Carol is smitten. Luckily he has Pam to advise him on the route to Carols heart: like pointing out that metal detecting is not a good idea for a hot date! & how could the garden centre survive without the ancient & quite frankly bizarre Roy the highly inaccurate singer of pop songs & runner-up in the Gloucester beauty pageant? Will Pams last fling at life adventure & fun overcome Gordons passion for comfortable trousers caravanning & penny-pinching? Let battle among the begonias commence!
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