Peter Kay's unerring gift for observing the absurdities & eccentricities of family life has earned himself a widespread everyman appeal. These vivid observations coupled with a kind of nostalgia that never fails to grab his audience's shared understanding have earned him comparisons with Alan Bennett & Ronnie Barker. In his award winning TV series' he creates worlds populated by degenerate bitter useless endearing & always recognisable characters which have attracted a huge & loyal following. In many ways he's an old fashioned kind of comedian & the scope & enormity of his fanbase reflects this. He doesn't tell jokes about politics or sex but rather rejoices in the far funnier areas of life: elderly relatives & answering machines dads dancing badly at weddings garlic bread & cheesecake your mum's HRT... His autobiography is full of this kind of humour & nostalgia beginning with Kay's first ever driving lesson taking him back through his Bolton childhood the numerous jobs he held after school & leading up until the time he passed his driving test & found fame. ...

From the moment Julie Andrews appears on the hills outside Salzburg to the final daring escape from the Nazis The Sound of Music" is embedded in the DNA of a generation. But what was it like to be part of all this? For seven children & young adults the summer of 1964 was a magical one spent in Salzburg Austria with their parents or guardians the film's stars & director & last
- but not least
- each other. " The Sound of Music Family Scrapbook" tells their story both during the filming & once the movie was released. It features a DVD of their own home-movie footage & memorabilia they have cherished & preserved over the years including letters home to their families in America a page from the script with edits marked in the margin & a ticket to the world premiere. If you ever dreamed of marching round the fountains singing " Do Re Mi" or dressing in a playsuit made from drapes you will love this enchanting story of how seven boys & girls became a family
- & how they have kept that closeness for over 45 years."


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No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that his new friend has a secret or rather several secrets. Antonios fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by casual acquaintance in a seedy Bogota billiard hall & grows until the day Ricardo receives a cassette tape in an unmarked envelope. Asking Antonio to find him somewhere private to play it they go to a library. The first time he glances up from his seat in the next booth Antonio sees tears running down Laverdes cheeks; the next the ex-pilot has gone. Shortly afterwards Ricardo is shot dead on a street corner in Bogota by a guy on the back of a motorbike & Antonio is caught in the hail of bullets. Lucky to survive & more out of love with life than ever he starts asking questions until the questions become an obsession that leads him to Laverdes daughter. His troubled investigation leads all the way back to the early 1960s marijuana smuggling & a time before the cocaine trade trapped a whole generation of Colombians in a living nightmare of fear & random death. Juan Gabriel Vasquez is one of the leading novelists of his generation & The Sound of Things Falling that tackles what became of Colombia in the time of Pablo Escobar is his best book to date. ...

Only once in his life had Sean met a man whose strength matched his own -- & now again they were pitted against each other.. . Sean Courtney impulsive adventurer of When the Lion Feeds returns from the wildnerness a rich man -- until he is robbed by the Boers of his wagons his gold & the girl he loves. A grim homecoming finds his country in the cruel grip of war. But in the bloody days ahead conflicts within his family will prove far more bitter than any fought on the veld.. . This is the gripping second novel in the Courtneys sequence. ...

Whether you are designing a new system or need to update & get the most out of the one in place Sound of Worship will offer essential information to guide & inform you choices. Written to give the context to help you focus your choices as well as the technical information to understand options this essential guide will help you avoid costly mistakes when working with acoustics & the sound systems of the church. When planning a system this book has you covered! Considering everything from building design & understanding the purpose & use of the sound system to the technical aspects of the acoustic equipment & sound

Specification & types. The website has numerous audio examples to illustrate points made & tools used in the book. It demonstrate the terms used & what different choices will sound like with before & after recordings of acoustic treatment & how it effects the overall sound of the church.

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Sound Phonics prepares children for full fluency in reading writing & spelling by providing intensive practice in phonics. A comprehensive phonics resource it is fully compatible with ' Letters & Sounds' & any other incremental phonics programme. Its graded activities best completed with an adult reinforce early literacy skills through listening & speaking & support a multi-sensory approach. In Sound Phonics Phase Five the child explores different pronunciations of the same grapheme & different spellings of the same phoneme & key spelling patterns are identified & practised. By Phase Five children are more skilled at recognising graphemes made up of more than one letter so the use of 'sound buttons' is much reduced. Instead the emphasis is on 'sounding out' words without them. The use of phoneme frames is also phased out as children practise spelling through counting phonemes recognising spelling patterns or applying spelling rules. Sound Phonics Phase Five Book 2 is the seventh book in the series & a one-per-child activity book. It focuses on alternative pronunciations of 14 known graphemes & reading longer texts. ...

Sound Phonics prepares children for full fluency in reading writing & spelling by providing intensive practice in phonics. A comprehensive phonics resource it is fully compatible with ' Letters & Sounds' & any other incremental phonics programme. Its graded activities best completed with an adult reinforce early literacy skills through listening & speaking & support a multi-sensory approach. In Sound Phonics Phase Five the child explores different pronunciations of the same grapheme & different spellings of the same phoneme & key spelling patterns are identified & practised. By Phase Five children are more skilled at recognising graphemes made up of more than one letter so the use of 'sound buttons' is much reduced. Instead the emphasis is on 'sounding out' words without them. The use of phoneme frames is also phased out as children practise spelling through counting phonemes recognising spelling patterns or applying spelling rules. Sound Phonics Phase Five Book 3 is the eighth book in the series & a one-per-child activity book. It focuses on alternative spellings of 23 sounds & learning spelling patterns. ...

Sound Phonics prepares children for full fluency in reading writing & spelling by providing intensive practice in phonics. A comprehensive phonics resource it is fully compatible with ' Letters & Sounds' & any other incremental phonics programme. Its graded activities best completed with an adult reinforce early literacy skills through listening & speaking & support a multi-sensory approach. Sound Phonics Phase Four is the fifth book in the series & a one-per-child activity book. It focuses on: consolidating knowledge of the 42 phonemes through intensive practice; saying & blending sounds in a word using 'sound buttons' to support reading; using phoneme frames to support segmenting for spelling; counting phonemes to boost confidence in spelling; forming letter shapes independently ...

Sound Phonics prepares children for full fluency in reading writing & spelling by providing intensive practice in phonics. A comprehensive phonics resource it is fully compatible with ' Letters & Sounds' & any other incremental phonics programme. Its graded activities best completed with an adult reinforce early literacy skills through listening & speaking & support a multi-sensory approach. Sound Phonics Phase One is the first book in the series & is a reusable stimulus book. Designed for children in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) it focuses on: developing the child's awareness of environmental sounds; recognising the separate sounds in words (through rhymes/songs/games); sound discrimination rhythm/rhyme/alliteration; oral blending & segmenting. ...

Sound Phonics prepares children for full fluency in reading writing & spelling by providing intensive practice in phonics. A comprehensive phonics resource it is fully compatible with ' Letters & Sounds' & any other incremental phonics programme. Its graded activities best completed with an adult reinforce early literacy skills through listening & speaking & support a multi-sensory approach. Sound Phonics Phase Six consolidates the child's knowledge of a range of spelling strategies for use when writing. In this phase the child first revisits long & short vowel sounds & then practises using prefixes & suffixes. Short stories & poems encourage independent reading & writing & the child may need less adult assistance than earlier in the series. Sound Phonics Phase Six Book 1 is the ninth book in the series & a one-per-child activity book. It focuses on spelling choices (particularly in words with long vowel sounds) & common word endings & how these affect the base word. ...