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Flight Simulator FlyWings Online 2016 Free

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Flight Simulator FlyWings Online 2016 HD

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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2200 KP) rated The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1) in Books

Mar 9, 2018

11-year-old Flavia is most concerned about the tricks her sisters are playing on her during the summer of 1950 until the day their housekeeper finds a jacksnipe with a postage stamp attached to his bill on the doorstep. This really upsets her father, but Flavia is shocked to stumble across a stranger dying in their cucumber patch a few hours later. How are these two events related?

This is a well plotted mystery with an unusual (at least for an adult audience book) main character. Flavia can act her age at times and she does drone on in the narration about chemistry (her passion) on a few occasions, but for the most part she leads a cast of fun characters. The plot is very entertaining with some nice surprises along the way to a suspenseful climax.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2015/02/book-review-sweetness-at-bottom-of-pie.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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RSPB Spotlight Bumblebees

Richard Comont

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Bumblebees are some of our most familiar insects, and are among the few that are almost universally...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Christopher Robin (2018) in Movies

Aug 22, 2019

Christopher Robin (2018)

2018 | Adventure, Animation, Comedy

8.1

(77 Ratings)

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Gentle family comedy-drama probably isn't anything really special, but compared to Peter Rabbit (which it has a number of similarities to) it looks like 2001: A Space Odyssey or Seven Samurai (or whatever you think one of History's Great Films is). Christopher Robin lives through the Second World War, grows up to become an unhappy office drone in danger of losing his soul; Pooh Bear and the other stuffed animals manifest to help him remember the Important Things in Life.

No real surprises, to be honest, but it's well-made, quite well-played, reasonably well-written, and it doesn't try to make Winnie the Pooh 'contemporary' or 'irreverent'. Some parts of it are genuinely quite sweet, others funny (Mark Gatiss' hairpiece always seems about to take on a CGI life of its own). Hardly essential viewing, but the whole family could probably watch this together and have a decent time doing so.