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More for my DVD Wishlist: Pride And Prejudice DVD

Following on from this post:
Pride And Prejudice DVD

Some DVDs on My Wishlist!!

Ghostbuster Gift Set
Mr Mom DVD
Barfly DVD
He’s Just Not That Into You DVD
The Wedding Singer DVD
Wag the Dog DVD
Bride Wars DVD
Vicky Cristina Barcelona DVD

Dealing with your failure to have children

Like most people, you may feel saddened and depressed about your inability to have children. There is harder anything that you can do, but you’ll have to learn how to accept your default and learn how to live with it. Keep in mind that just because you are unable to carry a child or […]

Durham Castle

In the year 995, monks from Chester-le-Street brought St. Cuthber’s body here to protect it from the Danes. They chose the naturally fortified site within an incised loop of the River Wear as the setting for their new cathedral. As late as 1075 it rebuffed a Danish attack. The only landward approach to […]

Deal Castle

Henry VIII built three forts -Deal, Walmer and Sandown-along a two-mile stretch of shore to hamper any attacks. An earth rampart, with intermittent bastions, linked them but that has since perished. The whole scheme was finished by the fall of 1540.
Deal Castle, the central fort of the three, was the largest of all […]