If you live within the Staffordshire Moorlands District Council area, then you can get an excellent deal at their leisure centres, swimming pools etc. If you are disabled, unemployed or over fifty, then you can get a 'Leisure Key' card which enables you to have access to their facilities for half price, or in some cases free of charge. I am a disabled person, and joined my local leisure centre, and as I have a long term disability, I have only had to pay £5 for an induction. I can now attend the gym , swimming etc free of charge as I have a long term disability. Retired and unemployed people pay half price for the facilities. The induction lasts for about an hour, during which time you are properly assessed as to your needs, and are shown how to use the equipment. If you are unfit, then your local doctor can give you a prescription ...
Advantages: Detailed portrayal of Bath in 19th Century. Disadvantages: Poor storyline. Unlikable characters.
Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels although it was not published until after her death.
Dominated by the contemporary interest in gothic and romantic books and their readers, Austen makes an ironic dig at the overly romantic and unrealistic styles of writing.
Written with tongue in cheek, Austen incorporates into her novel the gothic characteristics of large ruined buildings, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers but with ta satiral twist at its conclusion. The central character, Catherine Moorland is compared to the heroines of romantic novels from the opening line of the novel. She is an inexperienced naive young girl who has only the gothic and romantic books of her time as her guide.
The storyline is a little weak and the characters do not evoke empathy. The main ...
