Customer Reviews
Always Promised Myself - By: Alan Burridge, 21 Oct 2007 
a Pam Ayres book, but never got off my backside to get one, then this wagged its 'come hither' finger at mein Asda last Saturday. Always enjoyed her work, she's not on TV enough, but is 'On Tour' right now, I found, if you check her website
This book is a cracker & will have you chuckling along all the way through, because Pam always writes about events we can relate to, which is her great strength.
Get a copy, then, like I'm planning to do, get some of her other books from Amazon; my idleness has now been cured, as laughter, is indeed, a wonderful thing. She dishes up exceptionally good British humourin a world where American humour seems to be trying to take over, & OK, maybe I'm one-in-a-million, but The Simpson's & all the other codswallop from the U S of A JUST DOESN'T DO ANYTHING for me; Pam Ayres does,in bucketloads!
Oh what a joy! - By: Hippy chick, 07 Feb 2007 I'm usually into thrillers but saw Pam Ayres promoting her book on the TV & asked my husband to get it for me as one of my Christmas presents, saying that I could do with a giggle.
Well, what can I say? First thing that struck me was that whilst reading it, (to myself, not even out loud), I found that I was reading it with an endearing Pam Ayres accent! Couldn't help myself & it just made it all so much more real somehow.
Her tales of times growing up brought back lots of lovely memories of my own happy childhood. Wish I'd known about that handy trick to catch crayfish though, love those.
All the tales are just so what could happen to any of us & probably has or will at some pointin our lives but she just has such a wonderful way of expressing them.
I foolishly started reading this just before bedtime & naturally couldn't put it down until it was finished. Resultingin some very strange sideways glances from my almost sleeping husband as I tried to stifle my chuckles once I'd made it up to bed with the book.
This was a real pleasure to read & some welcome light relief from my usual genre of thrillers. I've never read any Pam Ayres books before, but will certainly be reading morein future. I'm sure her older works are equally as laughable.
Our National Treasure! - By: I. N. Terry, 30 Nov 2006 Isn't Pam Ayres wonderful! What a National Treasure!! These bite-sized reads, whether poem or prose, ring with her Oxfordshire accent & the twinklein her eye. As a fine reflection of the quirks of middle-aged life, I hope my wife will forgive me for giving her this title for Christmas.
Brilliant - By: S. Wallace, 22 Nov 2006 A brilliant read poetry to make you laugh, her style is always quirky I wish I could write as she. I would recommend to any one who needs a little light entertainment. I can still see her renditions from years ago & always believed she was the female version of Benny Hill with her facial expressions as she recited her works.
