Sandra Says Blog

  Don’t Forget the Driver (BBC Two) The first episode, this is a brilliant idea for a series, high-lighting that when we happily book our coach day trip or holiday, we embark and go off and have fun/adventures, in this episode Dunkirk. I will personally now, just from this one/first episode not just look at the driver as just the driver/tour guide. If this was their intention, it has worked from the off. There is a life lesson that we shouls apprecia te anyone in a job. The second episode, this one first high-lights the mistakes that can be made when ordering from the internet. This is however, very funny to see. In this episode they are going to a ‘Donkey Sanctuary’. On the face of it, it is just going to a Donkey Sanctuary, but with using the link with a donkey and the Bible and the appeal that donkeys have to children this made for a clever mix of people on the coach. The singing was clever and well thought-out and as we see, something else the long suffering bus driver has t...

  Fierce at Four Foot two by Terra Jole This book is an autobiography of the author Terra, from the reality TV program ‘Little Women LA’ and other film and TV.it is interesting to read that her ancestors lives were saved due to counterfeit tickets for the Titanic. Me being interested in the Titanic story also, this is something else/knowledge to add to the stories I have already seen and read about of it. The information given in this book about dwarfism is very open and informative. I certainly have a better understanding of it now. To teach people the facts can only be a good thing to do. It is awful to read about the school’s stance on terra performing a song from the film ‘Annie’ ‘Sandy’. I hope it wouldn’t happen today in 2019, or no school would get away with it. It is good to read she did eventually move schools. It is sad to read the end of chapter one. The start of chapter two, I would say, starts off badly and it does but sadly, although bullying shouldn’t be tole...

  Warning Spoilers Meet Me in Manhattan by Claudia Carroll It is not the best of starts to a book, as in the storyline, not how well it is written or described and you do want to find out what happens next. I like how chapter three is set out as, online dating messaging. This is a realistic and modern book. If there is one of many things that gets a book/storyline or radio show phone in going, you could say dating, or as in this case, long distance online dating is near the very top of the list. The description of all the dating logistics is well written and shows that this book has been researched. I am so glad that Holly didn’t pass up a fantastic leap forward in her career to go for a date with Andy. This book certainly shows the pitfalls of online dating. The intrigue as to why Holly hates Christmas is long and drawn out, we get just a snippet of an idea of why but so far up to chapter eleven we are yet to find out the exact reason. This part of the storyline keeps me...

  Sink the Bismarck The start of this film gives the impression that despite this being a war film, the music and scenes suggests a light-hearted and family friendly one, and as this film is rated PG this is even more confirmed. We hear that the war doesn’t break the British spirit, we stay strong against the enemy even though ships are being sunk in the north Atlantic. Now we see the tour of the Cabinet War Rooms. This shows that two different people can have two very different approaches to how an operation is carried out. Captain Jonathan Shepard (Kenneth More) wants to run a tight ship/cold-heartedly getting his job done, not the informal approach as previous. As I have mentioned about the British spirit, it was nothing compared to the attitude of the Germans as portrayed in this film. Yes, t he German navy had the Bismarck, which was bigger than anything the British navy had. yes, it would seem that they had made it unsinkable and lessons may have been learned, but we ...

  Our Canadian Trip Through the Rockies Back in 2009 I booked a surprise birthday trip for my husband, a dream trip on a train across the Canadian Rockies. I was planning to go Easter in 2010 to sync up with school holidays but the trip wasn’t available on the dates we wanted. (if we had gone Easter 2010 , we may have been caught up in the Iceland volcanic eruption). I ended up booking the trip for the end of August 2009. Back at home we used to get a magazine through the door from a company have a subscription with , I used to look through it just to see if there was anything that interested me, and one day there was. It said basically that the film New Moon had been filmed in locations around Vancouver and one of the stars of the film visited a Bar in the city and a bit in it sai d , “ If you are in Vancouver this summer come and have a drink ” . This made me sit up because normally when I have read something like this it is either a place I have never heard of or som...

  The Second Sleep by Robert Harris This type of book is not normally my type of thing. I was recommended it and the more I thought about it the more intrigued I became, in the end enough to buy it and to start reading it. I should say I like paranormal stories and books set in places I have visited. This is, I have been reliably being informed about kind of ‘Time travel’, a priest and set in an Exmoor village, somewhere I haven’t been to. As I am reading the first two chapters I get the sense that this will actually be an interesting book for me to read. I am happy to read on and see how it progresses, a sign of a good book if you are not normally into the initial subject of it. During reading this first part of the book there is mention of a ‘Curfew’ and also the members of the house hold are up in the middle of the night and the title of the book ‘The Second Sleep’ is mentioned. In the year 1468 this must mean something, with my lack of too much knowledge of the history a...

  What is in a date? First and relevant to the blog, the date this blog was written was 3/5/2020 With VE day on May the 8th, May the 4 th It got me thinking that dates are not just numbers. Below is some of the different types of dates that may come up throughout a person’s life time: first Patterns, the first pattern that stood out to me was 12/12/12 and then 21/12/12 same numbers changed around and the last I will see of the sequence of numbers. Other patterns are from 01/01/01 to 09/09/09. We will have dates like these in the future like 21/12/2112 and 21/12/2121 but, and only because people are living longer, babies born nowadays and from now on and just the very young could see these dates. Personal, these personal dates to individuals are your Birthday and also could be your Wedding anniversary date. These are the more well-known dates but any date that has a significant meaning to you is a special date. You could have recovered from an illness or in my case I did...

  The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld Part one This book is based around real events and real people. Yet the dates and the explosion tally up with September 11 th 2001, but this is set in September 1920 and the explosion is on the 16 th of September on wall street. Collette has now gone missing with Dr. Stratham younger’s wallet. This book has been very well researched, this helps to strengthen the story line and give it depth. The fight between Dr. Younger and Captain James Littlemore in the hotel room seems un necessary, and in such a long book anyway it is not needed to make up the word count. Maybe this is for future character development, but anyone reading this book would need a good memory to remember all the little things that are going on during the investigation. It is clever how Dr. Younger was able to follow the radioactive trail. It is interesting to read in a flash back part, all about medical procedures including x-rays on the front line in a field hosp...