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Friday Funday: The Banshee

WARNING: THE BANDERSNATCH BLOG CONTAINS INFORMATION AND OPINIONS THAT THE PUBLIC MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL INFORMATION WILL BE CHECKED AND OPINIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF THE MAIN BLOGGER HERSELF. Hey there Earthlings, Alternatives and Trollers. Put down that mouse and lend an ear. Welcome to The Bandersnatch blog where we talk weird, wacky and wondrous. I'm Mama Ogre and I have no idea what I'm doing. Random blog day boo yah. As you should know Fridays is random blog day were we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on The Banshee. In Ireland and parts of Scotland, a traditional part of mourning is the Keening woman ( bean chaoint e), who wails a lament – in Irish: Caoineadh , Irish pronunciation: (Munster dialect),(Connaught dialect) or (Ulster dialect), caoin meaning "to weep, to wail". This keening woman may in some cases be a professional, and the best keeners would be in high

BOOK CLUB; THE WITCHES BY ROALD DAHL

WARNING: THE BANDERSNATCH BLOG MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION AND OPINIONS THAT THE PUBLIC MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL INFORMATION WILL BE CHECKED AND OPINIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF THE MAIN BLOGGER HERSELF. Hey there Earthlings, Alternatives and Trollers. Put down that mouse and lend an ear. Welcome to The Bandersnatch blog where we talk weird, wacky and wondrous. I'm Mama Ogre and I have no idea what I'm doing. Book blog day boo yah. As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the book The Witches by Roald Dahl. An unnamed seven-year-old English boy goes to live with his Norwegian grandmother after his parents are killed in a car accident. The boy loves all his grandmothers stories, but he is especially enthralled by the one about witches, which she says are horrific creatures who seek to kill human children. She tells him how to recognise them, and

WILD BLOG; RANDOM REVIEW; STAR TREK PICARD EPISODE 1.

WARNING: THE BANDERSNATCH BLOG CONTAINS INFORMATION AND OPINIONS THAT THE PUBLIC MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL INFORMATION WILL BE CHECKED AND OPINIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF THE MAIN BLOGGER HERSELF. Hey there Earthlings, Alternatives and Trollers. Put down that mouse and lend an ear. Welcome to The Bandersnatch blog where we talk weird, wacky and wondrous. I'm Mama Ogre and I have no idea what I'm doing. RANDOM BLOG ALERT, RANDOM BLOG ALERT. You ALL know that random blogs hit when ya girl's inspired. This blog is a TV review on Episode 1 of the recently released Amazon Prime/CBS show PICARD which I am super dope about. Please note that there will be reviews of all eight episodes of Picard on this blog posted up to four days after the episode is released hence they are under the Random blog segment. Back in June 2018 Alex Kurtzman began expanding the Star Trek universe and because of this the rumours of a new series came about, by

SUNDAYS NERD NEWS.

WARNING: THE BANDERSNATCH BLOG CONTAINS INFORMATION AND OPINIONS THAT THE PUBLIC MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL INFORMATION WILL BE CHECKED AND OPINIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF THE MAIN BLOGGER HERSELF. Hey there Earthlings, Alternatives and Trollers. Put down that mouse and lend an ear. Welcome to The Bandersnatch blog where we talk weird, wacky and wondrous. I'm Mama Ogre and I have no idea what I'm doing. Today's Nerd News is on Movies: DOROTHY & ALICE and THE TURNING, TV Shows: PICARD and Books: High Fire by Eoin Colfer and When we were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald. Today we're going to start in the realm of BOOKS: High fire by Eoin Colfer Fans of the “Artemis Fowl” Series when they were younger have a new, adult novel to read by Eoin Colfer. This wild book follows a dragon called Vern whose glory days are over. Now, he spends his time “Lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-s

Friday Funday: Robin Hood.

WARNING: THE BANDERSNATCH BLOG CONTAINS INFORMATION AND OPINIONS THAT THE PUBLIC MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL INFORMATION WILL BE CHECKED AND OPINIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF THE MAIN BLOGGER HERSELF. Hey there Earthlings, Alternatives and Trollers. Put down that mouse and lend an ear. Welcome to The Bandersnatch blog where we talk weird, wacky and wondrous. I'm Mama Ogre and I have no idea what I'm doing. Random blog day boo yah. As you should know Fridays is random blog day were we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the tale of Robin Hood. Robin Hood is a legendary Heroic Outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions of the legend, he is depicted as being of noble birth, and in modern retelling he is sometimes depicted as having fought in the crusades bef

BOOK CLUB: JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH BY ROALD DAHL.

WARNING: THE BANDERSNATCH BLOG MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION AND OPINIONS THAT THE PUBLIC MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL INFORMATION WILL BE CHECKED AND OPINIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF THE MAIN BLOGGER HERSELF. Hey there Earthlings, Alternatives and Trollers. Put down that mouse and lend an ear. Welcome to The Bandersnatch blog where we talk weird, wacky and wondrous. I'm Mama Ogre and I have no idea what I'm doing. Book blog day boo yah. As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the book James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. James Henry Trotter is a four year old boy who lives with is parents in a house by the sea happily. When James' parents are killed by a rhinoceros. The orphaned James is forced to live with his two abusive aunts, Spiker and Sponge. They treat him badly, feed him improperly and force him to sleep on bare floorboards. One

Friday Funday: Ellen DeGeneres.

WARNING: THE BANDERSNATCH BLOG CONTAINS INFORMATION AND OPINIONS THAT THE PUBLIC MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL INFORMATION WILL BE CHECKED AND OPINIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF THE MAIN BLOGGER HERSELF. Hey there Earthlings, Alternatives and Trollers. Put down that mouse and lend an ear. Welcome to The Bandersnatch blog where we talk weird, wacky and wondrous. I'm Mama Ogre and I have no idea what I'm doing. Random blog day boo yah. As you should know Fridays is random blog day were we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on TV Personality and Comedienne Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen was born January 26 th 1958 to Christian scientist parents Elizabeth Jane (Nee Porter) and Elliot Everett DeGeneres and as a younger sister to Vance DeGeneres. In 1973 her parents divorced and her mother married a salesman named Roy Gruessendorf. Ellen went to love with their mother whilst her older brother Vance lived wit

Tuesday BOOK CLUB: The BFG.

WARNING: THE BANDERSNATCH BLOG MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION AND OPINIONS THAT THE PUBLIC MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL INFORMATION WILL BE CHECKED AND OPINIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF THE MAIN BLOGGER HERSELF. Hey there Earthlings, Alternatives and Trollers. Put down that mouse and lend an ear. Welcome to The Bandersnatch blog where we talk weird, wacky and wondrous. I'm Mama Ogre and I have no idea what I'm doing. Book blog day boo yah. As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the book The BFG by Roald Dahl. The book starts with a young girl named Sophie lying in bed in an Orphanage after her parents died when she was a baby. She can't sleep, and sees a strange sight in the street; a giant man, carrying a bag and an odd trumpet. He sees Sophie, who tries to hide in bed, but the giant picks her up through the window. Then he runs incredibly fast t