Advantages: "We joined the navy to see the world?." Disadvantages: "And what did we see? We saw the sea." (Irving Berlin)
?I must go down to the seas again,
To the lonely sea and the sky.? (John Masefield)
Never fear; I?m not about to start waxing lyrical about the sea. I?m more in the Irving Berlin camp than in the Masefield. I quote the lines above to illustrate the fact that even the most feverish of fanatics for the sea has to admit that maritime views are limited, consisting as they do of just two lonely elements: water and sky. And it?s stretching a point to include the sky, which can equally be seen above land as above sea. So, essentially, we?re talking about water.
Water, it might be argued, is not entirely monotonous to look at. The sea has moods, which it expresses in the colour of its complexion. Sometimes, it can be a tranquil turquoise, sometimes an inscrutable indigo, sometimes a grudging greeny-grey. Occasionally, it rears ...
the sachet with number 1 on it, this is the water purifier. You then stir in the powder and leave it to settle for 24 hours, this is so that the water is the correct temperature for the creatures to live in. This is the boring part.
After 24 hours you can add, sachet number 2. This sachet contains the live eggs you just add the sachet to water inside it its like powder with little grains of white and black, which are the eggs. Stir the water gently. Once in the water wait for a few minutes and you will see tiny little white things swimming about erratically, these are the sea monkeys, they are about the size of a full stop at the moment.
On day 2 you need to oxygenate your tank, you can do this by either buying a pump or you can do it the cheap way by pouring the water from the tank back and forth into a jug, carefully. You have to do ...
Advantages: Nice light comedy Disadvantages: The story and most of the film in general
Simon Sparrow is now a qualified doctor and working as an apprentice in a practice in London. He finds that not only is he doing all the work while his boss heads off to play golf but his bosses daughter is dead set on getting her hands on him.
Deciding his only recourse it to run away he does the time honoured thing of escaping to sea. He manages to get a job on board a merchant navy ship... with no women on board!
A trip to a port is something all the crew look forward to but on their first stop on this trip they pick up a couple of passengers, the Chairmans' daughter and her friend, a beautiful young singer. How will the arrival of two women affect all the lonely men on board?
Doctor At Sea (1955) was the second of the seven Doctor films made throughout the 50's and 60's and is, like the first in the series, very typical of British ...