Post by Lottii on Nov 18, 2010 21:13:46 GMT
PLAYBY: Amanda Redman
FULL NAME: Sandra Dacey Redman
NICKNAMES: Sandra, occasionally Sandy
AGE: 40 years
GENDER: Female
ETHNICITY: White French/English
JOB: Livery Yard Owner
RESIDENTIAL AREA: Alder Way
PERSONALITY: Sandra is an intelligent woman, she is able to sum up a situation in seconds. She is rarely wrong, but when she is it frustrates her beyond belief and she will spend weeks beating herself up over every mistake. In short, she is a perfectionist.
She enjoys being in charge, a strong independent woman who dislikes taking the back seat. This, combined with her striving for perfection lead to her quickly climbing the career ladder. As far as men are concerned, she would never let you catch her falling for someone, but she would do. Just, secretly. Having her heart burned too many times, has left her a little wary. Where friends are concerned though, she loves having a couple of close friends to sit and have a chat with about life in general - but she doesn't share her problems easily.
When Sandra is with people she doesn't know, she comes across as polite and open, which are very good qualities in her line of work. People always feel able to talk to her about anything, and she is very non-judgmental. A few always comment that the polite must be simply the exterior layer of her, but it isn't. It's simply who she raised and how acts, no secret fuming in the silence of her mind, that's really all there is.
BACKGROUND: Sandra grew up in France for the majority of her childhood, and still has a slight French lilt to her vocals. Her father was French, married to her English mother. Sandra's first love was horses, she actively rode at a nearby yard since she was 6 years old and by the time she was 10 she went down to help out every morning and night. Her mother and father seemed to have a happy and stable relationship, as far as she could see, and she always excelled in school. Her mother was a typical housewife, never striving to make anything of herself, compared to her father who was a highly successful businessman. Although he didn't make enough money for them to be millionaires, the family were certainly well off and never wanted for anything. If this 'money happy' situation had gone on throughout Sandra's teens, she may have turned out rather spoilt, but as it was her parents' relationship fell apart as she started high school. Her father kicked her and her mother out of the house, and that was when her mother started expecting perfection from her daughter. Oh and they moved back to England.
In a sense, this did Sandra well, she left with the highest grades the school had ever seen, with A*'s in every subject she took. But, on the other hand the perfect ideals have remained with the woman into adulthood, leaving her on occasions, rather stressed.
Meeting her husband of a short while when she was 21 years old, they were married within a year, and their first child was born nine months later. Her son Nicholas, is now 19 years old. When she fell pregnant again just over a year later, their rushed marriage started to fall apart at the seams. Meeting her husband at a young age had pushed Sandra into remaining nothing more than a housewife, and this - in her ex-husband's opinion - was what ruined their marriage. Whilst this was going on, her mother died in a horse-riding accident, and Sandra vowed never to ride again. Alone, she returned to England for the birth of her second child, a daughter, Lily (now 17). Once her daughter started nursery she returned to her love of horses from her childhood, but never riding. She worked as a groom on several small yards for the next few years, working her way up to being the manager of a 100-horse strong stud farm by the time she was 30.
Nick moved out a few weeks ago, and Lily wants to attend the top equine college in the country - Park. Sandra decided the 4-bedroom house they had shared would feel lonely by herself, and she has chosen to make the move to Park town to be near her daughter. Nick remains in the area where they used to live, working as a mechanic. Sandra plans to start up her own yard in Park town, breeding a couple of horses a year, but with the main focus on being a livery yard for the town's residents. She knows a gap in the market when she sees one!
MISC.:
Madonna is a three year old Akita bitch. Always friendly and playful - even with strangers - she is a wonderful companion. Despite her over the top nature, she never fails to listen to an instruction from Sandra.
Eli is a one year old Czechoslovakian Wolfdog. Yes, that does mean he is actually part wolf! On average Czech Wolfdogs have around 20% wolf in them, which is the same as this stunning boy. The wolf in him makes him rather wary of people, and people wary of him. He can be really loving when you get to know him though, and wouldn't ever be vicious or aggressive unless he had been provoked.