The Village anyone?

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Just starting, I'm looking forward to this.

did the calvary officers try to get the dairy from taking the Middletons' milk so that the army could have the horse. I thought the milk was ok in the end?

Also Grace's baby didn't seem to be around. did he/she die as there was no evidence of a crying in the house etc.

I came on here to find out if the teacher had been shot or not - I couldn't work it out. I thought he was going to be, then after the scene with Bert & the camera I wasn't sure.

I didn't understand the bit about the garlic - I get that it would taint the milk, but were they trying to grub it up by the roots overnight? How would that work, surely the cows had already eaten it?

She took the baby to be looked after whilst she worked at the factory.

Character played by Anabelle someone whose son joined up with Joe-asked Agnes to marry him as he was leaving, but was killed.

I thought they weren't going to shoot him

He said the name of someone condemned to be shot and them said it happened

So I was left with the impression they were just taking him to war

Don't take my word for it - I was watching it in bed.... Might need to rewatch the last five/ten minutes of it again.

I think they said the name of someone else to threaten him but took him to war.

Not sure about Caro's baby tbh. Would have thought she'd have had a wet nurse and that's why the sight of her trying to feed the baby prompted the mother and son to do something about the situation?

That pair looked very cosy when they were talking about her...I wonder if the father of the child is really Joe or someone closer to home?

I also wondered why the father (John Simm ) is now being nice to younger son...is it cos their money worries are a tiny bit easier?

There's definitely loads of gaps to fill in .

Maybe Caro was 'known' around the village? If she was so bold with Joe then chances are that she could have been bold with others too!???

Joe didn't seem to 'click' that he could have been the father of the baby, did he?

Well I hope the schoolteacher wasn't about to be shot....

Maybe we just saw the Father in a depressed/worried state in the first couple of episodes and now he's come out of it? The whole atmosphere in the farmhouse seems to have changed since the birth of the baby, don't you think?

Well I guess that Grace bringing in a regular wage is a help.

Plus they sold some land & bought a cow.

And yes with Caro-maybe he thought he wasn't the first, or that he was & it couldn't happen the first time!

But she seemed clued up enough to know that it was his...

in the first world war the concept of conscientious objection was new and they were treated terribly. There's a good discription of what happened to a specific group of COs here

WRT Caro BFing until the baby was old enough to wean, that wasn't what happened. There were milk substitutes about, they were very dangerous for poor babies (the death stats for Foundling Hospitals are shocking) but if you were rich they weren't too bad because the correct procedures (sterilisation etc) were more likely to be followed, and by this point in history wet nursing was a no-no because rich parents were worried about disease.

Right. Missed last week due to hols. Didn't want to waste an hour of my life watching it on I player.

DM says last week was better, so am trying again.

Here goes :-)

Oh shit the baby is ill. Can I bear 60 mins of this?

Doesn't anything go right for that family??

What is that he's giving the child?

Now whats going on?

Wtf happened to that cow?

What's happened in that barn? Don't say John Sim is going to get he blame?

Why is nothing bloody explained properly??

Did they not have an proper Chrimes to investigate in those days?

I think we're all just a bit dim

He is a very unappealing character.

OMG the posh girl's doctor is horrible...

Is That Tim from Corrie?

Oh its Tim from Corrie.

And that's surely Alun Armstrong's boy?

at Bessie!! I think you must be right!!

x posts, ah ha!