The Village anyone?

[PenelopePisstop]

Just starting, I'm looking forward to this.

I lived for a time where a village used to be, there was very little there but before WWI it was a village - a manor house, farms and labourers and their houses, a pub and school; only the church remains and the walls of the lanes where a village used to be, the pub became a house in the 1920s, the farms disbanded as the manor too. There is a very long list of names in the church and after time I could feel and hear the spirits of the men because I lived on the land they used to live on. They didn't want to be forgotten.

"No mention of Martha though. Still reckoning baby somehow."

If so & it being the 20's & her the vicar's daughter-might they have moved away?

Or she went away for a while & came back sans baby?

Or marries George?

Well will it have a happy ending?

Can I bear to watch?

Happy??-Noooooo!

All of them will have lost someone in the war.

The nice teacher will be back-Bert will be happy to see him, but all others will ostracise him!

The men will be taking the women's jobs!

You forgot the policeman - what's he going have to investigate?

It's weird isn't it, I'm actually going to watch something that I'm not looking forward to. What's that all about?

I've missed the first 5 mins - help?

five years later approx... why is the detective still there?

Because the writer liked the actor him and kept him in. True.

It's not cheered up any yet!

Am crying!
I know it has been grim but I have actually liked it.

I thought that was a good episode although I felt very sorry for the mother who lost a son in the war then a daughter to the flu. What a shame that was the last in the series - 6 episodes is not enough to fit anything cheery in.

Ah i sobbed at the end. That little plaque.

Oh what an ending. I have loved this series, it's been incredibly hard viewing at times but I'm so glad I stuck at it.

I missed it again - I assume Joe deffo dead. And did we find out what happened to horrid teacher?

Horrid teacher is back, still being horrid

I'm not usually a cryer, but that got me. not just the plaque for Joe, but the whole saddness and pointless loss, and bitterness felt

The mystery of the cows wasn't solved

I thought the Middleton's already knew about Joe being a father

Although i hasn't exactly been easy going. i have really enjoyed this series.

Has been recommisioned so will be back next year.

Yes the plaque.

It was a bit ridiculous/contrived though-no one (not even the MP) thought to tell anyone he was ill, & then he was suddenly better as the MPs arrived!!

But I think it did illustrate quite well the various things that happened.

Also, there was a village that quarantined itself, wasn't there?

Was the assumption that Mr Eyre brought the Spanish flu to the village?

I think it was Eyam-although that was for the plague, wasn't it?

Yes,Eyam is the famous "Plague" village. Thought last night's was incredibly sad and moving. The only wrong note for me was the conchie school teacher returning - he would have known the villagers would never forgive or forget. Wonderful series though.

I think people said he was ill, but the view was, if he could go out and rescue Bert, he was not ill but malingering. Still a bit heavy handed with 80% death rate in the war, compared to an average 20%

How did Paul die? Martha told the women in the bath house but we didnt get what it was. I think Joe told her outside the church hall that night when he was yelling at her but i cannot remember what he said. Something about running through barbed wire(?)

I wept at the end again! At first i thought 'that little plaque to Joe would never have happened' however.. i think i have seen such plaques before so maybe it was true to form.

Also what was that bit in the beginning? Was old Bert referring to a time when they took the memorial down? It had a colour film in the background (looked 70s/80s) Why on earth would they have taken down a war memorial?

I went to the local post office the other day and there is a plaque on the wall commemorating all the men who worked in the post office who died during WW1. There were about 8 names - i thought that to be a lot for a small town post office

I sobbed at the end last night.

great programme- looking forward to next series.

Think he was remembering restoring the memorial, not removing it