Thanks Rhu it's nice to be back but as you've already seen today, orphan has outwitted my cunning birdwatching tent disguise enabling close-up viewing of Poldarks undercarriage whilst dressed as a boulder and I'm yet again merely a spectator from afar...as usual. I've had to settle for the lank loose haired Banished Major she now no longer leers at admires, all because I need a ready supply of dried peas, sigh.
PS I think you mean Francis trying to scythe like a man, Charles was his dad, Ross's uncle, whose scything days are over as he died in Ep 4. And you're right, Francis couldn't scythe his way out of a paper bag full of fresh pilchards, poor sap. No wonder Elizabeth looks despondent.