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Hepzibar · 01/10/2017 21:31

Group Captain Townsend, Jenny Lee, desperately trying to get their previous characters out of my head.

Liking it so far, not a period I know much about.

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CoolCarrie · 15/10/2017 21:37

Yes, we are. That was so sweet with the wee boy and Santa, we did that one year when my dad dressed up for our ds, lovely memories.

CoolCarrie · 15/10/2017 21:48

I really want to know the background to her drinking, is it because she hates living there, or being an army wife? She doesn't hate her husband and he seems to love her.

SealSong · 15/10/2017 21:51

Aw, that soldier who has lost his dad. Got a lump in my throat.

CoolCarrie · 15/10/2017 21:59

Oh shit the wee boy!

ScrumpyBetty · 15/10/2017 22:00

Fuck, that was hard to watch!!

spiderbabymum · 15/10/2017 23:18

Wow I didn't see that coming

Tortycat · 16/10/2017 00:59

Missed the last couple of minutes as ds woke up... But cant believe the nanny did that! I thought she would protect him. Not sure i can bear to watch now. And the journalist annoys me - cant imagine a room full of men in those days would be at her beck and call. Shame as i was really enjoying it

SealSong · 16/10/2017 01:05

Yeah the journalist wasn't terribly believable.
Like how they've filmed it though, all the use of orange and turquoise colours...very Polaroid style, and very 50s.

MissEliza · 16/10/2017 11:26

I had a feeling something might happen to the little boy as he featured so heavily in the show. Do you think Captain Martin lied about not having his trunks so he could skip off to meet the dull and annoying American?
I also thought it was an interesting episode in terms of the different couples. Laithwaite and Alison are screwed up but I think they do love each other. I like Laithwaite. I think he might be the one to get George back. Captain Martin is a bit of a prick who just wants an obedient little wife. I like what Alison told Honour about the importance of friendship although Honour wasn't convinced.
Having being an expat, though obviously not in Aden in the 60s, I found the Christmas scenes quite familiar. It's funny trying to recreate a traditional British Christmas in a hot country where the native population are a different religion. You also find yourself spending the day with people you don't actually like just for the company, like that very uncomfortable dinner at the Markhams.

unicornface · 16/10/2017 21:04

The dinner made me laugh, everyone being so terribly tolerant and British.

I think he totally forgot trunks, or at least pretended to have done.

IncieWincie · 16/10/2017 21:13

Ive been at so many of those dinners but never one where a junior officers wife stepped so far out of line. In fact we wouldn't have dared.

But I can still recall the night we turned up about 10 minutes early for dinner with the Station Commander and we decided to hide behind the garden wall till it was time to go in. We weren't the first behind the wall. Two other couples were even earlier than we were.

MissEliza · 16/10/2017 21:49

Omg Incie why did you do that?

IncieWincie · 16/10/2017 22:04

Eliza its Military life and we still laugh about it to this day. Its stated very clearly in the invite what time you're expected and thats when you knock on the door. As time goes by you can time it to the minute but the first time you're invited to the Station Commanders for dinner its quite a nerve wracking thing.

It was a laugh, a really good laugh, especially when he said how long have you all been hiding behind the garden wall. We just knew none of us were the first and that at some stage in his life he'd hidden behind a garden wall as well.

Proud to have been a Military family. Proud to have served.

MissEliza · 16/10/2017 23:05

Incie Grin

troodiedoo · 17/10/2017 15:09

Just watched this week's, gosh it's getting better every week. Apart from the annoying American woman.

scrabbler3 · 18/10/2017 22:41

Really enjoying this programme. I was slightly confused by the characters in the first ep but it's got better and better. It's great to see Raine playing a sensual, flawed character.

The informed comments on here have been interesting too. The BP Club looks amazing - did it exist?

spiderbabymum · 22/10/2017 21:06

Who is watching tonight

CoolCarrie · 22/10/2017 21:15

We are, thank goodness she didn't use the knitting needle!

spiderbabymum · 22/10/2017 21:55

Lauthwaite : he's my favourite

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Hepzibar · 22/10/2017 21:59

There isn't a nice one amongst them really. Alison is now particularly annoying me. Beginning not to care if George is found or not.

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Cremolafoam · 22/10/2017 22:24

I went out of the room. Who did she have the affair with fgs,? I am dying to know.
Sorry if that's a spoiler for some.

MissEliza · 22/10/2017 22:29

Laithwaite is my favourite and I like Alison too. Frankly if I was stuck in Aden in those days I think if be having gin for breakfast, lunch and dinner as well!

Peregrina · 22/10/2017 22:51

Who are you asking about having an affair? If it was Alison, it was Nick Page - that was in the first episode, hence the hint in this one, that he was one of a twin.

I hope Laithwaite survives.

Rhubarb01 · 22/10/2017 23:38

Annoyed by the incorrect twin implication as twins run on the female rather than male line. Non identical twins are due to the release of two eggs and identical due to a fertilized egg dividing. It makes no difference if the man is a twin. Bit of an old wives tale. Other than that still enjoying it.

Peregrina · 23/10/2017 00:40

I thought the twin business might have been a bit of a red herring - we don't know whether Alison was still sleeping with her husband or not, but we are just led to assume that the now twins were as a result of her affair with Nick Page.

But on the other hand, her husband hasn't said anything so I assume he knows they are not his.