OUR GIRL AND CAPTAIN JAMES THREAD L

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Can you believe we are on thread 50! This is for all discussions on the BBC series Our Girl and any possible future series. Reference to Captain James is particularly welcome.

Oh, no, ilove.

Oh goodness ilove that is awful and a lot to cope with.

Nancy is saying she can't marry Paddy because she's heard that story about Paddy as a kid.

Donna is being really lovely and she seems to have grown up a bit - I detect a change in her attitude.

I prefer the chingsams.

Chongsams.

Nancy's MP Sergeant is acting like a concerned father - it's quite sweet - tearing Paddy of a strip on Nancy's behalf.

I think I've caught up with you at last! I don't think I've ever missed a watchalong before.

Oh that's a grown up way to sort things out, Paddy - with your fist.

Looks like Donna has passed the march-out with flying colours thanks to Joy's help.

Now Paddy has confessed all to Nancy and she knows the incident in the past was not his fault and has forgiven him.

I'm not around the next two Thursdays. I'm otherwise engaged all next week, but I could maybe do Tuesday the week after?

I did enjoy that episode.

Yes, the ladies new choice of outfit is much better.

Monroe gets to go on a driving course and Paddy thinks he's going to get a bollocking - laughed when the Major says "Neat?" and Paddy says "Yes, very smart."

Nancy and Paddy marry!

Is that 19 March eejit I should be ok with that.

Meanwhile the lads play their final joke on the newly married couple! Nothing like the bricked up door trick!

I could do the 19th of March as well - my social calendar is sadly, or perhaps I should say, fortunately, empty .

Evening ladies. I must share this with you. I have been out all day with a friend and we were on a train this morning. When the guard came to check the tickets, the young lad sitting next to me flashed a travel card and I realised he was in the army. We (well I) struck up a conversation, asking him where he was stationed etc and as my friend has had tenuous links with the army in the past and is equally as nosey as me, we found out he had been in for a year and was training to be a combat medic, or as he put it at first, "an army paramedic". No, it wasn't lovely Ruby from series 3, but he was very interesting to chat with. If we hadn't been surrounded by passengers who all suddenly seemed to be interested in our conversation, I would have asked even more questions. He was due to go out on a training exercise to Canada within the next few weeks. Now, was it the lovely jenmc or the equally lovely itsembarrassing who did a fanfic set in Canada when Molly met up with CJ after Sam was rushed into the hospital where she was a nurse and had a baby with him?

By the way magi, I have succumbed and have ordered the last DVD (series 7) of Soldier Soldier. Google tells me there are 82 episodes in total. There were a couple of episodes in particular which stand out in my mind from series 6. By the time we get round to the watchalong for this series, we will all have forgotten my comments here I guess! One episode was about sexual harrassment of a young female private and how one senior NCO clearly had issues with women in the army. The other was the episode which had its roots in the Falklands crisis I guess (a mystery British overseas territory in the South Atlantic) and the violence was such that I had to turn away a couple of times. Having watched all these episodes, it does make OG seem quite tame really. I do like the fact that the platoons contain a reasonable number of soldiers in each one, unlike Two Section who are depleted with each new series!

Yes ILove I recognise all the episodes you mention. I mentioned earlier I found one or two of series 6 episodes a bit on the edge of credibility. Not I hasten to add in army terms really as I agree they certainly covered well the number of army personnel involved in operations and as you say made OG quite tame in those terms. What I found hard to agree would have happened was the underhanded way one wife went about getting an army house. You will know what I mean but don't want to elaborate here as the watchalong is a long way off. Also the 'bomb' episode - shall I just say the young wife was rather calm and quiet for someone in her situation! Hope that's not too garbled for you to recognise what I mean!

Yes it was jenmc who wrote a fanfic which had our two favourite characters in Canada. It is called "In the Long Run". I reread it recently and thoroughly enjoyed it again.

I love In the Long Run - one of my favourite ff stories ever by one of my favourite (and much missed) ff authors. I also reread it again recently, for the umpteenth time

Yes Kazza jenmc is very much missed. Her unfinished story "Here Cones the Sun" is another of my favourites.

And mine magi it would make my day if she was able to finish it but sadly, I don't think that's going to happen

Evening everyone. It's been very quiet on here lately.

Are we still on for our watchalong on Tuesday?

It's been absolutely dreadful weather here today and I'm shaking off some sort of cold/bug so what better opportunity to catch up on the very last series of Soldier Soldier. I've only three more episodes to go. I don't think I ever really understood the term "binge watching" until now. I'm a bit shocked at myself in truth that I've seen so many episodes in one go. The one I'm watching now is quite violent and not sure who is going to come out of it alive.

What is everyone else up to this weekend?

I've had a very busy week and the weekend is no less busy. Can't wait for Monday , when I'll go back to work for a rest! Does anyone else find that some weekends are just full-on from start to finish?
Looking forward to the watchalong on Tuesday.

Well ILove take it from one who experienced the same phenomena with Soldier Soldier that you are likely to have "withdrawal" symptoms when you finish that final episode😄

Series 7 had a few more different actors which again gave one a chance to reminisce a bit about them in other roles. I expect you will find it quite strange going back to earlier episodes in the watchalong.

Morning all! It's finally a lovely looking spring day here down in the West Country - blue skies and sunshine!

I've had a very busy week at work, working a lot of extra hours because of new work we've taken on. It's all been a bit stressful to be honest, so glad of a couple of days off to unwind. Last night DH and I had a rare night out - dinner and the theatre. It was a belated birthday treat for DH and made a nice change. The play was 'different' but on the whole entertaining. The problem with going to the theatre is I see the upcoming programmes and start wanting to see lots of other stuff and it's so expensive these days plus I'm not that keen on going on my own so I have to find someone else willing to attend for company and it's not always easy given my interests. The Bristol Old Vic is doing an 'alternative' version of Pride and Prejudice. It sounds a bit weird (you should have seen their 'hipster' version of a Christmas Carol! - gender role reversals, lots of beards and rather strange outfits. Can't imagine what Dickens would have thoughts.) but I thought it might be interesting. I can't persuade anyone to go with me, surprise, surprise. I think the trip at Christmas time has put them off which I understand. However, given how much I hated the Keira Knightley film version of P&P, I should probably give it a miss and be grateful.

Looking forward to the watchalong on Tuesday - that will definitely entertain me. I will need a distraction as next week is likely to be another stressy one at work.

eejit now I've retired, I suppose I don't have weekends like that any more but I often wondered how it was that the weekends would fly by in the blink of an eye and yet time at work would often drag. Yesterday was my 2 year anniversary of finishing work.

Rhu I am going to the theatre locally myself on Friday with a friend and you are right about the cost. Even though it's a local one, it's upped its game in the last two or three years, having been taken over by a local wealthy businessman. Our tickets for an afternoon performance are £40 and when you add in a lunch we are having beforehand and parking, there's no change out of £60. Manchester is my nearest "big names" theatre and you can easily kiss goodbye to £70 or £80 for tickets, a meal and transport (be it driving or going on the train).

I finished the last of the Soldier Soldier DVDs yesterday lunchtime. I can't believe how much I have enjoyed them. I don't recall getting so "in the zone" with the series 20 odd years ago when they were first televised. They have been quite an eye opener: the fashions of the times, the war zones and the changing attitudes. Now I've finished them, does it mean I have to go back to listening to Brexit?!

As I'd got beyond Bosnia, the South Atlantic and a mystery country in Africa, I think I need to watch our episode for tomorrow night ahead of the watchalong and get into the Hong Kong spirit.

Advance warning, ladies, that my internet connection keeps dropping out this evening, so I may not be quite in the same time-zone. In any case, isn't Hong Kong seven or eight hours ahead?