All creatures great and small

[PeloFondo]

9pm, get the kettle on!

What's happened to Mrs Pomfrey (sp?) Trixie Woo's owner?

Wept buckets. Anna Madeley’s superb, isn’t she?
I think it’s impossible not to be a bit in love with Siegfried.
The whole episode was wonderful.

I've just caught up with this weeks episode, I cried loads! Thought it was wonderfully done and also got a sense of impending doom with her son going off to war 😓

Loved the moment between Siegfried and Tristan, Siegfried has had so much loss in his life with both parents dying and his wife. I wondered if there may have been some siblings that died as well which would explain the large age gap.

I think the age gap is possibly meant to only be about 10/15 years though the gap with the actors is more like 30 years.

I think the age gap is possibly meant to only be about 10/15 years though the gap with the actors is more like 30 years.

Yes in the books I think that Siegfried is written as a father like figure to Tristan but not actually old enough to be his father I think.

In actuality I think that the Sinclair brothers were about 4yrs apart & Alf Wight younger than both.

Donald Sinclair's story is very sad.

The moment when they dropped the tin of biscuits. I was in bits from then.

Evening all. Looking forward to another episode...

Enjoying it so far - but its going to take a lot to beat last week’s episode

Oh no 😔

That feels like a bit of a cliff hanger. Is next week the last of the series?

That was the last episode. Need to wait for the Christmas special.

Think that was the last of the series with a Christmas special to come

It was the last one? Nooooo😔

I think the original series paused for the war so maybe James will come home on leave for Christmas

Fabulous
Great to see Mrs Pumphery again.
Seamlessly played now by Patrician Hodges
It s taken me until lunch time to realise it was a different actress lol

Yes poor Dianna Rigg died whilst the first series was being broadcast I think :(

Was last night's episode setting us up for a shift in the relationship between Mrs Hall and Siegfried, do you think? I'm still not feeling it between her and Mr Moustache.

I know that Alf Wight did his military service, so that much is accurate but just didn't feel they portrayed why James would feel being a vet wasn't a much better thing to do than offering himself up for cannon fodder. IRL he went into the airforce mid war but we can't assume that in this series, he was in a queue to join the army and war had only just been declared.

Real life Siegfried’s second wife was called Audrey. Just throwing that out there.

@InsertPunHere definitely not a coincidence!

Please please please let them end up together. I know it wasn’t what happened at the time and that she’s still married, but I’d love to see them as a couple.

I still can't get past Mrs Hall bring about 90 and rather dumpy - I read all the books.

I am with *SirChenjins, I want to see them as a couple!

Definitely!

ACG&S is like a great big comfort blanket in these bleak times! Six episodes is far too few! I haven't read the books, so not at all bothered if they don't remain true... but for a wonderful dose of nostalgia and to forget the 21st century for a while it can't be beaten. Some really good acting on display as well.

And I am old enough to have watched the original, but I much prefer this one. Including doing 'work experience' on set of the last day ever filming at Pebble Mill! Christopher Timothy gave all the 'ladies' on set a red rose... including an 18 year old me!