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I've decided that in lieu of a happy chapter, I will also take the chapter that explains how Nan and Jerry could ever permit their child (for Miri is nothing but a child) to traipse around Europe without an adult to accompany her and to do so in the late 1930s, which was *not* the time to be in Europe in any way. I've gone on the record as being deeply sceptical of their choices as parents, so I guess there's some precedent for them making bad, bad decisions concerning their children, but surely, that one takes the cake, yes? I've been trying to puzzle out their reasoning since EC, but so far, no luck, so I'll happily take the chapter explaining it :p.
But enough of that and moving on to this chapter, which does not puzzle me at all and also doesn't leave me questioning the choices of anyone present.
What struck me at first is how you wove this very big family that is interconnected in so many ways, yet there will always be two people who are both part of the family and yet live on completely opposite corners of it, so they rarely have reason to cross paths. It's true for Mandy and Susan and I feel Mandy's sadness-by-proxy feels very real. She doesn't really grieve for Susan because she herself didn't have much of a relationship to her, but she does feel bad about Susan dying, mainly because someone dying is always sad and especially because it makes her mums extra-sad. I think those feelings are often true of children and teenagers when elderly people in their family die who they themselves never really bonded too. That feeling is very well-caught here, I think.
What's true for the relationship between Susan and Mandy is also true for the one between Teddy and Mandy. They're both part of the family, but their lives never really overlapped before (looking at you, Nan and Jerry!), so while there's a connection between them, they aren't very familiar with each other. Sometimes though, that very fact is really what makes an honest conversation possible. Some things, you won't tell someone who's too much of a stranger and you can't tell someone who's very close to you, so someone who fits in the middle, like Teddy does for Mandy, makes it possible to show a certain honesty.
Here, it allows us to glimpse the effect that 'The Very Disastrous Decision Concerning Miri' has on her twin. There's the pain of Miri being gone, but also the betrayal of Miri leaving, coupled with the confusion of having half of herself torn from her side. Mandy doesn't really seem to know who she is without Miri and that Miri *does* know (and willingly leaves Mandy behind) is more immediately painful to her than, say, the death of Susan, because it affects her more. Teddy is an interesting counterpart, because in some ways, he's the Miri in this (the one who left the family behind to carve our a life for him-/herself), but his love for his younger brothers mirrors the importance that the little twins have for Mandy, so there's something she and Teddy share as well. His advice there at the end, for Mandy to love the little girls, is born out of a sort-of regret from him, but it gives a new hope, a new anchor to Mandy, which marks him out as someone who *understands* and I imagine Mandy will look back upon that conversation in the future and feel grateful for it.
I've decided that in lieu of a happy chapter, I will also take the chapter that explains how Nan and Jerry could ever permit their child (for Miri is nothing but a child) to traipse around Europe without an adult to accompany her and to do so in the late 1930s, which was *not* the time to be in Europe in any way. I've gone on the record as being deeply sceptical of their choices as parents, so I guess there's some precedent for them making bad, bad decisions concerning their children, but surely, that one takes the cake, yes? I've been trying to puzzle out their reasoning since EC, but so far, no luck, so I'll happily take the chapter explaining it :p.
But enough of that and moving on to this chapter, which does not puzzle me at all and also doesn't leave me questioning the choices of anyone present.
What struck me at first is how you wove this very big family that is interconnected in so many ways, yet there will always be two people who are both part of the family and yet live on completely opposite corners of it, so they rarely have reason to cross paths. It's true for Mandy and Susan and I feel Mandy's sadness-by-proxy feels very real. She doesn't really grieve for Susan because she herself didn't have much of a relationship to her, but she does feel bad about Susan dying, mainly because someone dying is always sad and especially because it makes her mums extra-sad. I think those feelings are often true of children and teenagers when elderly people in their family die who they themselves never really bonded too. That feeling is very well-caught here, I think.
What's true for the relationship between Susan and Mandy is also true for the one between Teddy and Mandy. They're both part of the family, but their lives never really overlapped before (looking at you, Nan and Jerry!), so while there's a connection between them, they aren't very familiar with each other. Sometimes though, that very fact is really what makes an honest conversation possible. Some things, you won't tell someone who's too much of a stranger and you can't tell someone who's very close to you, so someone who fits in the middle, like Teddy does for Mandy, makes it possible to show a certain honesty.
Here, it allows us to glimpse the effect that 'The Very Disastrous Decision Concerning Miri' has on her twin. There's the pain of Miri being gone, but also the betrayal of Miri leaving, coupled with the confusion of having half of herself torn from her side. Mandy doesn't really seem to know who she is without Miri and that Miri *does* know (and willingly leaves Mandy behind) is more immediately painful to her than, say, the death of Susan, because it affects her more. Teddy is an interesting counterpart, because in some ways, he's the Miri in this (the one who left the family behind to carve our a life for him-/herself), but his love for his younger brothers mirrors the importance that the little twins have for Mandy, so there's something she and Teddy share as well. His advice there at the end, for Mandy to love the little girls, is born out of a sort-of regret from him, but it gives a new hope, a new anchor to Mandy, which marks him out as someone who *understands* and I imagine Mandy will look back upon that conversation in the future and feel grateful for it.
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I like this idea of deferred mourning. Mandy didn't know Susan terribly well but the family did and so by extension she's joined the mourners, but emotionally she's far more hit by her sister's absence.
Teddy is gorgeous here, I adore how he soothed Isobel, so naturally before she really had a chance to rev up. And the passage where his singing takes her back to New Brunswick is just so marvellously evocative I can practically smell the heather myself. The line 'burrow her back down among surplus quilt and cousins' is just glorious too; so warm and snuggly.
You say it's not a happy chapter but anything this shot through with love has to be surely, in this uncertain world. It certainly made me content and that's something.
I like this idea of deferred mourning. Mandy didn't know Susan terribly well but the family did and so by extension she's joined the mourners, but emotionally she's far more hit by her sister's absence.
Teddy is gorgeous here, I adore how he soothed Isobel, so naturally before she really had a chance to rev up. And the passage where his singing takes her back to New Brunswick is just so marvellously evocative I can practically smell the heather myself. The line 'burrow her back down among surplus quilt and cousins' is just glorious too; so warm and snuggly.
You say it's not a happy chapter but anything this shot through with love has to be surely, in this uncertain world. It certainly made me content and that's something.
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Oh Mandy, to be separated from her other half, at the tender of age of 16. All the while, the other twins have been born! Hattie and Bea, poor Nan I don't know if it's easier for her the second time around, or if they were still in a state of shock for having another set!
It's very interesting to see mandy with another of the family after all this time and Teddy is a good one to see it with! Of course, Teddy always gets stuck with the little ones, but I don't think he minds it. At the same time, I think he understands Mandy and what she going through, despite not knowing her all the well.
While Mandy spent her life travelling to various areas and falling in love and then having to leave, never having a home for no longer than what appears to be her father's muse with the area. Now her sister is gone galavanting around Europe, she at home helping with the little ones( I hope she allows herself to be a fun sister as well, and not just a sister mom), most likely going to school, or depending on where they are living aged out of school.
She feels like she on the edge of being a child and being a woman in this, unsure of what road she wants to take.
Oh Mandy, to be separated from her other half, at the tender of age of 16. All the while, the other twins have been born! Hattie and Bea, poor Nan I don't know if it's easier for her the second time around, or if they were still in a state of shock for having another set!
It's very interesting to see mandy with another of the family after all this time and Teddy is a good one to see it with! Of course, Teddy always gets stuck with the little ones, but I don't think he minds it. At the same time, I think he understands Mandy and what she going through, despite not knowing her all the well.
While Mandy spent her life travelling to various areas and falling in love and then having to leave, never having a home for no longer than what appears to be her father's muse with the area. Now her sister is gone galavanting around Europe, she at home helping with the little ones( I hope she allows herself to be a fun sister as well, and not just a sister mom), most likely going to school, or depending on where they are living aged out of school.
She feels like she on the edge of being a child and being a woman in this, unsure of what road she wants to take.
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I feel like I should have seen this coming from the last chapter.
I don't know what else to say or do, then to give Shirley a very long hug. It was very melancholy and reminds me of when I got the call that my grandmother passed away. Always starts off as a surprise...soon as he said Dad...i just knew.
I love how Mara just seemed to know what to do and say, how to handle him in such a moment.
Also, this was a Christmas chapter? lol
I feel like I should have seen this coming from the last chapter.
I don't know what else to say or do, then to give Shirley a very long hug. It was very melancholy and reminds me of when I got the call that my grandmother passed away. Always starts off as a surprise...soon as he said Dad...i just knew.
I love how Mara just seemed to know what to do and say, how to handle him in such a moment.
Also, this was a Christmas chapter? lol
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Oh, Iain such a big subject for such a little boy with such a family! How would the teacher now how complicate Iain's family was!
Every Aunt is like another mother, to that family. I love how he goes through everyone that qualifies as a mother to him. Actually, for a split second, I almost wondered if Mara died giving birth to Isobel actually, at his hesitance about writing the paper!
I remember as a child having to write or talk about my family and being the kids with divorced parents in a catholic school in the 90's it was still rather rare. I was very much Iain for that assignment.
Of course, Shirley or Da gets it thankfully and I can see him talking about Mother Susan( though Susan did a lot of mothering and bedtimes it seems as I read the books over again!)
Oh, Iain such a big subject for such a little boy with such a family! How would the teacher now how complicate Iain's family was!
Every Aunt is like another mother, to that family. I love how he goes through everyone that qualifies as a mother to him. Actually, for a split second, I almost wondered if Mara died giving birth to Isobel actually, at his hesitance about writing the paper!
I remember as a child having to write or talk about my family and being the kids with divorced parents in a catholic school in the 90's it was still rather rare. I was very much Iain for that assignment.
Of course, Shirley or Da gets it thankfully and I can see him talking about Mother Susan( though Susan did a lot of mothering and bedtimes it seems as I read the books over again!)
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A happy, lovely Rilla and Ken and the family of not to little ones! I can picture the lodge, the cabins they stayed in. It reminds me of the camps I've been to and it always to utterly gorgeous and peaceful!
Of course I adore a happy Ken and Rilla, and poor Jimmy being caught in the middle of them! I love the mention of Ken driving and Rilla fixing up her lip colour, such a Rilla thing to do.
Seeing the kids be all excited about swimming, and the adorable relationship between Jimmy and them is very sweet especially Sissy, its rather interesting since he would have been about the same age as Rilla when Rilla took him in, that when Sissy was born. Either way very sweet, I can see it being played out on old home videos, black and white, old slides and photo albums.
Of course Jimmy seems to have a crush on this Ingrid as well!
I love the addition to monopoly! I have been meaning myself to work that into Sunsets!
A happy, lovely Rilla and Ken and the family of not to little ones! I can picture the lodge, the cabins they stayed in. It reminds me of the camps I've been to and it always to utterly gorgeous and peaceful!
Of course I adore a happy Ken and Rilla, and poor Jimmy being caught in the middle of them! I love the mention of Ken driving and Rilla fixing up her lip colour, such a Rilla thing to do.
Seeing the kids be all excited about swimming, and the adorable relationship between Jimmy and them is very sweet especially Sissy, its rather interesting since he would have been about the same age as Rilla when Rilla took him in, that when Sissy was born. Either way very sweet, I can see it being played out on old home videos, black and white, old slides and photo albums.
Of course Jimmy seems to have a crush on this Ingrid as well!
I love the addition to monopoly! I have been meaning myself to work that into Sunsets!
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The Merediths come for a visit! how nerve-wracking it would be for Li, after so many years of being married to Carl, then having his child to finally meet her in-laws, his father and step-mother in person for the first time.
It lovely to see how much they have changed since coming to Singapore how they find and greet their father and Rosemary on the Docks Carl and Una, and then of course Li and Iris standing back unsure of what to do or say. Though she does the best thing she can think of, which is to bring out the old blue china.
Of course Iris becomes an instant ice breaker in a way. How can they not love her.
I also noted Carl acquired a lizard haha. Of course the monkey throws them slightly, but this is Carl, Carl always had an infinity of animals and pets.
I love the small touches, kisses between Carl and Li in this as well. A constant reassurance from him that he is there beside her. That he is proud of her and loves her. Then the tea room where they are known and Li automatically knows that the usual will not do for the Merediths. 'our Family' for Li, in the previous chapter of Iris being disowned by her own family. This is very much a moment for her and I love that.
The Merediths come for a visit! how nerve-wracking it would be for Li, after so many years of being married to Carl, then having his child to finally meet her in-laws, his father and step-mother in person for the first time.
It lovely to see how much they have changed since coming to Singapore how they find and greet their father and Rosemary on the Docks Carl and Una, and then of course Li and Iris standing back unsure of what to do or say. Though she does the best thing she can think of, which is to bring out the old blue china.
Of course Iris becomes an instant ice breaker in a way. How can they not love her.
I also noted Carl acquired a lizard haha. Of course the monkey throws them slightly, but this is Carl, Carl always had an infinity of animals and pets.
I love the small touches, kisses between Carl and Li in this as well. A constant reassurance from him that he is there beside her. That he is proud of her and loves her. Then the tea room where they are known and Li automatically knows that the usual will not do for the Merediths. 'our Family' for Li, in the previous chapter of Iris being disowned by her own family. This is very much a moment for her and I love that.
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Oh! Kitty is flying the coop. Goodbyes are such things that have too many feels in them and I felt them all in this chapter.
From little Isobel, telling her not to go, as Mara and Shirley came back from Scotland. All the children who she helped look after, who she is Auntie too.
I adore the small embarrassing push at Teddy about stop making eyes at Miss Jennings. Maybe Kitty will find someone for herself in Toronto. Though parts of me just love their relationship of best friends with a hint of siblingdry. I feel like they need to wake and realize that they need each other and just be honest about it haha! Or maybe I've watched too much Life with Derek back in Highschool!
Of Jem, is letting who he considers a daughter go out on her own which is a very sweet heartfelt moment. He knew she's going to do great things, but yet seeing her go off and do them is another thing. I have a feeling that Faith will have to console him in some Monkey cookies.
Oh! Kitty is flying the coop. Goodbyes are such things that have too many feels in them and I felt them all in this chapter.
From little Isobel, telling her not to go, as Mara and Shirley came back from Scotland. All the children who she helped look after, who she is Auntie too.
I adore the small embarrassing push at Teddy about stop making eyes at Miss Jennings. Maybe Kitty will find someone for herself in Toronto. Though parts of me just love their relationship of best friends with a hint of siblingdry. I feel like they need to wake and realize that they need each other and just be honest about it haha! Or maybe I've watched too much Life with Derek back in Highschool!
Of Jem, is letting who he considers a daughter go out on her own which is a very sweet heartfelt moment. He knew she's going to do great things, but yet seeing her go off and do them is another thing. I have a feeling that Faith will have to console him in some Monkey cookies.
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What a lovely chapter and a birth that wasn't dangerous for Li! Though I feel greatly for Li who has been disowned for her family for what I can only reason I can think of is because of Carl, and the hospital won't take her because she is married to Carl as well? Or was it an English only hospital?
Thankfully she had Una and someone from the mission who is willing to help. IT is very much true that the lot of them had been born at home, and never their mothers never needed a hospital. To be unsure of who would there for her, if there would be a doctor at all would be something heavy on her!
The story of how they met is very precious and of course, the name Iris makes it much more special for them. With the characteristics that are the Merediths and Li's own colouring, I feel sad knowing that as a child of a interracial marriage, in this time she would face many hardships, though I know the Merediths, Blythes and Fords would love her.
As we spoke about the year of the monkey it is very on par for Puck who is very sweet towards the baby. I would be extremely frightened though is the monkey was known to just hold the baby, but he seems other worldly in a way this Puck that I can see them having a grand old time growing up together.
May Iris have all the luck in the world!
What a lovely chapter and a birth that wasn't dangerous for Li! Though I feel greatly for Li who has been disowned for her family for what I can only reason I can think of is because of Carl, and the hospital won't take her because she is married to Carl as well? Or was it an English only hospital?
Thankfully she had Una and someone from the mission who is willing to help. IT is very much true that the lot of them had been born at home, and never their mothers never needed a hospital. To be unsure of who would there for her, if there would be a doctor at all would be something heavy on her!
The story of how they met is very precious and of course, the name Iris makes it much more special for them. With the characteristics that are the Merediths and Li's own colouring, I feel sad knowing that as a child of a interracial marriage, in this time she would face many hardships, though I know the Merediths, Blythes and Fords would love her.
As we spoke about the year of the monkey it is very on par for Puck who is very sweet towards the baby. I would be extremely frightened though is the monkey was known to just hold the baby, but he seems other worldly in a way this Puck that I can see them having a grand old time growing up together.
May Iris have all the luck in the world!
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Two things really stood out for me here.
One was the disconnect between Shirley and Gilbert. Gilbert's 'I know she was important to you' is so off the mark as to be criminal. There's just an ocean of miscommunication in that one sentence, such economical and poignant writing. And it's interesting because Jo may not be related to Shirley but he comes so much closer to him in this moment than Gilbert ever will, and I don't think it's just because he's recently lost Phil either, there's more to it than that. Although of course chatting with someone a bit removed from the family is often easier isn't it.
The other thing is that strange sense that the world will keep on turning even when your foundation is rocked. I got that feeling when my Dad died. I watched someone going about their shopping from the window of the hospital and wondered at it. I wanted to rail and gnash my teeth (such an evocative phrase - sounds painful) at them for going on as normal when part of my life had ended. I think you caught that so well. It may have been a while since he last saw Susan but with her passing he's undone. I love that its Mara who keeps him centred in such a loving manner, that's as it should be.
Like falling asleep sounds very Harry Potterish and that you may tie to.
A beautiful if sad way to end this most incredible of years, thank you for being around to endure it with me.
Two things really stood out for me here.
One was the disconnect between Shirley and Gilbert. Gilbert's 'I know she was important to you' is so off the mark as to be criminal. There's just an ocean of miscommunication in that one sentence, such economical and poignant writing. And it's interesting because Jo may not be related to Shirley but he comes so much closer to him in this moment than Gilbert ever will, and I don't think it's just because he's recently lost Phil either, there's more to it than that. Although of course chatting with someone a bit removed from the family is often easier isn't it.
The other thing is that strange sense that the world will keep on turning even when your foundation is rocked. I got that feeling when my Dad died. I watched someone going about their shopping from the window of the hospital and wondered at it. I wanted to rail and gnash my teeth (such an evocative phrase - sounds painful) at them for going on as normal when part of my life had ended. I think you caught that so well. It may have been a while since he last saw Susan but with her passing he's undone. I love that its Mara who keeps him centred in such a loving manner, that's as it should be.
Like falling asleep sounds very Harry Potterish and that you may tie to.
A beautiful if sad way to end this most incredible of years, thank you for being around to endure it with me.
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Oh! here was I thinking about Kitty and Teddy in some bizarre way earlier today and I land upon this delightful gem of a chapter.
I adore Teddy's hesitance of asking her to the Christmas ball, knowing she would try to get out of it. there sibling back and forth of what's in it for her made me laugh.
Of course, you won me over at the talks of dresses, and sewing. Mara is a wonder, and I laughed at the mention of Faith's sewing only consists of stitching human flesh haha. I enjoyed the mention of how their life has changed with the stock market crash and how expensive clothing is in general especially a party dress! Mara coming to the rescue with a brand new dress, and if the old dresses are worn out and that many years old, dreadfully out of style by this point of 1931! A lot of changes from the 1920's to the 1930s.
Teddy protecting her from unwanted attention is a lovely detail, and how he warns them to never talk about his sister in such a way really brought me back to this morning's discussion about them...or was it yesterdays? Either way it made my night to read this!
Oh! here was I thinking about Kitty and Teddy in some bizarre way earlier today and I land upon this delightful gem of a chapter.
I adore Teddy's hesitance of asking her to the Christmas ball, knowing she would try to get out of it. there sibling back and forth of what's in it for her made me laugh.
Of course, you won me over at the talks of dresses, and sewing. Mara is a wonder, and I laughed at the mention of Faith's sewing only consists of stitching human flesh haha. I enjoyed the mention of how their life has changed with the stock market crash and how expensive clothing is in general especially a party dress! Mara coming to the rescue with a brand new dress, and if the old dresses are worn out and that many years old, dreadfully out of style by this point of 1931! A lot of changes from the 1920's to the 1930s.
Teddy protecting her from unwanted attention is a lovely detail, and how he warns them to never talk about his sister in such a way really brought me back to this morning's discussion about them...or was it yesterdays? Either way it made my night to read this!
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Oh mandy, in that ever awkward stage of ten years. Still very much a child, yet each day she is older than the last. When did they grow up?
To feel so grown up, to not want to move yet again. To fall in love with a place and have it taken away in all such unfairness of life her parents choose to have. I get more of the sense of how similar yet how different Mandy and Miri are, Miri doesn't seem to mind the notion of moving once again. Yet Mandy is devastated, she wears her heart on her sleeve and runs wild with it. Miri is most likely most quiet and protective, that a place where family is home.
I adore the small parts of Jerry we get in this as well, how the war still haunts him in his own ways. His stiff neck. How he doesn't like music or dancing, or what I can also assume to be crowded places. We live a rather nomadic life with his painting. Place to place, looking for things to paint. It reminds me of my mother's childhood with grandpa in the army and air force...moving place to place, having to make new friends. She said it wasn't easy and was happy when he retired when she got into highschool.
Either way lovely chapter, I can see your love of dance through it.
Oh mandy, in that ever awkward stage of ten years. Still very much a child, yet each day she is older than the last. When did they grow up?
To feel so grown up, to not want to move yet again. To fall in love with a place and have it taken away in all such unfairness of life her parents choose to have. I get more of the sense of how similar yet how different Mandy and Miri are, Miri doesn't seem to mind the notion of moving once again. Yet Mandy is devastated, she wears her heart on her sleeve and runs wild with it. Miri is most likely most quiet and protective, that a place where family is home.
I adore the small parts of Jerry we get in this as well, how the war still haunts him in his own ways. His stiff neck. How he doesn't like music or dancing, or what I can also assume to be crowded places. We live a rather nomadic life with his painting. Place to place, looking for things to paint. It reminds me of my mother's childhood with grandpa in the army and air force...moving place to place, having to make new friends. She said it wasn't easy and was happy when he retired when she got into highschool.
Either way lovely chapter, I can see your love of dance through it.
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Oh Iain, sweet dear Iain worried about faerie food and being stuck. Being afraid of being trapped in this unknown land with people he does not know. I wonder who just put those faerie tales in his head. Of course, he gets seasick, and he worries about pilgrim, it's all too big for his little head to comprehend just how this trip will change him.
Slowly the highlands take over for him and he opens up to the magicalness, doesn't he? Racing the waves, getting soaked in saltwater with his auntie.
Then he's at the end, excited to be going home. To see his cousins yet he finds himself leaving a part of himself there, a piece to always come back to, even as a child and it magical. This entire chapter is just magical.
Oh Iain, sweet dear Iain worried about faerie food and being stuck. Being afraid of being trapped in this unknown land with people he does not know. I wonder who just put those faerie tales in his head. Of course, he gets seasick, and he worries about pilgrim, it's all too big for his little head to comprehend just how this trip will change him.
Slowly the highlands take over for him and he opens up to the magicalness, doesn't he? Racing the waves, getting soaked in saltwater with his auntie.
Then he's at the end, excited to be going home. To see his cousins yet he finds himself leaving a part of himself there, a piece to always come back to, even as a child and it magical. This entire chapter is just magical.
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Oh Tuesday, you really are your owner's companion when you start finding bodies for them.
I said it before, but Kingsport seems to be an interesting place! I feel like Jem needs to meet an old older Detective Murdoch on a holiday in Nova Scotia to compare cases they had over the years.
I enjoy the tales they spin for this man is a spy somehow, the cyanide. Jems own memories of it from the war. I enjoy how it's a police investigation around the kitchen table with the children. I do enjoy Jem with the children, how he sits with Sophy on his lap. Those children must be so immune to the corpse, medical, and police talk at this point. Then again they most likely nerve had a chance!
I loved that even Tuesday was the funeral. I felt a pang for Mara, mentioning they never could busy Alec.
The ending line was lovely, about the white tulip sprouting early.
Oh Tuesday, you really are your owner's companion when you start finding bodies for them.
I said it before, but Kingsport seems to be an interesting place! I feel like Jem needs to meet an old older Detective Murdoch on a holiday in Nova Scotia to compare cases they had over the years.
I enjoy the tales they spin for this man is a spy somehow, the cyanide. Jems own memories of it from the war. I enjoy how it's a police investigation around the kitchen table with the children. I do enjoy Jem with the children, how he sits with Sophy on his lap. Those children must be so immune to the corpse, medical, and police talk at this point. Then again they most likely nerve had a chance!
I loved that even Tuesday was the funeral. I felt a pang for Mara, mentioning they never could busy Alec.
The ending line was lovely, about the white tulip sprouting early.
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Oh! what it takes to get a cup of tea in the police station!
I kept giggling at their attempts to have their tea and what it took to get their tea. I particularly enjoyed who Geordie was sending people with burns and chapped hands to Jem to make a point to whoever was leaving the sign for them.
I am curious who it was some disgruntled lady who had to clean up after the men and never got a thank you?
Oh! what it takes to get a cup of tea in the police station!
I kept giggling at their attempts to have their tea and what it took to get their tea. I particularly enjoyed who Geordie was sending people with burns and chapped hands to Jem to make a point to whoever was leaving the sign for them.
I am curious who it was some disgruntled lady who had to clean up after the men and never got a thank you?