I loved this episode, so much going on...Kitty throwing up was very spectacular but all the tangental threads were so great. The Vicar and Mike sledding to the mansion was a great touch. Julian, as expected, leering at the bridesmaids, Captain, and his organizational and decorating skills...and Keith who shot Pat showing up for the event (the apology at the tree was amazing)! Fanny getting her nose out of joint at the gay wedding dynamics and Humphrey talking her through it...I like Humphrey's head, he's a good fellow. The brides and Mike and Allison's miscommunications made for a very engaging and sweet episode. I'd rate it a 9.25. It's not haha funny, and maybe I'm just appreciating the UK Ghosts vs the US Ghosts which often is a half-hour of stand-up comedy-type stuff. This is one of my favorite episodes.
Loved this episode. Especially the fight scene...alternating 17:09 the fight, and what the people with pulses could see. This episode marks a turning point for Fanny as she begins to develop some understanding that the attitudes of her time may not have been that great, and may have been responsible for her unhappy marriage and death. The scenes with Pat and Kevin were also very touching and beautifully shot. And....Lassie was movies AND a TV series 😂 I think my favourite episode this series was The Thomas Thorne Affair. Loved hearing each of the ghosts telling their version of what happened. And Robin talking about the horse poo on Thomas's lady shoes. As for spooky settings, I've worked in a lot of hospitals and there are always ghost stories. Particularly in the older ones. One palliative care I worked in had a room with 6 beds. A lady whose bed was next to the door rang her buzzer in the middle of the night and told the nurse that the woman diagonally opposite had just climbed out the windows. When the nurse went to look, the patient was dead in the bed. Spooky!
(I think the stuff about Jerusalem last week related to your 'Tash's Spooky Segment/ Corner' - you were trying to remember whether Jesus was crucified at Jerusalem in relation to something in the spooky story). Series 2 is a very strong series throughout, but I think my ranking is:(Top first) The Thomas Thorne Affair About Last Night Bump in the Night The Grey Lady Redding Weddy The Perfect Day (although Pat's story is very emotional, and is well done) The Ghost of Christmas *Caroline's History Corner:* From an article in 'The Week': "The first recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C., in Mesopotamia. Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread institution embraced by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans." In medieval times (so the Plague Ghosts' time) marriages were simply a case of the Bans being read 3 times, and if no objection was forthcoming it was a done deal. All sorts of versions of a marriage ceremony were common for people of no great weath - only some of which involved the church. Marriage didn't become a matter for legal registration until the 19th Century. Minimum age for marriage in 1600 was 12 for girls and 14 for boys (as for Humphrey and Sophie), which remained the case - rather shockingly- until an Act of 1921 raised the age to 16 for both parties, with a need for parental consent for anyone under 21. It has only recently (2023) been raised to 18 for everyone. So each of our ghosts will have had very different experiences of weddings and marriage. Same SexMarriages: In Roman times homosexual relationships were seen as perfectly normal and acceptible. By the 16th century, homosexual acts were punishable by death, but it was seen as quite normal for male friends to speak of, and to, each other in romantic terms. In 1866 Marriage was first defined by law as being 'between a man and a woman' thus preventing any same sex marriages until the 'Marriages (same sex couples bill)' of 2013. Same sex relationships have always been more frowned upon for men than for women ( being a lesbian has never been illegal in the UK, whereas being a Gay Man was, until 1967). Battle of Bosworth- 1485- so exactly right saying 1400's!
I loved this episode, so much going on...Kitty throwing up was very spectacular but all the tangental threads were so great. The Vicar and Mike sledding to the mansion was a great touch. Julian, as expected, leering at the bridesmaids, Captain, and his organizational and decorating skills...and Keith who shot Pat showing up for the event (the apology at the tree was amazing)! Fanny getting her nose out of joint at the gay wedding dynamics and Humphrey talking her through it...I like Humphrey's head, he's a good fellow. The brides and Mike and Allison's miscommunications made for a very engaging and sweet episode. I'd rate it a 9.25. It's not haha funny, and maybe I'm just appreciating the UK Ghosts vs the US Ghosts which often is a half-hour of stand-up comedy-type stuff. This is one of my favorite episodes.
Loved this episode. Especially the fight scene...alternating 17:09 the fight, and what the people with pulses could see. This episode marks a turning point for Fanny as she begins to develop some understanding that the attitudes of her time may not have been that great, and may have been responsible for her unhappy marriage and death. The scenes with Pat and Kevin were also very touching and beautifully shot.
And....Lassie was movies AND a TV series 😂
I think my favourite episode this series was The Thomas Thorne Affair. Loved hearing each of the ghosts telling their version of what happened. And Robin talking about the horse poo on Thomas's lady shoes.
As for spooky settings, I've worked in a lot of hospitals and there are always ghost stories. Particularly in the older ones. One palliative care I worked in had a room with 6 beds. A lady whose bed was next to the door rang her buzzer in the middle of the night and told the nurse that the woman diagonally opposite had just climbed out the windows. When the nurse went to look, the patient was dead in the bed. Spooky!
Keith, not Kevin
And I don't know where the 17.09 came from....it should say between 😂
(I think the stuff about Jerusalem last week related to your 'Tash's Spooky Segment/ Corner' - you were trying to remember whether Jesus was crucified at Jerusalem in relation to something in the spooky story).
Series 2 is a very strong series throughout, but I think my ranking is:(Top first)
The Thomas Thorne Affair
About Last Night
Bump in the Night
The Grey Lady
Redding Weddy
The Perfect Day (although Pat's story is very emotional, and is well done)
The Ghost of Christmas
*Caroline's History Corner:*
From an article in 'The Week':
"The first recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C., in Mesopotamia. Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread institution embraced by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans."
In medieval times (so the Plague Ghosts' time) marriages were simply a case of the Bans being read 3 times, and if no objection was forthcoming it was a done deal. All sorts of versions of a marriage ceremony were common for people of no great weath - only some of which involved the church. Marriage didn't become a matter for legal registration until the 19th Century.
Minimum age for marriage in 1600 was 12 for girls and 14 for boys (as for Humphrey and Sophie), which remained the case - rather shockingly- until an Act of 1921 raised the age to 16 for both parties, with a need for parental consent for anyone under 21. It has only recently (2023) been raised to 18 for everyone.
So each of our ghosts will have had very different experiences of weddings and marriage.
Same SexMarriages:
In Roman times homosexual relationships were seen as perfectly normal and acceptible. By the 16th century, homosexual acts were punishable by death, but it was seen as quite normal for male friends to speak of, and to, each other in romantic terms. In 1866 Marriage was first defined by law as being 'between a man and a woman' thus preventing any same sex marriages until the 'Marriages (same sex couples bill)' of 2013. Same sex relationships have always been more frowned upon for men than for women ( being a lesbian has never been illegal in the UK, whereas being a Gay Man was, until 1967).
Battle of Bosworth- 1485- so exactly right saying 1400's!