It's Sunday - Take a Walk - Walk Your Dog

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Kindy

                                    

It's Sunday, get off your computers.

Go take a walk and take your dog with you.

Or you cat, I would like to see people walking cats. :-)





Can't get away from technology completely?

Well then, here is a playlist.....



Imagine Dragons:

Enjoy!

Call the Midwife Season 2 Episode 4

This week on Call the Midwife (Sundays PBS): Nurse Jenny returns to Nonnatus House after working at The London, a large hospital also on London's east side where she was doing a surgical rotation. 

Episode three will be covered  later this week, as last week's Call the Midwife Monday was not posted due to current events in the U.S.

Jenny at The London

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Episode four opens with Jenny on a bicycle.  Always with the bicycles.  Bicycles are the midwives main means of transportation. 

This week Sister Evangelina and Jenny deliver a baby suffering from Spina Bifida, which is a condition where there appears to be a hole in the child's back.  This condition is extremely serious, especially in the 1950's.

Jane, the newcomer to Nonnatus House finds a love interest in a long-winded Reverend who is an acquaintance of Chummy's from Sierra Leon; where she is working as a missionary.

During the episode the fact that Jane has never been kissed comes to light when the girls are trying to name a goldfish Jane had won at the fair.. They suggest she name the fish after her first kiss, she replies ["that this fish must remain nameless then"].  The girls feel bad for Jane, understandably.

The baby featured in this episode, the baby with Spina Bifida, faces a bleak future at St. Gideon's house (a home for disabled or otherwise orphaned children).  The baby's parents are having difficulty accepting the child's prognosis.

Jenny and Jane visit St. Gideon's where Jane reveals she was raised there.  She later explains to the Reverend that she was left there because she was a nervous, frightful child.

The parents of the child come to there wits and decide to raise their child at home, but only after driving there and carrying him inside.  The father asks one of the residents how it is at St. Gideon's, and the boy replies that it is okay because there is a biscut factory next door and the children recieve the broken ones (the rejects).  At this the father decides to underhandly convince his wife to keep and raise the baby.  He is a gambler and he bets on his wife's heart.  Better judgement prevailed.

In the end Jane was finally able to name her fish.  He is named Reverend Appleby Thornton.

Gone With the Wind Part 5

On the last two Gone With the Wind Wednesday's, the topic has been characters.  Namely Scarlett, Rhett, Melanie, and Ashley.

Today's post examines two more integral characters, Tara and Twelve Oaks.

Yes, these are the names of two plantations in the book and film.  But places can be characters too.  These two plantations have story-line's of their own.  They are dynamic characters, meaning they change over the course of the story.  We as readers and viewers come to care what happens to these places/homes of our main human characters.

Tara is the name of the plantation that Scarlett grows up on.  Twelve Oaks is the name of the plantation that Ashley grew up on.  Both Scarlett and Ashley care deeply about their homes.  This becomes clear over the course of the story.  As Gerald, Scarlett's father said "land is the only thing that matters".

Tara

Twelve Oaks

These were cotton plantations in the American south (The Confederacy) in the mid to late 1800's.  Large, well maintained, and filled with people.  At least at the beginning.  These places are the source of both great happiness and great sorrow.  The type of homes that represent a way of life.  They are at once filled with love and strife.  The strife of the landowners and their families and strife of the slaves that helped to run these gigantic operations.

Grand Staircase at Twelve Oaks

Beautiful homes.

Random Saturday

I came across this song the other day called Ambition, so far I know the artist's name is Ian Crosstown and I think he's in L.A.  I will post more later about him, but I wanted help get this "out there" so hear it is:

Benjamin Bunny gives it 9 out of 10 Bunnies.

Gone With the Wind Part 4

The Character of Melanie

Gone With the Wind both the book and the film have a somewhat large cast of characters.  This week for Gone With the Wind Wednesday we will cover two major characters.  Melanie Hamilton and Ashley Wilkes.




Melanie Hamilton was played by Olivia de Haviland in the film adaptation.  In the book and the film she has been described by Scarlett as "mealy mouthed", "who won't open her mouth except to say yes or no."  However, Melanie has a quiet strength that might sometimes go overlooked.  When she is introduced she is a quiet girl from Atlanta.  She is Ashley's cousin.  "Wilkes's always marry their cousins" according to another character.






                                                                                                                                                        
Ashley Wilkes was played by Leslie Howard in the film adaptation.  Ashley is Scarlett's childhood and longtime love or rather crush.  He is from the plantation down the road from Tara called Twelve Oaks.  He is a slow and steady character, part of the old guard of the South.  This means he loved the South the way it was before the Civil War started and changed his homeland.

The Character of Ashley Wilkes

  

Olivia de Haviland as:

                                                                   Leslie Howard as:

           A clip about Ashley and Melanie:

Call the Midwife Season 2 Episode 2

Call the Midwife aired Sunday April 7 on PBS.  This was episode 2 of season 2.

So what are the women of Nonnatus House doing this season?

The episodes main story was about nurse Cynthia and a baby she delivered that later died.  She feels responsible even though she knows she did not cause the infants death.

Chummy (Camilla) announces her intintion to become a missionary in Sierra Leon along with her husband.  They face obstacles in the way of their plan.  Her husband needs to be able to pass a physical exam to assume his job there.  He is out of shape so Fred, the loveable slightly quirky caretaker of Nonnatus House helps him get fit in time to go abroad.

Jenny Lee, the main character from the first season is stunned to find out that a man who had declared his love for her last season is going to have a baby with another woman whom he is not married to.

Dr. Turner has captured the affections of one of the nuns, whether he realizes this or not is as yet unclear.

Trixie is her usual beautiful, vivacious self.

Sister Monica Joan, the absent minded nun, is upset that she will no longer to be able to take her taxi rides to visit her family due to budget constraints.  She turns it around though.  And gets her family to come see her at Nonnatus House.                                             

I will try not to spoil it all in case you have not seen it.  You should watch if you like PBS, period pieces, or any kind of British drama like I do.

Random Friday - New Phone

I have been watching T.V. and listening to my iPod today and thinking about phones. As a P.C. person I find Apple products confusing.  And I just heard about F.B. phones, this is creepy.  Who wants ads all over your phone all the time. These F.B. phone thing will not be on Apple phones, which makes me wonder about my current phone situation...oh what to do.

I want a new phone. A phone that will do what I need it to do.  Phone calls, so last century, I know.  I want texting of course and I like a real QWERTY keypad for this, which rules out iPhones.  I like real buttons.  So I used to be a fan of the Blackberry.  But the new Blackberry does not have buttons.  I need a decent camera on it.  I like to take pictures. I also need something G+ friendly and Twitter friendly.

I have heard Android is the way to go, but I need to know more.

What are some experiences/reviews any of you have concerning Android?

Announcing Call the Midwife Mondays

Mondays will now be Call the Midwife Mondays here on Benjamin Bunny.  There is a new page you can find located in the side bar. -->

Season 2 began on March 31, 2013 so this is a perfect time to become a viewer.  Benjamin Bunny will use Mondays to review and share thoughts on the latest episodes which can be viewed on Sunday nights on PBS.  As well as looking back at season 1, for those of you who might have missed this program.

So "put your kettle on"...for Call the Midwife Mondays here on Benjamin Bunny.

Here is a clip that tells a little about what happened in Season 1 of Call the Midwife (BBC).

Come check out Benjamin Bunny on April 8, 2013.  Let Ben know what you thought about the latest episodes.

Gone With the Wind Part 3

Gone With the Wind Wednesday                               

Third installment of a review and recap of Gone with the Wind.

Today will be a review of two of the main characters which are arguably the same characters in the book and the film adaptation.

Scarlett O'Hara - She is the main character, the heroine.  She was born on her family's plantation Tara.  It is hard to say whether Scarlett is a dynamic or static character.  A lot happens to her but she seems to remain true to herself.  I believe Rhett calls her "selfish to the end".  She remains true to herself even while marrying two men whom she did not love.  The first of which is Charles Hamilton, a Wilkes cousin from Atlanta and Melanie Wilkes's brother.  The second man she marries is her sister Suellen's (Susan Elinor) longtime beau, Frank Kennedy "old ginger whiskers".  She marries these men for her own reasons.  The first because she is a girl of sixteen who has just been devastated by her childhood crush marrying his cousin from Atlanta.  More about Scarlett later.

Rhett Butler - Rhett is a man that was born as a Charleston aristocrat.  Charleston at that time had a very tight knit upper-class part of their society.  Rhett had chosen to rebel in his youth and had spent a good part of his life thumbing his nose at southern conventions.  When we are introduced to him he is a blockade runner.  A real rascal according to southern genteel society's standards.  This was the south in the mid 1800's.

This was an introduction to Scarlett and Rhett.

Next Wednesday the characters to be featured will be:

Melanie Hamilton/Wilkes and Ashley Wilkes

Clip: When Scarlett meets Rhett:

Call the Midwife 1

Call the Midwife                                                  

This program airs on PBS on Sunday nights.

Season 2 premiered Sunday night.

What the show is about:
Call the Midwife is about a group women in London who work as midwives.  Their primary patients are women that have fallen on hard times and yet keep having children.  They live in a house together with nuns.  It is set in the 1950's.

IMbd gives the show 8.2 stars.

Last nights premiere opened with one of the midwives bike riding down a cobblestone street.  The character featured most last season nurse Jenny Lee.  Chummy then arrives on the scene with her new love Peter.  Chummy is a slightly awkward, very tall woman from a privileged background that has nevertheless found herself working with some of London's poorest families.

The episode featured the introduction of nitrous oxide as a means to control pain during childbirth.  Chummy demonstrated its use to some of the patients and realized she rather enjoyed this gas.

The women they help mostly give birth at home.  They would think a hospital delivery would be a luxury.  Thank goodness for epidurals!

The episode also featured a woman who was in a domestic abuse situation and another woman who lived on a ship with her father the captain.  Her job was to hmm..service the other men that worked on the ship.  She wound up pregnant and when the child was born she decided to go back to her homeland with her new daughter.

Bunny Ranting: 8 Bunnies
and a song about Nitrous Oxide:-)