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

Random Sunday Post:                                                       

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.