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In one of the Christmas episodes (season 2, I think), the gang ends up at Mrs. Pumphrey's manor house for Christmas dinner. If Mrs. P. was going to disapprove of Mrs. Hall, she certainly would have been upset about having a mere servant at her table.

I don't think that we're up to 1943 yet. Real history spoiler alert....

There's a fascinating documentary series called Wartime Farm (from the folks who brought us Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm, and Tudor Monastery Farm) that talks about how the British government dealt with the interruption of imported food. They were planting on the shoulder of roads! I'm glad that they showed the victory gardens, but that was just a small part of the work to feed the country.

I suspect they didn't have anything approaching central heating at Skeldale House (or pretty much anywhere in England at that time). Babies aren't good at regulating their body temperature, so a hat in coolish weather is a must.

Dr. Noah Wolf: "I once had a great maté in Argentina". Me: laughing hysterically!

I have two Asian nieces and three Asian great-nieces and I absolutely adore Jee!

I watched the episode a second time tonight, so that Mom could catch up. I noticed something odd this time through, in the fictional timeline. Melissa was supposed to have called the doctor for help on the downstairs phone, because the phone cord in her upstairs bedroom had been pulled from the wall by the murderer. Then she goes upstairs to the bedroom after the call and is murdered. Why did Pünd (or maybe it was Chubb) specify that she couldn't have made the call from upstairs because of the phone cord? It's out of order - the murderer would have yanked the cord out of the wall after the call to the doctor - and it seems extraneous. So I wonder if it's a hidden clue. Or a red herring.

I wonder if her law license is in the name of Madeline Matlock - as her maiden name. Or did her grandson say something about choosing the name Matlock for her? I totally agree about going to the prison on the morning of the trial - absurd!

First episode of season eight -- Bobby steps out of the shower....

I'm not sure if this belongs in Speculation or here, but . . . . I've assumed that their boundaries are roughly circular, centered on the site of one's death. So, do all of the ghosts have the same boundaries? For example, Hetty died in the house, and Flower died out in the woods. Could Flower go farther away from the house in the direction of her death site than Hetty could?

Week twenty-one: one of five without the asterisk. I'm blaming my performance on the nasty, nasty cold that I have.

Week twenty: three of five - all of the non-asterisks!

Week nineteen: one. Just one and not even an asterisk. I'm blaming the cold for slowing my brain to a crawl. On Friday, I yelled "it's that guy that created the mobile in the Pittsburgh Airport!" I'm making a big pot of pasta fajioli, with cheese tortellini for the pasta. I need heat, veg, and carbs!

Week eighteen: four of five. On Friday, I had no clue, so I guessed the Danube. Aren't there a lot of capitols on the Danube? No Pop Tarts! I hate Pop Tarts!!

Week seventeen: four of five without the asterisk. I said Peter Rabbit, too.