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All Creatures Great and Small Recap: The Gang’s All Here (Except Tristan)
The premiere has a baby calf, baby human, and a funny cat mix up. This show is the best.
Now, regarding the whole brucellosis thing — the real James Herriot left the military after he had surgery on an anal fistula, but I guess the show didn’t want to talk about that. He doesn’t think it’s a job for women, but Mrs. Hall was a Wren in World War I, and she refuses the idea that she can’t “ride a bicycle around Darrowby and tell people to close their curtains.” Siegfried finds out when he sees her in her uniform and he’s SO PROUD OF HER. Not to start a controversial co-sleeping conversation in the closing moments of this recap, but my sister-in-law works in a pediatric ICU, and all I can think when I see a tiny baby presumably about to sleep in a bed between two adults is, “Agghhhhhhhhhh!” The stories I have been told.
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