Better to Marry Than Burn
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Jocasta shares her heart and difficult history.
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Perpetual Adoration S5 E5
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It all feels very Greek tragedy with the webs and spinners.
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From the Beardsley's to Brownsville S5 E3 E4
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Jamie and Claire discover a shocking truth when they try to free the Beardsley brothers from their indenture. Roger commands his way to Brownsville gathering men of fighting age. An adulterer is in their midst. Roger keeps the peace, but ruffles feathers all the same. Brianna fears. Lives are saved. Babies abound.
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Between Two Fires S5 E2
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Jamie is The King of men walking the razor's edge of loyalty, honor, and oaths between the Crown and his people. Murtagh has become a man of blood while stirring the Regulators to violence and rage. Claire is a frustrated 20th-century physician feeling stuck in the ways of the 18th. Roger is feeling inadequate and cannot seem to find a useful place in the 18th-century. Brianna struggles with trauma. Marsali is caught between two mothers. Bonnet believes he is a father and wants what's his.
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On This Day S5 E1
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The people of Fraser's Ridge, friends, and family gathered to celebrate the wedding of Roger MacKenzie and Brianna Ellen Randall Fraser. The big house was almost complete. Memories were shared and made, drinking games, feasting, dancing, romance, threat, treachery, bonding, politics, oaths, and a release of oath all happened in the two days lived onscreen.
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Domesticity, Building Bonds, and Duty Ep 177
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Roger returns with mission incomplete. The baby is cranky. Brianna is at her wit's end. Roger gets beautified. He’ll sing to help Jamie prepare the guests. Roger gives an uncomfortable history lesson to Brianna. Roger sings to an appreciative crowd. Jamie calls the men to duty. Roger reflects. Jamie and Claire find respite in their room. Jamie writes a letter.
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Of Chaos and Change
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Claire administers an eye examination. Mrs. Bug takes ownership of the running of the big house. A family with a sordid past comes to visit. Claire worries. Claire struggles with the changes to come. Fight. Fight. Fight. Solace is found outdoors. Jamie ceremonially prepares for the changes ahead. The men Jamie calls to arms must come of their own volition. A family member is asked to join Jamie in the fight.
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Date Night on The Ridge Ep 175
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Summary: The activities of the Ridge create a picture of the day today. A friend visits bearing news. Brianna and Roger go hunting. The dangers of the 18th century run through Brianna’s mind. Only one has experience with a gun. A willing student Roger makes, but a great shot he is not. Memories of a dear one surface. Roger makes a confession. They play a game only travelers can play. Lactating breasts need relief. A fowl encounter happens on the way home. Brianna was purposely prepared for the 18th.
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Date Night on The Ridge Ep 175
A Dram of Outlander Podcast
Summary: The activities of the Ridge create a picture of the day today. A friend visits bearing news. Brianna and Roger go hunting. The dangers of the 18th century run through Brianna’s mind. Only one has experience with a gun. A willing student Roger makes, but a great shot he is not. Memories of a dear one surface. Roger makes a confession. They play a game only travelers can play. Lactating breasts need relief. A fowl encounter happens on the way home. Brianna was purposely prepared for the 18th.
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The Podcast Returns June 25th
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Hello, A Dram of Outlander listeners. The podcast is back after an unexpected and unavoidable hiatus. We're jumping right back in with The Fiery Cross chapters 19-23 on June 25th.
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Chapters 21-22
Chapters:
21 – Twenty-Twenty
22 – The Fiery Cross
Summary: Claire administers an eye examination. Mrs. Bug takes ownership of the running of the big house. A family with a sordid past comes to visit. Claire worries. Claire struggles with the changes to come. Fight. Fight. Fight. Solace is found outdoors. Jamie ceremonially prepares for the changes ahead. The men Jamie calls to arms must come of their own volition. A family member is asked to join Jamie in the fight.
Setting: The settlement of Fraser’s Ridge, NC - Fall
Active Characters:
- Claire
- Roger
- Brianna
- Jamie
- Bug
- The Muellers
- Chisolm
Events:
- Claire exams Roger’s eyes. Roger doesn’t have binocular vision. He isn’t able to shoot at moving targets. He has eyes like a hawk! But the real question is, is it genetic?
- Mrs. Bug is in her element cooking and caring for Jamie, Claire, and those staying at the ridge or in the big house.
- The Muellers being at The Ridge is challenging since Gerhard is the one who scalped the local Tuscarora who he thought cursed his family with the measles.
- Claire does careful math of the stores to ensure Mrs. Bug isn’t being too elaborate with the feeding. Claire cleverly hides the special foods, so they won’t get gobbled up. She also worries about vitamin deficiency over Winter.
- Claire’s botched penicillin experiment and the catfight between Mrs. Bug and Mrs. Chisolm.
- Claire yearns for the predictability of home, hearth, and her surgery.
- Everyone present is at their wits end with the overcrowded spaces and rowdy children. Brianna snaps. Claire decidedly finds the male folk easier to be around than a bunch of women.
- The echoes of Nayawenne visit Claire as she walks with Jemmy.
- Claire having unsuccessfully visited the malting shed to find some helpful whisky for Jemmy’s sore gums, happens upon Jamie bathing by the spring. He is in the act of ritually cleaning himself.
- After Jamie’s prayer reached its conclusion, Claire and Jemmy join him. Of course, Jamie has a flask of the holy water to soothe his sore gums.
- Jamie explains the calling of the clans for war as he had seen Dougal perform.
- There is a deep understanding that he is not clan chief or laird of the peoples on The Ridge or in the backcountry. The men must come by free will.
- Jamie walks a fine line of a loyalist who will have to turn traitor.
- Jamie shares it was his Uncle Dougal he was seeking for help when he prayed.
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