Great Slaughter

The Domestic Goblin was delighted to learn that Sister Boniface (whom she first encountered in 2013 during episode 1:6 of Father Brown) has her own spin-off series. The DG was able to binge watch series one to four in January 2026 and awaits patiently for series five to be filmed...

L-R: Peggy Button, Sam Gillespie, Sister Boniface,
Felix Livingstone

Sister Boniface

~ Catholic nun at St Vincent's Convent founded in 1829.

~ Police Scientific Advisor.

~ Vintner/wine maker.

~ Education

Double-starred First from Cambridge.

PhD in Biochemistry and Forensic Science.

Reads ancient Greek.

Speaks and translated German during the war.

~ Three-time chess champion at Cambridge University.

~Drives a Vespa with a side car.

~ Family

Father: Malise Bonham-Crane, Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Physics at Oxford University, commited atheist.

Mother: Vivienne Bonham-Crane, retired musician, commited atheist.

Sister: Persephone Bonham-Crane, graduated top of her class at St Aquilina College Music School, First Chair musician.

~ Pediophobic

Afraid of dollies, especially their eyes.

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~ Sometimes the absence of something is as significant as its presence.

~ Fervour by Jean Patrice (world's most expensive perfume according to Woman's Hour).

~ Fictional cigarette brands:

Doctor Belgravia Milds

Kensington Slims

Filberts

Hurlinghams

Harlan's of Grosvenor Street

Sorry dear, I could barely hear you above your agenda (Prunella Gladwell)

~ Prunella's comments whilst taste testing desserts:

The consistency brings to mind the texture of wet cement.

It's not a major disaster, more of a minor catastrophe.

It will certainly stick indelibly into my memory as well as my teeth.

~ Madame Lux perfume worn by Irene Symonds 

~ I prefer the eudemonist approach: The right action is action in accordance with the virtues, not forgetting thou shalt not kill.

~ Actually there are startling parallels between the baby Krishna and the baby Jesus.

~ Inside Sister Boniface's pocket: penknife, ball of string, box of matches.

~ What is God if not a supernatural entity?

~Thistletons Fine Fragrances: time-honoured perfumes that are long lasting and true to the fresh flower.

• Falling Flora (new)
• Leather, honey and a dash of rum (Cyril Clam's discontinued cologne)
• Sterling Silver (veritable paint stripper, a faint whiff of alley at, distinct feline 
• Beauty's Beast (Sterling Thistleton's final fragrance as Head Nose): cedarwood, balsam, whiskey base notes
• Beauty's Beast (Sarah-Mary Clam's adjusted formula): peach and garden mint 
• Sarah-Mary's competition entry for Head Nose: too notes of peach and orange blossom, base/dry down of coconut
• Sarah-Mary's new perfume as the new Head Nose: Jupiter's Rising

~ Sam Gillespie buys a round of drinks:

Snowball for Sister Boniface 

Syrup monstrosity for Peggy Button

Well-earned pint for Felix Livingstone and himself 

~ Mrs Clam's Christmas Day plan:

Stockings followed by morning carols

Then back home for sherry and mince pies

Present opening

Lunch at one o'clock

Three o 'clock Hee Majesty's speech

Followed by tea and parlour games

🎵 Jesus Sister

You cannot miss her

Clues undone

Crooks on the run

The shot is a million to one

When you face the golden nun

The golden nun 🎵

~ Chief Constable Hector Lowsley's extra curricular commitments:

Chairman of the Great Slaughter Cricket Club

Director of the Great Slaughter Amateur Dramatics Society

Bell ringing at St Mary's

Flower arranging

~ Sister Boniface day dreams about a cosmetics range the Catholic Church would approve of:

Flawless Moisturiser, a holy combination of frankincense, myrrh and benzoin oil. Helps my skin and reminds me of my mass commitments.

Your conscience is clear. Make sure your skin is too with Flawless from the Divinity range.

~ Sisters are like magnets. Often we repel each other with such force, but when we are both facing the right way the bond can withstand almost anything. All it takes is for one of you to change direction.

~ The nuns at St Vincent's Convent:

Reverend Mother Adrian

Birth/christened name: Hepzibah.

Sister Boniface

Enjoys: forensic investigations.

Sister Reginald

Birth name: Bridie.

Sister Peter

Sister Laurence

Enjoys cooking.

Sister Harold

Enjoys music.

Sister Benedict

Sister Francis

Enjoys embroidery.

~ Nuns grand cru:

A light bodied red with a hint of raspberries and black pepper.

~ St Vincent's Convent doors always open to those in need. Here there is goodness in plain sight.

 

~ Now the first Lord Sedgwick acquired some land

The hallowed soil upon which we stand

And with spade and shovel and saw and pick

Sedgwick Manor rose brick by brick

And after starting his lineage of Sedgwick infants 

They built in the edge of their land St Vincent's

At first an abbey of monk and misters

It became a convent of nuns and sisters

And around it spirited a fledging town

That grew into a place of great renown

And 500 years of habitation saw a post office, a tea shop, a fine police station

And under the steadfast Sedgewick wing

Great Slaughter began to really sin

The land passed down from father to son

The key to each and everyone

~ Fish bums!

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* Information in this post were derived from series one to four of the Sister Boniface Mysteries *

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Bonus:

Sister Reginald: Our Lord asked for poverty, chastity and obedience - didn't say anything about sobriety!

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L-R: Sister Laurence, Sister Reginald, Reverend Mother Adrian, Sister Boniface, Sister Peter

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