Call the Midwife, I love Sunday night telly!!

[BrightnessFalls]

well, I will do for the next six weeks

"I dont think it was about sex at all"

Well this was the thing for me.

I get how they felt that they could only rely on each other & wanted companionship & a feeling of being close at every given opportunity & the fear of losing each other.

So I could quite see how they might be sharing a bed & not having sex.

Have done it myself!

yes I agree with you diddl , they didnt have a home life they didnt have anybody except each other and because they didnt go into what happened in the workhouse maybe it was lost in translation to some , I found it very moving

Found this weeks episode really moving

I cried the most at this episode (although we lost my uncle to cancer last month so it was all a bit close to home iygwim) it was wonderfully done

I'm absolutely loving this series, its fantastic

That workhouse site was fascinating and a little scary Nutella - from one of the Glasgow poorhouses I got this gem:

"In 1885, Malcolm M'Neill (Visiting Officer for the Board of Supervision) reported on conditions at Barnhill. The "Class C" diet he refers to comprised meal and milk for breakfast and supper, and bread and meat-broth for dinner.

The House appeared to me clean and orderly throughout.
My attention was attracted by the large amount of bread etc. stored in the Infirm Wards, and on enquiry I learned that the issue is made but once daily instead of with each separate meal. The Committee should consider this subject and in my opinion should direct the issue of each ration complete at the meal hour, and the removal after a reasonable interval of the unconsumed food.
The women in the washhouse still receive tea and bread in addition to class C diet ? an unnecessary, and in some respects, mischievous indulgence.
The diet of the children is wisely varied, and their appearance is satisfactory, but I must still urge the substitution of sweet milk for butter milk in the whole of this class.
When the furnishing of the test wards is undertaken I should propose to the Committee the abolition of the double bed to contain mother and child, and the introduction of a small crib for each infant, placed beside, or at the foot of, the mother's bed."

Because heaven help if the women got tea and bread - what ever will they want next?

I LOVE it! it is so funny at times but can make you cry at other's xxxx :o

I've only just watched this week's episode. I found it very sad, and just so hard to relate to, compared to some of the other stories. It's so hard to believe that that happened, not at all long ago.

Just bumping for tonight!

Last one

Did she used to be in Coro?

Remind me please - what time is it on this week?

Wasn't she a Platt?

Already on Soupdragon, started at half past 8.

Oh, thought it was 9 ish this week. Never mind iplayer it is :o

Sarah Jane something?

she was in corrie I think - had a baby young in it

Ah yes. That's her.

Wish my hair looked like that after labour!

Triplets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!!!!!!!!!

Oh my

Wasnt it Jenny in the book that delivered the suprise triplets?

Jenny's love-life is rather boring...

Imagine suddenly having 3 children

From none to three!!!

Also being a unmarried mother in the 1950s would have been tough wouldn't it?