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The poor little boy

I don't think she does have most of her marbles back. She always had times where she made perfect sense.

But she seems to be making a lot more sense than she used to, Soup - I'd noticed that too.

Yes, the point about last night's episode was that what Sister Monica Joan achieved (understanding the problem of a woman in labour turning up when there were no midwives to hand, thinking of someone who could deal with the situation, taking the woman there then assisting at the birth) would have been nothing special for any of the other nuns but was a massive achievement for someone with dementia.

Surely what someone with all their marbles would have done is to have called an ambulance?

I have always had the impression she is stuck in her past, so old memories etc are what are clearest to her. Having a phone to call an ambulance would be relatively recent so not the first thing she thought of. She took a labouring woman out into the rain to a doctor's where she couldn't be sure there was someone in. I'm not convinced that is the action of someone thinking rationally!

I don't think Trixie is that shallow that she just wants nice clothes and a good time

Yes, I think Trixie has probably had a privileged but sad and troubled upbringing, and really needs someone like her minister guy who genuinely loves her and cares for her.

Yes she just wants stability and to be happy of course she will always look fabulous

This series is really starting to annoy me, am I right in thinking it is the first which is not based on J Worth's books? I think you can really tell they're not true stories, it feels like a 21st century view of what things were like (through a PC lens) rather than what they really were like, which was the beauty of the series before.
Very sad as I loved the previous series and the 'real-ness' of it made it all the more touching.

Chewbecca, I think you are spot on there.

Even the earlier series tended to sugarcoat some of the more horrifying stories, but at least the stories themselves were real, and you did have a sense of how brutal life was for many people. But I'm quite fed up of the way that "issues" such as homosexuality are being shoehorned in so that we can see how even in 1960 our middle-class characters had impeccable PC attitudes, which they almost certainly wouldn't have done.

I think so Chew

It seems to be touching on social issues like the woman who was working & leaving her kids.

I'm sure it happened, & doubt it would have been dealt with as it was.

Much like the homosexual story the other week.

I thought they were based on real stories by other midwives.

I thought Trixie was compensation for a crap childhood with an alcoholic father. This week she mentioned his drinking problem (or rather that he said he didn't have one) and another week she identified with a young mother who was struggling and the implied that was what she had been like.

Agree with Chew.

And I don't think men wore wedding rings in the sixties?

Some did, some didn't. Less universal than now though, you're right.

Totally agree with Chewy.

There was nothing sugar coated about the syphillitic prostitutes was there? that was awful,apart from the ending where the nun was talking to them in a meeting. Poor little girl growing up in that environment.

In the Victorian times your babies had no chance of surviving unscathed; Mrs Beeton got it from her husband and had a terrible time having babies. That's why she died so young.

Mrs beaton died from syphilis really ! It was when sister winifred asked the police officer (can never remember mr chummys name) how many prostitutes were working in poplar he said oh let me think 6/7 thousand I can well believe a nun would start a safesex programme tbh nuns worked in their communities

Men definitely wore wedding rings in the 60s - at least all my side of the family & DH's. All the wedding photos have the 'ring shot' (so to speak).

It probably depended on lots of things if they could afford a wedding ring where the man worked I can Imagine if they worked in heavy industry they wouldn't wear a ring my dh just wears his if we are go ing out In his job it would be easy caught and his finger could be damaged. I don't think it was tradition for men not to wear rings just circumstances

Yes the C of E nuns ! She was very brave I reckon.

I thought the policeman said six or seven hundred prostitutes in Poplar, not thousand?

Yes, six or seven hundred, not thousand.

If Dr T isn't going to have a smoking related illness, why the small subtle smoking references? This week Mrs T found his ashtray somewhere and gave it to him - a completely pointless part of the story unless smoking is relevant. Also, the bit where he gave Mrs T his cigarette. There are smoking references that are almost at the front of the story rather than just background notice IYSWIM. Like Trixies drinking in this series.

Yes Clawdy and Icimoi 6 or 7 hundred!

Oh im sure I heard thousand 700 is still a lot