Is there a Call the Midwife thread?

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The poor little boy

I think they're both from quite posh backgrounds, aren't they? It's ten years later, but my mum always tells me people didn't have housemates when she was a young woman - you lived with your parents, or in some kind of official group accommodation (like Nonnatus) or you were married. Maybe it was the same then? So maybe that's why they can't.

You'd have needed a male guarantor to buy a house back then (and right into the 80s IIRC), so probably you'd need one to rent, too. I mean, women must have done, I'm just thinking through why they don't.

I welled up at the bit with the elderly couple when she talked about how she wanted him to go first so he'd never be without her. I didn't find the baby storyline that engaging (also called it very early on).

I also think the little girl would have had a clip round the ear from her dad. There seem to be an awful lot of people in 1960 with 21st century attitudes towards childrearing, homosexuality etc.

I agree about the implausibility of Patsy and her girlfriend wanting to get married. Also, there was nothing to stop them sharing a flat. I had an elderly aunt who lived all her adult life in Australia with her "friend". Nobody ever said that this was a gay relationship and yet it obviously was.

The whole episode was rather irritating.

I imagine that gay people must have wished they could marry and live as a couple for many many years before it became acceptable and legal. I don't think there was anything incongruous about expressing that wish to your partner - there wasn't even anything wistful about it, it was a definite acceptance of "but we can't". It would have been wrong to have expressed it to anyone else though.

I agree with hackmum. The 21st century attitudes are ruining the episodes, because they are so blatantly at odds with what we know or remember to be true.

I was a child in the 70s, and no way would a child behaving like that have been pandered to, by the father or the nuns. I also remember "friends" sharing houses all their lives.

Hmm. I think TBH it would have sounded quite unusual even twenty years later than the programme is set, but could be I am naive. Even when I was an undergrad, plenty of people in the LGB society didn't think equal marriage was ever going to happen (and some didn't think it'd be a good thing if it did).

MrsDeVere - have you seen WPC56? It's on in the daytime for the next couple of weeks. It's about - well - a WPC in the 50s/60s (I think). I really got into Father Brown as well .

i think the lesbian women would have been expected to be married off.
i enjoy The Royal, although it is nowhere near as good as CTMW, but the one episode of WPC56 I saw I thought was ridiculous,

I think what made the comment believable to me is that it was only said between the couple and there was no hint of "wouldn't it be nice if we could get married?". The girlfriend knew it wouldn't happen.

If the conversation had happened between the other midwives, it would have been totally wrong.

Is it? WP56 I mean? Not seen it yet - I recorded a couple of episodes last week. If it's pants I might delete.

YY, I do take your point soup, just think even that is quite a recent thing?

But of course you are right it'd have had a totally different connotation said to other people.

I am really enjoying that storyline in general, though. They've not gone down the schmaltzy route of having Patsy confide in the other midwives/the nuns and make them all terribly accepting, which I thought was a risk initially.

MrsDe - ah, but isn't that because you know the truth?! I know I am guessing and keep thinking, darn, was that plausible or am I just being daft?

mrsdevere and horace I record the royal every day and watch them all on my day off or when DH is out! I can only admit that kind of thing on MN!

Like MrsDeVere I was there too!

Was a Student Nurse in the Children's Hospital on the Hackney Road in the early 60's. Did a placement with the nuns in 1964 , a real eye opener and there was extensive poverty. Surprised the hospital isn't mentioned as it was so important to the East End.

On the whole it is quite realistic but they do get things wrong. Two weeks ago the baby needed Paracetamol.......not in use then. Baby needed intravenous antibiotics.......not around in the 1960's.

But it is easy watching and makes me very nostalgic

WPC56 is very good. Watched series 1 on iplayer just into series 2 now

Hmm. I shall give it a watch, then. I suppose only I can decide if it's my taste or not.

as much as I love CTMW (guilty pleasure shared only by me in my house), the new nun is getting a bit too simpering and OTT, its starting to get on my nerves.

I always liked Heartbeat, personally.

I can't even remember that nun's name (shows how much of an impression she's made...).

Sister Winifred, that's it.

I thought the mix-up was a bit odd, and I didn't really get why Sister Evangelina was having such a break down over it - it didn't seem quite in character.

I thought this was the best bit as she acted it very well. I would certainly be distraught if I realised I'd made such a terrible mistake as mixing up two babies. It's not like picking up the wrong coat and meeting up to swap them back! Sister Evangelina realised the implications straight away and I could almost feel the terrible dread (although not being a nun it would have been a loud "oh shit" from me ).

Sister Evangelina was the last person I'd have expected to mix the babies up.

Horrible of me to say, because she's so nice, somebody mentioned the simpering nun. The soft baby voice was starting to irritate me last episode.

I thought the scene between Patsy and her girlfriend was touching.

Horrible of me to say, because she's so nice, somebody mentioned the simpering nun. The soft baby voice was starting to irritate me last episode.

Did she irritate you last series when she was just Cynthia?

i wonder if they have got sister evangiline doing this as a get out action, i remember upthread someone saying ctmw is still good while she is in it, I hope she now doesnt leave