Is there a Call the Midwife thread?

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The poor little boy

The cleanliness, the art and music appreciation and piano-playing was all completely lost on me

Well, as she was in bed kissing her girlfriend last week, I suspect not!

what a terrible era to live in

It was a blink and you could miss it. She was the guest expert at the cubs doing burn-treatment.

Hurrah for new-midwife-whose-name-I-can't-remember!!

She was the mother in East is East (film). She's fab. Had an idea she may be a 'flinty exterior / heart of gold' character.

oh god yes she was,i wondered where id seen her

I'm a bit worried by Trixie's alcohol consumption!

it's sad,the husband will live a lie all his life

A terrible time to live in. I really felt for the husband.

They did seem to be focussing on Trixies alcohol consumption this week.

Another good episode that shows things have moved on for the better thank God!

When did being gay stop being a criminal offence?

Hope Trixie isn't turning into a drunk!

I'm not sure that being gay was criminal but cottaging was/is.

The Sexual Offences Act 1967 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom (citation 1967 c. 60). It decriminalised homosexual acts in private between two men, both of whom had to have attained the age of 21. The Act applied only to England and Wales and did not cover the Merchant Navy or the Armed Forces. Homosexuality was decriminalised in Scotland by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 and in Northern Ireland by the Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982.

Yes, gay sex was illegal until I think 1968. Extraordinary to think how much has changed how quickly, and that goes for the anti-Irish prejudice too.

I vaguely remember 'no Irish' signs in guest houses / pub windows in the early 1970s.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBT_history_in_Britain

1967 as long as you were over 21 & in private (1980 in Scotland, 1982 in NI).

It wasn't until 2001 that the age of consent was lowered to 16 in line with heterosexual sex.

Bloody hell - gay sex was illegal in Scotland till 1980? How sad. I do remember the age of consent being brought into line with the heterosexual one.

Weebarra I think that will be the story in two weeks time. The script writers are not very subtle and they have had her drinking a lot all series.

I am at how recent the law was changed! Crazy but I suppose in some countries it is still very much illegal

Were lesbians excluded then?

Lesbians were excluded due to the fact there was no penetration involved (apparently)

We're going to have alcoholic Trixie and the doctor will get lung cancer.

Wasn't it something to do with Queen Victoria not believing lesbians existed? Or did I invent that?