Call the Midwife is back!

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

This Sunday (17th) at 8pm on BBC1.

I enjoyed the Christmas special - it was good to see Delia back, and I think there's going to be a nice romance with Tom and Barbara

The - it looks like we are going to get a thalidomide story.

Big house and a home help top - the house was inherited it was implied so maybe there was some sort of income inherited too .

Or he was a pimp, or drug dealer. Possibly both.

That reminds me, I loved the light pink dress Roseanne wore. Also really liked Shelagh Turner's blouse and skirt at the beginning of the episode .

Thanks bikerunski

Yes please seasidesally

I've just started watching series 1 again too.
Forgot Sheila used to be a nun!

he is not here at the moment,will post when he returns

Behooven been try to pm you,it wont let me

Damn, wonder what's wrong. Thanks for trying anyway!

In defence of how easily doctor turner gave up smoking, my father qualified as as a doctor in the 60s and he said as soon as the definitive evidence came out on smoking most ( obviously not all) doctors gave up smoking very quickly.

Have just caught up with tonights episode, I cried the whole way through i thought the the actress who played Roseanne was brilliant - had me gripped!

I think the thing about CTMW is that many of the issues covered, have affected many of us too - PND, Bf/FF, miscarriage, chronic poverty, cancer and everything else - have affected many of us too, so each episode has a different impact on different people. For me it's about the third episode of the second series. There was a storyline about a lady who had had rickets as a child and whose pelvis was deformed. She'd carried several heathy babies to term, but they'd been still born due to he not being able to deliver them. The Vanessa Redgrave voice over at the end said "Mrs X had a healthy baby girl, delivered b C section on the new National Health Service, a procedure which would have saved all her stillborn babies". NHS Sections saved both my babies' lives - particularly DD's - and it never would have occurred to me that this was inaccessible to me.

I'm a late comer to CTM, just started watching this series, it's fabulous. I went to an all girls Catholic school in the 1980's, taught by nuns and we had an on site convent, so I love all that side of it! I've been gripped by the story lines up to now. I don't watch much tv, just this and Location really.

I think that Delia will definitely join them, in order to get some significant storylines. At the moment, it's difficult to give her screen time unless she is at the dinner table or with Patsy. She was brilliant on the phone! Would be good to see more of her overprotective mum, too although she'll probably never "come out" to her.

Patsy I like, but l find Delia irritating. Couldn't stand Trixie but I'm warming to her now. Just wish she'd stop saying "garl" and "warth" instead of girl and worth! Over-the-top posh!

Totally agree about the fashion - I loved the clothes this week. Especially that blue thing the pregnant lady was wearing! Very Madmen. I suppose we're into that time period?

I am still finding the Turner thing annoying. Not so much because he quit so fast, but because he's being the passionate crusader ('nails in your coffin! Gasp!') while poor old Shelagh gets the whiny 'but do I have to give up, I smoke so little ...' line.

I mean, really.

But Timothy is good, I think.

And I bloody adored Sister Monica Joan's line about penises!

I love little Timothy. I love that it is considered OK by everyone for him to be so bright and geeky and absorbed in medicine. Timothy nowadays would be affecting a mockney accent and pretending to be thick to fit in with his mates.

Just watching it now, I knew I recognised the lady who delivered her baby, it's Melody from Home & Away!

cant stand Timothy,always have the urge to flick his ears,no idea why

I really enjoyed that episode. I guessed she was a former prostitute, but I also thought her husband was a punter but that wasn't the case (she says she met him at a church, right?).

I didn't find it confusing. She'd had a horrific upbringing in an orphanage, turned to prostitution when she was let out, met her husband and was catapulted into this fabulous life of money, privilege and beautiful clothes. She felt like a fraud. She abandoned the baby because she felt like she was tainted and that only by removing herself from the picture could she guarantee her baby wouldn't turn out like her.

LOL @ Sister Judgey

I love all the nurses, now the very worthy Jenny has gone and so pleased that the older nurse is still having her Spanish lessons

Anyone else feel they could do without the elderly Jennifer's wise musings at the beginning and end of each episode?

Oh God yes, Clawdy I don't like Vanessa Redgrave anyway, but those voiceovers are so annoying. I always fast forward through the ones at the beginning.
And I agree NoahVale I hated Jessica Raine as Jenny. Now she's gone I can actually watch the show all the way through, and enjoy it, instead of fast forwarding through as much of her as possible...

nooooo i love the musings,they cant go i tell you

I like the musings too. The ones after those children emigrated to Australia, and after thalidomide was first prescribed, gave me the chills.

I love the musings.