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.

Who knew Cleveleys was such a hotbed of intrigue?

Sister MJ appears to have miraculously overcome last week's eating disorder! Nice to have Sister Evangelina back, though.

Did anyone else have an out of sync moment? The barge lady was holding her baby before it was born.

Just catching up now. I'm finding the barge lady's voice quite irritating. Glad she's not a regular character.

Where did all the apples come from and did any one else burst into tears when Sister Evangelina's voice roared from behind the pile of rubble?

Yes I had the out of sync moment. I thought it was me being way too invested in this show! :o

Wasn't overly keen on that ep, far too messy. And only one more to go and a big one! :(

I think the blonde nurse is depressed? Talking about wanting to die...
Call the midwife gets sadder by the week!

I was on the edge of my seat thinking any minute now someone is falling out of that top flat window! Then everything was hunky dory...I'm not used to that in CTM but it did make a nice change in a way.

Then at the end I was still thinking something bads going to happen and thought they'd find Fred under the rubble. Then he popped up and I thought maybe it'll fall down on him...It really makes me panic watching it because it's been so sad recently I assume something awful will happen.

I don't think Trixie is depressed. She's an alcoholic in recovery. Alcoholism can make you feel you'd be better off dead.

I'm just catching up, and just wanted to say I love Nurse Crane. She is by far my favourite character.

I really enjoyed that episode! Was glad it wasn't too traumatic as last weeks was so awful.

I would like to think that Patsy and Delia could live happily ever after, i was annoyed when they ran Delia over 5 mins after they moved in together last series. I visit quite elderly 'companions' now (community nurse) that have lived together for decades that are clearly in a relationship but have never been public about it, even now

I thought Sister Evangeline looked like she had lost a lot of weight, wonder if she has been unwell in rl.

Love Sister Crane as well, she reminds me of some rl Sisters I have worked with

Tom and Barbara need to get married next week!

last one next week.

I seem to watch every week at the moment waiting for every birth to have a thalidomide baby? Anyone else?

I think Barbara and Tom will have sex before marriage. And maybe an unexpected pregnancy.

What decade was it that women began to work after marraige and pregnancy? Was the 70s wasn't it, so a bit off yet?

What ever happened to sisters being midwives and these kind of community houses? Does anyone know?

anyone know if Pam ferris had been ill in RL has she had a stroke?

Nurse Crane is just amazing isn't she!?

Randy Tom did make a smile. I'm sure the erection disappeared when sister julienne invited him to prayers !

I never really liked S. Evangelina, I'd started to miss her but as soon as she returned I remembered why she irritated me. She's too much of the "I am bossy but soft inside" trope, her appearance in today's episode felt really hammy.

Sister MJ appears to have miraculously overcome last week's eating disorder

She was fasting, it wasn't an eating disorder.

Wasn't Tom and Barbara the couple from The Good Life?

I already made a joke about that and everyone ignored it

TooAsWellAlso My mum had me in 1966 and she certainly went back to work. She would walk over to my Nan's with the pram to drop me off before she went to work and then pick me up after.

The sisters in this instance changed from midwives to working with drug addicts and the homeless, and then later on with AIDS patients. 'Nonnatus' House closed in 1978.

What decade was it that women began to work after marraige and pregnancy? Was the 70s wasn't it, so a bit off yet?

In the BBC programme Back in Time for the Weekend they said that in the 60s two thirds of married women were full time housewives and in the 70s it had gone down to 49%, but this was all married women, not specifically mothers of young children, so it included married women with no kids or older/grown up kids. In the Call the Midwife book i remember the author said it was rare for the Poplar women she worked with to work when they had young kids.

We never saw Trixie and Tom getting so frisky (and leaving Brylcream deposits in random places). I liked Barbara showing a bit of spunk, so to speak when talking to Tom after the Pill seminar.

Patsy is utterly beautiful.

Yes, he had his hand on her bum and everything! I did like the ghostly greasy patch six feet up on the wall

The pill was a bit of a non-story wasn't it? Nice to have an episode that wasn't quite so emotionally draining though.

Hideously name dropping but Emerald Fennell is even more beautiful in real life. The sort of beautiful that makes your jaw drop like a cartoon character!

Thank you both of you that answered.

I'm so interested in nonnatus house and all this history, and the whole concept of it all.

The barge woman's pride! poor little 'smelly' kids. One MW said it was because there were no baths in all the homes but surely they can be washed in tin baths and at sinks? it was more the clothes weren't washed and dried properly , though I remember taking our washing to the laundrette in the 60s.

The thing with alcohol it makes you depressed. Especially spirits.