Call the midwife 8pm today!!!

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Who's excited about this?

Just seen my first full advert for today's episode!

Roll on 8pm

I was very impressed at how quickly they managed to get the braces considering how long it took to get there by ship and how long they were supposed to be staying though

Well back in poplar you had sister Mary Cynthia, Patsy and Delia. Plus didn't Sister Julienne say there would be some midwifes coming over to cover from other districts right at the beginning

Plus I always assume there are more nursing nuns than we see in the main characters because when they are doing their religious stuff in the chapel there are more of them.

Oh yes that's right IAm

So surely they must have been OK for two weeks

They're the choir sisters! Don't know what they do other than sing but that's their name

The braces and cake came by plane didn't they? There was some mention of airport?

no-one was sunburnt, They all looked extremely dishevelled and sunburnt! Were you watching in black and white?

Oh look. Remarkably clean, and sweat and sunburn free...

Gosh Shelagh
It looked like you really suffered bless you

It was fine. I had my beloved Patrick with me. Sigh.

What about Trixie becoming a doctor/surgeon - she handled that c-section well.

In Call the Midwife land she could be sorted by the end of the next series!! I'm surd she coukd- or st least she'd be qualified doctor by the end if not a surgeon - I do love Call the Midwife, and I find the convient endings and amushing (like the whole water pipe thing).

I think that's pretty certain. Looks like they're not going to sort Trixie out with a romance (thank god) so it would be a good path for her and she's obviously getting ideas.

im surd she coukd- or st

Means:

I'm sure she could - or at least

New phone predictes into nonsense it seems.

I loved it and it made me weep. Yes, some bits were predictable, but it's entertainment not a documentary.

It was ok. Not the best Christmas special. Trixie came across as really shallow and annoying at first. More worried about her makeup when surrounded by such poverty. Glad Tom finally popped the question!

MarthasHarbour: "Oh and apartheid was all about patronising 'The poor black Africans'. "

No shit!

My point wasn't that the characters were condescending but that the programme-makers were. The Africans were all portrayed as smiley, happy, grateful people without any sign of a real personality - much as the white working-class tend to be in Poplar.

JustDanceAddict: "They actually were sunburnt at the beach and one of them complained of being bitten."

But crucially they didn't look nearly as awful as they really would have done. Trixie, for example, was immaculate.

I did wonder a bit about the mother house conjuring up the money for all those fares. And the pretext for dragging Fred out to South Africa was incredibly flimsy.

I wondered about the speed of the braces arrival and why they would bother shipping out a fruitcake.

I assume the fruit cake was because sister Monica Joan took the phone call so she slipped it in.
I was very impressed how much they managed in a short space of time. The dr saved the dr and somehow accessed all his journals with the latest research to come up with a new diagnosis and a new life saving antibiotic, they uncovered the truth about why the bearded bloke wouldn't let them build a pipe line and helped him come to terms with his grief and help and then they even got the pipe line finished. Don't know what woman dr and the resident nuns had been playing at before the poplar lot got there tbh. Clearly couldn't be left there unsupervised

I'm happy to suspend belief for 90 mins of Dr T 😀

Question about the choir singing nuns - they are always in chapel but never at any meals, do they eat?! also they are never at any "gatherings" e.g. christenings etc, or when all the Nonnatus House inhabitants are together e.g. waiting to hear about Chummy's labour...maybe they are live out nuns?!

Absolutely no idea! I just heard Sr Julienne say once that they should have sent Sr MJ to the mother house with the choir sisters! That is all I know. They are a Nonnatun mystery

Only managed yesterday to get 90 minutes to watch it. It's not realistic, no, but it's wonderful. It was a bit "white woman saves Africa" though... There wasn't much empowerment of the black south Africans helping themselves, just some white folks swooping in and fixing everything. I hope trixie can train to be a doctor, that'd be a great way to progress the character. When she'd done the course section and was outside I properly shed a tear.

I do sort of agree about the whites to the rescue thing. On the other hand, being such a sad obsessed fan I know how much research would have gone into this episode and so I can only trust that it's a reasonably accurate historical portrayal of the situation rather than a looking back with 21st century eyes. Ultimately it's a drama and not a documentary so we have to take it at face value and trust they're doing it to the best of their knowledge.