Call the midwife- brand new series starts tonight!!

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At 8pm

Who's ready for it?!

Question: why is Sr Mary Cynthia called Mary Cynthia when all the other nuns took completely different names upon their ordination? Shelagh was Sr Bernadette, I think Sr Monica Joan was Antonia or similar?

I think I missed the special where Cynthia decided she wanted to take the veil so it might have been explained then, but I thought part of the point of taking a new name was to help you put your old secular identity behind you? Not much chance of MC doing that when she still has her old name as part of her religious one!

Probably to link the series, save confusion.

I thought that at first Joffrey but we coped with Sr Bernadette becoming Shelagh.

I must have a heart of stone. I never cry at CTM

Is Sister Mary Cynthia still a novice? So perhaps she doesn't take her new name until she takes her vows?

We have a nun in our family who kept her name (though I think originally it was changed) so maybe being a newer nun she was able to ?

I was waiting for a fight over the new girl moving out Trixie's clothes, but Trixie very gracefully got out of it , she said that she had too many clothes and was going to throw some out anyway (or something).

identity How terrible for your dm

Loved last night's episode, so sad, I also cried

What happened to Mary Cynthia? I must have missed some episodes, how did she end up in the mental hospital?

ppeatfruit I was gobsmacked at Trixie's good natured response to the new nurse bunging half her wardrobe on her bed! I thought there was going to be ructions!

Dancergirl Cynthia was attacked one night walking home from a patient's house. She had what we would now call post traumatic stress syndrome after and wasn't coping. So she was 'sent' to the motherhouse who I think thought she needed more specialist help and then ended up where she is now. I think that's right. Hence the line last night about the nurse not seeing what she sees when she closes her eyes (ie images of her attack).

I know what you mean but in that last scene , where they ate the biscuits , her clothes were laid over the back of the bedroom chair (i looked).

Maybe she's cheered up because she has a man!

Thanks arch was that in the last series?

I really want to watch it all from the start now, is it on Netflix?

Thanks for the nun knowledge. So it might be a deliberate thing to show, subtly, that the order is also moving with the times in a small way.

Series 1-4 are on UK Netflix. I've recently watched S1 again. It was wasn't nearly as twee as it is now.

Ooohh brilliant thanks young might have to have a binge watch

I love this show so much. I always cry!

The dressmaker was in Love Thy Neighbour, totally not PC comedy series in the 1970, with the actor, Randoph Walker, who plays Patrick, in Eastenders, as one half of the couple next door.

Wasn't she also the girl's mum in May to December?

#classic

Cried at Reggie's story.

I knew an old lady who had a daughter with Down syndrome. She looked after her daughter until they both went to a nursing home.

Oh yes tigress I loved that, didn't she work in a greengrocers?

Catching up tonight. Poor Reggie. The village sounds very much like the sort of place a girl who I met at uni's parents ran. That was more recent of course but I believe it had a long history so not necessarily unheard of. But it was a bit of a crazy twee happy chappy episode. Felt sorry for nurse crane's car though! The MC story could be interesting. I hope so anyway. Oh but I do want Patsy to come home, they've given her bed away!

Catching up tonight. Poor Reggie. The village sounds very much like the sort of place a girl who I met at uni's parents ran. That was more recent of course but I believe it had a long history so not necessarily unheard of. But it was a bit of a crazy twee happy chappy episode. Felt sorry for nurse crane's car though! The MC story could be interesting. I hope so anyway. Oh but I do want Patsy to come home, they've given her bed away!

Howled over Reggie, it was very difficult as my 3 DCs with Down Syndrome were watching but the comment from DD was we are very lucky as we live with you and we have loads of friends.

In 1962 I was working in the East End in the local childrens hospital in Hackney Road as a very junior student nurse and I must say the series is quite accurate. BTW I loved living there.

Hijacks thread to say Hi to 2old2beamum. I don't know if you remember me but we used to message each other about hyperparathyroidism.

Not seen you about for ages and often wondered how you and your DCs were.