Call the midwife starts this Sunday!!! Who's excited?

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I certainly am

I don't think it's a good as it was when it first started, and it can be a tad predictable at times but I still love this show

Yes, it's the difference between a person in the uk having a fear of house spiders, and someone in Australia who watched someone die after a bite having a fear of black widows!

Do you think that the poxy seaman would've been so readily accepted if he'd been wearing a different colour scarf?

I reckon they clocked the teal accessories and decided, 'Yes. He is one of us.'

Poor chap would've been a goner if he'd been decked out in navy...

at seaman in teal blending in

You wouldn’t think it was that easy for teal accessories to be so readily available.

I wondered about Sheila delivering the baby as well. She wasn't exactly dressed for it. Abd wear was Angela at the picnic?

I've looked, and even now ptsd from childbirth isn't actually in the dsm. [anger]

Yes, Beyond there was a thread about bad PND on here last year where everyone agreed that quite often it has nothing to do with hormones etc but with truly traumatic experiences of various kinds and that this is not being recognised.

Where was Angela at the picnic

She was having teal & cake by in the afternoon teal tent.

Shelagh is practising, she went back to nursing properly in series 4 but she also helps to run the surgery because Dr Smug is incompetent. That’s why she’s sometimes in uniform and sometimes not.

I reckon Dr Smug is too cheap to hire a proper receptionist so gets Shelagh to do it for him. And be a midwife / community nurse. And run a home. Typical 60s bloke.

I know they got an au pair but of course she had to be cliche sexy then got rid of after a couple of episodes. And, anyway, that was Shelagh's idea and she did all the arranging.

It’s very simple. He’s a twat.

I thought sheliegh had two daughters. But only kne was with Timmy. Have they forgotten about the other one. I haven’t seen her all series.

Shelagh works at the maternity hospital when she isn't doing reception/dogsbody. Is it me or has it all gone a bit Enid blyton i can't remember it being ever so jolly before it has ramped up. I hated tokophobia the poor woman had a birth trauma it was hardly irrational

And no Angela just teddy and timmy and teddy had been sitting in a shitty nappy for hours poor kid.

Oh god, I'm going to have to go back and look for the yellow car now.

Have the nuns' habits been getting progressively more teal through the series, or is it just that I'm noticing it more? At first I thought it was a trick of the light, and they were black - it's only recently I've thought no, definitely teal.

I thought they were going say PTSD at end not the phobia thing. Granted if you felt like that about your first baby it’s phobia but surely it’s tramatic reaction!

Be like a bloke getting operating on without being knocked out and at his next op saying oh it’s just a phobia.... not horrific flashback type thing.

They also made a big thing about gas and air about two series ago but nobody uses it now! I thought over time they gone from only doctor could bring on emergency to something midwife could call on. Though can’t carry on your bike.

They also made a big thing about gas and air about two series ago but nobody uses it now!

^^ is what my Dd said they had whole episodes about carting about G&A and now nobody has it

Call the midwife has gone to absolute shit. I rewatched the first few seasons on Netflix recently and they were incomparably better in every way (lack of teal aside).

The characters have all become one-dimensional, the stories are predictable and it's just a load of soppy nonsense. And how come Dr. Turner's hands have become so enormous? I think they're the source of all his healing powers, people seem to get well just through him waving them around and gurning.

I think I may have reached peak midwife.

I was staying with my MIL last week. She was a Child Welfare Officer in Poplar in 1963, living in the East India Dock Road. She also lived in a large house run by the Methodist Church, where in order to live there you had to assist the church in some way... I think she played the organ at services for them!!

Anyway - point is they constantly refer to Social Workers when neglected children are involved in CTM. There weren't any social workers in 1963. They were much later. My MIL was a Social Worker later on but definitely not called that in '63.

I wish they'd get their facts straight!

I have a sneak preview of Dr Turner's hands in this week's episode.

Hahaha, they're almost as big as Dr T's hands

Sheila is particularly annoying and smug

That is very interesting about your MIL Pebble, and about her house in return for playing the organ in the church as somehow that fits with the characters and settings we see in the original CTM.

I wonder if she finds it feels right overall? It is interesting that she was called a child welfare officer

Actually lold at the giant hands

I think I may have hit Peak-Midwife too. I realised this week I was only watching to spot how much teal they could squeeze into one episode and how badly written and twee it was.

There is no way that Poplar in 1963 was a haven of multi-cultural harmony. I also remember (in the 80s) my physics teacher talking about her shell-shock, it was common parlance. The writing is so shoddy.

I saw Back In Time For Dinner tonight and they were supposedly in the 60s. But they couldn't have been, because there wasn't a hint of teal!

I am sick of watching waiting for Dr Bighands Oneexpression to make an entrance and talk all over the midwives. He totally ruins it. I think if CTM is carry on it needs a change of writer sharpish - someone who doesn't cast her talentless husband as the lead and who has heard of more than one colour.