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

[Soubriquet]

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

You could smoke at my workplace well into the 2000s if you either had your own office or all the people in an office agreed. Probably stopped about 2005.

There was a smoking room in the school where I trained to teach in 2005, which wasn't removed until the smoking ban in 2007.

My parents used to try to get me to hold their lit cigarettes for them if they needed both hands for a task when I was little.

Just caught up now. Agree they are trying to cram too much in one episode and it results in you not actually caring what happens.

I was just thinking how nice it was to have an episode without dr-one-face, as he randomly turned up at the twin birth (big twins btw! Could they not find young twins for the role? Not that they even needed to be twins, as they were fraternal - and those twins looked pretty identical to me). I guess he was there as he had to check in on the pregnant woman who'd inhaled a lot of smoke?

iklboo that’s similar in our house.
I learnt to roll a tab by 7yrs old! Obs never smoked it, but would roll them for my dad and my man.... this was the 80s

Who’s dr one face?

You could smoke in our sixth form common room in 1985

@BlueLego - Dr Turner. He seems to have a limited range of facial expressions he pastes on as the scene demands:

Happy
Angry
Concerned
Mansplaining

Ah yes Incan see that iklboo

I love this programme so much but last weeks episode was not good at all! What happened? It was like they were trying to squeeze about 15 different topics in to the one programme but made a bit of a balls of it. I didn't get in to it at all, but maybe it's building up for next weeks episode?

I LOVE Sheila Turner, even her coming on to the screen makes me laugh, she is a brilliant character!

The hospital I worked in had a smoking room that was still there in 2004 when I left

Teal has just been an answer on The Chase

iklboo

I'm glad other people feel like there are too many things happening in each episode. It feels like they're just ticking off issues of the day rather than developing the storylines

I spotted it too!

Ok I'm up to season 5 and I have to ask. Where do all the extra nuns go when they aren't singing in chapel?? Why aren't they helping deliver babies or allowed to eat meals with everyone else? 😕

My first grade teacher (circa 1987) used to light up IN CLASS and stick her arm out the window as she taught us class - it was quite something.

Yep, when I visited universities in 2006 there was smoking or non-smoking accommodation. Seems strange these days. The smoking accommodation was 13 to a corridor with a common room you could smoke in.

When I went to a summer school in 2004 there was a smoking room in the actual teaching department too.

When I actually went to university in 2009 you could be thrown out of accommodation if you were found to have been smoking in there - fire safety rules.

Mad nobody ever knows. They disappear back into the woodwork and are never seen out of chapel.

I remember being sent out to 'the van' for my parents fags.
10 Kensitas Tips, ...... 13p

How much do they cost now? I've never smoked thank goodness.

I'm surprised we haven't all got chronic lung related breathing problems from all the passive smoking going on in childhood (and into adulthood). I used to end up sitting in a smoking carriage on my way to uni, as it was usually the only one with available seats! And I've never been a smoker!

I remember buying a pack (for DM) of 10 packets (or was it 20) for around £25. I seem to think they would cost more in the region of £100 these days.

Bejazzled, a pack of 20 (now you can't get 10's anymore...) is about £7.

After the teal question on the chase, the kids watched abney and teal...

As kids, we used to admire the cigarette boxes at other people's houses - and if we were lucky have a play with them too.

I clearly mixed in high-faluttin' circles, because you'd go around to someone's house and there was nearly always a fancy box with a fancy lighter on a sideboard somewhere, so that you could offer the smokers a cigarette. Some had separate ones for cigars!!!! It was considered rude not to be able to offer your guest a smoke, if they were smokers!!!!! I think this was in the days before you had to take your shoes off at the front door too!

Bejazzled £7? I should be so lucky! Marlboro Gold (used to be Lights) are about £11 in my local large Tesco and over £13 in the station in London. A carton of 200 will set you back just over £100. Its nearly all tax scarily.

Back to CTM though, I'm agreeing with so many of you about this the current series. The teal is driving me mad and I want to slap the Turners. SMJ though is fabulous but needs to be a bit more "absent". The writers want replacing in my opinion.

I work not far from where this is set and to be honest its still not entirely multi-cultural today. Its more the other way now though, particularly round Whitechapel and Brick Lane areas.

Dr Turner. He seems to have a limited range of facial expressions he pastes on as the scene demands:

Happy
Angry
Concerned
Mansplaining

I'm laughing out loud because this is precisely true and also the actor's four modes on Twitter.

Every episode and every story line this season seems incredibly rushed, or is it just me?