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

pashminas (they called them 'stoles').

However pretty last night, in reality there were no pashminas/stoles like that in 1963!

I thought they just had blankets wrapped around them as they were cold?

I like the Turners

In the trailer for the series, there’s a clip of Dentist telling Trixie she needs to get help - I thought she might leave the “cage” by going on the dirty weekend, but then fall off the wagon and start drinking again... and then maybe go to “get help” for a while when HG has the baby?!

Aside from the pashminas, the dinner service used in Nonnatas House is Royal Doulton Reflections and wasn’t around in the 50s/60s.

It niggles me every time I see it. My parents bought it in the 1980s.

I googled the dinner service to see what it looked like and one site claims it was made between 1959 and 1981.

It’s very pretty though!

I never noticed it before, but have just looked. It is very pretty and I am sure that sort of style in general means it was from 1959 (think delicate original Barbie doll dresses).

My parents’ wedding China from that era was the rather funkier “desert star” by Royal Doulton. Certainly of its time!!

The Turners are sooooo like my Scottish grandparents in the sixties.

'Would you like another square of tablet, Morag?'

'Stewart! That'll be the second square in an hour!'

'But Morag, it's hogmanay!'

'We weren't put on this earth to be happy, Stewart. Away with it now and I think a brisk walk is in order.'

However pretty last night, in reality there were no pashminas/stoles like that in 1963!

There certainly were. My mother was wearing them in the 1950's.

They're just posh shawls

Not only were there 'stoles' they didn't call wraps pashminas then (which only means the goat wool that the wraps are made from! ).

Trixie was wrapping herself in a blanket fgs to answer the door. it was effing freezing INSIDE as well as outside in that particular winter.

I thought the nun trying to drive in that weather should've given up!

I think Stephen McGann's acting (or rather lack thereof) lets an otherwise stellar cast down. They have some fantastic actors as both regulars (Linda Basset, Jenny Agutter) and some really good guest artists and I'd love to know what some of them think of his 'skills'. At the end of the day he's not a trained actor (he read sciences at Uni) and perhaps has had the advantage of three older actor brothers and a wife who writes Call The Midwife!!

The way he delivered some of his lines last night had me grimacing!

I think that Mr Mcgann is alright. He comes across as a 'normal' sort of bloke\doctor which is what he is!

Also we have to remember that Shelagh was a nun so has that sort of slightly happy clappy disposition.

Glad someone else said that about Stephen McGanns fucking atrocious acting. The bit where he was sitting with the cheesecake in one hand and tea in the other 'I'll just finish this cheesecake then have a look at you'.

We'll you'll have to put the plate or the saucer down pal or else that dear old lady will breathe her last and you'll still be sitting there like a total fanny.

Maybe he inhaled the cheesecake by molecular thought process. We'll never know. It's like bloody Acorn Antiques.

Joe McGann is a shit actor too, tbh. They're all carried by Paul, poor sod.

I love CTM so much

There certainly were. My mother was wearing them in the 1950's
I stand corrected then task, but I don't remember anyone having them in 1963 in the sense of there being a selection of long Indian stoles made from fine soft goats wool, (called by any name) available in the shops for people to buy and wear around.

I can imagine that someone who had been living in India might have had one, perhaps a person with a colonial past like Patsy, and have worn it like a stole with evening wear.

I don't think it's a blanket though, ppeat

People definitely did try to have fur coats though.

My sister was born then at home with a midwife who wore a navy uniform and possibly a hat. She even cooked my mother a meal.

I too absolutely love CTM

Who's to say its fine goats wool? Coud be acrylic for all you know. It's just a shawl or oversized scarf.

Like a PP upthread, I was worried that Lucille's sole purpose would be to represent people of colour, and that her story would purely involve discrimination and ignorance. Thankfully there was only a fleeting mention of her colour - well done scriptwriters!

Think the Lucille story will get troubling soon, though. She's only met one patient.

How can you tell it’s fine goats wool?

That's the exact colour of the blankets on the hospital beds here

I have just watched this episode.

Lots of tears here too.

I was surprised that Trizie would go away for the dirty weekend with her boyfriend. Seems like she didn't really want to but that she felt she Should?

That's the exact colour of the blankets on the hospital beds here.

Oh yes. Ours too!