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

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Soubriquet · 16/01/2018 10:30

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

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KindDogsTail · 22/01/2018 20:18

How can you tell it’s fine goats wool you can't tell without touching it. But thats what cashmere is I think. Pashmina wool itself is very fine but may not be goat, The reason for saying that was someone said they weren't called pashminas then. So the point was that whatever the name, when Trixie wore it, it looked to me like a stole which is often called a pashmina now days. (And good pashminas are made from fine goats wool/cashmere or another fine wool.)Yes, maybe is actually acrylic here. Maybe the blanket in the hospital is the same colour as so many things in this episode were the same colour blue.

THis all started because I said I don't think people wore pashminas then (whatever their name).

icelolly99 · 22/01/2018 20:19

MorrisZapp 😂😂

taskmaster · 22/01/2018 20:29

How can you tell it’s fine goats wool you can't tell without touching it. But thats what cashmere is I think. Pashmina wool itself is very fine but may not be goat, The reason for saying that was someone said they weren't called pashminas then

They were called pashminas then, when they were pashminas. They were not when they weren't, exactly the same as now.

Of course pashminas were around then, what with the british relationship with India! They just weren't particularly common. But either way, she's wearing a shawl or a scarf

SimonBridges · 22/01/2018 20:50

I too was surprised when she agreed to go and stay in a hotel with him.
When I was young a young couple like that checking into a hotel clearly not married would be met with knowing glances. It wasn’t the done thing for ‘nice’ girls back then.

2old2beamum · 22/01/2018 21:02

SimonBridges you must have led a very protected life, most girls were at it Blush

diddl · 22/01/2018 21:03

Trixie is leaving??

Hurrah!!

taskmaster · 22/01/2018 21:05

In the 60's? Sure it was! Always has been really, just had to be a lot more careful and surreptitious.
Plus Trixie is in her early 30's, she's hardly a naive young girl.

2old2beamum · 22/01/2018 21:05

Sorry posted too soon....not me ofcourse.

BestIsWest · 22/01/2018 21:06

I was born in the spring of 63 and DM often talks about not being allowed out in the snow and ice.

She was also rh -ve. I was the first child and I’m +ve but no factor D in those days. She went on to have my brother 2 years later with no problems that I’m aware of. I’ll have to ask her more about it.

BeyondWW · 22/01/2018 21:14

My eldest auntie is 1960 and was a shotgun-wedding baby so... Grin

Surely it'd be much easier to book a hotel in the mans name as him and his "wife" and she'd just put a wedding ring on for the few days? Or have I read too many novels?

Lunde · 22/01/2018 21:44

I want to know why Trixies man is divorced - in the early 1960s you had to provide evidence that one party was at fault - so you would need to prove adultery, drunkeness, insanity or desertion etc

HeyRoly · 22/01/2018 23:47

Helen George looked very pregnant in the Christmas special but I didn't notice a bump in this episode. I got the impression that she spent a lot of time wrapped up trying to hide the post baby boobs, etc mainly! I'm not sure whether they took a break after filming the special and she returned to work when her baby was still quite young?

HeyRoly · 22/01/2018 23:50

OK, I've just Googled and she was still pregnant and takes a break mid series:

www.radiotimes.com/news2018-01-21/heres-how-helen-george-disguised-her-baby-bump-in-call-the-midwife/

Scroll to the bottom for cute baby pic.

TinklyLittleLaugh · 23/01/2018 00:08

I love Trixie and her fantastic competence. Quite surprised that she's never "done the deed" before though. I always thought she was a bit of a goer.

And when I was a very small girl, in the late sixties, I had a nurse's dressing up outfit exactly like the nun midwives' uniform, complete with wimple and rather fetching cape. I never realised I was dressing up as a nun nurse.

DorynownotFloundering · 23/01/2018 08:12

So Tom is her real life partner Jack?

Missed that one!

diddl · 23/01/2018 08:27

" I always thought she was a bit of a goer."

I think that maybe her boyfriend & his ex do also!

So she doesn't leave?

Shame!

SoupDragon · 23/01/2018 08:51

I hadn’t noticed her looking pregnant but I wasn’t looking for it - once you know it’s quite obvious!

SilenceMeansWhatAreTheyUpTo · 23/01/2018 09:06

tinkly The connection between nuns and nursing goes back centuries, to the days when caring for the sick was carried out almost exclusively by female members of religious orders. I'm guessing this is where the term "sister" (used until recently) comes from, and possibly also the wearing of a sometimes elaborate headdress - something that is now also outmoded but was commonplace until the 80s and therefore still very much in evidence in CTM.
I had one of those outfits in the late sixties too and couldn't wait to grow up so that I could become a nurse and wear that headdress all the time. Thankfully that didn't happen as I would have made the worst nurse ever.

Toddlerteaplease · 23/01/2018 09:58

So Trixie isn't doing to get pregnant then. Presume she goes into rehab instead.

ppeatfruit · 23/01/2018 10:12

Well it was still looked upon askance (to stay in a Boarding House by the sea etc. with a man unless you were wearing a wedding ring) in the late 60s. I can vouch for that Blush but I did wear a 'wedding ring' Blush. My best friend got pregnant at 16 out of wedlock, she had a terrible time. Sad

The 'swinging' 60s only really happened in the Kings Road and Carnaby St Soho. in London Grin

Taffeta · 23/01/2018 10:25

I do hope Trixie doesn’t leave. I like that there’s an imperfect person in amongst all the do gooders.

Helen George is also just so beautiful to look at. [shallow]

ppeatfruit · 23/01/2018 10:30

I like Trixie too taffeta I thought how good she was, and the others too, in the breech scene, even the baby seemed properly 'newborn'!

The new girl Lucille ? is a big star in the making IMO she's lovely and a brilliant actress.

SadieHH · 23/01/2018 10:32

I used to be a massive CTM fan with a fair amount of knowledge but I’m over it now Grin and haven’t watched the latest two eps. But I do know that Helen’s pregnancy wasn’t written into the storyline and Trixie isn’t leaving.

Estrelizia · 23/01/2018 11:10

Back up to its usual high standard thank goodness . We were ok until the Jewish singing and then the tears started trickling down . I was 7 during that long winter, the snow started on Boxing Day when my Dad went off to football and ended months later at Easter.I can remember the icicles hanging all round the bungalow , Dad digging a path to the front gate every day and clearing the roofs of snow , Jack Frost on the inside of the windows (no central heating or double glazing then) I remember knitted liberty bodices - what a strange garment ,and the tops popping off the tops of the milk bottles.The harbour froze and people skated on our local duck pond The strange thing is that I don't remember it being cold although it obviously was and we still had to go to school which as far as I can recall stayed open throughout.I was born at home in the winter of 1956 which was also a very cold one ,we were snowed in so unable to get to hospital and I was kept warm with hot water bottles and an electric fire.It is difficult to imagine such hard winters these days when a cold spell lasts a matter of days not weeks and most people have double glazing and central heating to keep them warm

MissEliza · 23/01/2018 11:27

I love Trixie. The series has coped with Jenny and Sister Evangelina leaving but I can't imagine it without Trixie.
On a personal level the episode wasn't my normal escape from reality because my dm had bowel cancer last year. She would have been watching it too. I hope it wasn't too upsetting for her. Plus ds2 had to be moved to a different hospital because his jaundice was so bad so that scene with the baby being wheeled off in the cot reminded me of that! Still I know there have been storylines about stillbirth etc that have been much harder for people to watch.