Call The Midwife

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Surprised there's no thread on this. Did anyone watch it last night or has the series reached its natural end and is no longer attracting viewers?

Yes rants over sorry Bingle

Did anyone else notice the trailer at the end?
I think one of the babies next week will be intersex.

Back to CTM (I only watched this morning due to being stuck in a house looking after many ill people all weekend: the quarantined were all asleep this morning!)

I'd like to see the sickle cell family again and follow it up a bit more. Could be a per project of Dr Marvellous. (Plus I liked the family, who where a nice family without being sickly sweet like the Turners!)

I'd have liked a bit more on the suffergette woman. I saw a documentary on the force feeding- it was brutal and carried out several times a day. I can't help think the hunger striking and damage from force feeding must have had a long term effect. (Was that mentioned and I just missed It?)

I wondered if there was meant to be a link between the fact that the suffragette lady was a hoarder of food as well as lots of crap (literally!) and the abuse she suffered as a young woman.

I hope Trixie finds a new love interest, would like to see her married and with a baby of her own! Also hoping the Turners keep the little Chinese girl, would be heartbreaking to give her up when she is so settled.

Girlie, they did make that link - in one of the conversations, that she had starved as a suffragette and also during the war, was why she now surrounded herself with plenty

Regarding next week's episode I think the baby's ?disability may be a cleft lip/palate.

Oh I remember that comment, for some reason I didn’t associate it with the cans of food, just the hoarding.

What was the story with the wrapped turds? (Lovely.) Was that hoarding or something else?

She couldn't get to the outside toilet and didn't like the commode so she was.....disposing of it up the chimney.

Some women died as a result of force feeding, often later on, with internal bleeding. Emmeline Pankhurst endured force feeding into her 50s.
I agree with pp, it would have been nice to have her character live and be a regular on the show, perhaps a friend for Sr Monica.

I assumed the hoarding of tinned food was a link to the hunger strike and force-feeding of Suffragettes.

Ppeatfruit, sorry should have answered you earlier. We have two older brothers, so no Mum mustn’t have noticed anything different. We both weighed just over five pounds each, I was born first and my sister arrived forty minutes later.

@steppemum, I think it will have 'ambiguous genitalia'

Thanks Trevor

Who is SLs?

Storylines?

Ah! Thank you!

I'll tell you what I do miss from the earlier series — the music over the end credits. They used to be really good at choosing a relevant song, now it's just the theme music and not quite the same.

I hate the Vanessa Redgrave quavery sanctimonious voice-over they are still using - time to drop it.

I like that voice over bit

The mother of a child I was at nursery with in the early 1970s had unexpected twins.

I heard a discussion on the radio today where they said using Vanessa Redgrave was an absolute masterstroke. Something about rooting the programme in its origins, I think - you can tell the argument didn't make much of an impression on me.

I think Timothy is going to be leaving home which will give them room for little Mai. Not sure how they're going to do that though. The obvious thing is that he goes overseas for his gap year (was that a thing then?) or goes away to college. Or maybe he becomes a roadie for a pop band.

FTR, I think the Turners think they have plenty of room for Mai already, but Timothy is obviously chafing over his loss of privacy which he doesn't think his parents understand.

I would miss the soothing voiceover. It’s like honey for a sore throat.

Oh I had totally forgotten about the relevant music at the end, despite liking it!