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?

On Trixie’s voice, I know someone who nursed with Jennifer Worth before she became a midwife ..... she is v posh!

A friend ‘s daughter was born with a cleft palate. No externally visible deformity but detected early on when baby had issues feeding. Multiple ongoing surgeries at Great IOrmond Street Hospital and still regular checkups

@glamourousgrandmother that's as maybe but as a character I found Sister Evangelina to be an overbearing, rude know-it all and not the sort of person I'd want around me. Sister Hilda is fab though!

Emerald Fennell is naturally pretty posh! Wrt to Helen George, being brought up somewhere doesn't guarantee an accent. My mother is born & bred in Yorkshire and has a very minimal accent on occasion and friends brought up in Cornwall and the Highlands speak perfect RP and can't even attempt the "local accent" for where they live/are from. That probably is her natural voice, helped on a little by drama school.

Re “no naice gel in the 50s or early 60s would have peroxide blonde hair”.

Lana Turner invthe 50s, Marilyn Monroe and others in the 60s all had peroxide blonde hair. Women copied film stars from that era and lots of them had blonde hair.

Apparently all of our Cleft lip and palate specialist nurses were all in tears watching it on Sunday.

If you bleached your hair back then, you were regarded as a bit "fast".

I'm wearing a teal dress. Do I have to resign from this thread?

DH was most put out that the model of scooter ridden by the teenage son and his friend wasn’t made until 1966 (according to him). Apparently his neighbour had one. I’m sure CTM wouldn’t such a mistake.

If you bleached your hair back then, you were regarded as a bit "fast".
My Mum went blond in the early 60s, as a dentist, she certainly wasn’t regarded as “fast”

its possible to be from Birmingham and have a 'posh' accent. Lord Digby Jones (I think that's his name) is one example (as lovely as he is).

FrancisCrawford I thought the same thing (about Myra Hyndley). Of the UK actresses famous in that era could only think of Diana Dors and Babs Windsor who had very bleached blonde hair. Not quite in the same class as Trixie is supposed to be.

fikel - that’s what your mother is telling you

Ref, blonde (bleached) hair it was the FASHION in the 60s , older people might have considered it 'fast' that didn't bother (the whole of the 5th and 6th form in my school) me and my dsis.... the Beatles considered that Bridget Bardot was just the sexiest woman alive, so everyone who could, did bleach their hair and, before Twiggy, we had long blonde hair too.

Enjoyed that episode having only recently rediscovered the series. I read a book when I was pregnant with DS1 but didn’t realise she’d written more than one about the midwives. I did start one by her about the workhouse but found it unbearably sad and couldn’t finish it.

That rose they planted in Winnipeg had better have been a cold hardy one - it's about -40 there right now

Loved this episode.

I don't know Best, last series Patsy and Delia managed to send them a postcard from a country that didn't exist at that time!

Have been rewatching old episodes - I think the abortion story line will incorporate Val in some way , I think she has either had a backstreet termination or been involved in some way other than through her work iyswim ... there’s an episode in season 6 I think it is where she talks about keeping secrets and says some people could be prosecuted for the things they have done , hence why keep them secret ... there’s a few other things I noticed as well - the way she was with the lass a couple of episodes ago but also the au pair lassie . It would kind of make sense . Just a thought I had ...

fikel - that’s what your mother is telling you wink
Lol no my mum would have told me and she would have found it hilarious if someone had made that judgment about her because of the colour of her hair. She had an amazing social life, lots of fellow female dentists too, which I find fascinating as we are always told that the only job for women in these times were as secretary’s and the like.

When I went to dental school in 1978, only 15% of dentistry students were female. In 1968 it was 1.1%, and a decade earlier it was less than 0.5%. You mum was certainly a trailblazer in more ways than one!

I had a female dentist in the 60s at the 'School dentist' surgery her name was Miss Slaughter. She did some very bad orthodontic work on me (according to a dentist I went to as an adult) and I have terrible crooked teeth.

Miss Slaughter! That's a great name for a dentist!

Clionba

When I went to dental school in 1978, only 15% of dentistry students were female. In 1968 it was 1.1%, and a decade earlier it was less than 0.5%. You mum was certainly a trailblazer in more ways than one!
Aww thank you, she actually qualified in the 50s. She first practiced in Bradford and was one of the first to administer fillings, before that they just whipped out the tooth if anything was wrong.