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What is going on with Mother Mildreds make up?

Squigean Tue 28-Jan-20 12:44:05
Is Val not 'too old' to marry a young doctor?
I'm not going to let facts get in the way of my predictions!!
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I don't see how, they'd both be mid to late twenties.

Come to think of it - that pigeon was tidy looking and had an especially teal head...

Not just a sex dungeon, a teal sex dungeon.*
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Stop it, I've already had one post deleted! Stop
tempting me into naughtiness.

I knew it was bird fanciers’ lung - have seen to many medical dramas!

I think the Turners kids are weirdly well behaved, especially the little girls who conveniently always get on, never fall out, are always playing nicely etc 🙄 I keep forgetting they have another baby as well!!

Also, I thought Shelagh told Doc to eat his supper 'before it gets cold'... passive aggressive, much?

She might snap over pledge the stairs and Dr T might have a terrible accident 😂

Weren't they student doctors? So early 20s.Val's about late 20s I'd say. Ancient!!

(Though to be honest, I'm not too sure of the average of a woman at married at in the 60s. 25ish? So not she's not really accident!!)

@squigean DM was 26 when she got married in 1969. This was considered to be very old indeed. When she was 24 her mother, my DGM, asked her if there was something wrong with her (I suspect she was asking if she was gay).

I think they were qualified but doing community training

Junior doctors I think they said, so yes mid 20s is probably accurate. There was definitely flirting so I don’t think in the fictional reality of CTM these days a romance would be off the cards.

They'll be a similar age then. So I feel justified in my predictions.

Though I might swap to Dr Turner having his accident in the real sex dungeon. Shelagh will push him off the sex swing in her fit of rage.

Squijean, they were qualified doctors looking to specialise, they often do courses and placements on the way.

Well now we've sussed the ages, you watch my predicted story unfold

I can't wait!

Would Val would have to stop working - my mum had to give up her teacher training as it wasn’t the done thing for her to carry on.

I can't recall that Barbara stopped working but there again I think she died not long after she got married?

Shelagh works. Chummy worked. Barbara did.

Of course. Brain freeze this morning

Chummy carried on working after marrying and having a baby.
There was a time when women were forced to give up certain professions after marrying, I think, although I don't know if that applied to nursing, or if it still happened in the mid 60s.

My mum married in 1960 but didn't "have" to give up work until she had her first child in 62. I say "have" but I don't know if she was made to, wanted to or just through social convention.

Wasn't it for public service jobs?

But wasn’t Val a nurse or definitely did something official during the war? Even if she was only 18 right at the end of the war in 1945 she would be minimum 38 in the current series set in 1965?

She was a peacetime Army nurse

Ahh, makes sense now!