Call the Midwife.

[Toddlerteaplease]

What is going on with Mother Mildreds make up?

I loved the weight of proper blankets and an eiderdown when one went to bed. Feeling all tucked in!

I wonder if the tickets were for opening night - the film would have been greatly anticipated so maybe it was impossible to get to see it on opening night without a mayor or councillors’ vip tickets.

Oh yes, proper blankets with a satin edging! We still have a few, probably inherited from older generations, which go on the mattress before the undersheet. The candystripe brushed cotton sheets are all gone now, though. My mum almost certainly still has lots. Nylon sheets, yuk! In spite of what the incessant Brentford Nylons adverts tried to make us think.

FredaFrogspawn Although that would make more sense the tickets couldn't be for opening night as Sister Julienne went to watch it in her civvies. Not really much of a prize as a trip to the cinema was much cheaper comparatively than it is today.

A couple of premium tickets would have been a lot more than thruppence though... It's all relative. But the raffle bit felt like a plot device to get Vi into the episode... It's turning into Call the Doctor and Councillor.

Don’t forget the candle wick bedspreads!
I used to pick at mine... 😬

My mum used to do the 'sides to middle' thing with sheets. And when we couldn't use them anymore, they would be cut up and turned into dusters and cleaning rags. In fact quite a lot of old clothes were turned into cleaning rags which is why I remember cleaning the bath with part of an old t-shirt or an old pair of pants!

I've sort of forgotten this episode already they are now so lightweight compared to when it started, so thought I would catch up on this thread.

Yes to turned sheets (hated them) and was surprised when a bit older that women of my own age had never heard of them. Yes to the blankets, I still have 2 that I somehow mangled althought the satin edging is fine, so dont use.

But yes to layers of blankets. Not sure I had a quilt but if you kept the cover on even better weight. Did you know it is now a trend for young things you dont in fact think duvets are that great, that you can now buy "weighted blankets" to make you feel more secure and sleep better. Selling for £60!!!!!

According to a blog site I found cinema tickets were around 3/9. But suspect west end prices were more and possibly east end prices less.

But what I really come on to say was about the hairdo of the poor woman being exploited by mother, husband and daughter.

Not a wig - but one of those helmet hair styles popularised by Brenda Lee and Helen Shapiro. Lots and lots of hair spray. To have you hair in a good style (ie not long with a floppy fringe) was a sign that you took care of yourself and had standards.

That might have been the look they were going for but that was a wig!!

I could be tempted to go back to blankets and an eiderdown, particularly in winter months!

Nylon sheets were an abomination during hot weather :-(.

Sure DM still has blankets in her camphor blanket chest!!

I still have some blankets exactly like the picture but in pink. They were from my granny's house when she died. So heavy and lovely. I adored going to bed at her house as a child, the beds were so tightly made you could hardly get into them and you felt all squished up inside with the sheet, the blanket and the eiderdown on top. Wonderful.

Although they used to be jolly chilly to get into in the winter (without a hot water bottle to warm the bed up), if I recall correctly. We had pink ones too.

And yet he lives....
I was sure he was heading for a heart attack and there was a brief moment he loitered at the top of a flight of stairs - but alas no, Dr Turner survives another week to patronise some nuns and pass on the knowledge of his 3 medical textbooks.

Home help and incontinence laundry service, all available on the NHS at the time. That was what struck me - sister Francis announcing that thanks the welfare state all sorts of services were now available to help Grace and her family. My mum talks about having a home help provided for a few hours a week when my brother and I were born in the late 60s (myself in hospital and my brother at home).

I don't know if it worked differently then but my Dad got incontinence advice and free pads a couple of years ago in Derbyshire but my MiL doesn't get any help in Sheffield, so maybe it was dependent on where you lived then too. Also, to get help you have to ask for it and some older people are reluctant to admit to not being able to cope and this was probably more so in the 60s.

t was called Cardinal Red Polish and came in a tin like Brasso, only it was dark red in colour. You can still get that, I used to use it on my quarry tile floor.

I got a big blue woollen blanket in a charity shop once to make one of my children an Anglo-Saxon outfit for school. Lovely satin ribbon edging.

remember cleaning the bath with part of an old t-shirt or an old pair of pants!

Our dusters when I was a kid were our old school vests!

My mum still has a few of those blankets handed down from my Nan, I think they'll go on forever and I'll hand them down to my daughter!!

I work in community nursing now and there's a continence service where you will be assessed, advised and if appropriate will receive continence pads all free of charge.

This talk of doorsteps has reminded me... My late DH was 35 years older than me. Born and brought up in Lancashire. He encouraged me to throw our soapy washing up water over the half door onto our front path like his Mum did. I learnt two lessons doing this :-
1)Check before you throw the water! I once narrowly missed soaking the trousers and feet of our local Baptist Pastor as he was walking past!
2)Check the bowl. I found three teaspoons in the flower bed next to the path!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Yes @Squigean

Mum used to have a pink one

Plus eiderdowns.