Call the Midwife - nuns but no Nonnatus

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Just caught up then realised the thread was full.

Sister Monica joan’s flowers.

Cried like a seal.

My garden didn’t bloom and for me the sunshine failed. My buds were perfect but not for here.

And the hairy bud who grew and blossomed in my care soaked up the love.

Missing the three of you more than you know. X

Did anyone else notice the surprisingly modern CCTV outside of Holloway Prison last night?

New doctor is a druggie. Great. We finally get another doctor & he’s a blooming drug addict.

The druggydoctor story might be to show how different their training is I'm pretty sure it was engineered by The Boss to show us all how absolutely wonderful Dr Turner is and how evil we are all for even having a passing hope he falls down those slippery stairs.

how evil we are all for even having a passing hope he falls down those slippery stairs.
It could still happen

shootupmcshootyface ..... Brilliant
I didn't spot the CCTV but I was amazed on how much easier and less security conscious a prison visit was then compared to now!

I actually wondered if the blind mother's sister had been giving them to her in tea/food because she didn't think she would cope with a baby - obviously that didn't work very well right enough - I thought her throwing them away was the realisation that she was a good Mum and could manage with help.

I may have over thought it though!

Her husband was in Hollyoaks (Jono 😭) about 10 years ago too.

He and Shelagh as a couple are so unrealistic and their screen time together adds nothing
I love them as a couple. Seems I am in a minority though!

I thought she just kept them in her bag so we could see she took them and then see her throwing them away after bonding with her neice and deciding she wanted to have a baby. She was scared before in case she passed on the blindness.
BTW I don't think it's that odd she kept the pills in her handbag. You were told then to take them at the same time every day having them in her bag meant she had them with her always.

@BlueEyedFloozy I thought that was what was happening as well.

Shame Tricia didn't introduce the blind girl to the other blind lady a bit earlier on.

I was really hoping the little spat with Mrs T and Mrs B when they were revealing the incubator would come to more later. I'd have been on Team Violet.

Decades ago when I took the pill I always kept the packet in my bag. That way if I was late leaving work I could still take it on time.

As we never saw the sister's home, the glimpse of pills in her handbag was the only way for us to see that she was on the pill.

Shame Tricia didn't introduce the blind girl to the other blind lady a bit earlier on.

But until she broke the glass, the blind girl was very resistant to any help. I know she was allowing Trixie to help, but I don’t think she would have gone to see the other blind mother before then.

I can't get over how Sister F ran for Dr Teal after Dr McSmackedup's unnecessary cut, and Dr Teal literally batmanned in to bellow, 'great, you're done - carry on!' ...and fuck off again. A* for effort.

@CREATIVEJOOSE big smile on his face "splendid dr mcshooty" the nun stood horrified!

I'm surprised the mother knew the doc was in the wrong...a lot of the episodes show the "dr is god" mentality!

Someone mentioned the poor abused woman's legs in the stirrups while giving birth, (of course she had to have an episiotomy because she couldn't bloody move !!!) it's fascinating seeing the more mechanical (hospitalised) attitudes beginning.

We're lucky because it's all gone in a full circle (apart from the lack of staff of course ).

In 1980 I gave birth at Guy's Hospital and the midwives let me get into whatever position I wanted. Although at the ante-natal class we 'rehearsed' the lying on your back position, when the time came I wanted to sit up so they propped me up with pillows. My friends who gave birth at Greenwich Hospital at the same time were in stirrups.

Captain I gave birth in 1980 too! I CHOSE West London hosp. and could also choose a calm low light room "Leboyer" birth. It wasn't perfect but it was much better than stirrups !!

I said it's like that now but that was 40 years ago!!!!! (oh help)

I'm going with granny having a hiatus hernia, because out neighbour had that when I was about 11.
Our 'lady doctor' died of an overdose when I was about seven, so we were stuck with her grumpy husband. I think access to drugs by gps was an issue - I only found out about Lady Doctor when doing a sociology degree and discussing suicide with my mum. I was a chlld in the sixties, so am enjoying the nostalgia!

Mammy I reckon that despite quite a bit of evidence to the contrary . Many people nowadays still have that "doctor is God" mentality.

I was thinking throat cancer because of all the attention on smoking recently (Val's granny smoked a lot didn't she? I'm not mis-remembering am I?)

As for Doctor's being god, definitely older male doctors hold that kudos (even today) But Dr Druggie is young and had many comments on his age, in the 60s I think youth may have been seen as lacking experience too.

*Doctors not Doctor's!!

I saw the cctv too. I’m sure that wasn’t a thing in the 60s!

Good call re smoking link @Squigean and Val's Gran.

There has been a big focus on smoking this series and I think it was around the mid 60's that it began to be considered as harmful to health?