Call the Midwife

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Is back 18th April. I'm so glad we are getting a series this year, I find it such great escapism.

Is anyone else a fan?

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I love Cyril. That smile! But Lucille is prim, coy and boring.

He is besotted. I thought his proposal was lovely.

In the very first episode, Shelagh is just as irritatingly earnest as she is now!

I also think the unchaperoned visits between Lucille and Cyril would raise more than the odd eyebrow. Should the student mw not have had a dressing down for taking on such a risky delivery unsupervised, even if SMJ were there, Sadly now she has refound her faith I fear her time is near.

I find Lucille hard to warm to. Trixie has aged, but then haven't we all. The harsh hair colour isn't flattering either.

I like Lucille, but I've never been convinced she actually likes Cyril

Lucille always seems quite aloof and definitely not that into Cyril.

I think the harsh 1960s make-up makes Trixie look older.

Maybe we'll get two weddings for the price of one this season? Trixie's romance with the widower could happen quite quickly, particularly with a young baby involved. It would be nice for Trixie to have some happiness.

I think that they missed a trick with the first Caribbean midwife. I don't know whether it's the writing or the acting, but she could have been a really great character.

I like Lucille, but she hasn't had much in the way of storylines. Think Cyril has had more character development than she has.

It's a such a shame Dr Turner was too busy rescuing people from sinister hospitals to score the winning World Cup goal.

Hilarious- Made me spit out my tea!

I do feel like Lucille's storyline is 'being visibly diverse on a BBC show' sometimes. It was a bit irritating that the storyline with the diabetic woman got sucked into Dr Turner's Medical Wonders before the relationship between those two women could go anywhere, and in isolation, the bit where the diabetic woman told Lucille she was too slim to get a man just felt a bit ... stereotyped? Kind of 'insert cultural stereotype about body type preference here'?

@SoupDragon - oh, absolutely it's changing. It was just on my mind with the news about banning conversion therapy. It makes you aware that attitudes may have changed, but they've also just gone underground.

Don't forget Dr Dr Turner is married to Heidi Thomas, CTM writer, hence the storylines about him rather than the midwives.
Until last week I'd always wondered whi such a talentless "actor" had had to sleep with to get the part.

@BurtonHouse

Don't forget Dr Dr Turner is married to Heidi Thomas, CTM writer, hence the storylines about him rather than the midwives. Until last week I'd always wondered whi such a talentless "actor" had had to sleep with to get the part.

That explains a lot!

I hope he is more exciting horizontal than he is vertical for her sake.

Trixie's hair annoys me! One side looks fine but that silly outward flick on the other side is not a mid-sixties look.

@SheldonesqueTheBstard

I hope he is more exciting horizontal than he is vertical for her sake.

"Och, Patrick! Read me that article from the Lancet on athletes' foot again!!"

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@SheldonesqueTheBstard

I bet it’s like shagging a wooden plank, it’s a wonder Shelagh didn’t go back to being a nun after the wedding night.

Ooh maireas

There is nothing like a fungal infection to get things going

Reverting to nundom again might be problematic once she had felt the full length of his plank.

432 Hail Marys wouldn’t even touch the sides.

I’ll try to get it watched tonight.

Dr Turner invented Lamisil. (Apply topically 2× daily)

I'm still watching and still enjoying it but don't love it like I did the earlier 1950's episodes.

I agree with Clawdy, Trixie's sticky out bit of hair is very annoying I want to get my straighteners on it!

Baby Johnathan got big quickly didn’t he? The baby of the widower. Had there been a time jump?

I've assumed he might be 3 months in next weeks episode, as the clip showed him weaning in a high chair? And I know that weaning was done earlier in years past. And presumably there needed to be a little time between Nonnatus House securing the contract of training the pupil midwives and them actually starting.

If you noticed with the Michael Leeks storyline, near the beginning of the episode his mum had known him 17 years, 1 month and 11 days, but at the end it was 17 years, 3 months and 23 days (I think) so that one episode somehow covered a 10 week period. If time moves that fast in Poplar baby Johnathan was probably around 6 months old for the christening

Dr Turner invented Lamisil. (Apply topically 2× daily)

One is desperately hoping he didn’t apply it topically to get a bit of slide.

So is Shelagh I should imagine.