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?

@LaBelleSauvage123

Lucille and Cyril irritate me almost as much as Dr T I’m afraid.They’re so relentlessly cheerful and good - there’s absolutely nothing realistically flawed about them. Lucille’s first few episodes were good, but she’s turned into a stereotype of ‘saintly Christian woman’

I agree. I think we saw more of her human side in earlier episodes - for example, when she was so against tampons and was really snotty and disapproving with barmaid nurse (can’t remember her name) about classes teaching about them. But she is now just ideal black Christian woman.

I yearn for either of them to lose their tempers or find a secret vice!

Lucille and Cyril take up S&M

They'll have to share the Turners dungeon at first. Cyril doesn't want to take out a loan.

They could all start a swingers club.

@Elderflower14

There was also the episode with the gay mechanic who's wife was pregnant... He tried to gas himself in his car... People weren't very accepting of him. I thought Richard Fleeshman acted so well in that episode..

The man who was caught cottaging by a dodgy police sting?

Dr Turner prescribed hormones to “chemically castrate” him, didn’t he.

But on the way into the private hospital he said that was barbaric.

I know the show is trying to demonstrate how times are changing but is it credible that his personal attitudes would change?

@LaBelleSauvage123

I yearn for either of them to lose their tempers or find a secret vice!

That is going to happen, the temper anyway. Nothing terminal but normal.

I feel like I’m missing something obvious but why was everything plastered in the Union Jack for the World Cup - shouldn’t it have been the England flag?

good point about the england flag,
perhaps they didnt have any
still had the union jack flag
perhaps the whole united kingdom were supporting england?

and it was only 21 years since the end of ww2

I remember the union jack everywhere during the World Cup then, don't think the England flag was a thing in those days. The whole UK were certainly not supporting England, though!

@Clawdy

I remember the union jack everywhere during the World Cup then, don't think the England flag was a thing in those days. The whole UK were certainly not supporting England, though!

no, just asked my scottish dh, who said he had to ask a relative who they should support ,

apparently the england flag didnt become a thing until 1996 when it was an england v scotland game

I never saw an England flag displayed until the 1990s. It wasn't a thing. Then some football fans started to display it. Previously, it was always the Union Flag.

@UCOinSteveArnottsPants

I feel like I’m missing something obvious but why was everything plastered in the Union Jack for the World Cup - shouldn’t it have been the England flag?

Being cynical maybe it's because they sell the programme to the US market and think they'll be more familiar with the Union flag.

Wow thanks for those replies. I had no idea the England flag wasn’t a thing until so recently

I always wonder how far they are sticklers for accuracy.

I found it incredible that both Chummy (when Fred's pig had piglets) and Trixie (human birth) didn't change out of their prized posh frocks. I had always understood people to take great care of their clothes because they were relatively expensive, certainly in the 50s and 60s

Good point about clothes. More expensive, fewer and difficult to launder. That's why women wore aprons round the house and shop assistants wore overalls.

@UCOinSteveArnottsPants

Wow thanks for those replies. I had no idea the England flag wasn’t a thing until so recently

Which makes all the EDL type rants about why we don't celebrate St. George's day any more so ludicrous. We never did when I was at school in the 60s and 70s.

Just watched the first ever three episodes. Jenny Lee was sooo irritating! Loved all the other characters though.

Trixie did look young too. I was surprised how well I remembered them. Think I'll work through them all again.

@Maireas

"Och, Patrick, are you saying we should be inclusive to the mentally ill, homosexuals and transgendered yet women should only earn 6/- for every £1 a man earns?" Enter Phyllis "a word, Dr Turner, if you please"

yessss!

Seen this on Facebook

@CeciliaSeabrook

Seen this on Facebook

Brace yourselves!

@CeciliaSeabrook

Seen this on Facebook

Tim got into Uni? Prepare your ears for more synchronised “yaaaay”ing from the Turner Sisters.

They’ll maybe yay themselves to sleep. And it’ll be catching and snoreagh and dr turnblaw will let the midwives have the storyline for a change.

And little wide awake Timmy will be off down a side alley celebrating and giving it large with someone of dubious repute. Who will then become with nipper and university will go out the window and he’ll get a job fixing the bikes with Fred Buckle and Shelagh will tut and shake her head at his wasted opportunity. Meanwhile Dr Turner will be showing how bountiful he is and will be round telling new mum how well she’s doing and she’ll have him by the curlies and over the banister quicker than you can say ‘mind me chin on the spindles’.

Probably.

I love your plans for the Turners SheldonesqueTheBstard
I vaguely remember a previous storyline about someone being about to go to university but getting pregnant so not being able to.