Call the Midwife...or the Turners?

[Maireas]

I noticed that the last thread was full, so I hope no-one minds that I've started a new one!

Oooh, I like your theory Sheldon!

@NewModelArmyMayhem18
Me too ✋🏼

Egham so is that Royal Holloway? Fab looking build.

I posted on the wrong thread about 'hydration' not being a thing until the mid to late 90s (all down to water company marketing ploys!)! Gone are the days when school children managed on a 200ml Duralex tumbler of water for the whole school day (and the school days were about an hour longer in decades past).

@Mia5678

Found the little girl playing Elaine very impressive, what an amazing little actress she is. Found the storyline very hard hitting.

What I couldn’t work out really is why her parents had taken her to see the doctor. I think I’m right in thinking she was portraying a 4 year old or thereabouts. Surely by this age you would expect a child to be walking/talking etc. I just found it so sad seeing her in the play pen unable to play! I can’t shake the image from my head!! :-(

Is free.

I thought both the actresses in Sunday's episode (pregnant teen and Elaine) were phenomenal.

Yes, Founders Building at Royal Holloway built based on a French chateau (Chambord). I had 2 years living in that building in the 1980s - solid Victorian furniture and very dodgy gas fires in our rooms.

@NewModelArmyMayhem18

It seemed as if the mother's word and decision counted ultimately? I am not sure what the teen girl's rights would have been in those days? As she was talking university one would have assumed she must have been 17 or 18 so able to make up her own mind but apparently not?

She was waiting for her gcse results and was 16.

Very hard hitting storyline and a reminder how much image and parental control existed back then.

I was at mixed infants in the 1960s and it was 5 to 9 bell in the morning, and we had a tiny bottle of milk (like milk for the Borrowers) before playtime in the morning (where we ran around like savages), 'dinner time', then afternoon playtime (where we ran around like savages), and hometime at 4pm.

No water. No snacks.

@NewModelArmyMayhem18

Egham so is that Royal Holloway? Fab looking build.

I posted on the wrong thread about 'hydration' not being a thing until the mid to late 90s (all down to water company marketing ploys!)! Gone are the days when school children managed on a 200ml Duralex tumbler of water for the whole school day (and the school days were about an hour longer in decades past).

Exactly! When students moan that I won't let them fill their water bottles during the lesson, and claim they'll be ill because of dehydration, I gently correct them* (* I don't, I say we're in Yorkshire, not the Kalahari)

We had milk in the morning and water fountains on the playground in the 70s, which we made good use of on a hot day. We had water in a metal jug per table in Juniors for lunch. Can't remember in Infants

We had milk at break then water at lunchtime in my infants and primary school ( late 60s in infants) and at my secondary we had orange squash at break and water at lunchtime.

School milk bottles were a third of a pint, so although small that is quite a lot of milk.

Dr Turner will be recommending that everyone starts to carry a plastic bottle of water round at all times, and will pressure schools to provide filter machines on every corridor.

It was full fat milk, left out in the corner of the classroom in a crate till morning break. Got a bit warm in a hot summer.

@NewModelArmyMayhem18

Egham so is that Royal Holloway? Fab looking build.

I posted on the wrong thread about 'hydration' not being a thing until the mid to late 90s (all down to water company marketing ploys!)! Gone are the days when school children managed on a 200ml Duralex tumbler of water for the whole school day (and the school days were about an hour longer in decades past).

I didn't even drink the beaker of water because it tasted funny.

Checking in. I particularly love this thread for its coinage of ‘the yay twins’. Spot on!

I think all the witty banter on here shows MNetters at their best!

@Ravenclawsome

Can you send me a PM too please *@NewModelArmyMayhem18*?

And me please!

Ok, folks..share the spoiler! It can't be anything more interesting than ideas presented already!

I don't like spoilers

I prefer guessing.

@itsgettingweird Sorry, what do you mean by “is free”?

Ok, @SpindleWhorl!

SMJ ate the priest with a side of placenta

Please can someone Dm me the spoiler

@N4NNY
Me too, I tagged @NewModelArmyMayhem18 🤞🏼🤞🏼

[quote Mia5678]@itsgettingweird Sorry, what do you mean by “is free”?[/quote]
It was meant to say "I agree" 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣🤣