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!

Love the title!! I did think about writing to the bbc & telling them it’s meant to be Call the midwife not call the doctor!! It’s getting a tad irritating.

Pretty please for spoiler too.

Loved not the newly engaged couple standing so far apart. Not very realistic.

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.

And free ‘icedcream’ in winter.

Can’t believe I used to drink warm milk. I could cowk myself silly at the thought 🤢

It's hard looking back on it why the milk couldn't have been put in the fridge, or even the shade. I didn't like the water from the metal jugs. I promise I there were days I didn't wee the whole day at school.

The boy opposite me wee'd himself every afternoon.

I couldn't understand why Fred was fixing a pipe in his knees, when the water was falling down on top of the cabinet. I was expecting Dr T to explain gravity. I also thought the Buckles had turned the wool shop into a newsagents, but I've realised they've not got both.

@SpindleWhorl

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.

Lucky children got offered spare bottles in the afternoon at playtime. The milk was lovely and warm with thick cream as 'top of the milk'

I hated the warm milk at primary school. Even worse though was the cocoa at brownie camp that was made with hot milk and had a thick skin on it.

The school milk was not nice, used to take me ages to drink that little bottle.

Bought this sofa in John Lewis today. It’s....teal.

Its lovely but looks like the one the Turners have.

Oh nooo!

Is it teal enough?
I thought their sofa was mustard 🤔

But even so I don't think she'd have had much in the way of rights under the age of 18.

Possibly not till 21. The voting age was changed from 21 to 18 I think in 1971 - I don't know if it changed the age of majority on other things.

Our playpen was a wooden one which folded up when not in use. It was bigger than the one on the programme (and square), but we had more space. I have very early memories of being in it while Mum vacuumed.

Marking place. Oh how I remember the school milk. I remember clearly the boy who sat next to me sang 'it's the final countdown' (it was the 80s) and used to drink it and race us.

I don't think fridges were really a thing that most people had until the early 70s (same with landlines). Schools possibly even less likely to do so.

It's hard looking back on it why the milk couldn't have been put in the fridge, or even the shade. I didn't like the water from the metal jugs. I promise I there were days I didn't wee the whole day at school.

Late 70s, Victorian primary school. We didn’t have a fridge, or space for one downstairs. We had cold, damp outside loos. The milkman dropped a crate of milk bottles in the playground mid morning. The caretaker dragged them into the loos if it was really hot. Worked ok.

I remember having a bar of dairy milk with my morning milk. 2p it cost that bar of chocolate. Yum

Schools used to run tuck shops where you could buy a bag of crisps or a penny biscuit.

@TSSDNCOP

It's hard looking back on it why the milk couldn't have been put in the fridge, or even the shade. I didn't like the water from the metal jugs. I promise I there were days I didn't wee the whole day at school.

The boy opposite me wee'd himself every afternoon.

I couldn't understand why Fred was fixing a pipe in his knees, when the water was falling down on top of the cabinet. I was expecting Dr T to explain gravity. I also thought the Buckles had turned the wool shop into a newsagents, but I've realised they've not got both.

They didn't put the milk in the fridge because they didn't gave fridges large enough,or possibly any fridge at all. Even when I was teaching in the 80s when London primaries still had milk, we didn't have a fridge.

Our tuck shop at the big school had melon slices...

Channelling my inner Waynetta here but it was ‘exotic’....

That sort of thing was very very rare in our house and for 5p a slice it was a treat...

and the new orange books always smelt of off milk

Yes, my mixed infants smelled of off milk - and the malting smell of the local brewery at the end of the road.

That's a while lost part of childhood, isn't it, the smells? Now it's just vehicle exhausts and cleaning products.

I’ve had it to absolutely up here with the Turner’s. Dr Turner is irritating as ever, Shelaghs whole personality is being married to a doctor and Tim is so awkward I cringe

Mr Aylewood needs to get a wriggle on because Trixie needs something nice after 10 seasons!

@NewModelArmyMayhem18

Schools used to run tuck shops where you could buy a bag of crisps or a penny biscuit.

I thought it was just mine! In infants we could take in 5p for either a (very weird, small) bag of crisps or a pack of biscuits (3 biscuits- pot luck which ones you got, everyone wanted bourbons but it was usually those with dried fruit in). We also had compulsory school dinners- no choice of food (other than eat it or don't) and nothing to drink at lunch time unless it was unusually hot.

Tuck shops! At my London secondary in the early 80s we could buy jam sandwich fritters for 10p. 😊 happy days!!!

I loved Burtons Beef puff crisps from our junior school tuck shop in the 70s/early 80s - 5p

Also fish and chip crisps