Call the Midwife

[Toddlerteaplease]

Well this is boring.

What was written on the card from miss Higgins? I thought police would have popped up with something from the burglary.

I didn't catch what the card said, I always like the voiceovers at start and end. I want Trixie and Matthew to be together, it's taking ages 😂 Although not complaining that he's in it more, he's definitely a nice sight!

I still love CTMW and I care not.

I couldn't see the card either but I think it was something about lilies standing for friendship.

The card said something like 'lilies of the valley to signify the return of happiness'

I couldn't make out what was written on the little note in the boo, but it was to do with the language of flowers. Lily of the valley apparently symbolises a return of happiness.

Good episode tonight, I thought. The recorder incident was priceless.

*book

Cross post!

Phyllis’s face at the thought of the musical soirée….

And sister MJ’s wretched oversight (in the non nicking of the recorders)

From someone who is a collection of cells.

Trixie would have rubbed Matthew more red raw than the scabies.

The lovely Phyllis is looking very slim. Hope all is ok there.

I love lily of the valley. I really do.

Men turning up to get their cervix checked.

Felt so sorry for Janis, so sad. How cruel to have cervical cancer 😢

It suddenly occurred to me that all the young men have very short, brylcremed hair.

Dr Turner has much longer, non-brylcremed hair.

Wouldn’t it be the other way around?

The women are all shown to be very trendy, but you wouldn’t believe this was the era of the Beatles, the Stones, The Who etc because only Dr Turner has hair that touches his collar!

I'm waiting for the rebellion of Timothy!

Only the hip young things that didnt live at home had mop tops. My father was a Beatles fan but short back and sides was expected at work, and as a young man most couldnt afford to risk their employment or the ire of their fathers.

It wasnt until he was married and living with my (mod) mother that they could both dress and style as they wanted. The men in CTM are older than my parents were so werent really into the Beatles/Stones/Mods/Rockers stuff as they had jobs to do and families to support. Men were considered men at a much younger age. Married with kids at 20 was in no way unusual. You were middle aged at 30.

Timothy was shown asking to go to a Stones concert a couple of series ago.

Mrs Turner Did Not Approve.

My dad commented that poplar seems rather old fashioned when you think that across the pond Woodstock was about to happen. He was a teenager in 1967 and he thought the world was a bit more more modern than it is portrayed. However, how he knows about contemporary midwifery techniques i don't know

Why didn't they give that lovely and conveniently empty cottage to Lucille and Cyril when they got married?

My dad commented that poplar seems rather old fashioned when you think that across the pond Woodstock was about to happen. I think you'd expect socially deprived areas to be 'behind the times' every which way (including fashion-wise), wouldn't you?

And shocking to think Scabies was still such a thing at this point in our not too distant past!

And shocking to think Scabies was still such a thing at this point in our not too distant past!

It's still a thing much more recently- I caught it in 2007 after staying in a hostel in London.

Luckily my gran trained as a nurse in Glasgow in the 50s when it was rife to recognised it and treated it straight away.

I was itching at the sight of it last night!

Poor you @JakeyRolling . It was making me feel itchy just watching it.

I loved Nancy picking on Matthew like that. It was funny.

Watching the sister trying to sneak out before Miss Higgins played the recorder is parents everywhere

@PyongyangKipperbang

Only the hip young things that didnt live at home had mop tops. My father was a Beatles fan but short back and sides was expected at work, and as a young man most couldnt afford to risk their employment or the ire of their fathers.

It wasnt until he was married and living with my (mod) mother that they could both dress and style as they wanted. The men in CTM are older than my parents were so werent really into the Beatles/Stones/Mods/Rockers stuff as they had jobs to do and families to support. Men were considered men at a much younger age. Married with kids at 20 was in no way unusual. You were middle aged at 30.

I disagree about hairstyles of young men in 1967 - Ken Barlow in Corrie, for example. And he was never a trend setter! Short back and sides were seen as “square”. Young men didn’t want to look like their fathers.

But my point remains - why would boring Dr Turner be more daring and “with it” than the young men? And why would women have up to date hair styles, but not men?

And why do all the young men wear dung-coloured round necked tops in shiny synthetic?

DP had scabies as a student in Glasgow in the 1990s! He's extremely clean these days and has left his social disease life behind.

@NewModelArmyMayhem18

My dad commented that poplar seems rather old fashioned when you think that across the pond Woodstock was about to happen. I think you'd expect socially deprived areas to be 'behind the times' every which way (including fashion-wise), wouldn't you?

And shocking to think Scabies was still such a thing at this point in our not too distant past!

That's the thing my dad grew up in that sort of social - economic situation. Very working class background

I didn’t get the Constance / Lucille thing either?

I think you'd expect socially deprived areas to be 'behind the times' every which way (including fashion-wise), wouldn't you?

I think I'd expect the opposite in 1960s London tbh. I would expect the aristos to have been more resistant to fashion changes and the young working class to be at the vanguard of what was new and hip.