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Call the Midwife

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Toddlerteaplease · 25/12/2021 20:25

Well this is boring.

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YnysMonCrone · 30/01/2022 21:14

To save the day I vote for Chummy coming back!
Or Valerie.

DobbyTheHouseElk · 30/01/2022 21:14

We had a period talk (from the pe teacher!) when I was in year 7. It was very random and cringey. She saw that some of us were fairly developed and in hindsight was actually being really kind. I guess no other teacher wanted to broach the subject. At the time we thought it was really weird. most of the teachers were male.

GarethSouthgatesWaistcoat · 30/01/2022 21:15

Thanks, I found it really jarring!

I thought Phyllis was going to have to cancel her trip. Sister Julienne has made a much bigger fuss about short staffing in previous series. I wonder if we'll get a new midwife or two to cover Trixie and Phyllis? I still feel the young one's being underused when it comes to storylines, ditto WAAF nun and Sister Francis.

I lolled at next week's spoiler with Patrick exclaming 'WE COULD ERADICATE MEASLES!!!!'. I'm sure him and Sheilagh will have it wrapped up by the episode's close!

Itstheprinciple · 30/01/2022 21:15

I vote for Chummy!

TheHoptimist · 30/01/2022 21:16

@Pebble21uk

For anyone wondering - Phyllis's 5k would be worth 80k in today's money!
Or a house bought for £5k in 1970 is now worth £1.1 million in the North and probably £2.5 million in London.
Snowisfalling33 · 30/01/2022 21:16

Oh gosh Chummy could easily come back. As far as the storylines go, she's only down the road at the mother and baby home isn't she?

Patsy and Delia (now a fully qualified midwife) would be fab too!!

TheHoptimist · 30/01/2022 21:17

@Pebble21uk

And we've had the old unexploded WW2 bomb storyline before!
Pretty constant in London right up to the 1990s and even today when they dig up the 1960s buildings that were plonked on top of bombs

I remember loads when I was a child.

TheHoptimist · 30/01/2022 21:19

GRABBY- the scriptwriter is on MN

A word not heard of until a couple of years ago!

bendmeoverbackwards · 30/01/2022 21:19

@MinglingFlamingo

Nonatus house is going to be rather short staff with both Trixie & Nurse Crane both going off
Time for Mother Superior Miriam Margoyles to make an appearance 😂
Pebble21uk · 30/01/2022 21:20

My vote goes to Patsy and Delia too... but it won't happen... Emerald Fennell has bigger fish to fry these days!

JinglingHellsBells · 30/01/2022 21:20

@secretteaaddict

I highly doubt those sort of lessons would have taken place in the 60s. I was born in the 90s and we had sex education in year 6, but nothing before that.
I was at secondary school in the 60s. We had one talk when we were in what is now called Year 8. (Called Year 2 at the time.) Most of us had started periods then- aged 12-13. Nothing was said at primary school AT ALL. Obviously there are some girls who do start early at 11 or 10, but not many.
upinaballoon · 30/01/2022 21:24

Ah, I remember what a sanitary belt was.Grin

I can't remember exactly what Fred said about marzipan tonight but it made me smile.

MinglingFlamingo · 30/01/2022 21:24

@RocketPanda

I'd love to see Patsy and Deliah come back. Or Chummy.
Or Miriam Margoyles
Aroundtheworldin80moves · 30/01/2022 21:24

Nurse crane is only going for a few weeks, which is one episode in our time though?

I really hoped Lucille was going to get happiness. I know Chummy got it, and Patsy went travelling... but its usually sadness. Jenny boyfriend died. Cynthia depression. Val and her grandmother. Barbara died. Trixie just one sadness after another.

Ifyoudontlaughyouwillcry · 30/01/2022 21:25

The distancing of the actors is all due to filming in covid conditions. It’s a shame as you lose the intimacy of characters eg Lucille and Cyril and Tricia and Matthew

bendmeoverbackwards · 30/01/2022 21:25

I don’t think periods at 10 or 11 were that unusual. My mum was born in 1932 and started at 9. I started at nearly 12 but I remember in the book my mum got me said normal range was 9-16.

bendmeoverbackwards · 30/01/2022 21:26

Very sad episode, so sad for Lucille and poor Phyllis trying to hold it together.

Musmerian · 30/01/2022 21:27

@upinaballoon

Ah, I remember what a sanitary belt was.Grin

I can't remember exactly what Fred said about marzipan tonight but it made me smile.

He said that people had mixed feelings about marzipan! Battenburg ambivalence.
TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 30/01/2022 21:31

Looking forward to the Dr mixing up the measles vaccine in a tea cup while he mansplains how measles looks and feel as to a measles patent.

What would’ve happened to the child abuser? They didn’t give an update. Wasn’t this at a time when hitting your children was pretty common?

They had a child neglect storyline in series one or two and both parents went to prison.

MyOtherProfile · 30/01/2022 21:33

They showed the abuser going to a women's hostel at the end. I imagine she must have had a prison sentence before that but I don't think it was clear.

upinaballoon · 30/01/2022 21:37

Thanks Musmerian. Mrs. Buckle wears nearly as many different outfits as Trixie.
How many more weeks are there in this series? Is there time for Lucille to recover, fall again, and the baby arrive at Christmas, as someone upthread suggested?

BlueBlueCowWondering · 30/01/2022 21:37

@PriamFarrl

And when I was told about periods in the 80s sex wasn’t mentioned at all.

How far gone was Lucille?

It had the feel of the end of the series with everyone off.

Agree-It really felt like a series finale - I had to check what episode we were up to!
VeryLongBeeeeep · 30/01/2022 21:46

Or a house bought for £5k in 1970 is now worth £1.1 million in the North and probably £2.5 million in London.

Lol wut? My parents' house in the NE cost £5k in 1971 and is worth about £140k now.

iklboo · 30/01/2022 21:55

DM just said when her DF was a GP in the 60s he never treated his dc if needed. Possibly against hypocritic oath

It's against the rules of the GMC rather than the Hippocratic Oath. It still stands today.

Blossomtoes · 30/01/2022 21:59

@secretteaaddict

I highly doubt those sort of lessons would have taken place in the 60s. I was born in the 90s and we had sex education in year 6, but nothing before that.
They did. My periods started when I was 12 in 1965. We had the “period talk” from our PE and games teacher, Mrs Kelly, in the first year of secondary school when most of us were 11.