It was nice to see a recurring couple tonight, one of the things I found implausible about the earlier series was in those pre-Pill days of larger families, it was almost unheard of to see the same mother coming back for a subsequent pregnancy or ongoing storyline. The only one I can remember was the Mullockses (parents of thalidomide baby Susan).
Re Fred’s comment from last week and his daughters - didn’t he say he’d never given away someone in church before? I assumed his daughters had had register office weddings.
I don’t mind the dashing widow but I hope they don’t marry Trixie off and write her out, assuming Helen George doesn’t want to be written out; I love the fact that she’s such a competent and non-judgemental midwife. I was watching an old episode on Drama earlier where she oversees the pregnancy and birth of the stripper who then conveniently buys Valerie’s aunt’s dance school (that I’m not sure we ever heard of before or since) with the potential Rhesus factor baby, and she’s just so damned calm and knowledgeable.