Call the midwife 2!

[Toddlerteaplease]

Wow. I've never filled a thread before!

They are Christians!

Would a Nun really let a man sleep in her bedroom (I know she slept with the other nurse... but its her private space for prayer etc)

@Taswama but he's super Dr. Mere head injuries shouldn't affect him.

It’s all a load of nonsense!

@OneSwallow

They are Christians!

And? Are you saying that all Christians are boring and earnest? I don't reckon so. They're so bloody saccharine.

Cyril taking off Lucille’s shoes though.

You’d need more than nuns and Dr T for salvation if a bloke took off my boots after a shift.

@SheldonesqueTheBstard

Cyril taking off Lucille’s shoes though.

You’d need more than nuns and Dr T for salvation if a bloke took off my boots after a shift.

Cyril and Lucille are from the Caribbean. They have probably been brought up in a serious way to be God fearing and hard working.

The Christians I have known have been very dull people. Sorry, but it’s true. No offence meant.

I loved the young Irish nurse realising sex was overrated and sharing it with the nuns and lifelong spinsters. Was exactly the sort of thing that comes blurting out.
I thought Monica Joan remembering brushing glass from hair during the war was touching and I thought maybe she was spiralling after seeing so much trauma. But nope.

@Soubriquet

Well how anti-climatic.

Yes to whoever said about Barbra’s death. I sobbed buckets.

Also cried at Sister Evangelina’s funeral where everyone wanted to contribute something

Have yet to catch up with last night's episode, but agree re Barbara and Sr Evangelina, especially her funeral, and all of the people coming to say how she helped them.

I felt more for the tea lady and her family. And the young mam.

And we don’t even know them.

@OneSwallow

Cyril and Lucille are from the Caribbean. They have probably been brought up in a serious way to be God fearing and hard working.

The Christians I have known have been very dull people. Sorry, but it’s true. No offence meant.

Cyril is not from the Carribean remember when he spoke about them being from places as far apart as they were from England? I'll ignore the other bit 🥺

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

Would a Nun really let a man sleep in her bedroom (I know she slept with the other nurse... but its her private space for prayer etc)

No, I don't think they would. I can't see why the rest of them didn't go home. They lived very close.

Cyril and Lucille couldn’t go home because the windows had blown in on their flat. But Mr White-Teeth could have.

I think the clunky hammer hit to the head of called the little girl “Bobbie” sums up my feelings about this episode. I expect they will get complaints from the British Dental Association for serving up so much sugar in one episode, I know it made my teeth ache.

I remember Cyril once saying he was from Guyana, which is right on the edge of the Caribbean, on the South American continental coast to the south of Trinidad. It was a British territory.

I'll try to attach a map. Look bottom right.

@EngimaticDisappearance

St Matthew, Patron Saint of Slumlords turns out to have medical training.

Which he never mentioned before.

Diagnosing compound fractures and sneaking into the staff photo.

He'll be mansplaining with the best of them by Christmas.

A mansplaining stand off between St Matthew and St Patrick is what I want to see, with a side order of sniping and glowering from their wimminfolk.

I would buy tickets.

@Puffalicious

Gosh, Cyril and Lucille are insufferable. Would young people really be so boring and earnest?

I love them! Absolutely adorable, and Lucille is so comforting to the birthing women 💔

I do find all of the characters are very much a caricature of idealised old-timey good nature, hard working, selfless, Christian type. Life was different in that era, but it must be hard to write the show having not lived the life and having run out of book material very early on.

I agree with PP who said they would want Sr Hilda at their birth.

She was just so calming and hypnotic! I want her as my life mentor

I don't usually post on here (as i am usually a couple of weeks behind) but i always read. I loved this storyline, even though it was clunky in parts. Loved Dr Mansplaining away even with concussion

See you all in 10 months!

I have to disagree a little re Sr Hilda at last night's birth! I found myself rolling my eyes a bit at her new-age dialogue and conspicuously "soothing tone". I would have wanted to tell her to knock it off myself .

@SpinningTheSeedsOfLove

I remember Cyril once saying he was from Guyana, which is right on the edge of the Caribbean, on the South American continental coast to the south of Trinidad. It was a British territory.

I'll try to attach a map. Look bottom right.

In the 60s and 70s I had friends from Guyana. One of them said sometimes they described themselves as Caribbean or West Indian, sometimes as South American depending on who they were with.

@CandleRose

I have to disagree a little re Sr Hilda at last night's birth! I found myself rolling my eyes a bit at her new-age dialogue and conspicuously "soothing tone". I would have wanted to tell her to knock it off myself .

Horses for courses. I had a Sister Hilda and she was brilliant.

@GruffaloSolja

I seriously thought Tim was going to save the day after I saw that promo shot of him in the white coat. But instead his dad was telling him how to administer Aspirin!

I'm pretty sure that aspirin wasn't used as first-line treatment for heart attacks at that time either. So another first for St Patrick.

Blossomtoes It was Sr Hilda specifically that I found irritating. I had a soothing MW myself and she was great. I just felt either the script or the acting was overblown for Sr Hilda's usual character.

(But I do love Sr Hilda generally!) . Anyway, it was a good episode and I was glad there wasn't lots of death and destruction. I thought the acting of the Carol character was amazing.