Call the midwife 2!

[Toddlerteaplease]

Wow. I've never filled a thread before!

My storyline for Matthew. The row in the car:

"The minute I've qualified I'm moving up west. The money's in plastic surgery these days. You can visit me in my office in Harley St."

Aye - the original one.

I can’t remember PQ in it but there were so many names in it, I’ve maybe forgotten!

DH and I reckon clairvoyant woman was hiding her face behind half a curtain so that we didn’t realise she had a previous incarnation as a back street abortionist. I thought the same but I'm confident it wasn't the same actress (the one who played Tanya and Rainie's mum in Easternders?). The psychic in last night's episode was played by Frances Tomelty (Sting's ex-wife).

I too thought that Matthew may 'see the light' and decide he's going to become a doctor. Stranger things have happened.

SMJ is quite 'contrary' in the sense that she often acts in ways that don't seem to fit in with being a nun (IMO anyway!).

Presumably the measles vaccination programme wasn't rolled out entirely successfully in the 60s? A lot of children from the era had measles, didn't they?

@DobbyTheHouseElk

The spiritual woman looks like the granny who did the backstreet abortions.

I thought it was her.

I've just found this thread. I wondered why nobody was posting on the other thread.
It seemed certain there'd be a tragedy with the paraffin. Maybe another time, as they definitely made a point about it, what with it being sold in the newsagents and also "across the road'? I thought so too.

Not sure where Matthew would have found "greaseproof paper" in a derelict warehouse squat! I wondered that.

The party in the squat looked very tame. I went to a party in a squat in Bristol some time around 1975. There were loads of squats in the old Georgian houses at that time, the landlords were either unknown or there was no money to make them habitable and they were condemned by the council. Anyway, at this particular party the house had no electricity so it was pitch dark inside you couldn't see where you where walking , what you were treading on or any of the other people thronging all the rooms. Without electricity there was no music so one room had people drumming on buckets or real drums (I couldn't tell because it was pitch black) and people dancing to this. It was terrifying and I left after about 20 minutes. The hosts were medical students apparently.

The greaseproof paper did look as if it'd been used, mind you!

[quote Toddlerteaplease]@LazySaturday I agree. She's very bossy. And the way she spoke to the mum who changed her mind about the vaccination, would not be tolerated. You can't speak to patients like that. [/quote]
You could then, though.

@NewModelArmyMayhem18

DH and I reckon clairvoyant woman was hiding her face behind half a curtain so that we didn’t realise she had a previous incarnation as a back street abortionist. I thought the same but I'm confident it wasn't the same actress (the one who played Tanya and Rainie's mum in Easternders?). The psychic in last night's episode was played by Frances Tomelty (Sting's ex-wife).

I too thought that Matthew may 'see the light' and decide he's going to become a doctor. Stranger things have happened.

SMJ is quite 'contrary' in the sense that she often acts in ways that don't seem to fit in with being a nun (IMO anyway!).

Presumably the measles vaccination programme wasn't rolled out entirely successfully in the 60s? A lot of children from the era had measles, didn't they?

I was 4 in 1967.

Neither I or anyone I knew had measles vaccination.
I got measles when I was about 6.

Gah that was pants. I was wondering what the actors who've been in it since episode 1 think? Took the job for the meaty part with good writing and a dash of gritty retro realism; now dialling it in socially distanced over a shit script.

I was born in 1955 and had measles and mumps but not rubella. I went and got myself vaccinated for that aged 18. My daughter was born in 1980 and caught measles as a baby . I think she could have been vaccinated at about 9 months and just missed it.

@NewModelArmyMayhem18

The greaseproof paper did look as if it'd been used, mind you!

Probably from somebody's chips.

If Sister Monica Joan dies…….

Ha @CaptainMyCaptain.

So again, Dr Turner somehow spearheading a community-driven public-health campaign, with the measles vaccination programme? Hmmm.

The Clover/Suzie and Ena storyline was a bit rushed and seemed almost shoe-horned in to tick off another neo-natal emergency?

DH said he was vaccinated for measles In 1968. Age 12 months.

I reckon Nonnatus house will go up in flames with paraffin Fred bought cheap and Fred will get trapped and die. Violet will go to bits, sell the newsagents and leave Cyril and Lucille homeless.

Or how about

Matthew visits warehouse and spontaneously combusts.

If it was good enough for Dickens in Bleak House…

@RocketPanda

I reckon Nonnatus house will go up in flames with paraffin Fred bought cheap and Fred will get trapped and die. Violet will go to bits, sell the newsagents and leave Cyril and Lucille homeless.

We can but hope

@DobbyTheHouseElk

DH said he was vaccinated for measles In 1968. Age 12 months.

That sounds about right I was 13 by then. I missed it by a long way.

@RocketPanda

I reckon Nonnatus house will go up in flames with paraffin Fred bought cheap and Fred will get trapped and die. Violet will go to bits, sell the newsagents and leave Cyril and Lucille homeless.

I bet that's it.

@TrashyPanda
I was 4 in 1967.
Neither I or anyone I knew had measles vaccination.
I got measles when I was about 6.

So was I, and so did I. In the programme it was only children under 2 (I think!) who were being targeted for the vaccination campaign, so we may have just missed out on it.

... or maybe we didn't have the benefit of a Dr Turner at our local surgery...

@GrasssInPocket

... or maybe we didn't have the benefit of a Dr Turner at our local surgery...

That’s obviously it!

Did anybody else notice the French Fancies on the table at the end? Would they have had those then? 😅

Yes, I reckon it'll be Nonnatus House that has a fire - the psychic indicated as much, and bird in the house commotion smashed a photo in a frame of Nonnatus House.

Isn't it the season finale next week too, being Episode 8?

@SnapCackleFlop

Did anybody else notice the French Fancies on the table at the end? Would they have had those then? 😅

Yes but probably only for a special occasion.