Call the Midwife.

[Toddlerteaplease]

Anyone watching? Dr smug unfortunately appears fully recovered from the train crash.

I'm just grateful the little Turners didn't get the bridesmaid/pageboy gig, I thought it was virtually inevitable when Trixie started talking about the lack of response from her aunt.

That was the oldest-looking 15 year old I've seen in a long, long time.

Well Heather's mam was a right wagon wasn't she. The suddenly became nice.

Same as boy with leukemia mum. Fecked off and left them in a terrible state. Didn't bother her but checking they were OK. Wanted whats her face to say "he's got a point" when the dad pointed out she'd left them and could have done something if she hadn't, after she'd blamed him for not getting him help (which in fact he did).

Also a respectable couple engaged to be married could most certainly have gone away together. It would be assumed they had separate room, and most certainly not assumed they were "shagging". You filthy minded animals. You all disgust me tuts loudly

Must add St Dr Turner was on steroids this week (bet he invented steroids too) putting an end to child labour, solving all the skin conditions overnight, diagnosising (all be it clandestinely) leukemia. However I think he pronounced Gallagher incorrectly. (I'd have rewound and checked but I don't want to increase my Turner Time even by a few seconds.)

Otters having read up on it a bit more, from Matthew's father is Sir Brigham. (not Aylward). From what I understand (not much) apparently Sir refers to Lords or Baronets, both hereditary titles until 1958 when Lords could be made by knighting (or whatever it's called, ie not inherited). So that is a possibility, - apart from the difference in names (Brigham/Aylward).

Like in Downton where Crawley is the family surname but the title is Lord Grantham, I wonder if Aylward is the family surname but the title is Lord (or Baronet) Brigham?

Anyway, we'll find out in due course when Trixie becomes (or not!) a Lady!

Has there ever been mention of a sibling? Matthew could be a younger son so not the heir (if it is hereditary).
I just can't envisage Trixie who, bless her, can't stop herself name dropping the brandy used for the wedding cake to a bunch of nuns (surely the last people to impressed by material things) not mentioning that her intended will be Sir Whatsit one day. That had to trump a god mother on the continent!

No, I can't imagine Trixie not mentioning it either! Of course she would.

Unless, goodness! it never occurred to her, being so busy delivering babies and championing underdogs that the title was hereditary so she would be a real Lady one day....

I thought he was Sir Brigham Aylward - ie, Brigham was his forename.

Yes you're right, good point!

This is the IMDB listing

With psoriasis dad, it wasn’t explained why mum left in the first place…

Also having Nancy’s illegitimate child running around the convent also seems pretty unrealistic.

No, and it was confusing as St Dr Turner asked if something happened before his skin starting getting like this and Psoriasis Dad said his wife left, but also said who would stay with someone with a face like his.

In my experience all the Sirs I have known have been referred to as Sir GivenName but Ladies have been Lady Surname. Some of those have been hereditary and some knighted.

I agree. I’m rewatching Grange Hill at the moment and in 1986 it’s considered completely scandalous that an unmarried woman has a child.

Well I had one a few years before that and it wasn't a terrible scandal.

But did you live in a convent!

Went away with a group of friends recently - we are almost 60. We were discussing the pretence of friend sharing a house with her then boyfriend, but having to have their own rooms to keep to when the their parents came to stay.

Another didn’t marry till mid 30’s. She & her long term partner weren’t allowed to share a room under her parents roof. As they were not married & ‘were living in sin’. That was fairly standard for the times.

I remember reading about my infant school teachers wedding, in the
Paper. (It snowed and they had to walk) and being surprised that she already had a daughter. This would have been around 1988.

I presumed Brigham was his first name.

@KrasiTime im a similar age. In the eighties, people I knew got married because the woman was pregnant. In Ireland, but also in a university city in England where we spent the decade. I had one colleague who had a baby, as a single parent . She had supportive parents, and also a supportive workplace, but that seemed unusual.
I had my first baby in 1991, in Ireland. Midwives in ante natal classes talked about partners, not husbands. It was a very sudden shift, but i have never understood why.

Ah @PriamFarrl** for women that's the difference between having a title in your own right and marrying a title.

So, daughters with hereditary titles of their own would be Lady Mary, Lady Edith etc and would keep that when they marry, unless they marry higher. Sibyl became Lady Sibyl Branson, and would be called Lady Sibyl. Whereas Edith became a Marchioness on her marriage and drops her birth title to become Lady Brancaster.

Those are the form of address as far as I know!

ihave just caught up and the previous weeks one i was also surprised she didnt do some sort of CPR but see it has been resolved here!
great resource.
regarding the clinic set up so quikly! it was only staffed by those who we know and yes i think i need to be more Miss Higgins! totally in charge

I honestly thought they were going to reveal that the teenage mum was actually the granddaughter, and that an elderdaughter had had a teenage pregnancy and they pretended her to be their daughter all these years.

You’d make a better writer than thie actual writers of CTM, Puttingdownroots!

i thought her mother would demand she put it up for adoption, surprising. and the big deal about her being a minor.
at least they took Trixie seriously when she mentioned how they called her Mistake
loved the dog, just the right touch

the mum of the boy with leukaemia moved back but not to the family home.
mothers do leave.