Call the Midwife.

[Toddlerteaplease]

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

@LouisCatorze I don't think Christmas jumpers were a thing even five years ago!

I enjoyed it. Love Sister Monica Joan.

That and when she said she was doing it in new suede shoes. They've kept her character so real to the character the whole way though.

He did an engineering apprenticeship before he went to college to be a civil engineer, he was probably pretty handy with tools. I imagine people were before cheap, mass production of everything. At a similar time, my dad made loads of our furniture - decent stuff, built in cupboards, sliding doors, dovetail joints etc. he certainly wasn't the handiest of people, but had been taught proper, practical woodwork at school (like the Mullocks son). Similarly my mother and grandmother made/knitted a lot of our childhood clothes (60s/70s).

I miss Sistee Hilda. The whole point is its Nuns!!! Or is that the Order retreating...

Checked her photos, ok not plain! Had no idea she'd died!

Wasn't Trixie's beau basically a slum landlord when he and his father were first introduced?

He was/is a criminal barrister. Husband of a patient at the private hospital in the West End where Trixie was sent on secondment (caused a rift between Trixie and Sister Julienne because the private clinic also offered abortions)

Trixie delivered the baby then the wife tragically died of leukaemia a couple of months later. Trixie comforted the husband as they and got to know each other, then they introduced a link between him and Poplar by back-inventing that his father owned a load of slums in the area, possibly the father died and he inherited a share in the slum landlord company?

That was to @LouisCatorze .

Was the little girl who played Susan disabled in real life? I know the child who played her earlier as a toddler had lost limbs due to meningitis, but the girl playing her in this episode is a different actress.

@TerraNostra thanks. It looks as if he's spending all his time atoning for his father's slum landlord 'sins' now?

I was a chid in the 1960s, and we used to get a sack full of presents. My mum was an excellent needlewoman and used to make stuffed toys for us. We built up a collection of all the Winnie the Pooh animals over the years, plus various dolls.

And my dad made us a doll's house.

Same here. A pillow case full and we weren't well off. My Dad made us a dolls' house from instructions in Practical Woodworker. Also dolls' cots and other things.

I'm watching it now. Trixie is getting on my nerves more than ever - dressing up as Princess Alexandra ffs.

I was wondering that too. They seemed to keep her hidden a lot. She was wrapped up in a blanket or behind a cushion a lot of the time. If they weren’t her real arms then they were very good prosthetics as they seemed to move quite naturally.
She did a great job, being one of the main characters at that age is hard work!

My friend said his dad would make them wooden toys. He had a wooden scooter and all the accessory buildings for his train set.

My dad made me a wooden dolls house. And my brother a wooden garage that had real electric lights ... that had to be removed after the trip to A&E after my brother electrocuted himself.

There was an orange Readers Digest DIY manual that was dad's bible for these things - he made loads of built in wardrobes using it - and a sideboard for the record player and the fishtank, again with lights that were taped up until my brother promised not to stick his finger in the socket.

@SixCharactersinSearchofanAuthor my dad had that!

I watched on iplayer and fast forwarded the bit with Trixie and Matthew by the roaring fire. I think I missed what happened with the woman in the factory - can anyone fill me in please.

None of the children that have played Susan Mullucks are disabled. It's all done with CGI. I've been to many talks given by Heidi Thomas and Stephen McGann where they talk about it at length.

I'm really looking forward to seeing the next series.
I started my nurse training in London in 1968.

Is Helen George pregnant? The costumes and props seem to be hiding something.

Ok, just googled and yes she was.

She had her second child in Nov 21, she missed part of last series for maternity leave. This episode was filmed in April.

I enjoyed it. Was thinking though when watched some reruns. All the nurses and nuns could all sew and sing ie in choirs etc. Perhaps people cld in them days ie sew has had to.

Sewing and knitting were core skills that most girls would have had growing up, until the 70s or 80s.

Agree that the big piles of pressies would not have been a thing of that era. The Turners may have been MC but they still had four children (three of them close in age), so even they wouldn't have been over-indulgent. Particularly with Mrs T having been a nun too! Plus there just weren't as many things to be spending money on and children had much simpler tastes!