Call the Midwife.

[Toddlerteaplease]

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

They met when he first came to Poplar if I remember rightly, and became friends then. They didn't bond over religion- he wasn't a pastor then.

Yes that's correct, but I don't think she'd be looking to him for spiritual help when in extremis.

She wasn't looking for religious support though was she? He turned up to visit as he hears she was unwell. She just said "my friend, you've come home, you've been missed"
Or did I miss something?

I know this is supposed to be a happy go lucky drama, but it does annoy me a little that the men can sweep in and voila everything is solved

I think it must have been Angela Lonsdale I was reminded of because I don’t think I’ve seen Hannah in anything on her bio. Thanks for checking the credits!

Dr Turner missed a trick there in not recognising that the hepatitis from contact with the IV drug user was different from the usual hepatitis.

Suspect they will continue this story line and St Patrick of Poplar will discover Hepatitis B. Prepare for him to start burbling about the "Australian Antigen" and recommending care be taken about contact with body fluids as opposed to just care with poo, vomit etc.

I know I am going against the crowd here but Sis M.J is one of my favourite characters- she's quite wise and perceptive actually IMO.

And she has a real fondness for cake and sweet treats - something I identify with to a great extent.

I love Sr MJ too.

This is annoying. It's not on next week because of the BAFTAs. 2 weeks to wait..

I thought it was a decent episode tonight. The others this series I haven’t enjoyed much. I did think that homeless family were going to get locked in or something.
Very excited about Trixie’s missing tiara next episode. Feel like we need more Trixie’s frivolity. Very happy for her with her posh invites even if Mathew does look half dead most of the time. He seems to keep coming up with the goods for her.

I too am surprised that Trixie stopping work after she married hasn’t been mentioned yet. I wonder though if that will be a plot point. Matthew will assume that Lady Aylward won’t be fiddling around in the nethers of the working classes of Poplar; whereas Trixie sees it as her calling.

I think there will be a letter from Lucille to say she is pregnant with a baby conceived during the visit.

My prediction is that the series will end with the death of sister MJ, the wedding and the return of a pregnant Lucille.
Lucille’s baby will be born in the Christmas special. And Trixie will announce her pregnancy then too.

I agree Mathew was off this episode, maybe it's because he's mourning his father but he was slouched in his chair in every scene

Even if we can stretch to Cyril and sister MJ being friends I still think there's no way they'd let him into her bedroom and then leave them alone!!! It just wouldn't happen, I wouldn't leave a male friend alone with my unwell, elderly (not a nun) mother now let alone in the 60s.

And he wouldn’t feel comfortable being there. I know when my dad’s stepmother was ill he didn’t like to visit unannounced or without sending me or my mother in first to help her get herself together.

I was expecting the corporate donation of canned milk products to be discovered (by Dr Turner, of course) to be the source of the hepatitis outbreak.

i was brought up on carnation milk in 1965!
no fridge required was a big deal by Dr Turner and Shelagh

Series 14 and 15 confirmed!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64618977

I was annoyed by the variable response to the three hepatitis cases.
-new mother, you should go into hospital without your newborn, or maybe just isolate from your family somehow in a house with one bathroom until somehow we decide you're not contagious. We won't take any samples to find out when that is though.
-old nun, ah, you'll be grand, no need to go to hospital, and you can have all the visitors you like.
-druggie, off you go back onto the streets and spread it wherever you go.

No wonder they had an outbreak. Given the only person Sr MJ could have got Hep from was the new mum, and all they did was hold hands, that's some seriously infectious hepatitis.

Also, what's the point of having a brand new social worker in the order if she does fuck all to stop a homeless family with a newborn and toddler getting split up across London?
It shouldn't be up to Trixie and Lord Woodentop, the social services should have liaised between the family and the council and sorted out housing and benefits for them. Instead she was "busy" holding up tins for photos, like her condensed milk brings all the boys to the yard or something.

Renewed for two more series!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

she is a health visitor though.

i think the point is the hosues were demolished without replacements

If there were no hostels for fathers and children, what would happen to a homeless widower?

@PaperwhiteTheGhost They're my favourites too, always have been. I just don't bother defending them on here because I'd be fighting a losing battle!

Given the housing situation at that time, queuing was in no way guaranteed to magic up a house.

Takes away the suspense about whether Nonnatus is doomed, doesn't it?