Call the Midwife.

[Toddlerteaplease]

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

Love the older ones these latest 0nes are not as good I still watch but they’re not the same.

Yes I remember that one! Tv depiction was fairly brutal with the abortion mixed up with Trixie doing her nails. As I remember the book couple had a failed abortion and later delivered the baby at home and it was fairly obvious that they’d let it die but not enough evidence to charge them . I think they’d delivered it then just left it on the table or in a cupboard despite having 8 children. It was just left as an example of how poverty and overcrowding leaves you desperate and hard

I think Matthew comes across as cowed, or downcast, most of the time. I'm not sure Trixie has necessarily enhanced his life as much as she has made him feel aware and ashamed of his privilege, wealth, status, what he represents etc. It's one thing to have a realisation and make positive changes from it (which he is doing, eg helping Nonnatus financially and vastly improving living conditions in his tenements), but to look so permanently woebegone can't be healthy for him. He seems to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders. He's surely allowed to feel a little bit of happiness and light rather than be wrapped up in misery all the time.

I wonder if the moral of Matthew's story is that even with his privilege and influence, no matter how much money he tries to throw at poverty makes any difference.

There's probably some parallels with the nuns of the first two series - they saw serving women and their families as serving God. They only had acts of care and kindness to help people with. Matthew only has money.

I thought this week was the last episode but according to my tv mag it's not on tonight?

Next week due to BAFTAs

Ah no, I’ve just remembered, they said last week that it was missing a week due to something or other.

Ahh thank you.

Continuing series 1. They are all so young! Peggy and Frank are about to make Jenny come over all judgmental.

I was talking to my Mum the other day, who had Me, aged 20 in 1965, in regard to the Mum who had claimed to be Young when her now 20 Year old son was born.
Anyway she said to Me that back then, even 21 was thought Young (in her family and circle anyway). That would put the Mum in CTM roughly 41 which she certainly looked. Mum felt she looked right.

Anyone seen this?

twitter.com/dranniegray/status/1627629347237502976?s=46&t=bAS7eizWNyqcBPXBwwsywA

Am here for the gazpacho😊

I thought the whole point of Matthew and his orbital story line. Was because they were posh and lived 'up west' with no connection to Poplar.

Trixie met him when she did some work at the expensive nursing home but his connection to Poplar was him owning the slum housing the Nonnatus house clients were suffering in.

@CaptainMyCaptain yes I remember. But I don't remember any initial connection with poplar at the time of his wife being in the clinic.

Matthew is one big and extremely poorly written plot device.

The cook book looks amusing. Hope they've included Mrs B's cakes and quotes by sister MJ sick as "I can't excited myself about a fatless sponge!"

On series 2 now. Still marvelous. They used to do things so beautifully didn't they, those harrowing stories undercut by singing in the Chapel with all those extra filler nuns that we don't have any more.

Funny how I remember things like Chummy and Peter dating for ages yet they met and were married in the blink of an eye.

Highlights the amazing rejuvenation of sister MJ. However have they kept her kleptomaniac tenancies under control for 11 series?

I hope the cookbook also includes the avocado dish Cynthia made, although nearly all the nuns and nurses thought it tasted awful! And Sister Evangelina had a go at Cynthia for using olive oil in the dressing, as olive oil was for medicinal purposes only

I think it came out later thst he was a slum landlord but before she became involved with him.

I'm completely with Sr MJ on Corinthians 13!

Who knew Trixie had not one but two brothers! Have we ever heard of them before?

She showing just how shallow she is! I thought the whole point of the God mother in Italy was because she had no one else.

I think it shows just how far CTM has strayed from its roots - that Trixie is about to become a Lady and throws a tantrum about a tiara! In what universe etc!!

Can't Trixie nip up west and buy a fabulous tiara?

Trixie married, Irish lass off to the country, time for some new nurses.

Is Sister Julienne leaving Nonnatus house?