Call The Midwife 2023....

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Now about to watch!!

Trixie's fiancé was either in property or worked in the city

His family was loaded and he vaguely knew they owned slums in the east end and didn't have a clue

I want to see Timmy go off the rails too. Maybe next year 1969 summer of love and all that sort of thing

Ah yes, not sure why I put Moseley, was definitely Powell!

@CaptainMyCaptain I had to explain to my 70 year old dad. Why a child with profound learning and physical disabilities was going to school. No she may never Lean to read and write, but if she can operate a switch, to help her communication. Then that is a massive achievement for her. I couldn't believe I had to even have the conversation in 2021!

The lying nun was ludicrous, both nuns and nurses can not be liars ffs 🙄 I'm a nurse and being honest comes with the territory. Surely the minute the lie came to light eyes of been shipped back to the motherhouse.

Trixie bring bridzilla also annoyed me, let poor Mathew have his golf clubs!

Is Lucille going to have a clinical depression? The last midwife who had that got sent to a mental health institution and never returned 😳

Have just copied and pasted from the other CTM thread as this one seems to have more posts 😂

CTM sounds like a thinly-disguised history lesson at times. I’m not saying that’s necessarily a bad thing.

Matthew is turning into a walking plot device. If the writers need to make something happen, Matthew will pay for it to be done immediately.

On the subject of the lying nun wanting a car, doesn’t Phyllis already have one? Or maybe it was Patsy’s.

I know there are a lot of complaints about some of the weaker storylines, but I found the references to Enoch Powell very powerful. I was horrified to see how quickly racial tensions could be whipped up & it's made me go away and do some background reading on the subject. CTM gets some things wrong, but they're not afraid to tackle some of the nitty gritty of the era. Backstreet abortions, the introduction of the pill, unmarried mothers, unsanitary living conditions, loneliness etc.

It was also interesting to see how racism comes easily to people in the abstract but they don't equate it to the individuals they know in 'real life'. That's very true to life, I think.

As someone who went to a school with nuns, I can reassure you that lying is absolutely not off the books. Some of them were downright evil!

I didn't mean it like that but just about them accepting people as they were. In the case of the two lesbians you would have to be very hard hearted not to feel sympathy for two women who have lived together for such a long time even as 'just friends'.

Vanessa Redgrave's voice really irritates me, the trite platitudes, wish they would drop it.

Phillys has a car but she's not a nun. Presumably she paid for it herself. When I was a teenager, about 1971, there was a nun who used to drive about in a mini. She used to get loads of kids from the youth club in it -no seat belts in those days.

Yes in the Christmas special didn't Phylis say something about it not getting scratched when she'd just taken ownership. Presumably any car purchased by the order would belong to the order

I seem to remember Phylis arriving in her car. I believe it is hers and not the order’s.

I agree that Vanessa Redgrave voice over was noticeably frailer.

The same sex couple storyline was very poignant. Really well acted with such tenderness. Better than the way Patsy and Delia were treated. Although they did get a happy ending eventually up in Scotland with Garbo the dog.

I'm sad to see the nuns reduced so much. Didn't warm to sister Veronica. Fenella Woolgar is one of my fave actresses. So I hope she comes back from the Motherhome.

I can't see Sister Veronica stopping long. Sister Julienne knows she is a liar and gave her a ticking off but she told the same lie to Matthew. How long can she go on like that?

Just watched the episode

How would a medical professional walking out on a patient being racist towards them be treated today?

As for lesbian "companions"... growing up, I was always aware that my Great Aunt lived with her friend. Had done since they emigrated to Canada 50 years prior, after being nurses together.

Late in life, my grandmother said she had long believed it wasn't just friendship (after my Aunts death). But they had never officially acknowledged it, and it was just never spoken about despite everyone "knowing". I was a young teenager at the time.

Aw I really miss sister Hilda.

When she got trollied on Lucille's hen night and had to pop aspirin the next day 😂

I've been watching since s1 but I feel that it's past its best, prob should have drawn to a close at s10.

They've exhausted every possible storyline IMO, it's just repetition.

I wasn't sure how long they had left but according to this the nuns were in the east end until the 80s! poplarlondon.co.uk/call-the-midwife-real-stories/

Imagine Trixie shuffling around to Wham! in her couture dresses, still not having bagged a husband. And Sister MJ still hanging on in there, overexcited at a fourth tv channel and declaring her love for Mr Kipling's country manor cake 😂

She has just had a £5000 win on the premium bonds remember- the equivalent of £100,000 today. She has treated herself to a new car.

I think when Jenny left was the time to stop

@PuttingDownRoots I think it would be acceptable in a hospital with other people to take over. The patient would have a strip torn off them by senior staff. And told it's not acceptable etc etc. with a woman in advanced 2nd stage labour and no one else around I suspect you'd be disciplined and maybe even struck off.

Oooh yes, forgot about the bonds win! I should be so lucky eh...

I didn't like the new nun at all. Mind you I hated Nurse Crane when she first came, now she's my favourite.
I didn't like Sister Hilda so couldn't care less that she left.

I wanted to give Lucille a hug.

I'd love Patsy and... what's her name to come back. And Sister Mary Cynthia, and Chummy and PC Chummy. (Yes I know, he's called Sargent Noakes)

I loved seeing the Mullocks family back too. Seeing what happened to some of the families from earlier series would be interesting. Like the young lass who had diabetes. Or the young couple who got engaged when she found out she was pregnant, then she lost the baby, called of the engagement and he went to uni. I wonder if they stayed together or grew apart.

I disagree, it is a ratings winner and clearly brings a lot of joy/comfort to a lot of people (including me) for the reassuring familiarity, a gentler pace of life and the memories of times gone by. I hope it does continue until the late 70s, and if it pleases enough viewers there's hopefully no reason for it not to. It's success lies in the fact it has not tried to change to far from its original roots, IMHO.

I think going into the 80s would change the look and feel too much, but there's a long way to go before then.

Delia! That's her name.