Call The Midwife Christmas Special

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Anyone watching? Apologies if I’ve missed the thread.

Why is the kid dressed as a cat but none of her classmates are in costumes?

@Name854 was just thinking exactly the same. Surely people didn't really do things like that for school events in the 60's

Sunday night drivel now

That was a feeble episode.

I thought that too. So she has to spend all day dressed up but no one else.

And was dressing up for school such a thing in those days? I don’t ever remember doing it.

It’s become a soap. I miss Patsy and Delia, and quality storylines!

Ugh

So depressing that it is, as @KohlaParasaurus so perfectly put, feeble.

Trixie , Shelagh and Phyllis are not even midwives now. Sisters MJ and Julienne barely there. Just lying Sister Veronica. Raymond Nonnatus turning in his grave.

Nancy so grating and poor Colette is too stage schooly and that cat costume too much.
What was the point of that storyline? Colette learning a poem and wearing a cat costume?

This is a perfect example of a show that should have ended one or two seasons ago.
To leave us loving it and wanting more. A great reputation intact.
I'm not even sure if I will bother any more tbh.

None of the things I loved about early seasons are part of the show any more.

I wonder what the nuns would make of Patsy's venture into making films

As I recall from the late 1960s, we were only allowed to dress up for school at Hallowe'en and we wore sheets and tea towels for the nativity play, but otherwise it wasn't a thing. Most parents didn't have the money or the time.

And paying an instructor for driving lessons was definitely a thing by the time my mum learned to drive in 1967.

Trixie looked so out of place, pedalling off with the other midwives. Seriously, why would she be still working at Nonatus House at this stage? She's been there for years and years, all her peers have long since moved on, and she now has a wealthy husband and a little stepson to look after at a time when most married women didn't work. It just doesn't ring true and is definitely a modern day spin on a different time and society.

I presume the reason Colette is being placed so centre forward is so that when she is diagnosed with leukaemia it will have an emotional pull.

Now you mention it I do recall dressing up for hallowe’en.

It was definitely boring tonight.

And only one baby.

Re: fancy dress at school in the late 60s, I was at primary school then & every year, at the school fête, there was a fancy dress parade. That was about it. Bonfire night was a bigger deal than Hallowe'en.

It wasn;t at my school

I am old. Started Infants 1 (now Reception) in 1970

In Infants 1 we had a dressing up rail but that was down to us if we wanted to try various things on or not
The only times I remember dressing up were when we put on a play.
One Year we presented Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat so people dressed up for that. I was an Egyptian slave as I recall.

As for CTM itself, I think I have outgrown it now.
Tonight's episode really was pretty dull

I agree it's on its last legs. But I will still keep watching; it's still the best sort of Sunday night tv. Plus we're only a few (very few) years from my student nurse days, and it's very nostalgic.

I’m watching it now and it’s funny watching the midwife argue that hospital delivery is safer as more women are picking it.

Look at it now. Most women choose to go to the hospital rather than stay home. I know I did.

DH pointed out that the Army still tells you to paint over black mould rather than dealing with the problem.

Also I had a homebirth because the hospital definitely did not feel safe the first time round. Home did. Plus meeting the midwives beforehand was nice.

I find Nancy irritating. What’s with the whispering voice?

I would have preferred to see more of the other new midwife, and less of Nancy's daughter. Bringing her in as a regular character is a mistake, unless they're leading up to a tragic storyline with her. Otherwise I really don't see the point of her being in Nonnatus House and having storylines at the expense of potentially more interesting and relevant characters.

Whenever I see Matthew, the expression "face like a smacked arse" springs to mind. He looked constipated when he was teaching Trixie to drive.

I did have to agree slightly with Phyllis about the strikes. I took a pretty similar view with the ones last year. Nursing should be a vocation.

Phylis plummeted in my estimation tonight. It's because it's thought of as a vocation it's been ok to pay such dismal wages. It's a job. It may take a certain type of person, but it's a job, and should be paid appropriately as such.

You can't pay rent and bills with vocation. You can't eat a calling.