Call The Midwife Series 13 Part 2

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Or Call Saint Turner, as the show has really turned into.

Our degree results after the finals were all pinned up on the wall so you could see everyone else's results too. This was in 1998.

Yes, entirely realistic as that's what would have happened.

Same here 1985.

GCSE and A level results were printed in the local paper at least until the late 90s when my daughter got hers.

Same in 2000!

Depends on area, perhaps. Our local paper didn't do that in the 1990s. My school and university both put all the results on a big noticeboard, though.

Our local paper printed the number of GCSES/ALevels achieved but not the grade. Grades A-E were passes, so even if someone had got three E grades it would still show as e.g. "J Smith (3); "....

Our local newspaper printed a list of subjects with the names of people who had got O Grades/Highers/CSYS in each subject. You had to go through the whole list to see how many passes any individual had, and the grades weren't included. When I was at university in the early 1980s we found out our own and everyone else's results from a list of posted on a notice board.

Oh Matthew last night though. I'm really surprised that "The Board" had not brought him and his terrible accounting and business sense into line long before it got to crisis point. He's been managing/spending on that account/business for a good few years, including before his father's death. He is definitely a soft touch but he's also an educated lawyer and it is hard to imagine he would have been so very completely foolish or naive as to run it all into the ground. Even stepping in to save Nonnatus hasn't actually saved Nonnatus! It still belongs to Aylward Estates by the looks of it which he now has no say in any more. Aylward Estates could likely just sell off the land it's on.

Who owns the maternity home though? Also, anyone notice the new shot of outside the maternity home last night just before it cut to Deirdre giving birth? A nice late Georgian/early Victorian sort of building? I had to rewind it to take another look as we've only (as far as I'm aware) seen a very awkward and steep looking back flight of stairs to the Reception before, which I have shut my eyes as to how they get prams up and down.

What to do next though with Trixie and Matthew? Still don't have a clue how it will end up. Possibly with Matthew moving abroad for a fresh start (and taking Jonty, otherwise it would be too unfinished to leave him with Trixie in case Matthew doesn't come back in the future).

How many more episodes this series - does anyone know?
it’s not on next week.

There are 8 episodes and last night was No 6, I think.

What to do next though with Trixie and Matthew?

The best thing Trixie can do is get her dental check up booked in....

1969 was the peak of Australia's Bring Out a Briton campaign (the '£10 pom' assisted migration scheme), and the similar New Zealand incentive scheme was still running as well. Not sure about Canada. So Mathew could be heading out to the Commonwealth to seek his fortune.

I was wondering about the maternity home. If the nuns leave in early 70s as in rl who would then staff the maternity home or did nhs take it over fully. Will CTM morph onto Dr Turner's casebook or will he finally retire? Or will Timmy continue the practice?

I presume the maternity home is already NHS as it isn't private and I'm pretty sure it doesn't "belong" to the order of the nuns either even if their work overlaps with it. If the order of the nuns leave, the maternity home should carry on as is, and the non-nun midwives and doctors would still work there and run it etc as they do. Dr Turner, Trixie, Nancy, Phyllis, Shelagh - plus newcomers Joyce and Rosalind.

Maternity homes in the 70s were not necessarily or even commonly staffed by nuns. (Mine, where I was born, was not). It's whether CTM could/would continue without the nun element. Or does it even have to? If they wanted they could keep the nuns in the story until the end of the 70s instead of mid 70s.

I like the £10 Pom idea because it opens the door for a return - as several disillusioned Brits, my DP’s uncle included, eventually did - but it would be hard on Fiona’s parents.

Fiona?

Fipna is Jontys dead mother... the grandparents are still involved

His first wife, Jonty's mother. Saw the episode yesterday when she died of leukaemia, they already had plans for his prep school so maybe there are funds in trust or from her family.

Ah - thank you. I'd forgotten her name.

I can't see Matthew taking Jonty with him, especially if Trixie stays behind. For all his protestations about not sending Jonty away to preschool he's hardly an involved parent.

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I think Matthew will go off to South Africa and do something shady and make his fortune again there. He will be mentioned in passing until Helen George leaves the show and goes to join him. Or if she stays he will end up crushed in a mining accident and Jonty will never be mentioned again. He will go to live with Fiona's parents.

I ended up switching it off before the end last night. I got too annoyed at the point Sister Monica Joan was giving platitudes to a teenager football hopeful under a bridge. On top of Dr Turner attending the consultant appointment with the debt collector and explaining all the details. The Debt Collector who was looking after her ill father and taking care of lots of kids, plus about to have her 5th grandchild and seemed to go from in occasional pain to walking with a stick and being frailer than frail in about 2 days from diagnosis.
I think I've reached the end with CTM

Hobnob's post has reminded me that there was some poor acting, I thought, last night. I don't want to single any of the actors out though.

Swift change of career for Cyril? Qualified civil engineer, to council worker, to social worker. I'm guessing his pastoral work makes him suited.

It's not even that Cyril's career change isn't a good one (imo). It makes for a good development for his character. But, it was just so rushed.

Get asked to assess one damp flat... think it unfair... see an advert... next you know, he's a fully qualified social worker taking on complex cases of child abandonment and making decisions about the outcome. All while also facing the (invisible in CTM) extra challenge of being black in 1960s.

It could have been a really interesting jounrney to watch, if a slower and more thoughtful approach had been taken.

I agree Cyril is a good character and this is a good story but just too rushed