Call The Midwife Series 13 Part 2

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

Where did knitting ladies little boy go?

I wondered that too! Was he still in his lobsterpot?

I've noticed a mistake!

Violet Buckle has this fabric hanging up in her shop. It was an M & S design and wasn't available until the mid 70s. I know because my childhood bedroom had those same curtains!

That knitting machine was such a Chekhov's gun. I was sure someone was going to get mangled in it.

Why are the mothers delivering placentas in agony (and twin babies in previous series) left holding their baby while doing so? That is so dangerous! I am sure DH had to hold my baby while I was doing it .

The little boy was with a neighbour. I’m guessing they gave her the baby to hold as there wasn’t anyone else to do it.

What exactly is Matthew going to live off in New York? He’s sunk his personal money into two warehouses on which he might see a return in five years. But now he’s going into partnership with this Chester fellow…what is he bringing to the partnership apart from the warehouses? He’s got no money left to sink into any further joint ventures in the meantime so how is it a partnership and how is he going to afford to live in NY? Is Chester paying him a salary? In which case he’s an employee, not a partner.

What was doctor Turner doing? Prescribing sleeping pills to Trixie without even considering recommending lifestyle changes, like perhaps stopping with the 10 cups of coffee a day and ditching the chinless wonder husband? He knows that she’s a former alcoholic plus only a matter of weeks back she made a really big mistake (the smoker with the dodgy placenta). Surely he’d at least suggest she shouldn’t be on duty until she’s sorted it out, without the help of addictive medication?

Mystic Flamme called it - sort of!

TBF I think that was probably quite accurate for the time, sleeping pills and tranquillisers were still prescribed pretty freely in the 60s and 70s. In fact I thought the whole “short term use only and don’t take them every night” was somewhat anachronistic, it was more recently (comparatively) that lifestyle changes became the first recommended go-to.

Surely Trixie might have been a bit tempted to try New York?! Bit of a change from Poplar, and she could always return.....

The Trixie and Matthew storyline makes zero sense. They didn't need to do this, they could have just had Matthew off screen doing his stuff. He doesn't need to be in New York. It's only because it's got so soapy that this is an issue. If it stayed focused on the medical and social work side Matthew not being on screen wouldn't be an issue.

Don't even get me started on the turnips. The cubs did for that giant pile did they?

Yes, handing out Mogadon like Smarties is perfectly realistic for the time.

Unlike the physics-defying tower of turnips.

Matthew had the chance to join some chambers and earn loads being a barrister. Should have taken it. I wonder if Chester will fleece him?

I can remember taking an axe and a wood chisel to a particularly hard one!

I can't imagine Trixie would have been happy with a honeymoon in Skegness!

And how was Matthew going to pay to relocate to NY. Flights would have been very expensive.

Considering he just sacked the nanny, he’ll have to get a new one in NY. Unless the magical Chester is providing free childcare, plus accommodation all in return for part ownership of some crappy warehouses.

And where will Trixie live now, isn’t that Matthew’s house they live in? Surely that will go too, just like the car?

What a stupid storyline, there’s so many better ways they could have written him out. It’s the equivalent of leaving Albert Square in a black cab.

Yes. My mother was on a whole cocktail of prescrived drugs in the late 60s/early 70s. As a teenager I never knew what mood she would be in and she frightened all my friends

I wondered how the tower of turnips was so high when he just tipped them out of his truck. Totally impossible.

What’s he going to do for five years? Look at his warehouses? Why on earth not just sell them now for the cash flow? None of it made sense!

DH made a rare comment when also commenting on the impossibility of carving a turnip with a spoon.

I imagine Trixie will move back into Nonnatus house.

I agree CTM is fast becoming another EastEnders dramatic exits, melodramatic relationship breakdowns and long long relatives turning up. Just with nuns and nurses instead of murderers and psychopaths.

I missed last night, sounds like I didn't miss much. When CTM first started I looked forward to every new episode, now it almost seems like a chore.

Maybe the writers should remember it's Call the Midwife, not the Midwives personal dramas with a birth thrown in.

Poor Jonty will be traumatised . He's lost one mother and is now taken from his step mother, although tbf she never seemed particularly bothered about him. His little tweed overcoat was cute.