Call The Midwife Series 13 Part 2

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

You're underestimating Nurse Crane and her intrepid scout pack. And don't forget they had the huge advantage of being assisted by the miraculous Turner brood ... 😁

My mother had knitting machine like that. They aren’t quiet, hope the new baby liked white noise.
Turnips…I’ve had blisters from carving turnips. My DH commented “No bloody way did those kids do that, I had to get the drill out.!”
I didn’t think Halloween turnips were a thing in London, whenever there’s Halloween discussion here and Turnip lanterns come up a north south divide happens with southerners saying they’d never heard of such a thing and northerners saying the opposite.

400 or so turnips, each containing a candle, distributed around Nonatus House by small children, could easily make the building ownership moot.

That’s interesting. We have a house north/south divide and it was indeed the northern half who had carved turnips. His dad had to take his fishing knife to them! He also reckoned you couldn’t hold in the lit ones in your hands the way they were as they got too hot.

I do think the turnip/spoon moment is probably in the lower rank of improbabilities though!

Do you think maybe Mrs Stephen McGann let Therese Coffey write this week’s episode? “Let them eat turnips!” 😂

I can’t understand why Matthew doesn’t just get a job as a lawyer. It makes no sense.

None at all!

Especially as Trixie found him one.

What a load of bollocks that was! Thankfully I was in bed with the little one in the night so was able to forward it on my phone and watch it in half the time without missing a thing.

The whole Trixie and Matthew thing makes zero sense. Why didn't he just take the job as a lawyer and say 'Trixie what would I do without you?' he could then just never be in it again. 'Matthew is on a very big case so working such long hours' they could even still have Trixie getting her addiction to sleeping tablets or tempted back into drinking trying to juggle Jonty (because he's starting school and not settling etc...), Matthew's long hours, her midwifery, the home, responsibilities at Nonatus House, Sister Julienne thinking she should go for promotion etc.. like many women do these days but it feels like Trixie would be carving a new way facing this stuff, it'd be interesting. it's so soapy this version and just ridiculous when she's only just got married last year.

Wasn’t it just. Thought a bit heavy for October!

He also reckoned you couldn’t hold in the lit ones in your hands the way they were as they got too hot.

Absolutely, the first thing you did was get an adult to bore two holes at either side for some string to carry it with! (And you had to remember to make the string long enough that the heat of the candle wouldn't burn through it.)

Watching now and it’s so unreal it’s almost off putting.

That tower of turnips is very unrealistic. So stupid

Absolutely this.
My dad used to secure a thin wooden stake at the bottom of the turnip and secure the candle to it to stop it falling over. He would secure the sliced off turnip top as a lid,
The smell of burned turnip is one I’ll never forget.

I was in Berkshire when I made my turnip lanterns. Pumpkins were unknown in the 60s.

Turnips in both Lincolnshire and Yorkshire in the early 70s for bonfire night- no pumpkins

First passenger flights from Heathrow to New York didn't operate until January 1970. Cost would have been huge.

A quick Google tells me that a return NY-London flight in 1969 was $1500 in today's money, down from the equivalent of $4000 in 1960.

It may not have been Heathrow, but there were passenger flights well before that. BOAC's Monarch service was flying from London to New York in 1960.

The Monarch London- NY service started in 1950, but BOAC had been flying the route as a commercial passenger service since 1946 (although not non-stop). They brought in jet planes on that route in 1958.

The 1970 date seems to relate specially to the first PanAm flight (or possibly their first jumbo jet flight) from Heathrow to JFK.

and just ridiculous when she's only just got married last year.

Indeed - the CTM approach to marriage is pretty dire. Lucille gave up on hers when she went home and Cyril seems to have just accpeted it and movved on. Matthew and Trixie are prepared to let a move get in the way of theirs.

I feel like you might give your shiny new marriage more of a go than simply "I want to move and you don't so, hey ho, that's that".

Wouldn't his mother not want Matthew to go and take her grandson away

All a bit odd

Exactly

They manage perfectly well in neighbours with Guy Pearce not being in it

Mind you he is in the UK

@greengreengrass25 and what about Fiona's parents!