Call The Midwife Series 13 Part 2

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

Also (going back to my rant about the plot this week). It seems like the episode was written as one of those consequence games where you each have responsibility for a line but you are not party to what everyone else has written.

So - overarching trauma - Mai in grave peril.

But then in one corner you have Gladys crowing about the day and in the other corner, Trixie car showrooming and shoppin' til she droppin' without a care in the world....I mean surely they would keep their counsel and have a bit of decorum, considering the whole beach debacle happened on their watch?

Also, this:

I so love CTM but wish more than anything that the Turners would all die.

am loling 😂

I thought the consultant who operated on Danielle was actually FAR more realistic than Dr Turner... ignoring the child, just about acknowledging the parents while making no attempt to explain things in understandable terms, curt and dismissive - all the things Dr Saint Turner would be if we didn't have the saccharine soap version!

I feel very hard done by that although born in 1970 I never had a changing robe made out of a towel! My Mum was a great seamstress - made so many matching outfits for me and my sister, I fear this was a huge oversight!!!

We used to use a windbreaker for changing with my mum holding a towel around us.

Yes consultant was more realistic than st Patrick. Most doctors then didn’t have a decent bedside manner!

The Dr Turner and Shelagh story was lovely back in the day when they got together. Such great acting all round.

More recently, when he's talking, Dr Turner reminds me of Geoffrey from Rainbow when he was explaining something to Bungle, George and Zippy.

Same. My mum made loads of my clothes (often from Clothkits) but never a changing robe - I had to learn to hold a towel with my chin while changing.

Would Trixie's inheritance now legally be Matthew's property following their marriage?

(I had to Google that, because I know a lot of women's rights have been won surprisingly recently. It appears that the answer is no, not since 1870.)

This crossed my mind too. Have they covered a similar storyline before? Can’t remember.

So -

I’ve disliked the Turners since they got married and became instantly smug. But they get worse. And worse. I don’t think he’s going to be revealed as a suddenly violent man as we’ve already his secret tortured past. I think it is total hamminess.

I can’t bear another Turner doctor. Not two of them. Please no.

I try to ignore the anachronisms but the foster agency storyline was just beyond silly. As so many have said, the mere idea that a young women in Hong Kong would hear about this and have any sway over a doctor and his wife in the UK is just bolleaux of the finest order.

More recently, when he's talking, Dr Turner reminds me of Geoffrey from Rainbow when he was explaining something to Bungle, George and Zippy.

😂😂😂😂 @cantrememberch

Also, poor Cyril clearly has no memory of being married, but is at least rocking a portfolio career.

😁

Didn't his wife return home after miscarriage and told him.she wasn't coming back?
I think he will get together with the student nurse who rescued May 😁

I keep being distracted by everyone having different views on the spelling of May’s name. A google suggested it is in fact May so now I can sleep.

Her current storyline is so dumb. I get that her mother wouldn’t sign the adoption papers, but even without doing that I think she’d be laughed out the room if she ever tried to get her back.

Twice I think, the gay dad to be done for cottaging and a young dad to be whose hopes of going to uni were dashed when he got his lass pregnant. Both heroically rescued in the nick of time! (Car exhaust fumes and head-in-the-oven)

Haha this is surprisingly accurate 🤣👌

OMG that lilo! Exactly the same thing happened to us when I was about the same age. I think we were in Cornwall. We met up with a family with children the same age. The little girl (who couldn't swim) had a go on our lilo and when I looked, she was floating out to sea, so I swam after her. (I couldn't swim that well.) I managed to get to her but trying to paddle her back. So frightening - especially as the previous month 2 children had drowned in the same circumstances - one on a lilo and one trying to rescue the other. I have never been so scared.

Someone spotted us and our two dads raced to the seaside and swam out - but by that time we had managed to paddle the lilo back quite a bit more.

My mum popped the lilo and it went in the bin that night.

I thought Mathew was ill?

I was jealous of kids with changing robes. But going to the seaside wasn't that unusual in the 60s. The bus went to Southend and my Church ran a couple of trips a summer.

I've just seen behind the scenes photos from the filming... they are in DryRobes between the scenes! Such a difference.

The Dr Turner and Shelagh story was lovely back in the day when they got together. Such great acting all round.

Yes. They used to be some of my favourite characters and I loved their early days together.

Re the fewer births, I seem to remember reading in the books that in the fifties when Jenny Lee first started they were delivering over 100 babies a month, and by the time she left it was much much lower. Maybe the current lower numbers is to reflect that?

Does Timothy Turner actually attend any of his medical school? He constantly seems to be at home for the holidays.

Apart from the day the man with secondary drowning came in, obviously.

My brother and I had changing robes made by our mum in stretchy Terry material with purple pandas 🐼

We were never allowed a lilo because of the risk of getting swept out to sea.

Who was managing things back in Poplar though?

It looked to me that only Sister Julienne and the two non-speaking pupil midwives were left behind. Good job it was only Lindy who went into labour!