Call the midwife

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The call the midwife christmas special is on bbc 1 in 2 parts. The first part will be shown on christmas day at 20:00. The second part will be shown at 19:30 on boxing day. Series 14 will start on 5th January. I am suprised that it has not been renamed as the doctor Turner show.

God I hope he doesn't come back.

Dr. Turner was particularly creepy and cringy tonight 🤢🤢

The blonde midwife working at the homeless shelter is also boring AF.

That is not how flower festivals are done. The entire church is usually overtaken by themed displays. Most of the characters just annoy me now. The Buckles and Reggie most of all!

She did not need to be told how to deliver that baby.

My favourite moment for several series was when Arlene said to Trixie, “Stop calling me Sweetie, I’m not a child,” or something similar.

Arlene

Nice choice of music tonight.

Cyril has only been in his social worker job for 10 minutes, how does he have lots and lots of accrued leave?

He must have carried some over from the engineering department?

So the Cypriot wife ended up cajoled into taking back her Clap-riddled husband because he came up with an "I went with her coz she looked like you!" Type excuse? And the incidental music with it's strings swelled and all was well?

LEAVE THE BASTARD

Violet Buckle also in Shameless as the first wife

No. If they did i missed it. The episode was sending me to sleep

I hope Cyril doesn't come back. The blonde midwife is dreadful. not sure if she is a terrible actor or its the writing.
I thought they were going to start teaching midwives. so far they have only had 4.

Exactly. I bet that doctor turner will end up delivering every baby single handed.

Good spot - I was racking my brains.

Sadly, I think they are struggling for things to do with Cyril's character so a departure seems most likely.

Which is a bit of a shame, because he could return with a new Lucille and have interesting stories as a social worker. Yet again, the series suffers for having to revolve around Dr St Turner.

Last night’s episode was very boring.

What happened to the great silence? It was a big thing in the early series.

I was surprised that the saintly Sheelagh didn’t instruct the brothels in hygienic & safe sex. All stainless steel & wipe down Formica. The sex workers could study for exams in their down time.

When SMJ was asking what everyone's favourite spring flowers were so she could include them in the flower arrangement and someone said "crocuses" - did anyone else think "good luck finding them in May"? 😂

@TheFifthTellytubby yep, clearly the writers just thought "spring flowers" and then "May is spring" and didn't connect those two thoughts.
My crocuses are just starting to come up now, they'll be over by mid-February.

They showed daffodils blooming earlier. Obviously Poplar has its own micro climate

i often see daffodils in January

So do i.

It was supposed to be May? Don’t think I’ve seen daffodils in May?

I have daffodils in flower in my garden in May. I chose some varieties that bloom late. Not crocuses, though. Even this far north they're over by March.

My hopes were raised, and then dashed, when Violet's stint as Mayor came to an end. I quite like Violet and Fred, but Violet has become very pompous since she became Mayor. She wasn't like that at the beginning. But I suppose her position as Mayor is a convenient plot device to show other events happening in Poplar at the time - like the flower show. I quite enjoy these little reminders of life back then. There used to be a horticultural show when I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Women (it was mostly women iirc) would bake cakes or make jam or display flower arrangements etc. We won an ice bucket in a raffle at the show one year. It sat proudly in a cabinet for many years, but was never actually used for holding ice cubes, given that my parents never threw dinner parties .

Has someone been reading our many posts about Cyril and Lucille?

Was I the only viewer who rolled my eyes when Shelagh and Millicent began quizzing the the prostitutes about their sexual partners? Very convenient that the factory manager had shipped in a group of employees and could account for them all. In reality, they'd never have traced all of the men, especially given he transient nature of London's population. And is it likely that the brothel owner/manager would let the nurses in to quiz the girls about stds on the premises? Probably not the best advertisement for business! Anyway, all gripes aside, stds were a serious matter back then (and probably still are today). I wonder how the medical community coped with the emergence of AIDS in the '80s? I watched 'It's a Sin' (highly recommended, if you haven't seen it already) but that shows the epidemic from the perspective of the victims and their friends and families. It would be interesting to see something from the perspective of the medical staff who treated the patients.

I doubt CTM will go into the 80s @Taytocrisps, but maybe they should do a spin off showing Dr Turner coming out of retirement to sort the AIDs epidemic. Shelagh and Millicent can go out with their chipboards and it will all be sorted in a jiffy.

I thought the same! Really odd accents. Almost comical.