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Call the midwife

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TwinklyFawn · 18/12/2024 18:26

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.

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Snowmenschilliballs · 28/01/2025 16:56

Hang on, has Nancy left?

GetDressedYouMerryGentlemen · 28/01/2025 17:05

I saw a click baity news thing the other day (but didn't click into it) which implied she will be back - but whether that is permanently of just for a wedding I don't know because I didn't click

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TwinklyFawn · 28/01/2025 18:07

Snowmenschilliballs · 28/01/2025 16:56

Hang on, has Nancy left?

She was offered a job at a hospital in episode 1. I recall her saying that she wanted to marry in poplar.

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JSMill · 28/01/2025 18:17

The Turner girls were going to be bridesmaids. They all went to Violet's to pick the material so surely there will be a wedding.

Taytocrisps · 28/01/2025 18:20

I think the wedding will take place at the end of the current series.

upinaballoon · 28/01/2025 18:27

Will Cyril marry them?

eggandonion · 28/01/2025 18:36

A very ecumenical wedding, pastor Cyril, Ulster protestant, Cork Catholic, Anglican nuns. If I was Nancy I'd elope.

suburburban · 28/01/2025 20:19

AgeingDoc · 28/01/2025 11:13

The 3 day week/power cuts etc are still to come. I think that was around 1973/4 if my memory serves me right. I was in primary school and remember sitting at the dining table doing schoolwork by torch/candlelight, and being cold pretty much all Winter. The 70s feel "modern" but in many ways they weren't really. My kids find it hard to believe that I grew up in a house without central heating, phone or freezer. We certainly weren't affluent but by no means the poorest people in our town. Looking back now it was a very different world. I think that in some respects the 70s were quite tough after the post war optimism had faded.

Our house was quite modern in 1970s with ch, all modern cons etc and we had central heating in the 1960s in our previous house. We had a car

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TwinklyFawn · 28/01/2025 20:55

suburburban · 28/01/2025 20:19

Our house was quite modern in 1970s with ch, all modern cons etc and we had central heating in the 1960s in our previous house. We had a car

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I think that i am too use to central heating.

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TwinklyFawn · 28/01/2025 21:02

I will post the link to the next thread again for those who missed it.

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Debrathom · 05/02/2025 18:50

I'm a bit confused by the vaccination dates. I was born in 1966. I got measles when I was primary school aged. I remember being very poorly with it. Don't know if it was connected but I had poor eyesight afterwards and am the only one in the family who needed glasses. (I also remember getting rubella or German Measles as a kid and I developed Mumps as an adult). I grew up in Birmingham so just wondering why I wasn't offered the vaccine in the early 70s??

bruffin · 05/02/2025 19:36

Debrathom · 05/02/2025 18:50

I'm a bit confused by the vaccination dates. I was born in 1966. I got measles when I was primary school aged. I remember being very poorly with it. Don't know if it was connected but I had poor eyesight afterwards and am the only one in the family who needed glasses. (I also remember getting rubella or German Measles as a kid and I developed Mumps as an adult). I grew up in Birmingham so just wondering why I wasn't offered the vaccine in the early 70s??

I was born in 1962.
Vaccination for Measles started being rolled out in 1968, i wasnt allowed to have it because my sister had febrile convulsions. I had Measles in 1970 and really wasnt very well for a week, i had constant tonsilitis for the next few years and had my tonsils out when i was 10. In those days the vaccinated girls for german measles at 14. i caught Rubella a few weeks before my vaccine was due,so didnt get that either!
I think i caught mumps when i was 2.

TheDowagerCountessofPembroke · 05/02/2025 20:05

suburburban · 28/01/2025 20:19

Our house was quite modern in 1970s with ch, all modern cons etc and we had central heating in the 1960s in our previous house. We had a car

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I grew up out in the country in an ancient house. We had no heating and single glazed windows. We did have a phone though.

A friend moved, as a child, into a council house in the early 80s. They still had an outside loo.

eggandonion · 05/02/2025 21:37

I don't remember a measles vaccine, I had measles as a baby. My brother had just started school and caught measles, mumps and chicken pox. He didn't pass on mumps. We lived with my grandfather who wasn't in good health. My poor mother!
I assume I didn't get a measles jab because of having had the awful disease.

TinselQueen · 05/02/2025 22:27

Debrathom · 05/02/2025 18:50

I'm a bit confused by the vaccination dates. I was born in 1966. I got measles when I was primary school aged. I remember being very poorly with it. Don't know if it was connected but I had poor eyesight afterwards and am the only one in the family who needed glasses. (I also remember getting rubella or German Measles as a kid and I developed Mumps as an adult). I grew up in Birmingham so just wondering why I wasn't offered the vaccine in the early 70s??

Yes poor eyesight is associated with measles

Wyche49 · 07/02/2025 11:15

The most

suburburban · 09/02/2025 20:07

Where has it gone tonight

Some boring farming program on

witchycat2 · 09/02/2025 20:10

suburburban · 09/02/2025 20:07

Where has it gone tonight

Some boring farming program on

It started at 8:05 on bbc1

LIZS · 09/02/2025 20:35

Not Nigel Sad

Undulat · 13/02/2025 17:39

I also really enjoyed that the recent episodes were more gritty. I so felt for the man with the iron lung, what a tough life, and to lose the love of your life!

How realistic was it that Sr Julienne managed to turn the second twin? I thought they'd have to do a C-section in hospital.

Harry is a bit too much for me. He's SO polite and nice.

The disappareances of Trixie and Nancy - so confusing! Did I miss it or wasn't it even mentioned they go to the US/wherever Nancy went?

Shimmyshimmycocobop · 13/02/2025 18:18

Debrathom · 05/02/2025 18:50

I'm a bit confused by the vaccination dates. I was born in 1966. I got measles when I was primary school aged. I remember being very poorly with it. Don't know if it was connected but I had poor eyesight afterwards and am the only one in the family who needed glasses. (I also remember getting rubella or German Measles as a kid and I developed Mumps as an adult). I grew up in Birmingham so just wondering why I wasn't offered the vaccine in the early 70s??

Me too , I was born in 1967 and was told by my mum I didn't get the vaccine and had measles pretty badly age 5. I had some hearing loss in one ear that was attributed to it. My brother and sister born in '69 and '72 both had the vaccine. Not sure why I wouldn't have had it but sadly mum no longer around to ask.

LushLemonTart · 13/02/2025 18:30

I was born late 60s and contracted measles German measles and mumps. I got chicken pox as an adult ( horrendous)

Vitriolinsanity · 13/02/2025 19:25

I was born in 1968 and my mother still has my vaccine booklet.

I had measles and polio vaccines, which my mother says were the infections every mother she knew dreaded. As a child of the 30's so many children were horribly afflicted.

Then we were taken to chicken pox and German measles houses to get infected. My older cousins got everything first and we got them second.

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