Call the midwife part 2

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I know that my first thread isn't full yet. I just wanted to create the second thread before i forgot.

I did my midwifery training in a small rural maternity hospital in 1978. CTM is getting increasingly familiar to me and bringing back lots of memories.

they still exist. my dc lives in one.

Well he definitely had a girlfriend and I thought they lived together

He lives in some sort of group home for adults with disabilities.

He had a girlfriend, I think someone at the group home place he lives so sort of living together. But they didn't get married, she was his date to a ball which maybe your brain has remembered as a wedding? She's not been in it for ages though.

I've just caught up with the latest episode.

What bothers me is the very small crowd at the sports event at the end. It's ALWAYS like this at any event they put on. It seems jarring as they are always shown making elaborate decorations and costumes (would they really have gone to such time and expense at the time?) and then there's only a handful of people there, supposed to represent Poplar.

Agree that this series does seem better than the last one in general, though.

Ok Thanks. I thought I remembered them moving into a house together. I must try and dig out those old episodes and rewatch

I think you're thinking of another girl with Downs. There was a storyline about her & a boy with some sort of disability. Broken biscuits ring any bells?

There was a storyline where a young girl with downs got pregnant whilst in the home she lived in. Her mother was visiting and discovered he was pregnant and took her out the home. The father of the baby also lived in the home. Pretty sure he came to the parents' house to visit her/say he loved her. Don't recall if they got married though.

I'd never watched CtM tikka fortnight ago, I woke up one morning and just started watching. Family and friends are somewhat shocked and surprised but I'm on Series 6 now. My conversion is just inexplicable.
Anyhoo, yes the broken biscuits were given to the home for disabled people by the factory next door. It was the young man with cerebral palsy who fathered a baby with the girl with Down Syndrome. He was moved on to another home.
I've just watched an episode where a young girl with Huntingdons is removed from her family and placed in residential care.

I remember that one! The dresses they wore to the dance came apart at the seams because the material they were made from was meant to line coffins.

It was the first christmas special. It has stuck with me.

Did Fred and Violet meet late in life so not have biological children?

I think that the boy was moved to Scotland.

Yes they did.
I think Fred's wife died in the war and he has 2 daughters (one possibly emigrated to Australia or Canada).
I can't remember if Violet has children.
Reggie is the son of Fred's cousin.

Thanks. Just realised I never heard any other children mentioned.

@PinkCandles I just googled. Violet has a son called Derek who is in the Navy which is probably why we never see him.

They met in series 4. Violet said something about going through the menopause in series 6.

One of Fred's daughters was really horrible to Violet, but came round in the end. Did she have a baby? If so the scriptwriters have forgotten about them - you'd think there would be a photo or a mention...

She had one child. I think that she was living in Canada and she came back to the uk.

No. He had a girlfriend called jane. They danced together at a ball. The ball was to raise money so that the maternity home could have an incubator.

Fred's daughter had a baby in the programme.

It was dolly who had a baby on the program. Marlene was his other daughter.

I watched the latest. I do remember the huge issue of older people with polio (was born in 1961 so was vaccinated). My father had a doctor colleague who had had polio and walked with a limp with a mind of metal thing over his leg under his trouser (he had only had a mild case of it).

The programme always implies there are masses of resources, homes for people, foster carers, doctors and nurses like some kind of imagine nirvana which was not the real world in 1970 and not in 2025. People's clothes (other than the one poor family on the latest one) are so clean and new., However it is TV and they do it very well. I tin kit sad twins lady lost her girls - it kind of proves why her previous view to keep away from the authorities might have actually been wise and I doubt she would ever get them back.

CTM tikka? Is that the Indian version?