Call the midwife

[NimbleHiker]

The Christmas special of call the midwife is on bbc 1 in 2 parts again. The first part is on at 20:15 on Christmas day and the second part is on at 20:30 on boxing day. I am not a fan of the Christmas special been in 2 parts. I wonder how doctor Turner and his simpering wife will save the world.

Ok. I hope so. I'd like this to happen.

Oh that episode got to me. Not helped by hearing When you are a King. Brought back so many memories. That poor boy with the rabies. I remember the scares in the 70’s but I can’t remember if anyone died in the U.K. from it though.

Poor backpack guy :( and his Dad

I remember the rabies panic of the 1970s and I THINK, though not totally sure, that the ability to let your dogs roam the streets (as I remember them) all day ended ?
I also remember a truly terrifying drama, think Threads but for Rabies . The Mad Death? The Long Death? Can't remember now but it was terrifying

Yes, he did look modern

Yes I remember that programme too. Even now I steer well clear animals when abroad!

Were those crutches the dad of the rabies guy using correct for the era?
I thought people still had the under arm wooden style back then?

That's a good point
I was only 6 in 1971 but I don't recall those modern type crutches
People usually, to my memory, had a walking stick and some had the under arm style still .

Trixie has always been plummy from the start but interestingly I did find myself particularly noticing the pronunciation of the word learning as larning last night.

Re her finances, when Matthew moved to NY he was determined to make his fortune back and then there was some reference to his success in this, in the last series, IIRC. So perhaps there is enough money now to warrant the purchase of a private maternity hospital as a business interest.

I didn't think that Trixie was too bad in the earlier series. I think that her accent has become more plummy in the later series.

The invisible stepson Jonty is being sent to "Pre-prep" (ie private school) so they must have money.

I noticed at the Easter Egg Hunt they had IKEA folding chairs that we had recently

I also don't recall the Easter Bunny being a thing in the 70s. Yes, Easter bonnets and maybe even an Easter egg hunt but the Easter Bunny is an Americanism which didn't come in until later (especially one with a BBC Props dept quality costume)

That rabies story just seemed so random.

It's always very "disease of the week that we need to educate viewers about" on Call the Midwife 😂

I must admit i had no idea rabies could have a three month gestation.

the fear of rabies in the early 70’s was huge. Dogs roamed the streets bit like us kids tbh. And I came from a naice middle class family. No idea why italics! We were out all day as were the dogs certainly in my area.

I totally agree.

There used to be folding chairs a bit like that but a darker wood

I didn't know either.

My mum was a child in the 70s and she doesn't remember the easter bunny been a thing. Santa was more of a thing. My great granddad had a santa suit.

We had the Easter bunny in the 1960s. My mother was German born, and the Easter hare was a German tradition. A hare delivered eggs to children, or in our case hid them around our garden.

It wasn't a Britsh tradition then though. My daughter was a child in the 80s/early 90s and it wasn't such a big deal then although it was heard of.

Yes it definitely was

Child of the 80s but my paternal grandparents were East End born and bred. We used to stay with them at Easter and have an Easter egg hunt but there was no suggestion of it being the Easter Bunny who did it. My mum grew up in a similar Northern community with lots of dock workers and no bunny there either.

A very middling episode after a good one last week

I don’t remember the Easter bunny being a thing, even in the 80s.