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Post by beverley61 on May 11, 2021 12:30:02 GMT
I've always thought that Trixie would ditch the career for the right man and really can't see why she would have stayed in the East End all this time when she could have been up in some Teaching Hospital in London. She's caring to her patients but has never taken any opportunity to further her career or relocate. A midwife in those conditions would get excellent one to one experience and most hospitals would snap her up, she'd be sister or matron by now if she wanted.
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Post by vicky on May 11, 2021 13:09:47 GMT
I suspect Trixie is being set up for another romance
The series has now moved into living memory for me. I remember the World Cup! I thought that the moment his wife died! It's been within living memory for me right from series one as I grew up in the 1950s, the difference being that now it's all within my adult living memory! That's one reason why I feel it is so ridiculously preachy as I lived through it and know people didn't speak and act the way these characters do. I had got engaged just over a week before the 1966 World Cup final so that year in particular is forever engraved in my memory.  |
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Post by linseed on May 11, 2021 13:19:03 GMT
I was still in infant school!
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Post by LoopyLobes on May 11, 2021 14:30:11 GMT
I was 2 and flying from Singapore to England. My first time to England. Dad (great all-round sportsman and keen fan of football) was all set to watch the world cup final, but fell asleep in front of the telly in the hotel we'd stopped over at. I remember those days very well even if I was very young.
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Post by marion on May 17, 2021 11:19:34 GMT
Another Turner-centric episode, with that ghastly Peter Perfect. I had dropped the F-bomb quite a few times in the first half of last nights episode. Hopefully when he goes to university he will just stay there.
I had never heard of that PKU test or whatever it is called, but how fortuitous that after the Irish pupil midwife had called it a waste of resources, they got their first ever positive result!
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Post by linseed on May 17, 2021 11:45:53 GMT
Yes it’s like they have run out of the “normal” experiences and gone for the very rare conditions. (I had heard of PKU, blame the degree). I knew as soon as she mentioned it that there was going to be a patient with it, or why mention it.
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Post by LoopyLobes on May 17, 2021 12:04:38 GMT
I remember the heel prick test being done on my babies when they were tiny.
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Post by beverley61 on May 17, 2021 12:05:53 GMT
All babies are still tested for this. We have a couple of people we support in residential care that have this and went undetected until they were about the age of this child. It is a routine test but was not that commonly done at that time. Still I agree it is a rare condition but completely devastating if it happens with a simple test to detect it.
Peter Perfect is going to be eaten alive in Edinburgh Medical School, despite years in the East End of London, he is the most naïve boy who looks about 13 and even when his friend was having a child adopted all he could talk about was 'cubs'.
The pastor is nice looking but such a wet blanket that you wonder if Nurse Anderson will have second thoughts.
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Post by linseed on May 17, 2021 15:33:40 GMT
I’m thinking that Peter will meet the girl of his dreams at medical school and go off into the sunset! Or at least be written out now he will be in Edinburgh. I wonder how old the actor playing him is?
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Post by Miranda on May 17, 2021 15:40:57 GMT
Sometimes 11, sometimes 56.
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Post by vicky on May 17, 2021 18:07:02 GMT
I remember the heel prick test being done on my babies when they were tiny. As well as the heel prick test I do remember the midwife testing a wet nappy when my daughter was about a week old. That was in 1969 so it must still have been a new thing. |
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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Dec 1, 2021 18:59:07 GMT
The Call The Midwife Christmas special will premiere on BBC One on Christmas Day (Saturday December 25th) at 8pm.
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Post by Miranda on Dec 1, 2021 19:03:07 GMT
Hmm.... I shall be washing my hair.
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Post by beverley61 on Dec 1, 2021 19:55:03 GMT
I predict a wedding and a death, but obviously not the death of a main character.
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Post by Miranda on Dec 1, 2021 20:40:29 GMT
And some snow. Don't forget the snow.
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Anymore to come?
