Call the Midwife

Oh dear I’m in bits 😢

I sobbed really hard. The dog was curled next to me, looked up with a concerned expression ...... then got up, sighed, and moved to another chair! Heartless git!

As usual with Call the Midwife, I ended up in tears: it never happens with any other programme!

Oh, the Turner family!!! They really are the only part of the entire thing that never rings true and I wish they could be got rid of. I long for Timothy to break out and become a normal teenager. Any chance he will become a mod or a rocker or even a hippie?

What's happened to Chummy's husband who was the local po!ice sergeant? Given how involved he was with Nonnatus House, you would expect there would be some mention of him having moved to another district or something. Will there be a romance between Nurse Crane and the new sergeant? I do love Nurse Crane. She's become my favourite now Sister Evangaline is no longer with us.

I remember that winter vividly as I worked in the Ministry of Labour and so many workers were laid off, especially in the building trade, and claiming unemployment benefit that we often worked until 10pm, processing claims. I recall I often had to walk to work and then walk home late at night because the roads were so bad that the buses had to stop running....but I don't recall rolling power cuts. They came much later in about 1972 when the power station workers went on strike. I remember that vividly too as I had a toddler to feed and keep warm by then. I am sure there must have been power cuts in 1963 due to the conditions but I don't think we had rotas published in the paper. Maybe it happened in London and not where I lived in the midlands - can anyone remember?

I remember the Winter of Discontent. We had to sit around the gas oven one day when it was really cold cos it was the only heat in the whole house.

Put your thermals on Loopy 😄

She sold her mink coat. Brings a whole new meaning to the saying ‘all fur coat and no knickers’