Call the midwife

I enjoyed it this evening. Maybe easily pleased . Good job we aren’t all the same.

Found tonight’s episode a bit boring.

I have come to like this. It can be a bit cheesy but they do deal with a lot of important issues .

Can your friend not record it smithy if not the box set would make a nice gift.
A rethink on equal partnership is needed I think.

I found last weeks so depressing. I am well aware such things happen but I didn't enjoy it. Hope tonight's has a happier theme.

Believe it or not, my DH loves this programme.If he can’t watch it it gets recorded and he watches episodes back to back. I find this odd as he usually watches sports/athletic programmes.

Why does she choose to be ' not allowed'?
Is her OH standing over her with a club, ready to drag her off by the hair?

Not allowed?! In this day and age! Hasn't she got catchup on her computer?!!

The books are very good, have read 2. I love the programme it's my favourite Sunday evening viewing.
A friend of mine (1 TV in house) is "not allowed" to watch it!

Rosie, there are 3 books, have you read them all?

I bought the book a while ago and was very pleased when it was made into a tv drama. I think it was an experiment by the producers and they were surprised at how successful it has proved.

I`ve just watched it, and loved it as usual.

Thank you

He was indeed annie, so who knows?!!!

You make some good points ilovecheese.

Niggly, Thomas was chosen ?

I'm certain it did annie. I think the fact that in those days the doctor was able to visit his patients more frequently than is the case today, which in our case gave a lot of comfort and moral support. Also again for us, my Granny had, like you annie, a deep totally sincere religious belief, she knew without a shadow of doubt that God was with her right up to the end which was of enormous comfort to her., . My mother has this belief too up to a point! Me? I'm on the fence, a doubting Thomas? and I know I'm the poorer for it.
Heavens yes Thalidomide!!! I remember it and how dreadful it was - almost unbelievable.

Niggly, so many died at home then which must have given them some feeling of peace

Fair post Ilovechesse

Yes, it would be too harrowing for my DH.

It's hardly saccharine sweet!
Among the issues it has covered have been:
Wife beating
A husband forcing his wife into prostitution soon after giving birth.
A father forcing his daughter into prostitution on a ship.
Incest.
Illegal abortion.
The rape of a nun.
Alcoholism.
The effects of Thalidomide.

It is a great show which covers so many things, calling it sugary does it a great disservice I think.

(I also love Vera)

As you say annie, these days unthinkable, but way back then?! Granny had been so ill for such ages, so I suppose I was sort of used to it!! She was very good with her hands and made/knitted dolls clothes, dolls cradles out of shoe boxes, and the best poppy ladies ever created! I wasn't allowed to go to her funeral, I guess children just didn't in those days.
I'm sure your visits were very appreciated annie. Children can bring a lot of joy to the sick and dying.

The neonatal mortality rate is fairly depicted I think; it was then about 20 per thousand I think and, although the theme is midwifery, there have not been a thousand births on the programme since its beginning.
Other topical themes seem to be fairly well covered within the limits of a one hour programme.

Niggly, such trauma for an 11 year old, I so remember calling in friends homes where a grandfather was dying from pneumoconiosis, I use to visit a g uncle who was dying from it.

Power cuts obviously just in London. Living near Oxford, aged 20, I simply wasn't aware of them. Too busy struggling to work and back each day on an icy cold 'double decker'! Looking back I was lucky as my mother made sure that I was as warm and comfortable as possible; others weren't so fortunate.
I don't see anything sugary about the lady dying of lung cancer. My Granny died of the same complaint in 1954 in what was her bedroom at our house. I was 11 at the time, but remember the scenario vividly. The doctor and nurse in what seemed like full time attendance, my mother looking white and strained, my two uncles in and out, Granny calling for, and only seeming to want, her son (my elder uncle). Hearing her coughing and gasping. CTM, depicted that dreadful day perfectly, and brought back memories and tears. Nothing sugary about that I can assure you.