Call The Midwife

[quizzywig]

I thoroughly enjoyed this series. I know it's not everyone's taste (Mr Q is not a fan) but it was just right for Sunday evening and this current series ended on a high note, thank goodness. I've just read that a third series has been commissioned. Lovely.

[craft1948]

I cried............

[Barmaid]

Craft, so did I. I sobbed like an idiot for the last 20 minutes.

[giveup]

Haven't seen it yet.Don't say much please.

[anneasquith]

the all lived happily ever after,

[tonyav]

Liked the Lambretta LD.

[anneasquith]

oh, sorry giveup, didnt see your post :(

[gness]

All that romance......the agony of childbirth........giving up being a nun and becoming engaged........a mum and baby almost dying and MrAV notices the scooter!

[tonyav]

Well I did watch it all gness, but I couldn't help thinking what an amazing job some one had done in restoring that old Lambretta.

[DTCwordfan]

I am one of those who hasn't got into it, or Shetland last night......

[shaneystar2]

It's very feel good on tv but the books are different .
There are not so many happy endings .
It 's brilliant never the less and such a shame that the author of the books, Jennifer Worth ,didn't live see her books televised .

[gness]

My husband's grandmother was the local midwife in Kettering in the early 1900s. I have her diary...it is fascinating reading.

[craft1948]

DTC I've read the book Shetland was based on and couldn't believe the changes they made to it in the programme, and not changes for the better. The book was very good..........

[tonyav]

I should imagine it is gness, I think you had to pay for a midwife in those days.

Wonder where they filmed Call The Midwife.

[Barmaid]

My great grandmother was the local wise woman in the village in the 1920s - 1960s. She dealt with laying out the dead, seeing in the babies and giving various advice. I have her writings and the various postcards she and her family members sent. Hilarious.

I remember meeting a woman about 20 years ago whose son had been born in the village. So I asked her if she knew Grannie. "OH yes she said, when Christopher was born he was a sickly baby so I took her to see Bess. Bess told me to give him as much stout as he would take a day and wrap him up tight". Christopher rallied and that occasion was his 40th birthday.

[craft1948]

Sounds better than my great-great-grandad BM................he was shown in the censuses as being a Quack Doctor.

[gness]

I was a tiny baby, Barmaid so had to be wrapped tightly and fed Guinness.....hence the size 2 feet and I'm not sure how long I have to keep drinking the Guinness. ;-)

[ruthann58]

i loved it as well . sunday night tele was quite good ,country file , call the midwife then ripper street

[tonyav]

gness you can take the wrapping off now.

[gness]

Ahhhhh....but keep on with the Guinness?

[DSJ]

tonyav, the series was filmed in Chatham, Kent. Apparently they are now doing tours of the area with the guides dressed in the same uniform as the midwives in the series.