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33 minutes ago, Kohola3 said:
This was filmed some time ago and the measles issues, at least in the US, are pretty current. I wonder if the choice of measles (as opposed to other childhood diseases that have a rash) was just a coincidence.
I think it's simply the timeline of the show, as the first clinical trials of the measles vaccine in the UK were in 1964, just as they incorporated storylines about the polio epidemic and vaccine and thalidomide at the points in the series that coincided with those developments. It resonates because vaccination rates have gone down in the US and Europe, with measles outbreaks the result, but I don't think it's the show pandering.
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On 1/28/2019 at 5:46 AM, MissLucas said:
(And I did agree with Miss Higgins about Trixie rifling through patient files without permission - it was for a good cause but still a breach of privacy.)
It didn't seem to me that Miss Higgins was objecting on privacy grounds, but rather that she didn't want to have anyone interfering with her strict filing standards. I am glad they showed her to have a softer, compassionate side, and she did a beautiful job of getting through to that mother and comforting both parents.
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46 minutes ago, jschoolgirl said:2 hours ago, willowk said:
I too loved the suffragette story, but I have a question. I got that the "packages" stuffed up the chimney flue were fecal matter but where they sanitary pads or something else?
I assume it was a toilet-paper wrapping. Hoarders had a woman like this -- too immobile and hemmed in to handle it properly.
I think it was just random pieces of paper. They were pretty solidly wrapped, and TP would have disintegrated. Of course, the show didn't go into where she was stashing her urine or paper waste (and just as well).
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22 minutes ago, doodlebug said:
Many older docs, accustomed to handling anything and everything by themselves, just didn't feel the need to diagnose twins before delivery because they knew they could deal with it as it happened.
And yet, if it was possible to diagnose multiples, regardless of technology, it would have better served their patients' needs to learn in advance that they would be parenting two (or possibly more) newborns, so they could prepare.
I did know a set of triplets my age who were not a surprise in the late '60s.
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51 minutes ago, BooksRule said:
The whole idea of forceps being used for a birth makes me cringe (it just looks so dangerous for the baby), but I realize they are needed now and then.
Forceps were used when I was born (50 years ago Wednesday), only because they induced, the OB having decided things weren't progressing fast enough, and my mother was knocked out so she couldn't push. Fast forward a few years, and they likely wouldn't have induced as early as they did, with no urgency to the fetus. I had no lasting marks or trauma, and one would hope there's no great danger to the baby as they are deployed.
As for surprise multiple births, I have a younger friend (born in 1982) who is a fraternal twin, whose parents didn't know they were having twins until it happened. I assume they didn't have regular prenatal care, and that is why. (They went on to have a singleton and another set of twins in short order...five babies in three years.)
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Call the Midwife has been renewed again, for another couple of series/seasons. I think S9 was already announced, and now there will be a S10 and S11 (plus Christmas specials), taking airdates through 2022.
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On 1/6/2019 at 11:35 PM, Giselle said:
If you collect cookbooks like my mother did and I still do I would recommend putting a list of your collection on your phone. It's handy when you're at a store or a library's bookshop.
More than once I've bought "doubles", also be careful because sometimes an earlier book is reissued as part of a compilation. For example the Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking combines two of her earlier cookbooks.
In the Hazan case, Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking does combine Classic Italian Cooking and More Classic Italian. but she edited a number of the recipes, changing ingredient ratios and such so they're not exactly the same as in the earlier books.
I have a bunch of cookbooks, both in paper and ebook (I don't love using them in ebook form, but it's hard to resist snapping up a book I'm interested in when it's selling for only a few bucks), and I use Eat Your Books to catalog them. It's a pay service, but it is super useful for keeping track of and making the most of cookbooks because you can search your bookshelf for recipes using a variety of criteria, and organize them in various ways. Even without a membership, you can use it to browse through or search the recipe titles and main ingredients of indexed books and blogs, access recipes online, and read people's recipe notes. They have a ton of giveaways, too. Here is my personal bookshelf.
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27 minutes ago, HazelEyes4325 said:
I kind of/sort of remember her saying that she had had midwifery training as part of her nursing training. Also, wasn't Delia a nursing student, not a nurse? It; has been a while, so my memory may be off on that...
I think the story was that Patsy and Delia met while they were both working at the hospital, or in nursing school. Delia was a nurse, but not a nurse-midwife, and got interested in midwifery after she started boarding at Nonnatus House. As for Valerie, I recall there being a bunch of discussion when she was introduced about why she would have midwifery training given her experience was as an Army nurse, but the show never really explained the whys, just told us she did. To be honest, we've never really had more than the barest details about her back story.
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3 hours ago, kieyra said:
I remember being convinced during Season 7 that they'd shot some season 7 episodes out of order, because Trixie became less pregnant-looking and concealed as the season went on.
My recollection is that I read that they shot part of the season organically (in order), but at the same time they were shooting later Trixie scenes ahead of doing the remainder of those episodes to get them done before Helen George left for her maternity leave.
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1 hour ago, John Potts said:
Nina Myers AND Claudia Hernandez die in Season 3 after sleeping with Jack (Nina at Jack's hand!)
Eh, Nina had it coming.
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Gotta note that if you're married to Jack Bauer, you might end up dead, as Teri did at the end of Season 1.
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1 hour ago, Ceindreadh said:
So what was the big difference between a mother to be booking in for a hospital birth and going to Doctor Turner's mini-hospital?
The midwives seemed to think it was shocking that a woman would want to be in the actual hospital instead of at home, but seemed to have no problem with them planning to deliver in Doctor Turner's wards rather than at home. And honestly, for many of these women, especially those who already had children, I can quite see the attraction in having a few days where home and chores and kids are somebody else's problem not theirs.
The difference is between a medicalized birth in a very clinical setting, presumably, and a more personal midwife-attended birth with someone who's been seeing them through the prenatal process. The Nonnatan midwives still attend the births in the maternity home, with Dr. Turner available as needed, as with the Poplar home births so it's still community based. There have definitely been past episodes where the midwives encouraged a patient with multiple kids at home to stay in the maternity home for a birth just to have a break from the chaos of home life for a for a bit.
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1 hour ago, dargosmydaddy said:
Question-- did they mention where Lena got that car from in her first scene? I mean, she just arrived back in England, didn't know anyone, I don't think rental cars were a thing back then, she's on foot after that first scene... I dunno, CtM is usually good with realistic details, but that one had me wondering.
We really didn't learn anything about her current status (where she's living, how she's supporting herself, etc.), other than she'd been widowed. I can fanwank it that she's got some money from her late, older husband's estate, that's financed her return to England and her life there, potentially including the car.
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On 12/26/2018 at 11:15 AM, CalicoKitty said:
I was wondering if the lady from Australia would turn out to be the child that the Sisters sent to Australia in the first season, but I think that girl was sent with her brother, and I don't remember a brother with a club foot being left behind. The ending of that episode was haunting because the voice-over at the end explained that people thought that the children were going to a better life, but the adoption program was a disaster for some of the children. I guess it was not the same girl, but it was a nice tie-in with the first season.
That brother and sister were fairly young children when they were sent off. The first season took place in 1957, and this Christmas special is (I presume) taking place at the end of 1963, since the final episode of S7 included the Kennedy assassination. The brother and sister here were at least in their mid 20s, it seemed.
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Here's an interview with Leonie Elliott (Lucille), where she talks about her family background and how it's informed her role, among other things.
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On 12/8/2018 at 12:15 PM, BuyMoreAndSave said:
also like that they have a free recycling program for the packaging: https://www.terracycle.com/en-US/brigades/burt-s-bees-recycle-on-us
Thanks for highlighting this, as I am a longtime user of Burt's Bees lip balm (for regular lip balm, I prefer the pomegranate), and I also have some colored lip products and am currently using a BB facial cleanser. Wish I'd known about it before!
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2 hours ago, HazelEyes4325 said:
It might be that it is just "policy" that the midwives will share rooms (unless there is an odd number of midwives at any particular time). I think we have to accept that there are a fair number of bedrooms at Nonnatus House because there are a fair number of nuns--more than the 3 or so who are actual characters in this show, and we've seen that the nuns (or at least the ones who are characters) have their own rooms. It could have been that a room that would have gone to a nun but was vacant at the time and because Delia was not a part of the midwife program, but more a guest of Sister Julienne, she was given that room.
ETA: I just typed this and now I can't remember....was Delia part of the midwife program? I know she wasn't an actual midwife, but I sort of remember her being in training?
I think the difference is that for the midwives, room and board is part of their compensation, so it is probably a financial consideration as much as anything else that they share. Delia was paying for her room and board at Nonnatus House while she worked as a nurse. She didn't start out being in midwifery, but after living there for a while she decided to train as a nurse-midwife, as I recall.
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3 hours ago, OnceSane said:
I know, which is why I said Phyllis was the one who saw them. And I'm pretty sure it was Delia leaving Patsy's room and not the other way round.
Patsy regularly snuck off to Delia’s room at night, because Delia had her own room. Patsy was roommates with Trixie, as I recall, so it was in Delia’s room that they had privacy.
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Pam Ferris, our erstwhile Sister Evangelina, plays Queen Victoria in the upcoming film Holmes and Watson.
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7 hours ago, larapu2000 said:
My great grandma used Crisco along with butter in her pie crusts, and that is our family's Holy Grail recipe. So flaky and delicious. These all butter crust people are NUTS.
It is very possible to make a flaky and delicious all-butter crust. All in the technique, I'd say.
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2 hours ago, LeGrandElephant said:
Not sure they even had to move; if their whole family was gone and they grew up alone in the poorhouse, who would notice if they changed their names and said they were married?
They seemed to be known in Poplar, though, so I doubt it would have been just that simple. Besides, even if that was their functional relationship, they might not have been willing (for themselves) to pass it off as such publicly.
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On 10/9/2018 at 6:03 AM, Athena said:
Truaxe has threatened to leave and close the company before. He seems to be mentally unstable and ill. A lot of people started boycotting Deciem when he took over the Instagram to post rude comments to customers or just act very strangely. There are many reports from current and former employees about the toxic work environment at the company. The products can be good and he has other investors so I'm doubtful they will allow the company to implode completely. However, there are dupes for some of the products if worse comes to worse. He needs help for his mental health but not sure how or when that is going to happen.
Don't know what will come to him personally, but at least for the time being, he's out, and Deciem's still in business.
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3 hours ago, OtterMommy said:
*If* the DVD's have been released for the season 7 (I don't t know if they have), you might be able to get them at your public library.
The DVDs of each season are pretty much available at the time the seasons first airs on PBS (they are promoted when it's on), so they've been out since spring.
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1 hour ago, Zola said:
I think that is precisely why I raised my original question: even to my British ears I could sometimes denote a slight New York/Brooklyn accent, but is enunciation & inflection was what threw me. It's a very distinctive accent albeit rather clipped and precise at times. My best YouTube example is this one (one of my favorites btw)
I do think that, in that clip, that his accent betrays more of a NY background than it does elsewhere on TWW, thanks to his pronunciation of 'r'. Often his speech seems highly enunciated and and slightly clipped, which contributes to its distinctive cadence. It's not unusual for people to betray more of the regional accent of their childhoods when their voices are raised, however.
Interestingly, per the Wikipedia entry BManilowe linked, Silver had a lot of language study under his belt, with a BA in Spanish and Chinese, and an MA in Chinese History; since he studied in Taiwan, he probably had proficiency in Mandarin at that point. From that entry:
QuoteSilver went on to graduate from the State University of New York at Buffalo,[4] with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Chinese, and received a master's degree in Chinese History from St. John's University in New York and the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan.
S10.E06: Back to School
in Trading Spaces [V]
Seriously. There were some decent aspects to Carter’s room, but it was also half empty. He didn’t even spend most of that extra thousand dollars, which could have gotten him another table made, and chairs to go around it, I’m sure. (In contrast, Vern spend $2999 and change and filled his room with tables and chairs.) You know those bean bags and floor-height “coffee table” will be shoved in a corner tout de suite.