Honesty and love in adversity...
starring Fred and Violet Buckle
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 116
Call the Midwife 13.3
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Violet Buckle
I am actually very proud of her.
Violet hasn’t always been my fav character but tonight made me realise how far she’s came.
There’s some character that I don’t realise just how long they’ve been on the show for.
Like she’s been in the show since season 4 !!!
Just think she started by just owning her own shop (which was the setting I loved seeing her in most)
To being the FREAKING Mayor
Like come on !!
She’s going to do amazing things with this.
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one of the reasons why I love Call the Midwife is that the show makes me feel excited about growing older.
Of course, I’m making an effort to let present-me be content and thriving. But in seeing women older than me being happy, safe, filled with purpose, part of a tightly-knit community and guiding their younger peers, then I can imagine myself in their shoes.
I see Shelagh watching her oldest child grow into a young adult and I’m excited to be a mother like her soon - with a kid out there in the world, finding her path.
I see Sister Hilda taking a long, hard look at the world and deciding that she wants to be better equipped for helping in more capacities and I’m looking up possibilities to learn and take better care of other people and myself.
I see Millicent Higgins being unapologetically herself and taking pride in her achievements, relishing in the things that bring her delight and using her unique power of getting things done to sort through any kind of mess, and I’m laughing at myself now for being afraid of paperwork - maybe I can be braver in the future.
I see Violet Buckle taking charge of everything and making sure that she uses her position to make important changes, I see her opening her door and her heart for so many people, and I’m hoping that life will bring me second chances and maybe even the opportunity to raise a slightly different kind of family - in a sewing shop, patched together with the yarn of love.
I see Phyllis Crane being the pinnacle of her profession, supporting herself all the way from the fringes of society into the heart of a community that cannot do without her anymore. Leading by example and never running out of true and kind words, her common sense is the most versatile tool I’ve ever seen anybody use and I want that groundedness for myself - today and especially in the future.
I see Sister Julienne accepting the burden of leadership, pouring endless bounds of faith onto every kind of problem and admitting freely when she has been wrong, or uninformed. Her ability to calm storms is legendary and as in practice makes perfect she must be the most centered person to ever walk the earth. I’m jealous.
I see Sister Evangelina speaking truth to everyone and being proud of her work, a woman unafraid and resourceful like few others. The show has hardly scratched the surface on what the real Sister Evangelina has seen and done in her life and part of me wants to be as unafraid, too. But I’ll pass on the parachute jump behind enemy lines, thank you very much.
I see Sister Monica Joan, after a long and extensive work-life amidst her sisters, with an endless variety of baked goods, watching Doctor Who, playing with children, calling a sizeable library her own, and when I’m at her age I hope I’ll to remember to say “Child, I have seen everything.”
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Ranking the Call the Midwife main character’s wedding dresses to deal with all of the feelings the latest episode gave me
7th - Chummy’s
Chummy, girl, I love you but what the hell was this the pattern is so bad you could’ve done better than this. Also you married a cop so you do get a few points knocked off for that
6th - Sheila’s original dress
She looks sad, so does the dress
5th - Violet’s
See this is how you do it Chummy and sad Sheila! The colour’s great, love the little veil on her hat, also great choice of husband no notes there
4th - Barbara’s
It’s cute, very Barbara, it’s just a little boring especially without the cape
3rd - Sheila’s actual dress
She looks great, love the lace, showing her shoulders slightly which is very iconic and scandalous of her, no notes
2nd - Trixie’s
Girl’s a fashion icon we knew she was gonna pull it out of the bag. Wasn’t a big fan seeing it from the distance at first but when I saw it closer up it grew on me. Love the fabric, love the little hat
1st - Lucille’s
She slayed this SO HARD, she looked so good! 10/10, no notes, absolutely iconic
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Minor spoilers for s13e05 from My Weekly magazine…..
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Call The Midwife
BBC One and BBC iPlayer
Call The Midwife’s 2023 Christmas Special begins two weeks before Christmas, with Apollo 8 poised to circle the moon.
Sister Monica Joan (Judy Parfitt) is convinced this could be her final Yuletide and decides she’ll not live to see man walk on the moon. The Nonnatus Family, including Trixie’s (Helen George) brother Geoffrey (Christopher Harper), decide something must be done to try and lighten her state of mind. Nancy (Megan Cusack) has recommitted to staying at Nonnatus House and Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter) has offered her and Colette (Francesca Fullilove) a room for the foreseeable future. Trixie and Matthew (Olly Rix), fresh from their honeymoon, are preparing their first Christmas together as husband and wife when Geoffrey pays them an unexpected visit days before Christmas. Cyril (Zephryn Taitte) gently intervenes when he discovers a lost soul living alone in a dilapidated basement flat. For this man, Christmas is a reminder of all he’s lost and all he’s never had. Nurse Crane (Linda Bassett), away on her refresher course, makes it home in time for Christmas festivities despite a treacherously heavy snowfall.
Call The Midwife (1x90) is a Neal Street Productions for BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Executive producers for Neal Street Productions are Pippa Harris, Heidi Thomas and Ann Tricklebank, with Gaynor Holmes for the BBC.
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I never post but WOW! I can finally breathe.
Our older characters were amazing. Vi and Millicifent had amazing roles this week as well are Fred.
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I had to make this even though I couldn't think of anyone from two of the categories. That being said, if anyone wants me to add someone, I am 100% willing to edit it.
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Violet is expanding Fred's culinary horizons in preparation for mayoral functions (13.4)
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What happened to Violet Buckle?
I was going to rewatch Call The Midwife than realised there were like 4 more seasons? So I started from the season I hadn't been able to watch (season eight). And I got to Violet's council arc. And I'm really not liking her in these later seasons.
Has she always had this high-horse trait and the council plot is just highlighting that or is this a case of they need a reoccurring high-horse character that isn't a (supposed) main? So they just changed her character to fit that role?
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Mayor of two months and Midwife of 45 years
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What an ending! What an episode! Thank you @CallTheMidwife1, for brightening up my Sundays, and for making me cry like a baby & laugh too 😭😅 I'm soo happy for Trixie, she deserves happiness 🥰
12 Seasons, hard-hitting storylines, loved characters. extraordinary writing & fabulous cast. There isn't a show like @CallTheMidwife1 that can make you cry, laugh & scream at the same time! Counting down till Christmas 😊❤️
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The relationship between Fred and Violet Buckle on Call the Midwife is very important and if you don’t agree you can get out.
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