'Call the Midwife' Recap: Series 5 Episode 1
Welcome back! I’m looking forward to recapping another series and chatting with my fellow Midwife fans about it. We already know that a sixth series has been ordered so this won’t be the end. Nonetheless, if you’ve been watching this show from the beginning, you know some measure of heartbreak or loss is certainly in store for us over the next eight weeks. So grab your tissue box and join me for our first CTM rundown of 2016.
It’s the spring of 1961 in Poplar and the residents of Nonnatus House seem eager for the invigoration of the Easter season. In fact the midwives are in the midst of getting a bit of a fashion makeover; smart new uniforms with waspy belts which Sister Evangelina sees as quite impractical. Nurse Crane prickles at being a glamour puss, but is eager to see the new kit as well. Trixie nixes any thought of going the Norwegian nurse route of wearing slacks while Patsy would welcome a more practical ensemble with open arms.
In the weeks leading up to the holiday, the sisters and their boarders adhere to the Lenten deprivation of sugar – no cake, only honey for bread. This observance is the most trying for Sister Monica Joan who has the biggest sweet tooth of anyone in the history of Nonnatus House, I would imagine.
