Thyme for Tea

Country-raised, city-dwelling. Knitter. Baker. Photographer. Coffee drinker, tea lover. Anglophile.

[misscissyturner]

Wonder if this will ever be cleared up ?

Was the pregnancy test positive ?

Is Shelagh menopausal or did she have a early miscarriage or is it both ?

Did they look at the results that morning ?

Would it have made a difference to how Shelagh feels ?

I feel like it needs to be known

[thymefortea]

I actually wondered this myself.

I thought back to Shelagh not wanting to open the very first pregnancy results shortly after they married. Part of me almost wondered if in this instance, would she tell him to not open the results all? And instead just throw them out because maybe it would be too painful to know she did in fact lose a baby she didn’t want. That’s my personal headcanon.

[kayla47]

FFS Patrick put down the damn coffee and give your wife a hug 🤬

Honestly, if my husband didn’t wrap me in his arms and comfort me after a speech like that I would seriously doubt the strength of our marriage (luckily for me I am 100% certain he would! 🥰).

Heidi messed up big time tonight 😢😢.

On the plus side, absolutely superb acting from Laura Main. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[misscissyturner]

The ‘I just don’t want it’ killed me you could hear the pain in her voice for saying it. 😫😫

Bravo Laura Main 👏🏻👏🏻 you really are amazing

[kayla47]

Laura absolutely nailed it. I have been in her exact situation and felt precisely the same way. It is extremely hard and almost taboo for a married woman to admit that she doesn’t want a child that she would nevertheless love. I desperately needed physical comfort from my husband when I was in Shelagh’s position which is why it makes me so sad that she didn’t get it. For once it is not solely down to my ongoing longing for a Turnadette kiss! 😊

[thymefortea]

Ok, writers - who is gonna fic the missing scenes we all deserved?

- Shelagh continues on, confessing how selfish she feels for not wanting the very thing she once prayed for and finally breaks down in heart wrenching sobs that move Patrick to drop his teacup and hold her and reassure her and validate her feelings instead of giving empty platitudes.

- Shelagh leaves his shocked tea-drinking ass on the patio and goes up to their bedroom alone, where he finally comforts her once they're in bed.

Take whatever you wish we had gotten on screen and run with it! And the Turnadette fandom will praise you for doing what Heidi couldn't 😉

[kayla47]

Can we take a moment to congratulate Alice, April & Ned on their performances in tonight’s episode. They all had lines and delivered them well. This scene felt very natural, well done 💕💕

[thymefortea]

Finally they had a purpose beyond just cute accessories in the background! And I loved FINALLY seeing them not being perfect robotic children, but ones who don’t like vegetables and are being mean to each other - like actual siblings!

All On top of Shelagh being exasperated with everyone. It was so refreshing to see them not be the perfect fairytale family for once and see more real life and raw.

That scene in the kitchen was so much better than the three Turner kiddies skipping in sync or releasing balloons or Shelagh and Patrick smiling as they sit and play nicely. I so wish we had gotten more scenes like this, especially seeing Shelagh’s patience worn thin.

[ilovemushystuff]

🌷Love it, when Turnadette are in Sunday's promo pics🌷

[thymefortea]

I’ve got it.

Shelagh has a pregnancy scare and after finding out it was a false positive, Dr Turner learns she has signed him up to be first in line for ✂️✂️ at the London.

[miss-ute]

Turnadette in s12e02

[thymefortea]

Ok but that last gif with Teddy 😍😍😍 and oh yes, Patrick is looking positively top notch, especially in the white shirt and light trousers.

And Teddy nearly matching him, but with his buttoned shirt untucked 🥰🥰

[thymefortea]

Get a first look at Call The Midwife season 12 episode 2, when Dr Patrick Turner (Stephen McGann) faces a worrying new patient that he strug

Oh, dear, Patrick...what in the name of St Raymond Nonnatus is going on with this hair? I think Smcgann officially has his hair and makeup person wrapped around his little finger. Anyone else have a bit of nostalgia for the days of Floppy Hair like this in Season 2, or even Season 6 (that was a nice season for Patrick's hair 😍)? 💇🏻‍♂️

[thymefortea]

Beating Mushy to it 😉

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[thymefortea]

I can only Nancy’s reaction to finding out Shelagh was a nun in her former life.

Wasn’t clear if Nancy was at the dining table when Sister Hilda lamented Sister Bernadette, ex-nun, planning the centenary… so in my head, maybe she didn’t know Shelagh was a nun until Sister Veronica brought it up.

One thing I love about Nancy is her “tell it like it is” bluntness without much regard to her audience (“Honest to God, sex, who needs it?!”), along with being a bit nosey. It’s fun to think about her asking Shelagh point blank after that meal how she went from holy orders to marrying the local doctor. And Trixie with a knowing smile, being the only nurse who knew her as Sister Bernadette. 😉

Any lovely writers out there want to fic a missing scene?

[ctmwidower]

Shelagh’s Better Life 

CtM S12E01

[thymefortea]

I love the domesticity of this scene, with Patrick shining up Teddy’s (?) shoes and Shelagh doing …whatever she’s doing with Patrick’s clothing on hangers lol. Maybe laying out his outfits for the week?

Also, how does that man come home from work and still keep his tie on? I’m in my sweatpants as soon as I get home.

[miss-ute]

[miss-ute]

Okay but...Patrick sitting on that floor was the hottest shit ever!

[thymefortea]

Americans waiting for it to air need to see this right now! 😘

[earnestlylost]

It’s coming up to that “where is sister hilda?????” time of year again

(Seriously though - has anyone seen the merest hint of Fenella Woolgar in any bts for the new season???)

[thymefortea]

I was getting more worried and did some searching. Looks like suspicions confirmed. 😭😭 Last Christmas Sister Hilda was nursing a hangover after hosting Lucille’s bachelorette party, this year she’s vanished into the dark vortex that is the Motherhouse and taken Sister Frances with her 😭😭😭. https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/two-popular-call-midwife-characters-28558535

Two popular Call The Midwife characters quitting series during Christmas special

Call the Midwife fans should prepare themselves for an emotional Christmas special next month, as the BBC1 series is set to say goodbye to t

She had so much more to give us - pure gold. I will miss her character more than any other in recent memory. Such an odd abrupt departure after heavy screen time in last year’s finale. Damn the Christmas Specials being the easy out for a character’s offscreen departure…valerie, patsy, Delia… the filming hiatus is far too convenient for people to leave. 😔

[ilovemushystuff]

Rebecca Gethings as Sister Veronica with her moped

She arrives in the first episode.

Heidi Thomas:

[fourteen-teacups]

For a second I thought Sister Michael switched shows...

[thymefortea]

Omg the S2 scooter meant to carry gas and air finally resurfaces!

And vacuums….nope nope nope. One of the worst obstetrical inventions ever. Just, nope. Don’t waste your money, Dr T!

[miss-ute]

💛

[thymefortea]

Ok but look at her heels with the print and bows!

Whoever thought she would go from utility shoes 👞 in the misty road to these?!?

[shippnsince73]

First time we saw her as Mrs. Turner and she's dressed to impress hubby! I want to know what happened to THIS outfit?

[snoopctm]

There has been *much*discussion about this over the years! 😂

[thymefortea]

The entire scene was cut in the US PBS/Netflix version 😫😫😫

[levinson-mannion]

Sister Bernadette and Dr T had more touches in one episode then the whole of series 10 and 11

[levinson-mannion]

Anyway, guess is rewatching Episode 5 of series 2 of call the midwife

[the-original-rockbird]

Don't get me started! All I ever do here is complain, but I'm having a hard time accepting that the series is not what it was and my expectations are still high. It causes me nothing but misery.

Yesterdays ep was fine, all good. And a wonderful scene with Sr Julienne and Shelagh but it annoyed the crap out of me that we went from Patrick on a stretcher and Shelagh sobbing to him sitting up in bed laughing and looking like Basil Fawlty (thanks whoever pointed that out 🤣). Would it have killed them to write in a tiny scene between that? Laura is absolutely wasted and the family is not allowed to serve the purpose that it once did. I finish 8/9 episodes disappointed. Oh, and FFS let people finish a conversation. The chopping and changing and fractions of scenes is impossible to watch.

[thymefortea]

Amen Rocky. You and I are on the same page with our disgruntlement over the last…oh, 4-5 series? 🤦🏼‍♀️ Too many characters, too many storylines not given the chance (as Birdy once said) to breathe and develop properly Bc of time constraints. Honestly the best scenes last night were within the train car.

I too was surprised how we went from Shelagh sobbing on her knees to just smiles and laughing with Patrick in his bed. I thought there would’ve been some scene showing her relief that both Patrick and sister julienne were alive. Maybe Shelagh running out as they were about to load them onto the ambulance, crying tears of relief and joy, and - gasp - squeezing his hand, since that’s the only physical contact we can get these days. Or saying “I love you” since we’ve actually never heard them say those words to each other??? (Yet we heard them between Matthew and Trixie????). Remember the running joke in S3 and 4 when we all kept waiting for a kiss on the lips because Patrick only kissed her hand or forehead? Oh, how far we’ve regressed! What we wouldn’t give now for a kiss on the hand between these two….and last night we didn’t even get hand HOLDING. 😭😭😭😭😭

And her just sitting there while Patrick said all he saw was the darkness of their house and her while on the train??? Even THEN she couldn’t hold one of his hands??? Or put a hand on his leg?? SOMETHING to show comfort and affection? I just can’t understand the inconsistencies of the stupid Covid protocols. Why was it that Audrey and Derek Fleming could kiss on the lips and Trixie and Matthew could get close enough to pretend to kiss, if the protocols were so strict? My guess is Stephen and Heidi are super paranoid about Covid and Heidi wants to avoid Stephen bringing any germs home so she insists that he keep 6ft apart with the most minimal contact possible. Well, I’m sorry but you can be more creative with character interactions then. Not have it look like one of them has leprosy.

Re: the choppiness - somehow this series was a tiny improvement over last season. There are too many characters and too much trying to squeeze everyone in. And every time I see Violet Buckle open her mouth, the more I resent her existence simply because having to give her scenes takes away from the main cast members. She’s one who really has never added anything to the show, and while I do like Reggie, adding those two into Fred’s life just means everyone gets an even smaller piece of the pie. I realized there’s never been a character on CTM that I haven’t liked, which is kudos to Heidi for creating such great characters. But if I had to choose one I could do without, it’s hands down Violet. She’s just taking time away from other characters.

And while I’m ranting, I resent the fact that Shelagh hasn’t had a single interaction with Sister Monica Joan since I believe S7 with her cataracts surgery. Patrick has had more scenes with her, Cyril has had dozens of scenes with her. It just irks me that these two who lived together as sisters for years and who both love Sister Julienne don’t have any scenes together at all - not even a hi how ya doing. The Turner kids are a total waste and just there for the cuteness factor but I would love a chance to see the kids with Sister MJ the way they were in the CS or the way Angela helped blow out her SMJ’s cake candles in S7. Covid doesn’t help. I also need to see Teddy within arm’s reach of sister julienne, even if it’s to hand him something - it can be small. Like the way she held Angela in her lap at the Ball of Hope. My poor Teddy bear is wasted and Dangit he is special to Sister Julienne and I need something similar between them, but I doubt it will happen and the ideal time would’ve been when Teddy was smaller 😭😭😭 I still want that deleted scene of Shelagh with baby Teddy in sister julienne’s office discussing helping out when Barbara is I’ll.

I’ve gone totally off the rails in my complaining. But I hear ya Rocky. There’s a reason most of the original tumblr turnadette crowd have disappeared the last 4 to 5 years. We’ve both bowed out when the show looked bleak but find ourselves back here. 🤦🏼‍♀️ I guess we are gluttons for punishment? Or still holding out hope things will get better, I guess. In the meantime, hopefully there will be fanfic to fill in the horrible gaps.

[thymefortea]

Credit: @ilovemushystuff

Heidi finally found a sure fire way to tame his hair… 🤕