While Nigel is on the school run and I take Victoria Hislop into the bedroom for five minutes literary indulgence, Darrell often sits back to to enjoy a guilty pleasure of his own while it’s quiet ………..
…….. to wit, all that is Ask The Midwife. He looked it up it up on BBC iPlayer and found it’s there from the very first series. I think Hugh, Darrell’s best friend and mentor in all things of trimester type of nature, may have something to do with it, as he is oft to hold Darrell in thrall with tales of his own mother, who was, in real life, also a midwife in the 50’s and 60’s.
To be honest, what could be more romantic and compelling than a story about nuns, especially when the top nun also used to be one of the Railway Children, in the days before she got her “calling”, all living in a nunnery ……….
……. with another group of none nun ladies in uniform, who are also kind, competent, often very pretty …….
…….. and ride bikes ……..
…… where Nuns and Non Nuns find themselves constantly on call to deliver the millions of babies of Poplar and coping with all the problems that ensue. Who would have thought that such a programme with all it’s urine testing, free orange juice, problems with latching on and waters constantly breaking could have Darrell so hooked ……..
……… although I suspect he also has a “thing” for Nurse Trixie!
What is he like?
2 comments:
I don't know Nurse Trixie but, when I was a teenager, I had a thing for Jenny Agutter, when she was a railway child, when she was running with Logan and when she was walking about the bush a.k.a. the Australian Outback.
Watched the first couple of eps but then sort of lost my way and never went back - one baby is enough for me thank you very much. However I know it is loved by many peeps. Darrell is in good company. JantheFan x
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