I was watching my new favourite show, ‘Call the Midwife’
on Netflix – I like it so much, I got the book from the library and am reading
it along with watching an episode or two (okay, or three) per night and am
loving both of them – the book fills in what you miss on the actual show, so I
like that. Anyway, not to spoil things, but it’s nice to see actual knitting
going on in the show, the two needle kind, mostly by Sister Monica Joan – you
might say, she’s my favourite character, but I do really love them all! Maybe
the lead character, Jenny Lee seems like she’s a bit stuffy and uptight, but
she’s the author of the book and she really is.
So, I’m getting toward the end of the second season and
they’re trying to give Sister Monica Joan a bit of a make-work project and she’s
supposed to be knitting squares to be sewn into either baby blankets or an
afghan. There’s a scene with Trixie and Jenny working the two needles,
supposedly helping to knit more squares and then, oh so disappointing – they
are sewing together CROCHETED granny squares!!! Wow! hard to believe BBC has no
one on staff or even that any of the cast didn’t see this major faux pas!
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One of the program writers was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 a few days after it aired in the UK and she did apologise after they got a lot of complaints about it. Yup, lots of people noticed!
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