Big Farma in Little Ambridge - come and talk The Archers talk

[PseudoBadger]

New thread for the beginning of the pheasant season.

[ppeatfruit]

Blu We're STILL waiting for the denouement the SWs are 'avin' a laugh IMO!

[Blu]

oooh, I see!
Thank you. I will try and listen to more episodes.

LOL at Big Farma - is that a MNism?

[Northernlurker]

Helen has a complex past. In addition to an unhealthy obsession with cheese, she had relationship with the dour Greg, gamekeeper. Will was his apprentice. Greg suffered from depression and had many arguments with his ex wife etc. Ultimately he shot himself. In the wake of his suicide Helen developed anorexia. She had also of course struggled to cope with the death of her brother John. She was hospitalised but made what was frankly a miracle recovery. She then lurched from disaster to crisis menwise and finally decided that what she really wanted was a baby.
So the Ambridge fertility fairy stepped in and the AI clinic had a cancellation which bumped her to the top of the list AND she got pg first time. Pat and particularly Tony found it hard to accept. Shortly after Christmas when she was about 36-37 weeks pg she and the rest of the clan went to Lower Loxley for some festive cheer. Alan the vicar's daughter, Amy, who is a midwife, noticed her very swollen ankles and complaint of a headache and insisted on taking her to hospital. Pre-eclampsia was diagnosed and Baby Henry delivered. At about the same time Nigel plunged off the roof on to the ancestral cobbles........

Pat is very protective of Helen really. Having lost one child she cannot bear anything to happen to the other two and she knows that Helen is (still) very fragile.

[Somethingyesterday]

Amazing. Continuity has just given a veiled warning about Helen and Rob.

[ErrolTheDragon]

I heard that and then my DH, who's away, chose that moment to phone me. I'll have to try to catch the repeat tomorrow.

[Somethingyesterday]

He rang you during TA?

LTB...

[LondonMother]

Took the words out of my mouth, Something! I can truthfully say that not one single member of my family would ring me between 7.02 and 7.15 except in the case of a dire emergency. When my daughter's appendix perforated it was a mark of how seriously ill she was that I switched off TA to call the ambulance. (She made a full recovery, btw, and I caught up with the omnibus.)

[ErrolTheDragon]

I knew someone would say that .

[PseudoBadger]

Sorry for delay, they do electives in the basement so not reception! Caoimhe Lily born 17:11 weight 7lb 1oz. Not the most fun section in terms of cannulation and epidural siting but she's worth it. Also a pre eclampsia bite just before with very high BP and ++ urine got the medics all excited!

[MrsCampbellBlack]

Congratulations

[Somethingyesterday]

Many Congratulations!

(And you managed an Archers name!)

[LondonMother]

Congratulations, Pseudo! Don't risk listening to tonight's episode until your blood pressure is right down. Helen was bemoaning how awful it is being the OW. I wanted to push her into a vat of her own cheese.

[kiriwawa]

Yay Badger! Congratulations to you for getting through the drama and producing a lovely baby and welcome little Caoimhe :) Such a pretty name and a good size too!

I hope you've had celebratory and by now (I was frigging starving after my CS and no one brought me any food [mad]). Not that I'm still bitter 6 years later oh no

[kiriwawa]

I mean

Although new babies are all about :) :) :)

[TheSilverySoothsayer]

Congratulations Badger but how do you pronounce it?

[PseudoBadger]

No food yet!!
It's pronounced Key-va

[TheOneWithTheNicestSmile]

Yes, congratulations!!!!

(& also, yes, how do you pronounce it? Cave???)

[TheOneWithTheNicestSmile]

X-post,sorry!

Keeva or Kayva? Both v pretty anyway

[TheOneWithTheNicestSmile]

Hope you get some food soon - it's a long day

(4 CS veteran!)

[TheSilverySoothsayer]

Best toast and cuppa I ever had was after giving birth (not CS though) Enjoy your grub when it comes, and your 'beautiful, gentle, precious' LO.

[Macarooned]

Oh exciting news, congrats PB

[R4]

Aw, congratulations PB. If you are short of baby clothes I hear that Viccqui has some lovely pinky, sparkly, princessy ones that she would love to foist on you going spare.

[ErrolTheDragon]

Oh lovely, well done badger

[heronsfly]

Congratulations Pseudo

[ppeatfruit]

Yes let me add my felicitatons psuedo Such a busy thread! A very unusual name, are you gaelic or have relations who are? Shame Nic beat you !!

YY R4 because Nic didn't seem very keen on the loverley pink dresses I wonder why