Can I PLEASE just have 13 minutes? 13 measly minutes to myself to listen to The Archers?

[PseudoBadger]

Come and enjoy awkward dinner parties galore!

So grendel that's how the kitchen draw got broken.

Mind you I would do exactly the same. (appear in the archers if I became famous, not get bent over Jennydarling's Aga) I would love a scene where go out on the piss with Jazzer and Lillian and then proceed to tell each character in the Bull exactly what I tbought of them.

The Ruth problem comes to a head on Sunday evening, with Daveeed having "a lot to take in" on Monday.

Maybe Wiggo will love it so much he'll ask for a regular guest spot, popping into the Bull to share a pint & talk sausages with Tom, revolutionising music in the church with his mod tunes...

Marking my place.

Ah ha! Feel like I have just completed a virtual rough and tumble challenge, and can now be fully admitted into the warm bison of the mn TA massive... Having idly wondered this morning if there was a current thread as story lines seemed to be improving, have spent the whole day ignoring dcs and reading through entirety of previous two threads and getting up to date on iplayer. Epic.

So, the mattress-dumper is back in play...

The Ruth thing is annoying. If my wife/DIL had a history
Of breast cancer and was abnormally tired and pale, I would be making an emergency appointment at the doctor's.
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I think Ruth's pg, conceived in Budapest...

Ruth had cancer years ago, didn't she? Maybe ten years ago? I'm sure I'm not making that up.

Anyway, that was my first thought, that it had come back, when they started talking about her being tired. Although then I got pissed off (I often get pissed off with TA) because she didn't immediately go to the dr - surely she would have been instructed to.

Snap, JollyGolightly. I thought you were scottishmummy there for a moment!

Welcome, Rommell and oif!

Re Ruth and the worrying symptoms - I'd have been camped out at the surgery from opening time but then I suppose I don't have milking, lambing and flytipping to contend with.

Ruth's cancer was before Ben iirc

So when she had exhaustion etc then it was assumed to be cancer again but was Ben instead

I'm guessing this is the same

Maybe it'll be twins [manic laughter]

(More common in late pregnancies after all...)

I think these things sometimes only dawn on you slowly - you know, you have to keep thinking, "god, I'm REALLY tired" several times before you realise that's not just normal being tired, or lambing, or winter, or whatever.

And, otoh, with the bc in the background, perhaps they are all reluctant to admit to themselves that they are worried about and voice those fears aloud.

Anyway, I hope she is off to the Dr tout de suite! I hate listening to this storyline as it makes me feel like I have worrying symptoms that need investigation.

Not listened to today's yet but Adam made a comment about Rob's behaviour 'going' with the territory' which I understand as being a) that's what straight men are like or b) that's what straight men are like in front of gay men to make a point.

I think he meant public school boys......

Thing is that with Ben she was within the first 5 years when recurrence/secondaries are more likely

Now she's 13-14 years down the line, it wouldn't be recurrence/secondaries so it wouldn't be relevant to mention it.

I think she'll be pregnant.

Thank you for the welcome AllMimsyWereTheBorogroves and actually I should have introduced myself before just leaping in there so thank you for being so welcoming. So, my name is Rommell and I am an Archers listener. I have been listening for decades. In fact, I am so serious an Archers listener that even when I lived abroad I listened - a friend's mum made tapes of the episodes and sent them out to her, and I borrowed them. So there really is no hope for me at all.

Ooo triple pregnancy hit, Helen, Ruth and Kirsty.

And Jess

Thanks Martorana that would make sense. I hadn't picked up that Rob was privately educated.

Hello Rommell, you'll find the bison here to be particularly warm.

oif I often wonder if it's the lambing that made me tired. Then I remember I live in suburban Essex and it's more likely the Sauvignon Blanc from last night1

Either he or Adam mentioned Sherbourne - can't remember which.

yes i couldn't work out which mentioned sherborne, it was too quick

It was Adam I think

Ah, Sherborne. That explains a lot, according to DH who doesn't like the archers but does hail from Dorset.

Hello Rommel. I am actually both Scottish and a mummy, with a habit of spreading full stops like confetti, but there the similarities end, I suspect.

yes i have relatives who went to sherborne