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!

WRF to Why Brenda?

1. she has family in Ambridge.

2.She has fun news, (a VERY rich boyf. 'cos it's easy to pick up one in London of course!!) (lets hope he's not into EA ) so a rest from the angst

1. An excuse to bring Vickoi et al back in.

Lurking SWs, please get Tony to check that cow and avert disaster, we want prime Tony Archer organic beef on the menu.

Unitarian - I think you're reading too much into the Adam/Rob interactions - some public schoolboys manage to stay resolutely hetero.

Not everyone is on Moany's side. I think it'd serve him right for spending all that money without consulting anyone

Ok- think I can see why Brenda now - will wait and see what they do with her.

BitOut - I hear there are other fora.....(ominous dots.)

As I want Tony to succeed I'm hoping that now Mike has been brought into the Lonely-Uninterested Cow fold he and Tom might happen upon a life saving diagnosis - just in time to preserve the entire herd. And afterwards Tom will love the cows and become a decent, dutiful son.

Errol - I'm sure I'm reading too much into it but it was late, I'd had a glass or two!

Zero I have in my mind a thought about cattle overeating the 'spring' grass and getting ill (there's a technical term but I can't remember it). Moany might lose the lot of them if he lets that happen

is that like horses and laminitis ppeat?

It could well be Willie i'm showing my ignorance here but I don't know if it applies to cows do you?

They couldn't be so cruel to Tony. Bridge Farm have suffered enough.

Didn't David already have Tetanus? Or was that Tony?

The fly tipping has to be more significant doesn't it - or maybe just a red herring for us at MN.

[waves at the SW for the Archers]

no idea really ppeat - horses and cows are quite different but it could be the same sort of thing?

Word- I don't want them mixing with the hoi polloi any longer than they have to- I need to ferry them to their real tennis and madrigal singing lessons...........

Oops, wrong thread!

Don't worry Martorana, I'm sure I've heard Lizzie say that exact sentence...

I have in my mind a thought about cattle overeating the 'spring' grass and getting ill

Sounds familiar - must have cropped up in a Herriot book if not TA (my main sources of agricultural knowledge). But although it's starting to grow early, surely the grass isn't that lush yet?

Fabulous interjection Martorana.

I'm still not pleased with Lizzie for letting the side down re the children's schools.

It's TB, not tetanus - that's what badgers are supposedly responsible for. It's only an issue (I think) for dairy herds, not beef

& at Martorana!

oh, Lonely Cow was a possible positive for some illness or other - that's why she had to stay in isolation on the farm when the rest of the herd was sold

whatever it was, the others were clear to go so I don't think that was TB

oh it was TB - I just re-found \link{http://ponderingthearchers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/a-cow-reacts-at-bridge-farm-mon-060513.html\ponderingthearchers}

I used to get her emails, which were great for telling if an epi was worth listening to or not, but she got very very behind & then it didn't seem worth it (& it looks as if she's stopped now - her last post was in October)

Oh dear this thread is getting a tad confusing what with tetanus and TB being mixed up and martorana's interjection!

BTW it was David who said he's got a current tetanus jab. Was T.B. even mentioned recently??

Just caught up with last night. Love Vicky's views on that there London, with it's lunch breaks, and crawling with eligible batchelors desperate to get engaged.

Borsetshire's climate seems to be around two weeks behind the rest of the country, in that they're still exclaiming over the rain. So I wouldn't have thought the spring grass is a danger yet, though of course it's not impossible that the grass there is can spring several inches out of the ground overnight.