Don't blame it on a Grundy, don't blame it on Route B, don't blame it on Sean O'C, blame it on the badgers. Discuss The Archers of Prudhoe here.

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An Introverted Actuary looks at his shoes if you speak to him.

An Extroverted Actuary looks at your shoes if you speak to him.

When I worked in Norwich, the head actuary advised me not to buy a Porsche, because hers was always going wrong.

Bah!!!!!

I'm not sure if you meant June Spencer, Lillian, but if so I hadn't heard that and I'm sorry to hear it now. I meant the character Peggy had a stroke and made a complete recovery. I see from a quick google that the chances of having another one go up if you don't take regular exercise. If Peggy is sitting still in her chair all week because of a sprained ankle, it won't do her cardiovascular system any good. Of course, the stumble could in itself be a bad sign.

I'll let you into a secret, we suffer accountants to make these jokes as we know they're compensating for the knowledge that their maths is not good enough to pass actuarial exams.

That said, some actuaries are a bit robotic, which may explain why I was checking MN while listening to a presentation.

Sorry, piglet, got there first. But at least I was making eye contact as I did so...

Some actuaries earn enough for Porsches. I'm not one of them.

My maths certainly wouldn't have been! My next door neighbour is an actuary. He doesn't have a Porsche, though.

That was a pleasant enough episode, but it didn't take us much further forward. It felt a bit as if one of the SWs was handed a great wodge of research about apprenticeships for background colour and decided just to shoehorn it all into tonight's episode.

Eye contact...

Eye can see you!

from the BBC one-liners for the week, Peggy leaves her party early, and she's still around and being courageous on Sunday, when Knob's being The Man To Have Around In A Crisis. So I'm betting she has another stroke at the party, and knob steps up to look after henry while Helen is at the bedside of her gran while said gran SOTMC...

BYOS, I am not that kind of Brit. I am a Scot who reads the Guardian. I must postpone my reading of rest of thread till later. DH has made some food. And it smells yummy.

But I am thinking of some kind of Psycho scenario for Peggy's party - no, not the shower scenes, just the old lady in chair at the end.

I thought that might be the case when you mentioned moving back to Glasgow!

I don't think she will sotmc at the party but might siaa (shuffle into an ambulance)

Perhaps they'll rename it "The Archers of Bridge farm"... It was a potted update of their business.

I've complained about this before but why bring in random one episode characters who sound as though they are on a work experience scheme rather than some plot development of the real characters?

Maybe they are cheap or paying to be in the show.

On a lighter note maybe Johnny could run Peggy over with the quad bike.

Lots of hints heading our way.... The trip to hairdressers is an omen of doom..... Get thee on a quad biking course also feels like a portent of disaster to come..... And finally, after many years on MN,I have something in common with pigletjohn apart from the obvious .... We have both worked in Norwich!!

Sorry Mimsy - I was referring to your actuary comments which made me smile. But you make a good point re Peggy being at increased risk of another stroke. Something is definitely going to happen to her - all the sledgehammer indicators are there.

Doh! Of course you were.

RJohnny won't have an accident - it is much more important for him to fully take over the pigs ready for when Tom comes back. He left Ambridge because he was sick of living his life in John's shadow, he's going to return to find that there if there is one thing worse than living in his shadow it's living with Johnny (could It have been John Archer and not John Tregorran who was summoned by the seance??) Will Peggy last long enough to change her will - or could Peggy's death and his inheritance be the thing that brings Tom back?

On a lighter note maybe Johnny could run Peggy over with the quad bike

Oh yes please

Perhaps they'll rename it "The Archers of Bridge farm"...

It wouldn't need re-naming. It would still be "The Archers". Which is why I wondered in the last thread if S O'C might do the unthinkable and actually sell Brookfield.

Tom will return just in time to insist they put in a rival bid for it....

If anything happens to Peggy on Helen's watch, she is so flaky she'll not know what to do. She will panic and fall into a decline herself. And Knob will take advantage. But -

Are they just toying with us over Peggy? It could all go off swimmingly.

I thought the scenes tonight were getting back to the traditional farming education of all us townies, but it was somewhat clunky.

If anything happens to Peggy on Helen's watch, she is so flaky she'll not know what to do. She will panic and fall into a decline herself. And Knob will take advantage. But -

Are they just toying with us over Peggy? It could all go off swimmingly.

I thought the scenes tonight were getting back to the traditional farming education of all us townies, but it was somewhat clunky.

BTW, DDD, what is the male to female ratio in the actuary profession? I think of it as more men than women but maybe it's getting more like GPs and accountants which are 50:50 these days. AFAIK. In fact GPs have slightly more women to men.

I knew an actuary once - he drove a Renault. I had to look up his job as didn't have a clue what it actually was! I worked with his wife - who was very boring - maybe he was too. I never caught him looking at my shoes.

I am Scottish and I can differentiate many English accents. Out of interest, those of you who are not Scottish, and haven't spent much time with Scots, do you think all Scottish accents are a bit similar?

Tom will return just in time to insist they put in a rival bid for it.... with the money he inherits from Peggy.

What I was told about actuaries is that they're people who find accountancy too stimulating.

Sorry, DDD.

Isn't the issue with Piggoi going to be that she's likely to be on Warfarin? So, if she's injured her ankle, that may lead to bleeding within the joint which won't stop, leading to various other disasters.

I once went out with a man who wanted to become an actuary - he wasn't dull at all though. One of my chief memories is of climbing the wall at Sidney Sussex in Cambridge in full evening dress to get back to his rooms after we were locked out of college following a particularly riotous night out (I'd actually completely forgotten about this until we started discussing actuaries on here).

icimoi - but I bet you were told that by an accountant, so hardly an unbiased source.

basketz - it's still a male dominated profession, although the number of women has grown. As long as university maths courses are dominated by men (which I think is still the case), my profession will be the same.