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The Archers - It's Full Of Pants! Listeners are allegedly leaving in droves. Will Peggy also FOHMC?

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PseudoBadger · 13/11/2014 18:07

She's got a whole calendar to use!

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ZeroSomeGameThingy · 15/11/2014 18:01

Forget Peggy northern - it's Helen who's going to be showing Ed her appreciation.Grin Which will rather sour her friendship with Emma ...

Or, no! "Wings of the Dove" perhaps? Emma might be encouraging him to make himself available to Bridge Farm. How far would Ed go to magic up a little extra something for his family? How much does S O'C like Henry James?

songbird · 15/11/2014 18:08

Oh northern what a truly heartwarming thing that would be!

This accident could be perfect for Rob. Helen, Tony, Johnny, and Henry could all feasibly be 'blamed' which would work well for him (Henry would have to be chastised in private and could be truly chilling!). And he can (quite rightly) claim Ed to be the hero of the day, thereby cementing him in the Grundy's (and therefore everyone in The Bull's) good graces.

This could and should be a good storyline (so long as Tony isn't permanently damaged!) that ties in with the DV storyline well, but instead it's shoehorned in with all the other drama. I keep thinking they must have a good reason for rushing the Brookfield SL because it's just INSANE! That could have been left to brew for months and we then Roy/Lizbuff/Hayley could have been done properly. The way that's been abandoned is pretty unforgivable in my book.

I know lots of others have said all this, I just had to get it down! Friday's episode was actually really well done (despite all the medical professionals!) but it's so mis-timed it just makes me so angry.

PetulaGordino · 15/11/2014 18:19

sorry this is rude, but marking place as thread is moving quickly...

unitarian · 15/11/2014 18:38

Peggy rewarding Ed would be really good, as would re-writing her will and leaving him a bequest (her house) and the rest going to Pat to help her care for Tony.

Freak cheese-making accident made me laugh!

ZeroSomeGameThingy · 15/11/2014 18:54

She won't leave him her (Helen's) house.Shock But 20 grand would set the younger Grundys up nicely.

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ZeroSomeGameThingy · 15/11/2014 19:31

Here's yesterday's BBC Blog.

Interesting comments from KD ..

R4 · 15/11/2014 19:58

And interesting comments from exlisteners, echoing what we have been saying on here.

awfulomission · 15/11/2014 20:01

Gosh, a lot of info about fatal accidents there. I hope Tony doesn't die!

BasketzatDawn · 15/11/2014 20:19

Having listened again to last night's episode, I think the risk to Tony's spinal cord although real is such that he will not be paralysed. Mr Back Surgeon does emphasise the risk is 'possible' with no surgery. And this is before the MRI scan so they ARE looking at worst-case scenarios. Which is as it would be IRL when talking to a seriously ill patient and his spouse.Of course Tony would have months of recovery ahead and they will need extra help on the farm, and he may have some residual damage. But I feel more hopeful today. And this is without resort to the Ambridge Health Fairy - who may still flap her wings over Bridge Farm. Smile What I di not pick up regarding T's injuries was at what level his spinal injury was? Was it cervical-thoracic?? And they didn't try to move Tony before ambulance came so that's a good thing for his possible recovery.

I hope with this incident Johnny does not lose his new-found confidence in farm work, and disappear back to Leeds. A good character played by a good actor. Hard to come by in Borsetshire these days.

Normal ambulance? Where would it have had to come from? Borchester presumably? So maybe not. I'm not sure how far by road that is. ?20 miles. Certainly in very outlying areas - and with the type of injury they'd have described on the phone (who did the phoning ?Helen?) - they'd just go ahead and send the 'copter. I was saying to the family though, PC Plot would have come in his very fast car so he could close the road and supervise the scene as necessary, at least while the 'copter landed safely and took off. I assume they used a field. I hope they didn't squash too many precious crops.Wink

BasketzatDawn · 15/11/2014 20:22

Yeah, 'freak cheese-making accident' made me laugh too. I hope at the very least Soosan was nice to Ed when he got home that night. Was it Thursday? gave him sweet tea and a naice supper. and didn't nag him about his poor blood-stained overalls lying around.

PseudoBadger · 15/11/2014 20:27

All the potential was there for David to succumb to a slurry tank :(

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PseudoBadger · 15/11/2014 20:28

Or Ruth. Or both! One rescuing the other. Then Pip hears their screams and rushes to help....

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VelvetGreen · 15/11/2014 20:31

An aging Grundy with his turkeys and his cider (just like Joe) and with his memories of the day he Saved An Archer

I love this. Ed and Jazzer could be the Joe and Bert of the future.

BasketzatDawn · 15/11/2014 20:33

I was thinking that too, Pseudo. If they needed to have a serious accident at all then why not Brookfield? And that would have made the inevitable about-turn over the farm sale even more realistic and sensible. And there were so many worthy candidates too. Smile

BasketzatDawn · 15/11/2014 20:35

YY, Jazzer and Ed as Bert and Joe of the future. Brilliant. Grin

Abra1d · 15/11/2014 20:36

David had a very similar accident some time back, didn't he? Around the time of the Brookfield inheritance issue, when they were squabbling over who was getting what.

BoreOfWhabylon · 15/11/2014 20:44

BasketzatDawn they said Tony's injury was at thoraco-lumbar level. There's also his chest injury, of course, and his tib/fib fracture. Any one of which, in a man his age, with a history of cardiac disease, is not good news. Although I think he will come through it all, possibly with months in hospital and more months in rehab.

On a separate note, am loving Northern's long-term storyline. The Beeb should sign her up!

Icimoi · 15/11/2014 20:47

They're going to need more help with Tony out of action. Let's hope that improves Ed's finances.

AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves · 15/11/2014 20:48

David's accident wasn't serious, as far as I can recall. Could have been - he spent the night in a ditch underneath a cow, but in my mind the cow was wider than the ditch so David didn't have the weight pressing down on him.

Another fan of Northern's storyline here!

unitarian · 15/11/2014 21:07

It was an idle fancy of mine to consider Peggy leaving Ed her house but I'd rather him have it than Rob!
Ed seems to have saved her son and her grandsons yet he has nowhere to live.......

unitarian · 15/11/2014 21:43

Great grandsons, I should have said.

kiritekanawa · 15/11/2014 22:12

Basketz the BoreofWhabylon (great name) has it, it's a T12-L1 region injury leading to paralysis below the hip line, and complete incontinence. Of course there's always the Ambridge Health Fairy, but in real life, "a fragment of spine sticking into the spinal cord" is an incomplete spinal injury and is going to seriously mess with your anterior spinal column, so actually your chances of walking really functionally again and doing any form of actual farm work are basically nil.

With an amazingly good recovery of the "miracle" sort, you could potentially walk, but you'd have serious issues on unstable ground, let alone being more than 10 mins from a loo, and the constant and relatively unpredictable pain, general neuromodulated problems in lower pelvis/limbs, etc. I have known one person recover from this kind of injury, be able to XC ski but not walk well with poles, live life catheterized, and seriously consider doing a long-distance low-temp ski trip with Help for Heroes. He ended up not doing it due to bladder/bowel issues that were just too insurmountable. THat's the really horrible thing about spinal injuries - it's the little daily bastarding things that wreck your life forever, once all the hard work of rehab is over.

The chest injury is presumably broken ribs -> pneumothorax - as i said above - likely to be less of a problem. But a high risk, particularly in previous heart attack patient, of dying of something like an aortic dissection when there is any extra strain.

Selks · 15/11/2014 22:39

"Peggy rewarding Ed would be really good, as would re-writing her will and leaving him a bequest (her house)".......YES! Come on script writers! Now's yer chance to give poor Ed a break, and he surely deserves one....

BringYourOwnSnowman · 16/11/2014 00:16

If tony dies what is Peggy rewarding ed for?

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