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

[PseudoBadger]

She's got a whole calendar to use!

no, it's because he's in canada. In canada there are only phones every 50 miles so tom is currently running across the prairie to get to it.

he will then need to walk to the airport, explain to the staff that there are countries outside of canada, give up and have to swim back

so he'll be here end of next month if he's quick

Oh yes Rob, of course you'll only use organic feed - we don't in the least suspect that you were behind Tom's illicit pigfeed.

And insisting that Helen goes hunting... which has to be one of the most dangerous sports going, I'd have thought - sure, she's really going to relax doing that just now. (Fortunately I don't think that the payback for us complaining that Nigel should have been left paraplegic rather than killed will be that SO'C will reward us with two at once so I don't think she'll be seriously hurt.)

Many years ago when I was a lowly junior doctor I worked for a consultant gastro-enterologist who'd done some scriptwriting for TA in the past. (He usually had R4 drifting out of his office rather like I do now) They definitely didn't have any trauma/emergency docs advising on the medical bits last week - they were dreadful...
Coo-eee scriptwriters - I am willing to be consulted at any time if Mike/Brian's bad back is actually prostate cancer or any other urology based story line -all for free, just for the reward of not gnashing my teeth at the radio

puggle, hopefully not - there's a limit to what sort of storylines we can stomach at teatime.

Excellent BYOS

What a great idea puggle ...surely Brian would be an ideal candidate for a prostate problem!

ROFL as the young'uns say Errol
I envision Brian harrumphing at Matt over drinks at GG about how the prostate is examined - rather than the cardboard tutor/ "nerve doc" style 10 mins of episode filling/public information. (Nearly typed pubic information in my overinfestedness)

we don't want pubic overinfestation at teatime either, thanks

Does this mean we can have medics as featured career of the week on the thread after an influx of actuaries last week?

Unless we've got any posters who work for the HSE, medics would seem the most appropriate featured career for this week.

Yay! Unlike our actuary thread chums I don't carry a calculator but do have a bag full of catheters in my car and a tube of KY jelly in my work handbag (its kept locked up at work FFS) Anyone else carry work trinkets?

I'm happy to take the spotlight off actuaries.

Do you have teenage children puggle? The embarrassment you could cause them by leaving your bag open on the back seat when giving lifts to their friends

i'm irritated another wooden extra has been paid when we still haven't had matt make an appearance - surely robert would be more worthwhile?

extra was unnecessary today as could have been summarised during conversations

Oh, sure, those items are for work

If you can describe a pile of files and a dictating machine as work trinkets, I suppose I carry them around regularly.

Not sure why but i read that as 'a file of piles'

Do you have a collection of "things you've removed from people" like my DH does? He says all of the junior doctors had them back in the day when he was a junior. I insist it is kept hidden from view.

Yeah, I thought piles as in haemorrhoids too, BYOS. Must be all that talk of medical matters!

Did I hear right tonight? - I did ask DH but he was paying less attention that I - did the hospital phone Pat mid- morning to say Tony's op on leg had gone well, but to come in cos he'd taken a turn for the worse OVERNIGHT? If so, that's bit odd too, esp. as he seems to have improved when she got there. Presumably a plot device to remind us all Tone had a bit of a knock last week.

I think it was a plot device to get her out of the hse meeting so the new guy has to come back OR hse guy has written lies in johnnys statement which johnny signed without pat there to ensure he was happy with it

Didn't the hospital call also mean she was out of the way when Rob revealed his (probably utterly monstrous and fatal to organic status) plans for improvement of Bridge Farm efficiency?

The sheer cheek of it would be outrageous even from someone who was not the devil incarnate.

My parents were docs. Dermatology books were the worst. You do not need to see those photos lying about (usually on the front of the BMJ) when you're trying to eat your lunch

My dad carries old-fashioned hip replacements around with him and uses them as paperweights

The op was yesterday.he was fine. Then took a turn for the worse. Then got better.
Think it is just to add to the drama.

They cannot get hold of Tom because he has his phone off because he is still sulking and so when it does look like Tone really is going to peg it, it will be touch n go to see if Tom makes it back in time.

HSE guy is just to make everyone worry. Don't suppose they will prosecute but thry will a) make everyone feel guilty about their role and b) probably write a critical report about practises including the employment of casual labour, badly trained apprentices and small devil children.

dad^3 whose feet?

minklundy - well, that's for me to know...

I've actually had an article in the British Journal of Dermatology, not as an author, but as a subject, as it turns out I have an unusual genetic feature that has a very rare effect on a serious skin condition. (I'm being a bit vague to avoid too much personal detail)

Yes, you are right, of course, Zero. I just hope whoever said above that things are stepping up in the Rob/Helen/Jess tale is correct, as I can't stand much more of Rob. Maybe Tom will schlepp all the way back from Canada and tell everyone a few truths about Knob. Wishful thinking, probably.

Petula, it's amazing how quickly, if you work in a medical environment, you get inured to the sights (and smells) of what you experience. Though some memories will never leave me, alas. I remember not far into my nurse training regaling my parents of some event at work, but being told to shut up as it was putting my dad off his dinner. I was totally unaware I was doing it.

At the epitome of my career I'd be one of these 'powerful' professionals taunting puggle01 with the keys to the KY jelly cupboard. Though it is a bit silly locking it away in a urology unit, but budgets being what they are I can see both sides to it.

Aye, minklundy, mibbee, but a bit of pointless drama in my opinion.

Though I once phoned the daughter of an elderly lady patient on a Friday night, to tell her she was deteriorating. I spoke to a teenage GS and he said he'd tell his mother when she got in. Nothing was heard from the family and the old lady was a bit better by breakfast time. This is a different ball game from Tony and his critical injuries BTW. On the Sunday night, said daughter phoned to ask after her mother as her son had forgotten to tell her and she'd only just heard. I had no teenagers of my own then but colleagues who did assured me this was normal teenager behaviour. I now know they were right. Apols for digression.

Did anyone else last night want to scream at Knob (as I see we are calling him).
'Helen has got enough on her plate without risking her life going hunting you thoughtless tw#t'
I've had more relatives in hospital seriously ill than I like to recall and no one at any stage has said - you know what you need love? a nice day's hunting? Preposterous nonsense. You want to be as near to a phone as possible because when someone is really ill like this it is a total roller coaster as we saw last night, Once minute there is good news, next there is bad.
I want to shake him.