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Do you know that I was 3 months pregnant when the first thread started - DD was 2 yesterday

That must also mean that Poppy Grundy's 2nd birthday has passed by unremarked upon...

CryHavoc I welled up when Will was telling Eddie how well Ed had done seeing the poachers

They have mentioned that Charlie has back up of good vets. Gruach

Yes, surely Justin would have been all over this like a rash too - we know he's got n actor to play him so why haven't they brought him in?

"disaster recovery scenarios" That's what I meant. Yup.

Thinking ahead - I hope Adam falls into a seat on the BL board after all the toxic dust settles. More than one head should roll over this.

I write crisis PR plans for my clients. I can't believe BL doesn't have one

You spin for a living BitOut?

Now I understand your eloquent and influential preference for positive TA criticism.

Right, I can't really remember, but wasn't one of the points of the mega dairy that it was going to be able to be very self sufficient? Was the feed originally meant to be coming from BL/Home Farm, back in the day when it was all Brian's baby?

Hope that means it is Rob's fault.

And agree about the Ambridge money fairy. Won't Helen look at that joint account and start worrying? (Similarly, I cannot understand how Amside was once so busy that Matt, Lillian and Brenda were rushed off their feet and Brenda couldn't stand it and now Lillian helps get through Brian's wine and goes for spa weekends.)

Our school has an emergency plan, ffs!

I wish I did TA's PR Dream job!

I'm guessing the money fairy is about to relieve David and Rooths financial problems via the toilet paper millionaires will.

Actually - I'm remembering Helen's pride in her "dowry". Peggy paying Rob to keep her.

A bit of her brain probably thinks it's Rob's money ...

Well we've been wandering how Brookfield managed to bring Pip in as an employee, this is the first time I have heard them talk about the finances, (even when the move was planned). Yes my guess is there will be an inheritance. More for Kenton to be jealous of.
Maybe will will get to know about Bridge farm's and Rob's finances.

Ruth must already have some idea of how much money HP had though, surely? After all, they were originally talking about selling the house to cover her care home costs weren't they? I always got the impression her parents were comfortable rather than rolling in it.

I've unearthed an Archers Book from 1985 'The Official Companion' and it seems that nothing changes regarding the public and the SLs so it's not just SOC who gets up peoples' noses, there never was a `golden age' of TA.

There are very romantic pix by Lord Lichfield, no less, of Shuls and Marks' wedding and some much less so of LIl's and Eddie's. Also the characters' backgrounds, education etc. and the interesting fact that Sid and Lucy Perks were really Dad and dd in RL. Which I didn't know.

HPs house is sold and there's no other heir so, after some minor bequests and costs, Ruth should cop for a tidy sum even if Prudder house prices are below national average.

Pip will push for a robotic milking parlour but I hope Ruth puts her foot down and doesn't allow David and Pip to spend it all on the farm.

Oh, there's always a "Golden Age" - for anything one loves. It just has no fixed location in time ...

Sounds wonderful ppeat. Did listeners complain of nepotism in the past?

I'm hoping Ruth spends it on a 5 year round the world cruise

BYOS she coul take Pip and Rob.

Is the inheritance the reason we're suddenly having to listen to far too much info about Brookfield finances and barely breaking even?

Pip will demand it to forge a cow partnership with the brethren. Not a dowry. Nothing like that ...

Mind you Pip is to be the Bathsheba Everdene of Brookfield.

But the brethren think selling800 geese a year is big time. Can someone who knows stuff do some sums, cos surely a goose price won't fetch enough at cost to support two wages and rent. Did they have a business plan for the goose venture. But of course Toby knows everything. < small rant going there>

If pip marries Toby she needs a pre-nup

I'd be absolutely delighted if Ruth went off on a long cruise, just as long as we then hear (and only through other people reporting it, not first hand) that she has run off with another man she met on the ship.

There's been a fair amount of nepotism in the TA cast over the years.

1. Terry Molloy who plays Mike (and was also Davros on Dr Who at one point) is the father of Philip Molloy who plays William Grundy.

1. Dominic Davies who was Dan Hebden-Lloyd for a long time is the son of Keri Davies, ex-senior producer and now scriptwriter.

1. Shula and Brian are married in real life.

1. And now, of course, we have Tony and Tom Grundy played by real life father and son David and Will Troughton.

Can't help wondering how the Goosebotherers will cope with slaughtering and dressing the geese when the time comes.

They will probably try to hire sundry Grundys to do it.

Good question about the geese. If they sell them at £75 each (Waitrose price that came up on Google) that's £60k in revenue. I've no idea what their costs are but there's feed, land & buildings, transport, marketing, vet, presumably some certification before they can sell into the human food chain, slaughter costs; surely that will eat into at least half that revenue. That leaves the pair of them getting £30k, £15k each for half(?) a year's work, so feasible, but not a fortune, but what are they going to live on the other half of the year?