*The Archers thread

[TikkiB]

the fear in Helen's voice - she's scared of him. He's just lost his temper with the sab - I bet he wallops her soon.

 

[FiFi]

the fear in Helen's voice - she's scared of him. He's just lost his temper with the sab - I bet he wallops her soon.

He's controlling her, undermining her professionalism, and trying to keep her confined to the house. He will definitely wallop her at some point in the near future if they keep it even vaguely true to life.

 

[two sheds]

and probably about to get quite famous

 

[a_chap]

I'm getting more and more worried about Joe Grundy. I sincerely hope the new editor isn't *that* much of a bastard that he'd get rid of Joe

 

[bluescreen]

How masterful were you? I have your special recipe chilli as a reward.

WTF? Are we supposed to be simpletons now?

Can't tell you the mixture of shame and joy when I stumbled on this thread. BTW Mrs Magpie noted the sexy chilli trope several years back (can't find it now, but spotted it last night as I was skimming through and reliving my past suppers).

Am relishing the grief in store for the sanctimonious Shula, having told the troof to plod and thus breaking class ranks.

FWIW I'm pretty confident the Brookfield sale won't go through. Justin Elliott will die of a surfeit of lampreys, or something. The fallout of resentment will fuel another fifty years of bucolic drama. Maybe the greedy siblings will force a sale anyway, and DearvidandRoof will end up running a touristic organic and low-carbon milkround, yes, using Bartleby, from Grange Farm. Oh, the shame.

 

[Mogden]

Well the diaries spell the end of the sale then don't they. Lovely to hear though

 

[bluescreen]

The diaries? What have I missed??

 

[Mogden]

The diaries? What have I missed??

Have you heard last night, Sunday's episode yet?

 

[bluescreen]

Not yet...

 

[trashpony]

Well the diaries spell the end of the sale then don't they. Lovely to hear though

That and the milk bottle which mysteriously made it from Ambridge to Meadow Rise and back again

Anyone would think they hadn't thought this all through ...

 

[Shirl]

Am relishing the grief in store for the sanctimonious Shula, having told the troof to plod and thus breaking class ranks.

Did Shula tell the truth? I wasn't sure but I may have missed something.

 

[Mogden]

Did Shula tell the truth? I wasn't sure but I may have missed something.

I wasn't sure. The way she is keeping her head down suggests she might have done.

 

[belboid]

I don't think she did, or Rob would have been arrested, and he doesn't appear to have been. There's no way she wouldn't have told Oliver what actually happened tho - a bounder like Rob could destroy the whole hunt!

 

[bluescreen]

Did Shula tell the truth? I wasn't sure but I may have missed something.

You're right. We don't know yet. But Shula wouldn't lie, would she? Mind you, when Clarrie can cheat over the flower show, Archers characters are capable of anything these days.

 

[Shirl]

You're right. We don't know yet. But Shula wouldn't lie, would she? Mind you, when Clarrie can cheat over the flower show, Archers characters are capable of anything these days.

It's a tough call isn't it. Shula telling a lie v Shula letting the Hunt down

 

[two sheds]

Any hunt sab worth his salt would have recorded the whole thing on his phone anyway.

Will we have a petulant legal claim from the bloke when the sale falls through? (I can never remember names or which is which in the Archers).

 

[wiskey]

wasn't the whole reason Rob went over because the sab was filming the hunt?

 

[Mogden]

wasn't the whole reason Rob went over because the sab was filming the hunt?

He had a camera. Christ it's saying something for the storylines of late when we get all Clouseau over whether there was a recording and witnesses.

 

[wiskey]

I was a little confused by him suddenly deciding Helen should go back to work, presumably he's going to prove very quickly that the entire house will fall apart and Henry will be forgotten somewhere or injured because she wasn't there to look after him.

 

[Shirl]

On the news this morning when I woke was an item about courts having the power to enforce paternity testing.
The first thing I thought about the bloody Rob and his estranged wife

 

[wiskey]

David's building up to his big announcement... Have they committed to Hadleigh Haught (? Sp)?

 

[bluescreen]

Had to laugh at the very unsubtle bit of dramatic irony when Ed was begging Mike to rethink his move and Mike said he couldn't go back on it now, it was unthinkable - it would be like David backing down on selling Brookfield.

 

[FiFi]

I was a little confused by him suddenly deciding Helen should go back to work, presumably he's going to prove very quickly that the entire house will fall apart and Henry will be forgotten somewhere or injured because she wasn't there to look after him.

Well that didn't take long!!
I'd like to shake Helen until she comes to her senses!!

 

[bluescreen]

That'll take a lot of shaking.

But oh Shula. You are wet.

 

[bluescreen]

It was good that they raised the suspicion that Rob might be less than kind to Henry, but then they waste it with this selling the shop and freeing Helen from responsibility and income story. Rob's unmasking had better be good when it comes. Is he going to kill her, do you think? Or will she, after much tribulation, find common cause with Jess and set up household with her?

 

[wiskey]

Actually if derv had come in halfway through a situation like that and said my child could watch telly when I'd said he couldn't I would probably be pretty pissed off.

 

[TikkiB]

well predictably, Ruth isn't taking the news well.

 

[bluescreen]

Blut und Boden.

 

[trashpony]

Actually if derv had come in halfway through a situation like that and said my child could watch telly when I'd said he couldn't I would probably be pretty pissed off.

Yeah, that was totally undermining him. It was a crap example. They should have made him cuff H across the back of the head.

Brookfield storyline = absurd

 

[bluescreen]

I dunno, trashpony, if the Brookfield storyline is any more absurd than any of the others. Anyway, Jill has just offered to make a cup of tea.