Well Ruth is going to go to *Oxford*! Strumpet!

[Blandmum]

Well how shocked was I???

BTW can someone tell me what happened about Adam's boyfriend and the bummy boiler who wanted a baby???

[minder34]

she met someone whilst working away MB...so Ian got dumped I'm afraid!

[Judy1234]

Ah yes, I heard that yesterday, the Archers. Good story line. Didn't she have a breast removed? I wondered how that would affect her sex life with a lover. Strange that the boyfriend is suggesting she leaves her children. Most kind men wouldn't expect a mother to do that.

[Blandmum]

Thank you for the updats on Ian.

LOL at Adam's comment to Brian re he wedding, 'It isn't as if I expect you to give me away or anything!'

[Judy1234]

I hate the fact they refer to it as marriage. Gays cannot marry in the UK - there was just a test case over it - Sheile Kitzinger's lesbian daughter wanted her Canadian marriage recognised and the courts refused. Instead they form a civil partnership which is not a marriage.

[GunpowderTreasonAndSNOT]

Please tell me that posting this in Relationships was a mistake.

[minder34]

so...who will Ruth bump into in Oxford then?

[Blandmum]

Oh god, I realise I typed Bummy Boiler , not bunny boiler!

[Blandmum]

Gunpoweder, but the Archers is a long running FOTW documentary, not a soap, for goodness sake!

[harpsichordsgoingBANGandWHOOSH]

well many gay people refer to themselves as being married, even before civil partnerships there were organisation who would organise ceremonies for them and why the heck not, eh?

yes I liked the way we go it FLAGGED UP VERY LOUDLY that e is going to OXFORD
where did you say?
oh OXFORD!
who will they meet? oooooh how about - LILIAN! Linda Snell looking for picture rails or summat

[wanderingstar]

Xenia I don't think he was suggesting she leave the children.

Hands up who thinks Jill will be on the trail ? "oh, Laura, wasn't she at your wedding...I thought she was in Basingstoke...?"

[wanderingstar]

Anyone still following ?!

[joelallie]

I am so shocked and horrified!! Never liked her anway..... >>
Wondering if Linda Snell might take that tedious newel post from the Cat and Fiddle to a medieval timber specialist for dating/analysis and meet the strumpet and the cowman in some romantic restaurant.

JSP wrote about this in the Independent on Sunday. She said the all the panting in those voices was so awful she had to turn the radio off. I quite agree with he. Shocking!

[joelallie]

Yes wanderingstar....I wondered if the laura-recognition thing might be a spanner in the works too. Ruth was definitely a bit uncomfortable with that.

[harpsichordsgoingBANGandWHOOSH]

no I don't think Sam is suggesting Ruth leaves the children in fact they are making a big thing of how good Sam is with the children.

[controlfreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaky2]

just when you thought ruth's voice couldnt get any worse.... she got all breathless and panty. triple yuk. find it compulsive listening though despite shouting at radio.

[harpsichordsgoingBANGandWHOOSH]

in the Observer review they described it as her going "mmph", which mae me pmsl.

[throckenholt]

it seems to me like Sam is being quite predatory - persuing a vulnerable woman when she is down.

What was that line to Ushe ? A wooonderful man says he loves me. Hmmm - didn't her husband tell her that recently too ? She seems to have selective hearing at the moment.

And boy did she lay into Deeevid about one kiss with Sophie - she didn't seem to think it compared to what she gets up to with Sam in the cowshed !.

I keept missing it and having to catch up with listen again on the computer (haven't heard it since Thursday).

And I am getting heartily sick of all the trailers for Tuesday's episode.

[joelallie]

Same here Throckenholt. If I have to hear any more geordie-on-mummerset panting action in between PM and the news, I will have to throw coffee at the radio. Let's just get on with it, let the sh*t hit the whirly thing and get it over with.

[Wilbur]

Oh yes, the panting is v off putting, esp when I'm having lunch. (Although who remembers when Sid and Jolene got together and there was even more middle-aged panting - and didn't they have a shower together or something? Eeeeeuw) Live the story line though esp as Sophie was such an annoying bitch and you sort of felt sorry for Ruth until the whole Sam thing. Can't wait for the Ian/Adam knees up too.

[wanderingstar]

Throckenholt I agree there's something creepy about Sam. I think she'll back off - maybe having sh**d the herdsman or not - then he'll turn heavy.
Something a bit off about a man who dumps his gf just as she thinks she's going to be taken out for a luvverly meal (poor Kirsty).

[throckenholt]

how old is Sam anyway - seems odd to have a girlfriend as young as Kirtsy, and then turn to someone of Ruth's age - there must be getting onfor 20 years between those two.

[Lilymaid]

Jill will find out. But long long ago Jill had a mid-life crisis and started talking to the plants so she will understand Ruuth and her temptations and will draw Deevid and Ruuth back together into one happy Brookfield family again.

[Fauve]

Yes, I hope you're all as worried as I am about what will happen to The Farm. Who will look after the cows?

[puddle]

Ew I have just heard them panting in the barn.

My guess is that Usha and her trusty vicar sidekick will put a spanner in the works somehow (either talk some sense into Ruth or engineer some kind of cow-incident that Sam has to help David with - given that Ruth is away).

Either that or sophie will be in Oxford sourcing fabric and bump into the two of them.