Rob - dead? No, no, he's, er, resting. He's just pining for the Canadian plains. As Helen is taken into custardy, discuss the Archers here.

[PseudoBadger]

24 hours for 1 thread!!

[EBearhug]

I'll be back when I've caught up...

[BoreOfWhabylon]

Brilliant Pseudo

[BYOSnowman]

Marking. Can't be bothered to comment about the sl

Good title

[EnglishFern]

Long time listener, I haven't listened for ages but I've been following via the chat forums and Facebook sites.

I've just started listening again for the stabbing and aftermath. I thought the stabbing itself was a bit zero-to-100mph-in-minutes but I'm enjoying the aftermath so far.... I think this might end up hooking me back in again.

Good for you Kirsty, what a girl.

[MrsArthurShappey]

Checking in.

[Fink]

Don't give Peggy a slice of pie! She's the pie alibi!

What is the custard thing, btw? I only listened once, can't bear to try again, but I completely missed any reference to foodstuffs in tonight's episode. I assumed Henry had sorted pudding out, since he is an utterly unbelievable 5 year old. Step over daddy's sleeping body, get oven gloves, adjust timer on oven ...

[Gruach]

Jolly good.



Back after pudding ...

[pasbeaucoupdegendarme]

Marvellous.

Marking place upon new thread. Good work Pseudo.

[AyeAmarok]

Holy shit! I just binge-listened to the Sunday omnibus and yesterday and today's episode

That stabbing came out of nowhere a bit, didn't it!

Oh flip.

[elephantoverthehill]

Still awaiting the DCs to eat the gooseberry pie. I only have cream. (DC 2 loves to whip the cream) Shame, because custard is so easy.

[Wordsaremything]

I've said it before, and will say it again- bad character, anyone?

[JessieMcJessie]

Someone mentioned Isha on the previous thread, said she'd have a conflict of interest because she knows Helen. More importantly, she has a conflict of interest because she owns the scene of the crime!

[JessieMcJessie]

Usha, not Isha.

[EnglishFern]

Custard is very straightforward, certainly.

[Wordsaremything]

Conflict of interest for the defence is interesting. There was a very recent case of a barrister providing his lover with drugs at a sex party, lover then died. He was represented by his twin brother. Also a barrister.

Us ha will stay well out of it as she's not a crim specialist. Hell will need a competent solicitor and expert counsel though.

[StubbleTurnips]

What flavour was the pie?

[SmallLegsOrSmallEggs]

The pie was from.Fallon. if it is seasonal it out to be rhubarb. Of course Helen lied and claimed the pie was from Piggoi.

[SuffolkNWhat]

🐮 place marking

[EnglishFern]

Why wouldn't she say it was Fallon?

[elephantoverthehill]

I think the pie was rhubarb and cinnamon. I could only offer my DCs Gooseberry.

[sunnydayinmay]

I go to put the dcs to bed, and a new thread appears. Quicker to fill a thread than to make a saucepan of custard from scratch.

[Wordsaremything]

It was Apple !

[Welshwabbit]

Interesting that, assuming Rob doesn't have a dramatic relapse, diminished responsibility and "loss of control" (which has replaced provocation) are not partial defences to GBH, only to murder (reducing the charge to manslaughter). I wonder how the SWs are going to play the legal storyline.

I thought the build-up of this SL was really well done, but was fuming at the stabbing cop-out. I'm still fuming, but marginally less so now that he's still alive. Tonight I felt so bad for Pat and Tony; that ordinary conversation insert really heightened the awfulness of what was about to hit them.

[AnnieNoMouse]

Great punning title

Helen is going to have to do some quick thinking - "He shouted at Henry!" is not suggesting an abusive partner.

[Gruach]

Fern - because the pie didn't have wings. Rob would have known it wasn't there when he left. And that Fallon was in the café. So he would have deduced that someone, not previously sanctioned by him, had visited Helen while he was out.

Much easier to say it was Peggy - as he was obliged to "like" her.