Anyone else want to reach into their radio and slap Tom Archer?

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It can't just be me?!?

I'm a couple of weeks behind but I thought it was Tom who was broody and Brenda not quite yet downtrodden enough to have a baby with that idiot not ready yet?

It's the way he talks ... like reading from a script ... oh......hang on a moment [hmmm]

I would like to slap Tom too - am happy to form a queue if necessary.
Brenda is lovely and he doesn't deserve her
I also find Tony's delivery extremely zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...........

I think you're PMSL at my DH and his sausage empire, ArtexMonkey

I wish Brenda would have a breakdown - but maybe the Matt / Lil storyline is going to bust up with Amside collapsing and Brenda making a break for freedom. I mean, for heaven's sake, she does actually have qualifications and experience and instead she sits around making Lillian's coffee and asking Matt to get back to people. Except she's never in the office.

Any reason for Amside to collapse?
Has MAtt spend all the dosh on Joyce's new flat?

The trouble is I couldn't decide who to slap first.

Will Grundy, for one.

Oh, and bloody Oliver for not realising Ed was in trouble. I thought they were business partners.

I have a weird soft spot for Tom. He's such a wazzock and so unaware that he amuses me.

Whining Will Grundy on the other hand ...

I am an equal opportunity hater - I loathe all of them on a rotating basis, so as to be fair and not leave anyone out

However, I hate Tom possibly more than all the rest. The Archers messageboard on the R4 site, to which I refer more often than I should, is very entertaining on the subject of how he could possibly be making money from this ludicrous 'luxury pork-based hampers' business.

Let's be honest, how many of us hire a holiday cottage and think 'what I really would like waiting for me when I arrive is a lovely hamper full of sausages, bacon and assorted pork products.'

I want to slap Ed. Every time his partner (can't remember her name) says something about their money problems, he says "I can take care of my family!" He drives me nuts.

Let's be honest, how many of us hire a holiday cottage and think 'what I really would like waiting for me when I arrive is a lovely hamper full of sausages, bacon and assorted pork products.'
I would - but not Tom Archer's!

merry monsters you mean Emmurr. Who is a brilliant actress, I think, because she is perfectly portraying a young woman turning into her mother. Same intonation and everything :)

I am also fascinated by how Bridge Farm can support so many people....

DH's theory regarding Ruth and David is that they're thrifty and worry a lot about managing the farm's outgoings but actually quite well off (because they always talk about money). Might be the same for Bridge Farm?

Does your DH actually listen to TA Grendel or is he pretending, to humour you?

David's family have owned Brookfield since God was a boy. Pat and Tony OTOH were tenant farmers until fairly recently when they bought the farm from BL. They have a whopping mortgage to service and hence their outgoings are much higher.

I vote for Brenda slapping tom and moving on to twatting will then lovely Linda can take her for tea and scones.

I hate them all really, dunno why I still listen. I even miss Nigel.

Every time I hear Tom Archer these days I have an uncontrollable urge to slap him.

I suspect Brenda will declare she wants a baby bu Tom will say he has to "focus on the core business" or some such bollocks and the time isn't right. Brenda will hook up with the lovely new Herd Manager (whose wife has probably been bludgeoned to death and is under the patio of their old house). She will get pregnant and the day the baby is born Herd Manager Man will be carted off by the police.

'the lovely new Herd Manager (whose wife has probably been bludgeoned to death and is under the patio of their old house)'

worse than that - she's a social worker

Ah yes - so she is. Well she's probably not been murdered yet then. She will no doubt take Georgie and Sciatica into care before Ed bludgeons her to deadness but Will will get the blame and "go down"!

Why is Tony so slow on the uptake? 'Has something gone on while I was on that completely unnecessary errand to get ice cream? In January?' Tom did well over Christmas though to prove there is a character more annoying than James.

R4 - hmmm, that could explain the mysterious liking for Tom Archer and the belief that Bridge Farm could in some way be a viable business. DH is listening to a fantasy Archers going on in his own head. Or maybe he tunes the radio to a parallel universe where the episodes feature a saintly, sympathetic Tom and spendthrift self-centred Brenda.

You're right about Pat and Tony's high outgoings (which if we accept it can support 4 adults and a toddler does suggest that DH is right about Brookfields actually being quite profitable and Ruth and David quite well off).

Butterycrumble - the only rule of the Archers is that you must hate them all. Every last one. We blush and mutter when we have to admit that we quite enjoyed an episode.

I think Brenda will dump Tom - she seizes up like our boiler every time he mentions getting married (remember when he took her to that spot where he wants to build a house a few months ago? awwwwkward). She's a career gal she is.

Ha indeed grendelsmum. I do love Linda and the way the actress looks just right too!