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Oh don't say that Homeless, I don't want Martin to actually have a valid point.

I want him to be caught with his hand in the till

Hand for something else more painful!

So Jennifer and Usha are now without roses to show... So that leaves Elizabeth, Ruth and who else to have a disaster?

I love the Archers and am thrilled to find this thread. I have been lurking for a while but tend to listen a week or so late so am too late to comment.

Just had to say two things though:

1. Pip gone at long last
2. Best line for a while from that bloke at the golf club (the chef?) who said, reverentially, 'there's even talk of.... A cold salmon'. Brilliant.

Yes birding we were cheering too at the forthcoming absence of pipsqueak who is no more. Her parents' held back tears at her driving off to leave them in peace from sulks were unbelievable.

As for the storyline of the vicar cutting his wife's precious flowers. I mean really! As the wife of a gardener I barely cut a snipping of chives without asking if it's ok. It's so out of character.

What planet are the SWs on?

I bet Pipsqueak gets an Amex. If the current one ever finishes....

But Pip already HAD an Amex with Jooooooooooode didn't she???

I am wondering about the security ishooes with the whole of Ambridge knowing that Caroline & Oliver are orf on hols to Lake Garda

Why doesn't Darrell offer house sitting?

If the story writers have as bad a memory as we suspect, Pip may well get another Amex.

Is Kirsty going out with Damian or is he a flatmate??

I loved how Brine dealt with Martin. He brushed off / ignored his criticism and then treated him like a toddler "look! a distraction, otherwise known as a milking parlour". Compare and contrast to Kathy who crumbles into a quivering heap of angst.

While we are at it: can someone please explain why Kathy is trying so hard to make the place run smoothly despite Martin's cuts. If it was you, wouldn't you be keeping all the customers - especially the committee - waiting and blame it on understaffing? They would soon over-rule him and his shortsighted 'improvements'.

I reckon Kathy has been a bit slack and she knows this. She's possibly scared of Martin too, I mean Brian is more than Martin's equal, where as Kathy effectively works for BL.

Does the pussycat/tiger amex end this week? If possible Brenda has annoyed me even more in it than normal. 'A glass of cold sancerre' - honestly!

Olivia I think that Pip and Jude was in the main Archers only, though possibly she got together with Spencer on Amex series 1? Can anyone else remember?

Does she work for BL? is the golf course owned by them too?

Kathy was really rude to Caroline too over the massage mixup
Not sure why Pat bothers being friend with her she is SUCH a whinger.

I'm pretty sure the golf club is owned by BL, hence Martin's involvement.

And I agree Olivia, Kathy was rude to Caroline. Mind you, her life is pretty shit, Kenton telling all about the invites problems, her son being best man - I do feel the SW's have really just put too much crap on her plate. Whilst Jolene just gets everything handed to her on a plate, albeit, Kathy's plate

Its quite funny really as most soaps make people 'pay' for their affairs but the archers. In fact you're positively rewarded. Which reminds me where has ruaridh been this whole summer holidays - I presume he's been off for 2 months and therefore at home?

I had totally forgotten about Ruarghdhgghd. Perhaps he is visiting maternal relatives in Ireland. That shouldn't stop him getting a mention in passing though.

Brian's put him in a cupboard under the stairs, I reckon

The SW's approach is really strange. I can understand, but don't like, the idea of having certain characters centre-stage for a few weeks whilst others are 'resting', but there is nothing to stop them being mentioned in passing. We never hear from the silent characters like old Mr Pullen, Sabrina Thwaite, etc but get little updates on their lives so why can't they do it for temporarily 'off screen' characters too?
After the long, drawn-out, emotional scene when Pip left on Friday, do you think that her name will pass David and Ruth's lips again in the next twelve months?

The Pip goodbye was the worst bit of padding out that I've heard. How many times did David say goodbye? I kept thinking it was the end of the scene and then there would be yet another "bye Pip", on and on. Very, very dull.

R4 Ruari did get a passing mention the other day- Jennydarling said that she was going to take advantage of him being round at "[insert boy's name]'s" to get on with some tedious domestic task or other. Suggesting that when he is not visiting his chums she spends every spare minute building forts and discussing bogeys with him.

I do wish they'd have a scene where young R, now being about 8 and no doubt learning the ways of the world, asks " So, Daddy, how is it that I am your son but you have been married to Jennyfer for such a long time and she is not cross with you?"

I know Kathy is irritating, but Martyn is really just a pantomime villain, isn't he? Surely no horrible boss is actually quite that horrible, turning his every sentence into a sneer?

(I'm prepared to be told what a sheltered life I've led, boss-wise!)

Also, what's all this with his running up a bar tab of Gargantuan proportions? Is this just a very clunky way of signalling 'he's not only a horrible boss, but he's also going to be rumbled as a horrible greedy boss'? Or is there a modicum of subtlety that I'm missing here?

Aaargh I'm going to have to stop listening soon unless Kathy grows a spine. She's driving me potty! When is she going to flip and run over Martin with a golf buggy?

Yes, the Martyn story is completely hammed up and we GET it now, he's a self righteous twat who is heading for a fall, so just get on woth tje bloody fall will you? it's like a bad Afternoon play stuck on repeat.

And I am going to have to stop listening if Kirsty doesn't recover from the frontal lobotomy and remember that Tom was both a two timing twat and a colossal sausage bore when they were together and should be lucky she can even bring herself to be civil to him.

Do you know I'm beginning to think the writers may have decided that listeners won't remember about Tom and Kirsty's previous relationship. It truly is as if it never happened.

I had a wild thought yesterday evening. What if Ray and Cathy swap jobs?

Honestly the twee chocolate fudge cake nonsense made me want to vomit. And are we supposed to picture Kirsty as fat, with her inability to resist cake and the assumption that only she and not Tom would have chips??

It was all a bit suggestive- that Kirsty was offering luscious 'dessert' to take Tom's mind off his problems. I think maybe even the SWs don't know that they used to be a couple :o