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Why was Ruth so reluctant to have Rob come and assist with the birthing cows last night? Something to do with the mega-dairy?

Selks - yes, he's evil Big Farma . But it all worked out so nicely.

I missed this stuff about Rob being scarred. I don't think the theory about Jess being banged up for attacking him quite works... the story he gives of wife who wants to follow career and not consign herself to borsetshire motherhood sounds entirely plausible.

Pseudo Is it too early to start a list of possible titles for the next thread?

I nominate "Big Farma"

(Thanks ErrolD)

:o

I was quite pleased with that (BTW I'm actually GrimmaTheNome in dragonish disguise)

Aha, found you!

I wish to rant about the ineptitude of an entire farming community being reliant on one vet. How unlikely is that? Even my cats/dogs/hamsters vet has back up in place!

And Big Farma is utter genius :o

I'm finding the hatred of the mega-dairy and Rob pretty tedious. But then I just find ruth annoying. She should have run of with Sam.

Kiri - yes... I live in a village, the vets practice serves small animals and farms and there are several of them (don't know how many at the moment). AFAIK Alistair works alone - that seems very unlikely IRL (except in really remote locations) because vets have to have a lot more expensive kit than GPs.

The scars are on his arms though aren't they?
Suicide attempt as a result of being so smug?

Perhaps rob is a time traveller and it is hellin in 6 months who has driven him to self destruct?

I can't bare these work storylines, ultimately so unrealistic. It just isn't how people speak to each other.

I'm hoping Martin is going to be found fudging the books re his ever expanding tab.

The cowbirthing vet obviously went to the same drama school as pip.

Ray is a big fat fraud isn't he - a fantasist who once worked as a hotel doorman or a redcoat at Butlins.

Right, now I'll read the thread and see how many others have said so too.

Btw Alastair used to have a vet partner, the one who sold Jazza ketamine.

Rob has scars on his arms? He'll have jumped through a window rescuing Jess from a fire, she is in fact Mrs Rochester and has to be kept hidden.

He's cared for her for so many years, come home so her parents can help while they're still round and he feels terribly, terribly guilty but, dreams of freedom...

Oh no, we've done fire with Grace. Car crash then, anyway she's an invalid unable to have children and he dreams of a 'normal' life.

I don't really think so.

I half-heard a few mins of tonights episode... did I hear right that Ray is planning to transform the posh Grey Gables restaurant into a Mexican?

Is there a single remotely credible storyline happening at the moment?

It was the llama eating the prize roses that finally made me crack and start asking questions

My, the Lonely Cow massive is on fire tonight.

Yes, yes to all the impeccable reasoning above.

Olivia once I stopped snorting with laughter it occurred to me that a Rob suicide would be ... devastatingly neat. (Helen would have to be locked up, for the safety of the population.)

I was over a farming community with only one vet. And it doesn't seem quite fair that , the minute Pip leaves, they insert a younger, even less believable version of her.

But what I really want to know is - how many rose competitors are left? Some clever person spotted the Agatha Christie-light storyline up thread. At least it's only the roses they're killing. For now...

It's all going hideously wrong at Grey Gables....

Jess is obviously Jesse. You heard it here first.

Why did Jazzer need ketamine?

He was hooked on it. Amazing how drug addiction cam be overcome in an instant in Borsershire. They shod bottle that air - there isn't a condition or illness it can't cure.
Apart from being splatted on the ancestral paving slabs...

Oh Olivia, it was taken as a recreation drug by people looking for new kicks a few years ago, maybe still is.

Alastair's corrupt partner sold it to Jazzer, who took too much and was very ill, effectively brain-damaged - I think he may have been found unconscious in the toilets at The Bull at one point.

It was a very slow recovery, with memory loss, black outs etc which is partly why others like Tom have tried to support Jazzer by giving him work and being tolerant of his limitations - not quite the 'never the same again' scenario I think we were promised at the time though, as now, you wouldn't notice and he's the same (but older) scallywag as when he first arrived.

Ketamine is very widely used as a recreational drug these days, sadly.