They're not plucky Tuckers, they're turkey pluckers' sons - Archers festive chat

[PseudoBadger]

:)

[PrincessFiorimonde]

Thanks, Campion (and arf at "Run for the hills Helen and don't come back ").

Since Jess took the job, loves Ambridge so much, and Jenny is her new best friend, perhaps Amside will find they've a new tenant on their books?

[ErrolTheDragon]

Poor old Susan's sudden midlife blues - would be rather nice if Neil did pick up her reaction to 'Taj Mahal' and secretly organise a romantic holiday.

[Minimammoth]

IF Jess is still alive, he'll string her along I think. Misogynist material.

[MrsCampbellBlack]

I reckon Jess will be back.

[ppeatfruit]

Yes I agree MrsCampbell and she will walk in on them DTD on the kitchen table .

With poor little Henry farmed out to one of his workers again WTF? Just because someone is missing his 3 DCs doesn't make him a good minder!!

[MrsCampbellBlack]

I know I laughed at that. Helen has learnt from Aunty Jenny all about palming children off, hey perhaps he could go to teh same school as ruraidh

[ppeatfruit]

Maybe we've hit on the next SATTC plot! Little Henry being neglected OMG and Jess having to deal with it!!

[TallGiraffe]

They made such a fuss of Jess being a social worker that there has to be some future role for her getting involved surely?

[TheOnlyOliviaMumsnet]

@ErrolTheDragon

Poor old Susan's sudden midlife blues - would be rather nice if Neil did pick up her reaction to 'Taj Mahal' and secretly organise a romantic holiday.

But it's not that long since her birthday, and he had a special necklace for her then. Not to mention her pashminer

[strongurgetofly]

But it's not that long since her birthday, and he had a special necklace for her then. Not to mention her pashminer

I totally agree. Susan the Ingrate.

[GypsyFloss]

Susan the Ingrate. Love it.

[ErrolTheDragon]

She should count herself lucky to be able to go on country walks with a man who can tell a mallard from a gadwall (or was it a garganey...one of those brown ones beginning with 'g'...). I do!

[CuttedUpPear]

I loved little Henry being palmed off with Flavio (?) so HelRob could do more snogging. She totally has lost her mind, hasn't she? Vaguely enquiring if her PFB will be ok as he is led off by a strange man (and no doubt he is a Romanian! )
It's a change from the micro managing mum we are used to.

I find myself hoping Helrob will be in every episode as their encounters are so juicily cringeworthy and doom laden

[MinkBernardLundy]

Neil is a thoroughly decent bloke. and good at DIY. doesn't Susan know a good thing when she sees it?

Helen hasn't lost her mind as turned back into her incredibly self centered screamingly irritating self.

TA looked like they were going down as EA storyline with Paul then really suddenly killed him off which was just weird so I wonder if they brought Rob in just so they could try that angle again?? In which case, how long before he is isolating her and Henry is living with Pat.

[campion]

Which has got me thinking,Mink whatever happened to Rich, the instant grandson?(Henry was pretty instant come to think of it)

I think Pat and Tony do most of the childcare already, don't they?

I do hope Rob's a wrong 'un though, thus maintaining Helen's 100% score.

[ReallyOverThis]

Cuttedup, the deputy head manager cum childminder, Felipe, is a Filipino. Rob and Brian discussed ages ago how it was a pain having to get a visa for him but he was the best man for the job. I hope that he eventually gets a speaking part as I work with a lot of Filipinos/as and am interested to see if they get the accent right. As a nation they are incredibly hard working and willng to migrate far for work- the idea that he has 3 kids at home is very realistic. Where I live there are thousands of women who take jobs caring for the kids of rich westerners and leave their own children at home.

[CuttedUpPear]

ReallyOverThis that's interesting about him being Philippino. I also work with a couple of Philippinas and it's so sad how they are so far from their children. And hard to comprehend for the likes of us.
(The Romanian comment was topical irony btw).

If Filipe ends up -having Henry dumped on him- doing the lion's share of the childcare whilst HelRob shag in the sterile cow stalls, might he become an honorary Archer? Thereby extending the already Rainbow Family to new continents?

[Pilcrow]

I'm struck by how similar Rob is to Greg the suicidal gamekeeper - they share the same sort of moodiness. Admittedly Greg was capable of being rude and short with everyone whereas Rob is a bit more 2-faced, eg being polite to JennyDarling then turning round and snarling at Jess 2 seconds later. But his basic character seems strangely close to Greg's.

I guess the SWs are making the point that Hellin has disastrous taste in men - she always goes for the tortured, complicated ones with a luggage shop's-worth of baggage. And clearly has Learned Nothing.

It'll all end in tears and the appalling Hellqueen will count the cost I hope

[ppeatfruit]

Although pilcrow At the age that hellrob are it would be more suspect if they didn't have ANY baggage wouldn't it? Thinking about it Rob hasn't much baggage though AFA we are told.

I agree that Susan should 'get over it' maybe she's becoming menopausal? The puppy's got to her and she's pissed off with EdnEmm (but daren't say it?).

[JollyGolightly]

Do you think Susan briefly thought that he meant the actual Taj Mahal?

[MrsBodger]

She so did! That's the beauty of Susan - on the surface a stereotypical drab midlands housewife (how many consonants can you get into the word 'lounge'?) but underneath a brooding, passionate, romantic . . .

[PseudoBadger]

She really did!

[ppeatfruit]

Of course the Taj mahal is the best Indian in the area!

[BitOutOfPractice]

I very much doubt they will get a Filipino accent right seeing as they can't get a midlands one right

[ZeroSomeGameThingy]

Actually I thought the SEs were playing a trick on us - so when Neil said "Taj Mahal" she would whine "curry?" and he would say "Don't be silly - I'm taking you on holiday."

Sadly....

Oh but! I once met someone who genuinely named her child Taj after a hotel name. She had never heard of the Taj Mahal.