Sheeping With The Enemy - in a brand new bed? Discuss the trials and tribulations of the Archers

[PseudoBadger]

Just don't be so careless with your watch Helen

That woman in the wedding dress shop is ghastly! I wouldn't buy from her on principle..

And no photos of her exclusive designs?

Sod that! On principle I'd be snapping away in the changing room and Facebooking like a fiend!

composhat I punched the air and shouted 'booooom!!' at Tony - I loved it!! DH didn't love it as he was watching the rugby and I was listening with headphones on

blue yes a lifetime of tom filling the gap in your market with his piddly sausage isn't worth all the dresses in the world.

somebody referred to Tom (the piddly sausage king) as the chipolata on the FB page

I think he should be referred to thus forever now

Yes pat sounded approving. Probably relieved to see tiny looking enthusiastic about something

Tom is just such a dick

Willie, was tiny a typo or deliberate?

Either way I think they should be known as Tiny & the Chipolata Kid

Loving the thread title ! A very belated marking-place - need the omnibus tomorrow to catch up ...

Songbird just listened to last 5 minutes of Friday's episode which I'd missed. I can see why you were punching the air. Tony really told Tom! And how petty of Tom to cancel the marquee. What will Kirsty say?

So where are we with the wedding finances?

Peggy has offered £18 thousand (?) for a house deposit.

Tony has withdrawn part of whatever (smaller) amount P & T had offered towards the wedding.

Roy was insisting on a mega-stag (?)

Kirstie has paid a deposit for the £2,400 wedding dress.

Super-Posh Towers has phoned Tom because they have a cancellation. Tom has cancelled the marquee.

Can't quite work out whether the happy couple are heading for trouble or not....

(But the way things are going Tony will probably be spending the wedding day with his new cows.)

Has Peggy actually offered £18k though? All I remember is her saying 'I'm open to the idea, let's not settle on an amount yet'. When I first heard that I thought she meant she'd offer more, but now I'm wondering. And has kirsty only agreed to the (out of character) mega bucks dress because they were having a relatively cheap marquee wedding?

More good stuff coming our way methinks!

Just caught up ... have a few days 'holiday' and come back to well over 200 messages! A sort of index of how much fun TA is at the moment.

Who ever heard of a man choosing the conjugal bedlinen?

Yay Tony - although he'd been thinking about the suckler herd (had he discussed it with anyone other than David?) for a while it was a bit of a quick decision borne out of his renewed sense of being able to do something following the Ambridge Ark, I thought. But he knows about cows so I do hope it works out beautifully for him.

Oh dear... T thinks kirsty might be blowing as much as a grand on her frock, he'll be stunned by how much it is ... and she'll be upset he's cancelled the marquee and gone for wherever it is £££...

Excellent episode!

For years it has felt like the scriptwriters thought we should like Tom (and Helen) more than we do. I'm so pleased they've finally given him his just desserts and oh in what a way - what better than to have Tony put him in his place so brilliantly?

Oh and another thing .... for once I was pleased with the Ambridge Fairy, how wonderful that someone selling an organic suckler herd was conjured out of thin air this week!!!

Just catching up now.

What a spoilt brat you are Tom.

Just listened to it, am loving it! Agree that Pat seems quietly pleased and Tom is so petty. :o

I have so many questions. What will Kirsty say to the expensive reception venue change? What will Tom say to the millionaire dress? Have either of them actually sat down and costed any of this? They just seem to be planning independently of each other. Do you remember when Lower Loxley did weddings? Or was that just for Kenton and Jolene?

I'm starting to wonder if this wedding will ever go ahead

TypicaLibra, you've hit the nail on the head. I think The Previous Editor was convinced that The Cheese Queen and Chipolata were much more sympathetic and popular characters than they actually are, and staunchly resisted the mega-flock of chickens which are now coming home to roost in a most satisfactory way.
I hope Tom really overplays his hand with Piggoi, and she ends up withdrawing her (reluctant) offer of financial support for the wedding in that quavery but imperiously Thatcherite way of hers, citing some sort of homily about cutting your coat according to your cloth.

And what about Rich, Peggoi's other grandson? Nothing for him?

It's a bit of a power trip for Peggoi. My Granny used to spend many a happy afternoon sticking people's names on the bottom of hideous ornaments, and if you annoyed her she would peel your name off, and stick someone else's on.

We have a long running joke of putting a sticker on or pulling it off things we want - Cannot believe it actually happens!

The Tony Archer Brand - oh brilliant!

that quavery but imperiously Thatcherite way of hers, citing some sort of homily about cutting your coat according to your cloth.

Ah, everything that grates about Peggy in a sentence. Beautifully put, Blue!

Hear, hear!

@ your Granny and her name stickers, Caroline!

Don't think Peggoi knows about Rich, CarolineK.

I've looked at the radio listings for this week, and

ROB LOSES HIS TEMPER.
I am so looking forward to this. My mum thinks Rob is menacing too.