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

Anyone would look pale, faced with David in mortal combat with a cheese and pickle sandwich.

i love how the sport relief stuff is being organised very last minute

Peri menopause anyone?

Pregnant?

did ian mention helen wearing a glove to cover up the ring?! like michael jackson? i might have imagined htis

I don't think there is a ring is there? I keep missing bits though because people selfish bastards keep interupting my radio listening.

I amy or may not have just snapped "Thirteen minutes a day! Thirteen minutes! That's all I ask for!" as both of my daughters insisted on telling me some vital total trivial boring facts at 7:02!

Can I just say that my DDs are not selfish bastards. In that case I was referring to the client who phoned e yesterday. And the person selling me PPI claim assistance the day before

That was a rather disappointing 13 minutes, though, not up to the usual high standards of the last few weeks.

I know Bluestocking. But it's MY 13 minutes!!

I was very glad to hear both Ian & Adam going though

i didn't think there was a ring either, but i was sure i heard something about a glove... will listen again when it's available

i am very much looking forward to this dinner party

I didn't even notice the low ebb mistake, Willie - too busy concentrating on Ian finally turning up

Well thank God Adam at least still retains some brain matter. Ian's initial response was a little off kilter for such a sensible fellow. I love how this "secret" is going to filter through the village. (I guess eventually Susan will congratulate Rob in front of 20 people in the shop.)

.... Pregnant or seriously sick. Poor thing.

Oh, I don't want Ruth to be properly ill, dopey or not.

Talking of ill, is Jenny Darling having a nervous breakdown or what? First of all that uncharacteristic thinking out loud rudeness about Susan and now wanting Brian to give a shit about statement taps. I know she gets a bit hysterical, but the kitchen panic is a tad overdone, no?

I know it's old, but I'm still savoring the slap down of the Sausage King. The great thing about this story line is that I cannot chose who I like least, but I feel compelled to do so at each parent-child interaction. Like how rotten was Pat to not babysit? What a mean spirited git.

(Breathes)

I don't think the dinner party will happen. I think this is when we find out that Rob is a raving homophobe (I remember him making some v stereotypical comments about Iain liking musicals ages ago) and so Hellin will once again be Forced To Choose (although the FTC between her parents and Rob didn't last long - she was telling Tom the following week that he ought to make up with Eeyore because Pat said so)

Ian sounded a bit too - but he's reacting sort of like Tony, hoping that it will work out despite misgivings. Nice to hear him again anyway!

Bet you're right Rob will throw some spanner in the dinner party.

Clever to drop mention of Mike, Vicki, Bethany and the late-arriving Borsetshire flooding in one plot device to dump extra milking on poor Ruth.

aha - i misheard 'glow' as 'glove' ('hence the glow')

I have to say williethat that made me chuckle. I imagined Hellin sitting in the Bull with one sparkly gove a la Michael Jackson!

Glove. Not gove.

"...one sparkly gove..."

And I thought nothing could cheer me up this evening.

There are two goves - a pair. One is a sparkly engagement ring decoy. The other is our moronic Minister for Education

Is Ruth's cancer going to come back?

I'm really worried about Ruth. I hope Jill tells David.

I guess they are missing having Pip on the farm, she would have provided a fair bit of cover in the past. Is Josh doing GCSEs this year? We haven't heard much from or about him this winter, if he is 15/16 he could help out.