Can I PLEASE just have 13 minutes? 13 measly minutes to myself to listen to The Archers?

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Come and enjoy awkward dinner parties galore!

This is gruesome!

Surely there are some boundaries between MIL and DIL?

I thought Jill was going to march her to the loo and hover over her until she'd taken it.

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Amber Archer, here she comes.

no need to look worried?????

Where did the saintly Jill get the pregnancy test from? From the village shop, or does she keep a handy stash in her handbag on the off-chance?

Anyone else think that buying a pg test in the village shop is tantamount to taking out an announcement in local paper? Susan would be twitching...

Just told only DD (12) that the last time Ruth was pregnant I was expecting her & now Ruth was expecting again. The look of disgust on her face!

I know the village shop stocks most things but surely not a pregnancy test. But is Jill driving again afte her op?

She might have gone online with next day delivery to keep it anonymous. It could have arrived in a jiffy bag yesterday. I was dying for Rooth to wail "oohhh no!"

This is a daft storyline. I feel like it's been wheeled out to educate us 40 somethings about the danger of being complacent about contraception.

I doubt that she was complacent though- I think this is contraceptive failure (also knows several people who wouldn't exist if contraception worked perfectly)
Loving the idea that the intuitive pentangle is a cover for the Dark Arts. I managed to hear that episode x3 (sad) and still chuckling today

So is she - or isn't she?

Do we know? I am at work and quite desperate to know the outcome...

Yes she is BorsetshireBlue

Hell Fire - I was so sure we were wrong!

And thank you Cheminotte!

No problem BB
Did anyone else hear Helen say Rob was putting Ian through his paces. Poor Ian!

Errol -you stole my thought This is probably the one thread where the question 'whats the difference between a buffalo and a bison' might be taken seriously... (Omnibus listener, so a bit late)
I know the answer is you can't wash your hands in a buffalo.

I loved it that Ian looked a bit grim in the photo of his training session with Rob

Poor Ian, training with Rob, what purgatory.

Have just caught up with more than a week's worth.

Totally bored of the kitchen storyline, other than that I now understand how my mother came to buy the over-priced, poorly-designed kitchen she had installed a couple of years ago.

Ruth's pregnancy was glaringly obvious as soon as she made the '3 months ago' comment to Shula. Hope this is not going to become a harrowing abortion storyline though.

Tony's new lonely cow - I join the host of voices all hoping it won't turn into bad news. But sadly the leaden hints being dropped by the scriptwriters suggest they're setting him up to fail.

Hoorah for Brenda's return. I thought it threw the Tom'n'Kirsty wedding bandwaggon into new light - none of them really sounded sure about what they were doing but only Brenda sounded happy with that uncertainty. T&K are both spiralling into crazy spending mode, they really haven't been together long (this time round) and I thought Brenda's remark about two ecowarriors together was totally apposite, because it showed up everything they should be together and yet it's everything they are not. Newbuild cul de sac houses, luxury manor wedding receptions, £2+-grand wedding dresses, etc - none of this speaks of a couple who are comfortable with themselves or their relationship.

I reiterate what I said on the previous thread: for Tom, Brenda will always be the one who got away. For Brenda, Tom will be the backwater bumpkin she grew up with before her real life began. And Kirsty - jeez, I hope she does a runner on the wedding day and goes to work on a Costa Rica turtle-hatching beach or something.

Ruth's pregnancy has got DH in a tizzy.

We got married a few months after Ruth and Dayvid and Pip is the same age as dd.

I presume Ruth got pregnant on their 25th wedding anniversary trip?

DH and I are off on our 25th wedding anniversary trip next weekend

DH says we need at least 3 types of contraception.

PS. Mrsbirdie - yes Rooth does sound very adenoidal all the time.
I wonder whether, when she did the pg test, she said 'oah noah' to herself under her breath ...

Have I missed something re Kirsty's wedding dress? She seemed to be saying she'd passed on the expensive designer option, but last I heard she was putting down a hefty deposit on something that sounded eye-watering lay expensive.

That's so true Somewhere - all Tom and Kirsty's frenzied activity and spending seems like a rush to legitimize the relationship they feel they ought to have. The proper grown up house, SuperPosh Towers.... It's all about "showing"; the opposite of organic.

And poor Kirsty sounded so wistful today - as if Brenda's visit has really knocked her confidence. Now, after all the years of waiting, instead of feeling triumphant she will probably always feel second best.

Will be interesting to see how it develops over the years. Less complicated than Hayley and Kate - but at least Kate is fully committed elsewhere.

:o ExcuseTypos. I think the best thing is to never shag until you're clearly menopausal

nennypops - Kirsty lost (half?) her deposit because she realised she couldn't afford the dress. Weirdly, they don't appear to be stinting on anything else though. I still think this wedding is ridiculously out of character. Kirsty is not the sort of person who wants to be the centre of attention and make a massive fucking deal of her wedding. The posh manor do/carefully thought out at Underwoods wedding list is absurd.