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!

ppeatfruit - most people do move away from their families. Ambridge is weird that so few do. Especially graduates. Even more so if like Brenda you've said you don't really want kids.

Even weirder that it somehow manages to house the Horribins and Grundies etc. who want to stay. Often they are just the type who would have to commute back from Felpersham. They are very lucky if they can afford a "new build", especially in such a nice village within an hour of Leicester!

many people find london fun to live in, particularly when young and if you have a reasonably good wage, plus there are jobs there with potential for career development - much less so in a very rural village if you aren't able to do a long commute to work. it becomes rather a self-fulfilling prophecy as employers won't look to rural areas as they perceive them as harder to recruit the candidates they need

it is true that it's a shame that it is difficult for younger people to settle in villages that they grew up in if it's a particularly picturesque place

i do think that one thing "they" could do to improve the economy in rural/remote areas is to sort out the sodding mobile phone reception and broadband. i can work from home but it's difficult to do so from my parents' because the copper wire broadband is unreliable, as is the mobile reception - i got a better reception in the pacific ocean! this would make it easier for small businesses to start up in rural locations. though tbf this doesn't seem to be a huge problem in ambridge!

Mrs DV - she's 46 this year I think. So hardly a record breaker.

True mummytime Though WE moved away from our DCs,though we lived in suburban London. I would 've stayed if we were living in a country village.

DD1 always says how wonderful the air is here she misses the countryside and she lives in trendy Old street.

I assumed Ruth bought the test herself btw. I know Jill was encouraging her to do it but I didn't take that to mean she'd bought it. Mind you I missed a bit of the epi as was collecting dd2 from her friend's house and had to go to the door to wave at her parents etc. So I could have missed that.

You did. Jill produced it from her handbag "I took the liberty...."

Quite. As Catherine Tate 's Nan character would have said, "a fecking liberty!".

Twins would be good. Or triplets (which would halve Pip's often-eyed inheritance) (is there any animal left on the farm that could gore Pip to death? )
What happened to Elizabeth and the maths teacher?
When did Caroline get better (and what from?)
How is the Christmas puppy?

twins run in families don't they? though obviously david's side rather than ruth's (and fraternal) so probably doesn't apply

We're hoping for triplets, like the lambs.

so did we find out if Ruth is pg then..?? I missed the end of last night's episode on account of DS coming into the kitchen to talk to me

I'm normally to scared to post on here but I've cracked today; I MUST know..

TOO not to. Obviously.

Yes she is!

I am impressed that even MNHQ can't edit the typos out of their own posts

We did, and she is!

I normally just lurk too, but thought I'd put you out of your misery.....

OMG she IS?? What'll Pip and Josh say?? How old are they both now? What was her reaction - or are we waiting for tonight for that?

Questions, questions ...

Just about to hear last night's epi for 2nd time. Yay!

Also find Jill buying a preg test for her DIL a it weird - also strange how close they have suddenly become after years of being a bit 'distant' I thought. Quite disappointed it's another pg story, not the dreaded perimenopause. I wonder where Ruth's own mother is these days - what was her name anyway?

the twin risk for Ruth is probably just age - though there's now some research that suggests the father's familial link has something to do with it - which of course would fit the bill for Daveed as his mother and his sis have had non-identical twins. But mostly it's regarded as something a woman inherits via her own mother which makes her more likely to produce more than one egg a month. But this becomes more likely also as a woman gets closer to menopause and if she's has several previous babies.

IMO Brendur has always been a bitch. But the storyline of her changing her plans and falling into the arms of the SausageKing after her mother died isn't totally 'abnormal'. And, while with Tom, she was always itching to go, wasn't she? Who did she steal James from though?

What surprises me is that she comes back for a quick visit to her father, step-ma and little Bethany and has a convo with Lillian -as no love lost there. Yet tom who lives in the area had no idea of new housing developments. A device no doubt so Tom could lie to Kirsty. An omen?

Bloody hell! So, exactly the same as with Vicky, then? Thought she was in permanent bad mood, feeling crap, lo and behold it's a 'miracle beeebeeee'!

Pip Josh and Ben are going to be so embarrassed

...maybe Pip will get pg too so that DC4 has a nephew/niece the same age?

Recently I've been asked by 2 HPs if I could be pregnant - WHICH I AM NOT . But Mr B and I were having a laugh about saying to the teenaged offspring: We got a room, boys, and see what happened.

Jun 1968 birthday for Ruth, so 45yo.
tbh, I don't understand this plot twist.
It's a poor way of exploring miscarriage or difficult pregnancy choices which are both high risk at that age. As a happily-ever-after outcome it simply annoys me. Lots of overlaps with the Vicky storyline.

Her deciding to terminate because it simply doesn't appeal to have a baby, that would be more realistic. And genuinely gripping storyline. But probably just too contentious for TA.

It just occurred to me living and working on a farm may not help with contraceptive knowledge. Perhaps both Daveed and Rooth thought they were 'safe' cos the AI man wasn't anywhere near.

WAIT, the sodding lamb disease, causes m/c in early pg, no? They're in the middle of lambing...

Here.

I agree, Holiday. Also they did the 'risky aged pregnancy' with Vickoi so recently. AND termination has been done too - Elizabeth, Greg's dd.

BTW, what was jill's attitude to Eliz's pg and termination years ago??

Re- miscarriage, it would only work well if R and D decide they are happy with baby after all, then Ruth slumps into a perimenopausal depression when she loses her last chance of a last baby.

Oh, will have to go out, to barber's. Somewhat eccentric ds has decided it's spring so he needs a hair cut. NOW!

Is she in 'early' preg still? When was the Budapest trip?