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

[PseudoBadger]

Come and enjoy awkward dinner parties galore!

hang on... --ive been missing for a few months. I went from Jess turning up to coming back and Hellingly being engaged. What happened? is she up duffed by the knob?

I think with Vicky she probably wasn't using contraception because she thought there was no chance of pregnancy, but at the back of her mind was secretly hoping that there was (if only sub-consciously).

I also wonder why David hadn't had the snip, given that they've had one 'miracle baby' already.

DH would be laughing at me now, as he says they're not real people, but I know I'm safe here

Has Alice lost her job? So many unexplained days off....

7 weeks! is that all ?

Shirehorse? hay cart? romantic?

Oh Kirsty, you fool, letting Alice talk you into the posh frock again. Still, Helen can always have the other one.

I don't think she wants this baby

I don't think she does either.

Ruth might be wrong about dates...

Hands up anyone who's ever ended up on a budget with two wedding dresses?

Helen really didn't like Kirsty getting the better dress did she?

My take on this is: Jill will twitter around all excited about a new grandchild , but Roooth will want an abortion but the innate conservatism of the scriptwriters will kick in and she'll change her mind at the last moment. Thus hammering home the bogus message that 'respectable' married women don't have an abortion.

No she seemed a bit miffed by it-but why? Surely she doesn't want to outshine Kirsty on her wedding day.

She wants the designer frock for herself, told

What a narcissistic cow.

By the way- I'm an omnibus listener, but this 'ere thread has called me over to the nightly dark side.
Plus, I am rather gripped by the Helllin/Rob debacle to be.

As I recall (though "recall" is obv not my greatest strength..) Jill was considerably less than supportive when Elizabeth terminated a pregnancy, so.....

I wonder if the whole pregnancy thing will cause a major schism in the marriage, in a way that SamtheCowHerd debacle almost did. Zero, I've been trying to remember for days what happened with Eliz and her mother's attitude. I recall (very vaguely) Phil and Jill taking slightly different views, and Shula being very against termination (esp as she was in the midst of infertility trauma herself, and wanted the child to be born so she could adopt).

I'm seeing things starting to go wrong for Kirsty - the return of Brendur, and Tom lying to her already, esp in light of his previous infidelity, her weird but downright nasty cow of an almost SIL, the posh frock she can't afford, bloody Alice and all her bright and expensive ideas, bloody Jenny wittering on about whatever she was wittering on about so she can justify (mainly to herself) spending so much dosh on a kitchen nobody really needs.

As you were, ladies. And who says it's not real? How dare they.

Also of course it was Saint Shula's 'godliness' that was a factor in not wanting her sis to terminate. She won't be different now either.

That was something that annoyed me about Jolene and Kenton and the winechoc slurping last week. Why do two mature adults who don't attend church, didn't get married in one (did they?), who never utter a word about their 'Christian' beliefs (the opposite in fact, I think) care so much about Lenten fasting. It's just a lot of nonsense and kind of detracts from those for whom it is meaningful.

It's traditional, for some reason, to have a lame cringe-making story about competitive giving-things-up-for-Lent - every bloomin' year

It was an action packed epi wasn't it?

I was cringing when Alice dragged her back in to the designer shop's clutches. Mind you I cheered up a bit when Helen was so clearly pissed off. She won't be able to top that dress for her nuptials. She is so unpleasant.

I thought David's reaction was very sweet but Ruth has had more time to think about it and no, I don't think she is keen atm but that doesn't mean she wants to terminate. I think it will come up but I would find it very out of character for her to actually go through with it. That may be in part because she knows Jill (and David) would be horrified. If she was my friend I would be telling her to do what's right for her, acknowledging that other people's reactions play a part in deciding what that is.

Certainly wouldn't like to be in Ruth's shoes if both her DH and her MIL try to bully finesse her into going through a pregnancy she does not want.

Wasn't Jill angry with Elizabeth's decision because she felt it was wrong when Elizabeth would have had so much family support? (Mimsy?)

Yup, K's wedding is turning toxic. The SWs are piling every possible bad influence onto her.

I reckon the uber wedding will come to a screeching halt and they will end up with a simple bash in the village hall, wondering why and how they ever got seduced by the all the finery and fripperies. At least I hope this is what happens.

Yes, gypsy, I thought the same thing when Kirsty was relating to Tom how she felt all false when talking about the wedding to Bren.

I hope so too Gypsy, also hope they do it sooner rather than later as I'm finding that whole 'organising a mega wedding 8 weeks' annoying and unbelievable.

Ditto JennyDarling's kitchen...

7 weeks????

This has definitely slipped down the schedule!

But she has to wear the posh frock, esp if it'll piss H off. And she can't keep changing her mind till the last minute ..... I hope not anyway.