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!

I do think Pip being pregnant as well would be superbly entertaining. I'm sure Alan and Usha would make far better foster parents than Caroline and Oliver, though I suspect they would claim to be much too busy. An adoption story at the vicarage would be rather lovely. Or they could be left holding Amy's baby - as she would be certain to make a drama out of parenthood.

And Amy's grandmother would be adorable with a great-grandchild.

And I reiterate - something's up with Alice. She's never at work nowadays.

Zero Alice muttered something about having holiday time to catch up on before the end of April.

yep, she said it's quiet at work at the moment, and she has to use up her leave before the beginning of April, so she's only got this week & next to do it (My DH is the same - 4 days off in march - he's very chuffed!)

(Although if the flooding-time-slippage theory I am clinging to is correct, Ruth should really be about 10 weeks & Alice should actually have had 2 or 3 more weeks to take it in...)

Not that I'll ever find out

Of course DaveRuth COULD have had a (lie in) nudge nudge wink 7 weeks ago but I'm inclined to agree with you TheOneWith

Don't you think if they'd had a lie in winky winky, we'd have heard? Not many opps for a lie in for that pair.

'The work of a madman' hahahaha

I am enjoying the 'Give me the Albion or suffer the consequences'. Brian KNOWS he'll be giving in, he's just dragging it out.

A sparkling water tap? How wanky is that?

Did you say flat pack? How dare you!

Brian really is a dinosaur. I thought for a moment that Jennydarling was going to play the R card. Shame she didn't.

Oh Jennifer's kitchen is the funniest storyline they've had for ages.

It's just blissful.

Genius to empty the freezer. He thought he'd be having venison casserole every day for a month.

I sympathise with her tbh. They can clearly afford it and she works hard - feeding his friends and looking after his son. if she wants sparkling boiling water etc then who is he to stand in her way? As he will be admitting on Thursday I predict.

How much do you reckon it is by the way? I'm think £60,000 based on the fact our kitchen cost £6000 and Alice thought there was an extra nought......

Loving the new F word!

Easily that I'd think. Mine was done a couple of years ago - average sort of sized kitchen, good quality appliances but no underfloor heated limestone or anything weird and it was over 20K. For a farmhouse kitchen for someone like Jenny, even a normal kitchen company would be charging quite a bit.

or £120,000.

the kitchen salesman was a creep, playing her greed and need for status like a fiddle.

And her dad was a bankrupt, alcoholic pub manager. snob snob

You know what? Any of you who have DHs who listen to TA - if you break a kitchen drawer it will be fixed before you can say 'knife'.

Can't believe Ian recommended this bloke. Perhaps he plays things differently with professional chefs who won't stand any guff and know what they actually need.

The change of JennyDarling into a comedy turn is a bit of a laugh.

Although TA is going through a fabulous patch at the moment, I am a little concerned at the SWs going in too many directions at once. I'd be disappointed if they suddenly decided to tidy up plotlines because it had all become too busy. The HellinRob one really deserves to be a slow burner.

It's a comedy storyline, yes... but it also occurred to me that it's sort of skating over the issue of Brine having to do what JD wants because of the deal they struck in their relationship over the whole 'being a complete shagger and bringing his oddly-voiced love-child to live with them' thing.

I think Brian will be spending a lot of time at The Bull this week. Love this storyline, but then I am very easily pleased.

Zero, way upthread you asked if I could remember how Jill reacted to Elizabeth's termination. Sorry to disappoint, but I can't really. I can't even be sure Phil knew Elizabeth was pregnant - I think Jill did, and assume Phil did too, but I remember nothing about his reaction. I do recall vividly that, as others have said, Shula wanted Elizabeth to go ahead with the pregnancy and then let her and Mark adopt the baby, because at the time she thought they weren't going to be able to have a biological child of their own. I think Jill knew about the pregnancy and knew Elizabeth was undecided what to do. I'm fairly sure that Jill was not keen for Elizabeth to have a termination, but one day Elizabeth went off on her own and when she came back in a taxi in the evening she announced that she'd had the termination and it was all over.

The upset from all of that had scarcely died down when it became known that Ruth was pregnant with Pip. That was hard for both Shula and Elizabeth. I assume David and Ruth had also known about Elizabeth's pregnancy. I wonder if Kenton did. I don't think he was in Ambridge at the time.

No- gone off the boil again with the kitchen story. Just too ridiculous to be credible.

Love Adam reverting to type as a public school boy sticking up for another "thoroughly good chap" though!

I didn't hear Adam as saying Rob was a thoroughly good chap, just saying that the way he was behaving was fairly typical of someone of his background.

But it's the same background as Adam's - so "he's only being friendly"......

And he did suggest that Ian was drunk.......l,