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Will this thread make it to the wedding? Will it outlive Tony?

I don't like it much either but I think Jolene has always been like this. She used to hover over the male customers using the public access computers in the Bull back in the days when she and Sid were running the pub, with many references to her low-cut tops and flustered men. All a bit 1970s sitcom for me.

I completely agree about jolene. She's being awful to Kenton and in public too, so as to humiliate him.

Nb TheOneWithTheNicestSmile I've still got my ancient Penguin editions of the early Drabbles. Along with Lynne Reid Banks, they capture an era that seems so much further in the past, with the way unmarried motherhood is shown to be as devastating and life changing as it was. Thanks for the link to that Guardian column. What a treat!

Am I really the only listener that believes Jolene is just teasing Kenton? She adores him and they are a great couple (IMO) - she is doing all this as a jokey payback for the getting drunk/blocked drain thing.
(I think)

i agree it's teasing, but i don't think it's nice at all, and i still don't like listening to it! i would be uncomfortable if couple friends were behaving like that in front of me

Caricatures or real people? Tis hard when you've only got 6 epi's 13 minutes long to get it all in.

Haven't heard the last few episodes, and don't always catch the start (am a daily-vore(?)) But heard Rod praising H's cheese. My theory which is mine about Rob is that he had a GP who had a dairy farm. And so Little Rob wanted to work with cows, the beautiful cows in Granpa's field.

Underneath, he is so sad that, in his case, the cows have to live in a big shed But at least now he's found a woman who loves cheese.

For someone obsessed with number Kirsty's pretty shit at keeping track of money; there was yet another reference to extravagence with the going away outfit this time being expensive...this cannot possibly end well.

Is the passion play actually going to be on Good Friday - will there be some kind of real life cliff hanger arising from it?

The Jolene thing sits oddly with me for some reason - I'm not entirely sure why; I do think generally her and Kenton (plus Adam and Ian) are the nearest thing Ambridge has to a normal RL couple so the sarcasm and constant referencing the drinking/flooding ring true in that respect but there seems to be a slight edge to it that makes me uncomfortable. Also talking of Adam and Ian will this be the Summer that Pawel the fruit-picker returns? They surely can't just drop that story line and Ian's devastation would add another side to the Helen and Rob story as he would surely turn to her for support...

Amazing, a tug-of-love over Jill!

Don't you think, though, Ian guessed about Pavel? well, maybe not that it was Pavel, but that Adam had strayed. He was just so happy that Adam came back to him. It was quite sweet really. Even if Pavel comes back, if nothing more happens then maybe it'll not matter.

YY, Lizzie throwing a tantrum again. I loved her chat with Kenton. He was being so mature and reasonable. I too dislike the way Jones is being portrayed. She was never so petty and 'naggy', though she was always a flirt.

Jolene not Jones. Not sure where that came from!

WTF was Lizzie's problem? I thought very patronizing of her to think that it was necessary for there to be a family consultation to decide where Jill should live - as though Jill wasn't competent to decide for herself.

Is the passion play actually going to be on Good Friday
Yes, hence Kenton and his buns.

I thought that Jolene was rather piqued by Kenton's stowing of here stage gear, implying she was past all that (even without him then drowning it) so the (pretended, I think) flirting with Callum is a bit of a 'I've still got it' game.

Shula is CRAP at equine management.
For someone who runs a business looking after horses, to not realise straight away that Coco's owner had bullshitted her about the animal in question being bombprooof - well it was obvious!

Elizabeth didn't really want a family conference; she's just been wrongfooted. She's lonely at LL - not just because of N but being away from the village - and always enjoys having her mother there. It was probably in her mind all along that eventually her mother might offer to move in - but Elizabeth would have been much too proud to ask. And now David and Ruth have asked.

(It's not fair - she's the youngest, she deserves to have her DM with her.) The awkward thing is that Jill's moving back to Brookfield comes on the back of Ruth's mc. From Elizabeth's pov it's almost as if they took advantage of the sutuation to lure Jill back.

I think in a sense though Lizzie is feeling a bit sorry for herself in her widowhood, with the 'single parent with 2 teenagers' remark. IRL I'd have sympathy. especially as this is probably the stage when the loss of Nigel starts to feel quite relentless and permanent. But Lizzie has previous for tantrums and having her own way/wanting it, so my sympathy is less for her. And it's not like she's on her own entirely - she has 'staff' and various relies in the vicinity, and I'm sure if she was ill/had some crise her ma would go to help.

Yes, Errol, I think you are right re-Jolene. I still find it a bit tedious!

Did Shula come off a horse this week? I seem to have missed an episode, and I woke this morning just as the 'film' was finishing. That's the 4th time recently. I am very tired just now!

Lizzie is a bit 'youngest sib nose out of joint' in her relationships with siblings and parent/s, I think. She'd probably be called 'entitled' if she came on MN to discuss it all. Though she'd also get screeds and screeds of , and from total strangers when she mentioned her widow status.

Did Shula come off a horse this week?

Not that I heard - but I missed an episode too. I'd meant to listen to the Omni this morning while pottering in the kitchen making soup (yeah, like that takes 1:15 ) but DD wandered down for brekkie a little after 10. So I ended up simultaneously making soup, pancakes and explaining hexadecimal numbers to her instead. Only burnt one pancake but the dog happily ate that.

Very few things in life are as nice as a slightly burnt pancake hastily stuffed down in front of the stove. (Un)luckily I have no dog so I have to eat them myself.

Basketz the equine incident was in this evening's episode. (Get some rest!)

oh, this wasn't nice, it was carbonized on one side, uncooked on the other at the point I scraped it off the pan. However, from the dog's POV this meant it was on average perfectly cooked, I guess (as otherwise he wouldn't have got it).

One of the biggest differences between teenagers & dogs is that you can't cook the wrong thing for a dog. Maybe Elizabeth needs a dog to keep her company? I can't remember whether Jill ever moved into Lower Loxley after Nigel died. Kenton was there for a bit in between Kathy & Jolene. Hmm was Jill there when Elizabeth's heart was playing up?

Ashamed to say I recognised Lizzy's jealousy and her inability to express it in a way that would stand up to a moment's scrutiny! I think it's a universal sibling thing born of simmering resentment (unless you think thank god she didn't move in with me!)

I think Kenton is bringing out the nagging side of Jolene. He does that to anyone with a semblance of maturity.

I wondered whether Lizzy fancied some of the free kitchen labour from her mother. But it's a bit daft to think that, given the choice, Jill wouldn't prefer to go back to the farm rather than LL.

Nenny Doesn't Elizabeth have Mrs Can't-remember-her-name (domestic staff) for kitchen labour? I think it's the emotional bolster (particularly with the DCs,) the company and also the top-dog position as Keeper-of-the-Mother that she wanted.

Eileen Titcombe, previously Mrs Pugsley, I think. She married Edgar Titcombe, the gardener, who for umpteen years had always been referred to as just Titcombe. I wonder if they have now retired, though. They must be absolutely ancient if they are still working, like Freda Fry.

Oh - yes! Mrs Titcombe. Wasn't there an episode where Nigel and Elizabeth discussed this unlikely romance? Or did I imagine it?

Joint hallucination if so, Zero! Did they get married at LL?