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Have you had your free venison burger?

Could Peggy be any more self-pitying?

You can see where Tony gets the whininess from!

Peggy is 90 this year! I don't understand why someone hasn't suggested she needs a bit of regular home help (Lillian and Jenny can both afford it) rather than just a bit of cleaning from Emma, and why she doesn't get her shopping delivered. Someone might also have suggested she goes to some sheltered housing or something so she has a bit of company.
But I guess its a comparison with Jill, who is now back in the heart of her family.

Oh! Rupert will be another great-grandchild for Peggy.

I hope they're not planning another crass one in one out SL.

Peggy wouldn't want her shopping delivered. But she would have liked a human rather than a machine in the shop.
Seems like they're rather shoehorning a 'lonely old person' storyline onto her - which doesn't really fit on the matriarch of the Archer clan with umpteen relatives in the village even if her favourite nevvy has done a bunk.

Meant to add ... did anyone else, in response to her 'it won't kill me' hopefully say, 'oh, it might'?

I agree with her about the automatic tills - I try not to use them.
But my FIL who is younger than her gets his shopping delivered, there is even a great company who delivers smaller sized meals. And at least you can usually chat to the delivery guy.

Of course some of today was her own fault. Lillian and Jennifer have "done well" so are too busy, and she's alienated Tony and Pat.

I don't like the automated tills - certainly not if I've got veg, which I usually do. I only use them if I've got a small number of packaged goods, and DD with me - I pretend incompetence so she goes and does everything except the payment. (wondering what else I can apply this cunning strategy to....)

I reckon Lizzie will try some "mushroom soup" or brownies by accident at the festival and will go all; "I can see the music!" And taking her top off.

Cue much hilarity as Roi tries to get a high as a kite Lizzie bac into a tent.

I betcha!

I have a feeling that the SWs are quitly giving Rob a personality transplant. All the EA will turn out to have been a plot that goes nowhere, like so many other dead ends.

Yes his recent behaviour is awful, especially when you remember what went on a few months ago, but not that remarkable compared to the average Cambridge male.

I have a feeling that the SWs are quitly giving Rob a personality transplant. All the EA will turn out to have been a plot that goes nowhere, like so many other dead ends.

Yes his recent behaviour is awful, especially when you remember what went on a few months ago, but not that remarkable compared to the average Cambridge male.

I keep wondering about Rob too. But its all there just a bit more subtle. Little miss giggly wasn't that long ago either!

Rob is going to take on Tony's farm, start a dynasty to rival Brian. He will quit the mega dairy. And then Tom will return.

I don't see a personality transplant in Rob - the single steak incident was very recent.

I don't understand why Peggy didn't just go to the village shop if she was bored, there would be enough choice of food there surely (or is Wednesday early closing?)? Or she could have gone to the Bull for lunch.

Another one here bemused at Brine and Jenny's feebleness about the kitchen. When they were despairing about the foreman hurting his leg, I wanted one of them to have the balls to get on to Kingsley and point out that it was his problem not theirs and that they had a contract, and demand that he organise a replacement. Or they could at least have got Usha the all-purpose lawyer in to do it for them.

Where does 'Cambridge male' come into it? None of the ones I know are abusive cockwombles and didn't Rob go to Agricultural College...

Have arrived at work after a 10 mile detour to avoid Cereals traffic! I wonder if Charlie and Adam's trip will include them being stuck in the car for hours on end for extra authenticity.

I wonder if part of the kitchen plot is to show that JennyDarling is actually quite unflappable and calm - it makes a contrast to Brian who starting to look more and more at a loose end and doesn't really have anything to fill his days with now he's not top honcho at BL.

Typo for Ambridge male?

Ah! That would explain it, auto-correct

It's looking like we're getting one of those character wrenches with Piggoi. Having lived on her own for years quite happily, albeit with regular visits to The Laurels, and having been presented as a feisty clued-up self-sufficient woman, suddenly she's become a feeble old dear who can't cope with automated checkouts and hasn't got the sense to go to a manned till, and who can't cope with going home to an empty house. They're presenting it as being partly to do with the fact that Pat'n'Moany aren't really speaking to her, but it's not as if they were exactly popping round every day before.

It would be nice to think it's based on a realisation that she totally misjudged Tom and was arguably a contributor to his effing off to Canada, but for the fact that she is sublimely confident of her own judgment on things like Hellin and Knob and the benefits of organic farming.

Is this lonely old dear stuff a precursor to her following in Jill's footsteps and moving in with one of the offspring? I can't see any of them (or at least their respective partners) exactly welcoming her with open arms.

Is Rob going to offer to move in with Helen and Henry, I wonder. Peggy would sotmc soon after!

I find it hard to believe the Alan Sugaresque Piggoi couldn't spot that beloved grandchild Tom only ever seemed to pop in to make a withdrawal from Bank of Gran

Curveball alert...

I'm wondering if (my) Justin is perhaps a little more senior than I'd imagined. "Jill and Justin" trips lightly off the tongue....

Just listening now. I really cannot believe that Piggy would have taken a bus rather than a taxi to the supermarket and then used the automated till, complete with a frustrated " shut up" . None of that is true to her.

However I can see Rob suggesting that they move in to keep her company...followed by Eddie popping around to quote on the new patio

icimoi and Gypsy I reckon that it's quite true to life actually as people get older they get more forgetful and think they can do exactly what they used to. (also the 'expense' of a taxi even though she can afford it would stop her). My DM is a bit like it. I liked the grey power episode with Jill going to see Charlie,i'm not sure she'd 've done that though, desperation does make us do weird things I suppose