Sexy sex on lovely legs, shearing sheep bare-chested. Tell us how you picture the good folk of Ambridge (and feel free to discuss anything else rural soap-related).

[PseudoBadger]

For me, that describes Ed. Some strange people think that it describes Jazzer.
Does it matter what they look like? We know and love their voices (except you Pip)

Sailing a bit close to the wind there, Basketz. HWMNBN hasn't been mentioned for months now and long may it remain so. I'm hoping his mummified corpse will be found in the converted van or whatever it was several years from now, resulting in a bit of anguished soul-searching for a few minutes, and then he can be properly forgotten.

basketz Agree about Peggy my dm is a bit like that and she has no particular incidents in her life it's just being 86 IMO.

IIRC HWMNBN DID go to the medics just before he got the flat.Sorry synonym overload there !!

He Who Must Not Be Named, baby. The old editor included him and his endless whining in almost every episode for her last few months. The new editor earned my undying gratitude by casting him out as soon as his term of office began.

Ian is not Henry's dad as far as we know. Helen went to a clinic to get an anonymous sperm donor. If she'd wanted Ian to do it it would have been an awful lot easier just to ask him.

... mind you, there might then have been a temptation to include a scene where Ian's part in the proceedings was dramatised with sound effects. I'm glad we were spared that.

But remember all the hoohah when Ian's friend from school (Mag's??) wanted to 'borrow' his sperm. Adam was VERY unhappy at the idea of parenthood for him or Ian. Then 'Mags' got back with her (male) partner and was never heard again.

Babybarrister, HWCNBN was (note WAS) a character who worked as a joiner (well, he did have a tool kit ), went off the rails when his wife chucked him out - I've forgotten why exactly, oh yes, he was an ex-jailbird who got in with a baddie again, and his wife had had enough. She was Albanian, I think, and worked in the care home that Jeck was in and got close to Peggoi. They had 2 teenage daughters. all of them had annoying voices but for different reasons. You risk being struck down with something if you mention them by name on this 'ere thread.

Yes, HE did eventually go to GP for meds, didn't he? But 'compliance' being what it is in the NHS these days, I'll bet as soon as he had his caravan (and got his tool kit back frm his mate's) he was cured and stopped taking them.

Once again I'm reading this ahead of actually listening to the actual episode. john I raised an eyebrow over your comment - I'm going to be disappointed arent I??

To return to fave cousins briefly ... I just thought it was staggering that hellin would be anyone's favourite anything!

Roy and Lizzie were revolting tonight. Can't wait for Friday.

Now that Rotaboy has admitted that he spends his working hours desperate to touch Lizzie (and worse) he really is going to have to go. And Hayley is going to get all up in arms about it and go and have a shout at Lizzie, And Lizzie is going to let out the reason "accidentally".

Please don't do it, SWs. It would be horribly predictable and tedious.

What would be better would be for a real hunk to come along and show Lizzie that there is more to life than Roy's polyester. Then we can have a few enjoyable episodes listening to Roy grinding his teeth in the background whilst hunk promises Lizzie unspeakable delights.

Sorry about my typo earlier. Wrong in so many ways...

She's got to keep him until bolloxfest presumably?

That's probably going to be scene of the denouement isn't it. Fest is wild (and miraculous) success, E and R overcome with emotion, Hayley walks in, something like that

Perhaps the shock of catching Lizzy and Roy in a clinch could have driven all the maths out of Freddie's noggin, necessitating another few sessions with the lovely Ifty. That would drive all thoughts of synthetic snogs out of Lizzy's head.

I like that idea bluestocking.
Bring back Ifty!

Yeees Ifty come and save Lizzie and get rid of polyester boy Roy ( I guarantee that Iffy wears white linen shirts over his muscly (but not too muscly) beige/brown chest

baby the man, and his family actually, who annoyed everyone were unrealistically shoehorned in as a token 'homeless' in a fake "look this can happen to anybody" way.

Roy's not going to take no for an answer, is he?
My guess is that she is going to find someone less bri-nylon quite soon and Roy's going to be an utter twerp.

And Helen's dinner parties always seem to go wrong so Friday is going to be a disaster. At least she hasn't yet borrowed Jennifer's fish kettle!

It's so unconvincing that all of a sudden he wants not only to smell Lizzie's hair all day but to 'be that person' for her, at the expense of Hayley, Feebs and Abbie, who suddenly seem to be nothing to him.

Can you imagine the step-parenting conflicts?

Can you imagine the step-parenting conflicts?

I would give almost anything in the world to be allowed to write Phoebe's lines if that happens! Or to be in on the stand off between her three mums.

Why, btw, are you all so crazy about Ifty? So bland and harmless and inoffensive...

I've still got to catch up on last night (podcasts only round here), but I do have a slightly off topic question. What happened to Nigel's friend Tim Beauchamp? Weren't they best friends, partners in crime etc? Nowhere in the whole falling off roof debacle etc. did I hear his name mentioned which seems a bit odd.

Thoriginal They call it luuuureve don't they? You know the song "love changes everything" he's fallen for her hook line and plonker!!! sillyarse! Lizzie has more sense. (hopefully).

BTW what do we think Lizzie looks like? Did anyone have an image I missed in the longish posts on the first few pages?

I think small, with creases around eyes but those rather nice smooth appley-plump-and-taut cheeks that are the way some women's faces go in their 40s. Boden off-duty, but more Toasty the rest of the time. Long swishy cashmere grey cardigans. White Company. And with nice-smelling hair, obv.

Lily wore lots of Joules when she was a bit younger.

Yes, I think quite like that, TheOriginal, but not in any way boho looking imo. She has a definite 'home counties' air about her, is at home in hunter wellies and tailored jackets. Uses expensive toiletries and has a couple of really expensive-but-tasteful handbags.

And very layered. Swishy and swooshy but, as you say, not boho at all.
Cardigan or shawl often pulled more tightly over her thin shoulders to keep warm. Slightly ostentatiously. And same gesture used when the statically-charged fingers of polyester-Roy seem to threaten contact, now.

Because Ifty looks like a young Imran khan (in my head)

Elizabeth has straight blond shoulder length hair and is effortlessly attractive.