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Bolloxfest is imminent. Will this thread make it to the big day?

No! No! No! Not the roof!!!

And Leonie!

oh no something horrid's gonna happen...

phew saved by the soundcheck!

That was rather grim

If Rotaboy is staying over for the length of Loxfest, doesn't he have a change of clothes? why need to borrow dear nigel's shirt or whatever? Or was the skanky so and so planning on wearing the same shirt for the whole weekend? A thought struck me during the episode - maybe Rotaboy's tetanus not up to date, he will get lockjaw, and have to stop talking ....

It occurred to me last night - there is a cow bridge across a major road somewhere I used to drive a lot. I think it's the M6 at the top end, between Penrith and Carlisle. The little Basketz used to get very excited at the sight.

I think, as he was up on the roof of the main house, it was simply quicker for him to be stroked patched up and to change his clothes in the house rather than go to the flat he's borrowing in the converted stables (?) or wherever.

If the writing had been a little less obvious I'd have found it tense rather than grim....

Cannot wait to hear about Rupert!

I can't hang about, the Tibetan Monks are arriving soon -love it!

For a minute there pseuds I thought YOU had the Tibetan monks coming round for tea!

It was very clangy with the "ooh Roy you've ripped your shirt you must take it off"

I need detailed updates people.

I am actually working AT a festival now and I can't keep up with TA. Tis most frustrating.

How are ticket sales btw?

I haven't heard Thursday's yet.
Do I take it that Roy was on the roof of Loxley Hall wearing Nigel's shirt?

a) the scriptwriters really do take note of these threads.
b) Roy doing that is thoughtlessness on a par with driving Tom to the Wedding in a Massey Fergusson.
c) He was wearing more than a shirt, wasn't he?

I thought the interviewer had a fair point actually, about the effect on Lily of her mother's apparent attitude towards violence against women

On the contrary wasn't Lizzie a victim of DV herself, courtesy of Cameron Fraser. Or was it only EA and it was Debbie that had the DV? Someone will remember.

I don't understand the business about the radio interview. Why didn't they get PR advice. I really hope that they rescind the interviewer's press pass and insist that Radio Borsetshire send someone else.

Ticket sales were mentioned on Wednesday CUP. Not good. They were due to make a loss even before they took the decision to drop Quaintance Smith.

Did we all note how Nigel's shirt was a bit tight on Roy because he's such a rippling hunk of manhood. Bleugh.

you would think that a festival would have its own PR person anyway

i agree about the DV apologist stuff actually - they handled it badly (not the SW, E and R)

The conversation between Elizabeth & Roy was stomach turning. Truly horrible. I wish Freddie would just put an end to it.

And I'm sick of the new road too. That sort of thing takes months & months & it's BORING me already. I'd like more about Chris & Alice, Kathy & Jamie, even Helen. And I'm missing Clarrie. I'm feeling very grumpy now about the whole programme.

Caught up now, sort of wish I hadn't. A tube of antiseptic cream will forever have nasty connotations.

I found that convo between Lizzie and Rotaboy (or should we be calling him Rotahunk?) really cringemaking too. And how is Freddie going to react when he sees R in his dad's shirt?

cutteduppear - they have decided to cancel QS due to DV rumours. they will lose money and need to find a replacement band, but is good PR for them

roy was on the roof doing some plot contrivance, cut himself on something, elizabeth was panicking that he was on roof, he comes down covered in blood with ripped muscles shirt. "ooh roy let's get you cleaned up, take off that shirt, have one of nigel's that was too big for him, gosh don't you fill it nicely"

Sorry SW but still not convinced Roy is a hunk.

Must have been nice to feel 100% cotton against his skin after a lifetime of man made fibres.

And surely the pr of quantaince shit would have got lead singer into some sort of celeb rehab to fight his inner demons ASAP anyway so he wouldn't be available for loxfest?

I don't like the way they are using DV as a plot device.

Ha I thought it was Roy's moobs that made the shirt fit so tightly. I imagine him being one of those men who is weedy/skinny yet flabby at the same time IYKWIM

I always thought of Nigel as well-covered so surely the shirt should be a bit big on Roy who I think of as slim not in a ripped way.

The whole scene was utterly purile but in keeping with TA record on 'sexy' scenes - Sid and Jolene in the shower anyone?

Isn't that funny? Nigel was a scrawny little spithig in my mind. :o

Best bit for me was the contrast between straight A Pheobe's exam results and landed gentry Josh with his A in PE. Peasants' revolt anyone?

I'm sorry but I was when Roy was up on the roof, it just seemed so contrived. I wonder if it was the fixings for the Deck the Halls banner that Roy managed to cut himself on?

Nigel was a scrawny little spithig in my mind.

Apologise at once! I don't know what a spithig is, but Nigel wasn't one. And he wasn't scrawny, he was comfortably upholstered. In my mind he looks just like ... Graham Seed.

Nigel wasn't scrawny - he had that comfortably upholstered upper-middle class foodie look, like Henry Dimbleby. Roy must have massive moobs and a huge beer belly to fit tightly into a shirt that was too big for Nige.