Loxfest is over. Locket-gate is upon us. Discuss Mowgli, Rob's new secret and of course the new road here with other Archers fans.

[PseudoBadger]

New thread for hopefully an exciting Sunday episode. Poor Hayley.

R4 - whilst lizzie throwing Roy under the bus wouldn't surprise me - she seems to think she's justified in everything he does so will rob ably be perplexed that Hayley is upset when liz was kind enough not to demand he leave her

Replace garbled with 'justified in everything she does so will probably'

Rob has, hopefully, no involvement in this particular sordid affair

Can someone explain Schroedinger's baby to me please?

The juxtaposition of Peggy and Rob tonight makes me think it's actually them that are alike ... undermining and controlling. RichJohn doesn't fit at all with her (derailed) planned succession, so very quick to suggest calling Sharon - sounding like a wise caring elder. Which doubtless is what she sees herself as.

It was lizzie who seduced Roy though so she must have been thinking about it

But wasn't she pissed as a newt at the time? So probably not a lot of thinking went into it.

Peggy was awful about Rich, wasn't she? There was genuine joy in Pat's voice and she just slapped her right down. Not a glimmer of great-grandmotherly affection for the boy. I think that there is significant anti-Horrobin snobbery at play there, and she doubtless "cannot abide" young Rich John's Leeds accent and grammar. Not like that lovely well-spoken Rob who's bringing Henry up to be such a polite young chap.

It was ironic really that Peggy's antipathy to RichJohn was so patent in her conversation with Pat, when at the same time Helen was fretting about how Peggy was preferring RichJohn to her.

What on earth was all that from Helen about whispers about Jess at the playgroup? How on earth would any playgroup mothers (a) have known who Jess was or (b) have seen her on her fleeting visit?

Yep-did you notice a Helen keeping Henry sitting at the table and later Pat saying "oh Helen,let Henry get down".....,.,? That's pure Rob.

I'm so glad that we have this thread, I listen to the podcast in bed and must have fallen asleep listening to it so I missed the 2nd half, which I've just listened to again. I have a dd the same age as Rich, Phoebe & Josh & there's no way I'd organise anything without discussing it with her first.

Someone - was it Susan had seen Jess in a shop (maybe The Shop), she gossiped about it with Clarrie. So Nic and Emma will have heard at least...

She came into the shop, Susan served her and then told Clarrie at work. Helen came into the yoghurt bottling area as they were talking about it & asked what they were laughing about (but they covered up their gossip successfully).

Oak settle - I agree. I just don't think liz will blame Roy e cause liz always sees herself as a victim

Being drunk is never an excuse for bad behaviour!

I love the Ed n Jazzer scenes.

Proper Archers.

Wonder if Rob will se Richjohn as a threat to Helens inheritance via Peggy and plot to get rid of him. Christmas murder/accident on the farm?

cheminotte

In simple terms, the quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger had a thought experiment. You place a cat and a vial of poison in a box and seal it. The vial of poison might break and release the poison, or it might not. You would not know if the cat was dead or alive until you opened the box, so until the box was opened, the cat is (in a sense) both "dead and alive". It's the action of observing the cat which crystallises it into being either "dead" or "alive".

Similarly, Jess's baby is both Rob's and mystery man's simultaneously, until it's born and there's a paternity test

YY oaksettle to Lizzy owning up by mistake

Oh - this is known as "Schroedinger's Cat" - hence "Schroedinger's Baby"

(you have to ignore the fact that anyone who has ever owned a cat ever knows full well that if you trap a cat in a box it makes it very clear whether it is alive or dead)

Peggy is such a cow, isn't she?

Did anybody hear the Shroedinger's Cat joke on Boffins Telling Jokes the other night, btw?

petula

great explanation btw trev

TheOriginal no! please share!
I watched the very start of it but the boffins were upsetting me with their awkwardness so I turned it off. I did laugh at the chap who thought he was a dog not being allowed on the psychiatrist's couch though.

I was wondering if maybe Hellin might have a hunting-based accident. Maybe bash her head in a fall leading to amnesia about the baby..?

Ha I should confess I did refer to wikipedia to supplement my dim memories of undergraduate physics!

Schrodinger is driving home from the lab, and is stopped by a policeman.
'Excuse me, sir, I couldn't help noticing you're driving rather erratically,' says the policeman. He gives Shrodinger a breathalysing, and nothing comes of it, so he decides to search the car whilst he's there (unlikely perhaps, but this is after all teh world of jokes). He comes back to Shrodinger and says 'excuse me, did you know there's a dead cat in your boot?'.
Shrodinger says 'well, there is now!'.

Peggy's a right old bag!! Send him back to his "real" home.

And master manipulator straight in there with they hunting shite again.