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.

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

Ok. Have read synopsis.

Charlie has taken on board what knob said and is trying to win hearts and minds

Vicky is being a bit of a cow and mike needs to talk to her. She seems to be rushing headlong into a decision without putting much thought into it. Or at least it seems

ach, I think Hayley weeping 'with the stress of it all' is quite realistic.

I agree Charlie is having a rethink - ultimately for his own benefit too. Interesting that he was parroting Adam though with 'We all make mistakes'.

I think Vickoi being Vickoi really. A bit anxious, a bit single-minded, a bit/ hugely neglectful of what others want/need. Esp poor Moike.

I'm not mad about Linda but don't dislike her. She is actually kind and hard-working. And I love hearing Robert and her together. But she's had hay fever for decades now - as have I - and there are good treatments out there. That really does annoy me. (I also don't mind Ruth and David)

Beth is not even 2 yet-wouldn't Vickoi be laughed at by the school if she tried to make an appointment to view it?

Charlie has taken on board what knob said and is trying to win hearts and minds

I don't believe that and I don't trust him for a minute.
I'll bet that he is thinking that he has ended up looking the bad guy so he is, on the surface, 'giving Ed another chance' but is, in reality, setting Ed up to fail.

I disagree R4 - I think he is genuinely realising that annoying the locals is a bad idea. Of course perhaps I've just been charmed by his good looks on the radio.
Poor Hayley yesterday. Doesn't she have any good friends she can confide in?

R4 - I wasn't saying he means it! He is just playing a game. Ultimately ed is an irrelevance to him.

I started to view schools when my eldest was two - with no issues, and we didn't have a special need. If I had a child with special needs I would certainly be looking at 2, especially if considering moving. I did want to shout though that: just because a school has a shiny prospectus and spouts "inclusion" doesn't mean it does.
If the SWs wanted to make a real story they'd have Vicki in a few years moaning and stressing about how little the school seems to really provide/care.

Given the decision vicky has to make I would have expected much more lead in and angst.

If they move Beth off air by sending her to brum I think they've missed a really good opportunity. But then writing about the needs of a child with ds is far less interesting than extra marital affairs and large roads

cheminotte have you had a striking haircut recently?

lol Petula !

You know if Emma'd been a 'normal' daughter she'd've told her mum exactly how stupid (or otherwise) her hair looked. That's where the SWs go wrong when they 'forget' an obvious thing like that.

I reckon that Hayley thinks that she stands to lose soo much that she's 'waiting' to see if it blows over before, or even if, she confronts Polyboy

2 is the right age to look at special schools. Many have attached nurseries. My local ( Brum, oi Vckoi come here!) has kids in as soon as they are 3, sometimes before.

Beth probably should have an education plan in place along the lines of special needs nursery at 2 with plan for mainstream at 3.

There would also be physio/portage/play specialists visiting or seeing her from birth. We don't hear anything about these....

ppeatfruit, really? My mum has never had a stupid haircut and almost certainly never will - she keeps to the sacred routine of a perm every few months and a shampoo and set every week or two - but even if she did, I wouldn't dream of telling her that her hair looked stupid. It would be more than my life is worth!

My mum is the same sort of age as Jill and I'm older than Susan. However, my daughter (younger than Emma) would also never tell me my hair looked stupid. It's just not the kind of thing we do in our family.

All families are different AllMimsy ; dsis and I told our mum her haircur made her look a bit citc. She didn't mind she just told her hairdresser to give her proper layers! If you were having your hair done at the same place you wouldn't say anything if she had a totally different look that didn't suit her?

No, not unless she did. You're absolutely right that all families are different. That's why it struck me that you said that if Emma was a normal daughter she would have told Susan it was a stupid haircut. I think you may have meant if she was more like you, she would have said that...

But surely Susan would've asked Emm what she thought AllMimsy ? They were together at the hairdressers which the SWs forgot for some odd reason.

I thought Emma was fairly positive about it? But that may be because she didn't want to upset her mum. Susan is a very forceful personality and not slow to criticise.

I may have missed that bit Mimsy

Hello everyone, just found this thread. Did any of you used to be on the old BBC Archers board by any chance?

Hello, Welshwabbit! Yes, I did, but not under this name. There are several others, I believe. I take it you posted or lurked there too?

Hello Mimsy, yes I also posted for many years, also under a different name (I was Claribel there). I miss it and am glad to have found this, although I am struggling with the current Archers storylines (especially Roy and Lizzie). But then that's as it ever was...

Hello, Welshwabbit

I'm another former mustardlander (from before it was mustard in fact! )

i have forgotten - was carol and peggy going to stonemason ever followed up or was that all implied and shit will hit fan later when hazel finds out? has carol gone home now?

Hi *Welshwabbit!" I was also a very keen lurker in Mustardland, though not such a frequent poster. The standard of discussion here is just as high! Actually, I must admit that I now prefer this type of single thread as the multiple ones in ML were a bit hard to keep up with.