Is that a CHICKEN roasting in the oven Rob, or are you just pleased to see me? Oh and Hayley, LTB. Discuss The Archers here.

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How about we immortalise Schrodinger's Baby in the opening paragraph?

How long will this thread last DadDadDad?

cheminotte me too re the music! I was straining my ears trying to hear the message the SW were sending us via Charlie's tractor music, but it turns out I wouldn't have recognised it anyway.

Ha Carol the witch! Building up to a big hallowe'en storyline at the end of the month?

Loving this thread ATM

Re workplace relationships, I think the scriptwriters are right about that - lots of marital infidelities do stem from people who meet at work. Ian and Adam are a classic example - due to their working hours they don't see much of each other while Adam is spending a huge amount of time with Charlie. It's often people you meet at work who you find you form a close bond with through force of circumstances as much as anything - Rota boy and Elizabeth are another case in point (also Adam and his picker last year). Clubs and societies are another hotbed - amateur dramatics and tennis clubs are often hotbeds of infidelity. Can anyone name the tune that was playing in the tractor cab last night?

yes, you can easily spend more of the working day in the company of a colleague that in the company of your significant other, and that proximity can lead to intimacy

i think

BYOS True to life IMO . I agree Petula and Lilian about work relationships.

lyrics:

You've got my lost brother's soul
My dear mother's eyes
A brown horse's mane
And my uncle's name
You walked me down 14th Street
For the doctor to meet after thoughts of the grave
In the home of the brave and of the weak

But why'd you have to break all my heart
Couldn't you have saved a little bit of it?
Why'd you have to break all my heart?
Couldn't you have saved a minor part?

I could have clipped and saved and planted in the garden
Damn you guess I'll have to get a new one

I'd love to sit and watch you drink
With the reins to the world, gripping a smoke
Vaguely missing link
Don't ever change you hungry little bashful hound
I got the sheep, poor little Bo Peep
Has lost and filed for grounds.

But why'd you have to break all my heart
I could have ripped apart and thrown into the river
Wonder if there's hearts that will deliver

Don't ever change, don't ever worry
Because I'm coming back home tomorrow
To 14th Street where I won't hurry
And where I'll learn how to save, not just borrow
And they'll be rainbows and we will finally know

Eastenders in the 90s (the last time I watched it properly!) used to have great fun with background music.

That's cheerful....

Not forgetting Rufus's, ahem, biographical detail that he has in common with Adam and Ian and now Charlie, apparently.

indeed

(i should add, i wouldn't have got it was rufus wainwright if biscuitmillionaire hadn't said it. i had to properly concentrate to work out what the song was)

Me too. But you beat me to it. .

Rufus also has a tune called 'Welcome to the Ball'.

Do you think that we will make it to 6:50?

Oh sure - I've seen a few affairs in the workplace but not as many as fiction would have you believe

But there does seem to be a prevailing attitude in my workplace that you 'don't shit on your own doorstep' as one of my bosses put it!

I've just been trying to ask the same question R4 - phone refuses to quote DDD's initial prediction.

We're not far off right now.

According to my calculations, we need 111 posts in roughly 390 minutes so if we manage a post every three-and-a-half minutes we will do it.

110 posts before the next episode will be tricky I think.

Shortly after though I think we will need a new one!

Ian needs to come back as he's the only one with Rob's measure. He would have given Helen some advice/views on what Jess said.

I think that Elizabeth and Roy have unfinished business and that's what will tip Hayley over the edge.

I'm also looking forward to Jill realising what her daughter has done and for once being ashamed/embarassed - she irritates me excessively.

Freddie has told Feebs that the affair is still going on. She seems to believe that and might well tell Hayley who, thus far, has believed that it was a ONS.

108 to go.

Jim has Rob's measure. He's been on the receiving end of Rob's vicious side.

107

The fact we hear little of Ian wrt either his relationship with Adam and Helen suggests to me he is going to be written out.

Yes that's true that phoebe thinks the affair is ongoing but Freddie must be an idiot to think it is with his mother moping round like a soggy dishcloth. Clearly has zero EQ (wonder who he inherited that from...)

Will be interesting to hear how the convo with Hayley goes but I fear I will be embroiled in bedtime

It will give Hayley reason to doubt what Roy's told her though. She thinks it was a roll in a sleeping bag. Bad enough but once you add lying to the mix.....

I had to laugh at Usha's barely suppressed 'Ugh!'

but I fear I will be embroiled in bedtime

I have been contemplating contacting Feedback with a . Ever since I had a go at TA a few months ago about their tardiness with Listen Again, they have been consistently and commendably prompt. You may thank me now.

I would imagine that we are just talking quantum of deceit at this point though surely? The number of incidents are just a number. It is the declaration and the easy willingness to leave that is he killer fact here- not how many sketches of LL lily can include a rogering hobbit!

The way they portrayed Roy I think it would have actually been more realistic of he had walked out on Hayley and turned up at LL with his bag rather than waiting for lizzies permission. I thought they played him as love struck

R4- my dh gets sulky if I delay dinner to listen to the catch up! Sigh, hopefully by 9pm!!

But Hayley doesn't know he contemplated leaving. She only knows what he told her. She's seen the locket of course but that was a 'momento of Loxfest'.

Yes but only lizzie knows that - not Freddie

Am I the only one who thought Charlie sounded a bore with his 'amusing' anecdote?