Rogered by a hobbit in the LL undergrowth, buried in a raised bed with Bert or harassed behind the arras with Adam? Pick your Ambridge fate here.

[PseudoBadger]

A big showdown tonight I hope.

Thanks to Zero (I think?) for the great title.

A good episode. So much progress in one epi. Knob and H and his controlling. I did laugh at the CP being soo bad. Of course some children do get CP bad, need hospital etc. But this was indeed bog standard.

I hope V being on the case will mean Mike knowing too before bed time. He will/must roast Rota. I find Mike quite eloquent when he is very angry. 'Your mother would be so ashamed of you, son'

And Jill will hear through the gripe vine and will go nuts. She was very scathing of Shula when she shagged Dr Locke. I liked her convo with David. She was very calm and so not the nightmare MIL/DM you hear of on MN. It'll be interesting to see how it pans out, but like others I expect it will go to the fence and then they wo9n't move anywhere.

Jill was calm and reasonable, but there was an edge at one point. Things may be a bit different when she's processed the implications - hope she spells them out to the d.duo.

I think jill will talk to Ruth and that will lead to their relationship breaking down

Upside is she will move in with frilly and be able to teach lily how to bake. Lily will then have a new medium of communication

Jill is really quite steely beneath all those " ohs " and giggles. I think Rooth is naive to think that Jill will just roll over and accept it.

What a completely implausible storyline, what are the SW thinking. What will happen to the Herefords.

Also, Helen couldn't cope being at home with sick Henry not sure how she's going to cope as a sahm but Henry will suffer for it!

Surely he starts school in September?

Damn, I missed tonight's epi. Must catch up pronto.

I'm still sniggering helplessly at Build's line about Jill ripping David a new one

She would, too. I agree with Gypsy, the Hooter is one to be reckoned with when roused.

hello! love the title

How long before Helen wants a sibling for the Henry?

How on earth would Helen cope with two?

Oh but Helen is soooo independent , you know!

So she will be financially dependent on him too

She'd need Granny Pat & Moany to support her dogged independence but then maybe they'd be too busy playing with John 2 . I'm just surprised it's not come up before. I would have thought she'd want to stamp her signs of possession all over Knob in light of his other impending arrival.

I caught up belatedly with Friday's episode and found myself ever more incredulous at the ludicrous Brookfield storyline when Roooth started going on about how Prudhoe would leave them free to farm as they wanted without all the worries they have at Brookfield. Even Roooth is not stupid enough to believe that Prudhoe is some sort of farming nirvana immune from worries about weather, disease, market forces or even the evil designs of people like Justin Elliot.

And as for saying that Jill would acclimatise when Jill had barely finished telling her how she wouldn't be able to bear to move from Ambridge - words fail me.

And as for saying that Jill would acclimatise when Jill had barely finished telling her how she wouldn't be able to bear to move from Ambridge - words fail me.

Worse than that: they insisted that Jill come to Brookfield. And then they tell her that they are intending to sell up - and make her homeless - immediately after she has let out Glebe Cottage on what sounds like a long lease.

Well Jill ha plenty of children she coul live with.

I think the kicker for her is that she an Phil gae their lives to that farm and she probably feels Phil would be spinning in his grave as he died believing the farm was in safe hands

I suppose they may be aiming for a major storyline where Roooth assumes that the B shares will just transfer to the new farm and Lizzie says certainly not, if it's being sold she wants her payout now. And Jill finds out what a slag Lizzie has been and says that over her dead body will she move to live with the whore, whilst Shula imports HWMNBN back into her spare room so she can't have Jill either. Then there'll be a whole mahoosive fight between the competing interests of the two MILs in the middle of which Heather will conveniently fall off the twig and we'll forget any of it ever happened.

I refuse to believe Heather would countenance disrupting everybody else for her benefit. Hopefully she'll knock it on the head when R&D visit. But, having entertained the idea of serious change, perhaps they'll now think about more drastic solutions more locally if Route B did go ahead.

Icimoi

So now Vicky knows I noticed she wasn't sworn to secrecy so that's it the shxx has begun to hit the fan

Hmmmm.

1. I heard a bit of Farming Today earlier. Milk prices are on the floor. Dairy farmers are having to sell their milk to the big companies for less than the cost of production. Farmers are starting to blockade the processing plants and one woman came on to explain why they are selling up after 30 years on their farm. Third generation dairy farmers, too. Why aren't David and Ruth stressing about that instead of this ludicrous idea of moving to Prudhoe?

1. I may have missed it, but when Helen started talking about taking a break from the shop, did she and Rob discuss money at all? Wouldn't that have been one of the key points to cover in a discussion like that? She may know that Rob's salary is so huge that they don't need Helen's money, but just on a point of etiquette surely she shouldn't just assume that he would be happy to become sole breadwinner? It doesn't surprise me in the least that Rob has skated over that point, but it doesn't ring true that Helen wouldn't mention it at least in passing.

I can't see Pat and Tony being happy about this, but then they rolled over before and accepted Helen's decision to become a single mother without one word being said about the effect on the farm's finances, so who knows.

i heard that on FT too mimsy (on my way to work, feeling mildly virtuous about the milk on my doorstep delivered from the local farm... only 4 pints a week but doing my bit). it was very sad

i wondered about helen's salary too. she must have been drawing something.

Does anyone watch country file? That was fascinating on Sunday not about milk prices but about the future of farming; it'll all be small robotic picker type things. no people at all bad enough now, there'll be nowhere to DTD soon !!!!

Doesn't brookfield sell its milk via some sort of cooperative which helps maintain fair pricing? It's certainly come up as an issue in the past.

Dreadful how the people who actually produce the milk and have to care for the animals are the ones who are squeezed to keep milk cheap.

Maybe if R&D rethink their farm but without going north they might somehow join forces with Ed - there might be a fit there?

yes i saw that too ppeat! (apparently i spend my life watching tv and listening to radio about agriculture. oh well, it is relevant to my job). it did seem strange, but i'm not that surprised. people are more expensive and less reliable than machinery, and farmers need all the reliability they can get what with climate, weather etc

i did like the stuff about some of the more speciality and novel veg varieties they are developing