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.

If they had remembered the B shares before they might not be back pedalling now....

Come now, Zero, you surely don't think they had forgotten! They employ an archivist and all stories are meticulously researched.

They'll be finding the archivist s nice little job in Canada next....

Sorry KD has form for changing stuff to meet his masters calls

Freda doesn't cook at the Bull all day in, day out - apparently she also cleans Arkwright Hall.

Laughing at sending the archivist to Canada!

I have a revised Hunt ball scenario now that we know Justin's coming. (Don't you have to be a member of the Hunt to go to the ball?)

Anyway, Lizzie will be breathlessly flirting with Justin who will take one look at Loxley Hall and flirt back, witnessed by Roy lurking outside. To impress her further while all three are at the same table, Justin will make Ian a lavish offer to finance him in a chain of swanky restaurants and a best-selling cookbook launch.
He and Ian will stroll out into the grounds to discuss this and hear passionate sounds coming from the shrubbery which will turn out to be Adam and Charlie. Ian will now have a wonderfully written scene.
Roy will burst into the ballroom, drunk and weeping, make a desperate appeal to Lizzie who will run outside in tears where she will fall into Justin's arms.
Roy will make his way up onto the roof......
Frilly will look on silently.

Nice but we need to unpack this a little...

Roy will be lurking outside as s car park attendant. (Man cannot live by processed milk alone...)

Yes Elizabeth will be sure to flirt with Justin. Until he recognises Carol (his secret ex...)

Ian won't be there - he'll be working. And anyway he still hasn't taken revenge on Adam for missing their friends' wedding earlier this year.

Leaving Adam free to listen to Jess berating her fate.

Charlie will arrive with the person he is "in a relationship" with, as promised by the Blog.

Johnny will be taken by Helen (much to Rob's disgust) and will save the night by preventing Freddie from running Roy down with Justin's car....

But he'll then blot his copybook by being found in the bushes with Phoebe - who he's obviously never seen before.

Well Jill knew what she was doing when she decided to decline the invitation.

Tbf on the siblings it must be quite a shock - they have deep emotional ties. And throwing Jill moving into it was silly! Could this lead to the other siblings accusing her of favouring David.

Not quite as many fireworks as I was hoping for!! Elizabeth was a but weak.

I wanted Elizabeth to blurt something out about Roy and Hayley! Oh well, we can't have everything. I did enjoy Kenton saying 'When do I get my share of the cash?'

Kenton's interjection had the effect of moderating Lizzie and Shula's response - even if it was what they were thinking.

Maybe lizzie needs the cash before freddy kicks her out

I thought Jill had since said she couldn't leave Ambridge?

Hi Cheminotte - I think Jill said that to Carol, after one of her "martinis" - just gin, vermouth and a dollop of sodium pentothal.

ha ha bluestocking!

yes jill told david she would go because he was crying like a baby but she admitted to carol that she wouldn't.

that was a lot of self-interest for one evening. though i am sympathetic in many cases

fallon was rude. i too find kenton annoying, but that was a bit much. it's his own place of work and she's not paying for use of the premises that i could tell

fallon didn't come across well tonight

as a working kitchen are there any hygiene issues that could be created by it having another use?

if they do hot meals i imagine it has the highest requirements already (i am no expert)?

i assume fallon and emma have their relevant citificits

Helen - nobody becomes a SAHM to polish ornaments!

I'm a SAHM to a toddler in a small rural village. Today we went swimming, went to Sainsburys (both 30 minutes away), walked the dog, pulled faces at the rams, tickled a horse, built a duplo house, did some drawing and made a couple of meals. I also filed my tax return (my halo is shining at that one!). I get that this is all about Rob, but if we have weeks of "how much time I have on my hands now" chat I will explode.

Oh yes! Rob being thrilled at coming home to a "sparkling dresser"! What a weirdo.

If Helen is spending her time cooking and polishing, the next thing that should happen is that Henry will announce he wants to go to nursery again.

Where was Henry when we went to the shop!!!!

Did she lock him in his room and ignore him?

None of the sw can have children if they think she would have had a moment to herself given the novelty to Henry of having her to himself (or just on the basis kids never give you a moment!)

she went to the shop - clearly we were only there in spirit

Giraffe you don't appear to have run a bath for your man according to your list
It riles me that the sisters are saying D and R are ripping the family apart. Possibly because this happened when my gran moved close to my dad (of course his sisters were not willing to take care of her). but they're all babies. David, because he cannot face it without his mum being physically by his side, and the others for expecting the family to all live in one place forever. In fact kenton's was the only reasonable response in all that!

Well spotted! I can wholeheartedly confess to never having run my husband a bath. Ever. Although the day he notices that a dresser has been polished might be the day I do...!

Can we petition the SW to let us be their advisors on children? You can't just pop to a shop for some sugar leaving them tied up like a pooch outside.

so he was either tied up at home or eerily silent - he is Damian from the Omen I tell you!