Robbieeeee! It's meee, it's Jessieeee! I've come home. I'm so cold! Let me in-a-your window. The Archers pay homage to Wuthering Heights?

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A new thread in time for the film this morning.

Ha! Roy left strings dangling - what when you ordered him out with no notice!!!

Urgh it is gross how keen Roy was when Lizbeth rang up.
What the jeff is he thinking? After all that hand wringing? Grim.

He's trying to be decent and she's just using him again is all I hear...

Talk about toying with his affections. I know he was the married one but I still think she's acted like a heartless cow!

Yes David and Ruth - a panic sale is your best option

When my DM says "I'm listening..." I quake in my middle aged boots....

He was definitely looking for a way back in though! So much for doing everything he can to make it work with Hayley. He'll go to whichever woman will have him.

Rotaboy was so not just trying to be decent. Just look at the way he was pumping Caroline for information about Lizzie even before she phoned. The stupid idiot obviously thinks that if Hayley's not around he might as well try again with the middle-aged tart - conveniently forgetting that there's no surer way of totally killing his relationship with Feebs and that (I hope) Lizzie's still going to put Frilly first.

I can't remember - who is Frilly? Jill?

fred+lil

Lizzie will put the most important person in her life first as usual

Roy's life is in free fall so I don't think he is thinking rationally

He is the master of his own downfall but I think he's completely out of control now

Roy really is grim, trying to worm his way in with Lizzie. The sooner he has a pheasant induced car crash the better.

Roy doesn't deserve Hayley so I hope she finds career fulfilment and a lovely bloke either in or out of Ambridge. If the latter then I hope she becomes great friends with Jess and plagues the stuffing out of Helen until she opens her eyes.

Roy? I think Liz is going to offer him his job back because the poor thing can't cope. They're going to end up together and regretting it. I can feel it in my water.

Collective Phrilly will be even more outraged and I wait eagerly for Freddie to discover his power as heir.
Freddie and Phoebe are going to fall in love. (Phreddie?)

Jill is going to be livid that she's the last to know.

BYOS - we'll have to do a north london/abbey road/Archers meet up!

Ooh, I read that Mr O'Connor interview.

So he was involved in "Footballers' Wives" - my guilty pleasure telly . Do you think he could write a part for Zoe Lucker (Tanya Turner)? She could be Justin Elliott's cut-throat but glamourous girlfriend.

I found an old book about TA and it says the "affair' between John Tregorran and JD was for the most part "IN HIS MIND" . I'm going to Archers land in 2 hours be back in a week or so

I agree Unitarian - it sounds like Roy of the Rotas might be back at LL before long. Especially as his replacement has to communicate through the medium of mime!

haha yes lil re geraldine. i did think similarly when elizabeth complained that geraldine doesn't communicate!

I'm really confused about the farm sale nonsense. I thought it was originally to do with Rooth insisting that they move nearer her mother but now it is all about what will happen when the road is announced? Did we hear that switch of priorities?

Rotaboy will be back shagging the tart by the end of Sunday...just as Hayley returns home to have a chat about the way forward. I really want a huuuggggee disappointed "oh" from Jill when she hears what her daughter has been up to.

I also want the witch Carol to poison JD's shoot lunch as revenge

I want a witty name change NOW.

also what was that about peggy's 90th birthday and a marquee on the green. seriously? you're going to suggest that a 90yo woman should sit outside in a tent in november? and six weeks (or whatever it was) is not much time to plan a big event, but that is standard for TA

I thought marquee remark was a joke and just symbolised 'a big fuss'.

Roy makes me grind my teeth. Oh Elizabeth. Wag wag waggy tail.

Glad deevid is a bit with her. Dunno why everyone is so fine with it. Ok so Roy is the married one but she is an employer. If she was a bloke who shagged then sacked a member of staff there would be a sexual harrassment tribunal.

And FFS it is only managing a hotel/conference venue. Roy is not the only flipping manager in the world. Why is Lizzie so flaming helpless? Cannot help run her business, couldn't help shagging Rotaboy. Etc. Etc. Useless!!

Agreed, GypsyFloss, surely Ruth's mum needs looking after now? A frail old lady might no longer be around by the time of the road announcement, making the whole thing a waste of time.

Maybe R&D have forgotten why they're going!

fair enough justice - i find it hard to tell because everything carol says seems to be said wryly!