Oh. Hello. I didn't know we'd invited another The Archers thread round darling. How nice to see you. Discuss Ambridge here.

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As tribute to the best SL at the moment...

Wasn't it his brother? Who gets to run things on their farm. (Have I misremembered?)

Another point to Charlie, (beyond general perturbation of Adam) following last night's "revelation" (which we'd already guessed) is that the SWs can keep us guessing for a good deal longer as he interviews candidates for the rôle of "The One".

So the Pip is back in play.

Did Charlie order cows? I remember some inorganic potatoes or some sort of feed. But must have missed the cows?

Rob not Charlie!

grand theft otto brilliant!

arf @ "the LemonPip is in play".

Yes it was brother, not sister.

Yes, Rob ordered cows after Tony was Otto'd because he sticks his nose in where it's not wanted likes to help the family business. NewTom arrived back just in time to refuse to accept them.

Yeah he ordered some non magical organic cows because you only need half your calf's genetic breakdown to be organic or something. Bit vague on this as you might have noticed... Tom told him to do one.

I completely missed the detail on the cow buying thing but tis true that bulls don't have to be organic, on an organic farm. Probably due to limited availability.

They also were not Aberdeen Angus, they were a different breed.

I don't recall the breed but Tom spotted that he had bought in turnips or something BF frowns on as feed as well as these cattle.
I bet Rob had a good furkle round the office while he was 'helping' as well.

Furkle?

Is that a technical term?

It's a 'furtle' where I'm from. This is ringing a bell about the cattle now, though I don't remember hearing the showdown with Tom about it. They were simmentals, I think.

That's it exactly. They were simmentals. And R you can still call in AA beef as long as it is only so many of the breeding stock or something. Would strengthen herd etc. And Tom said dad wanted an AA herd and that's that.
He also ordered neep which although organic would give the cattle indigestion I think. (Although it was drunkenness due to fermented neep that i recall being a problem as a kid. Leading to AAs in AA)

I was surprised that furkle came up on my spell checker. I picked up the word somewhere between Derby and Cumbria, most likely the latter. "Root round" is equivalent, or is that also dialect?

It wasn't really a showdown. Tom was, I think, very restrained but he made it quite clear to Rob that he was back and in charge. (Rob made an inaudible sneer, most likely.)

very restrained but ... quite clear ... that he was back and in charge.

That is my idea of the perfect showdown!

I'm a bit worried that they are going to turn Lilian into a full-on alcoholic.

I hate Rob but I do think the storyline's being handled well.

And I keep singing between thinking "No one's going North! No one's getting any money!" and thinking that introducing the Justin Elliot character might actually be quite interesting. He's like the uber-Brian.

And is it me or are Tom and Charlie played by the same actor?

swinging not singing.

Agree with points about alto pip. She sounds ancient and almost as annoying as old pip.

And is it me or are Tom and Charlie played by the same actor?

They do both have a very 'clipped' way of speaking. Probably went to the same drama school!

I was so hoping you were singing Squeaver - I was trying to work out which musical that was from.

Well tonight started with a BOOP! Robert and Jim plus Brine.

brilliant! Brian is kind of trying...

I love Brian! Pub scene was a little too drawn out though. And is bird watching good radio? Even competitive bird watching.

Neil is the king of passive aggressive!