Culvert operations in Ambridge - discuss The Archers here. It's not his baby by the way.

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Is Ed's wedding very soon?

Just caught up. Do big, businesslike farms actually approve of someone's girlfriend coming in to do important public presentations? Especially when they are part of a rival business? Bonkers.

I was wondering whether Rob had nipped round to Stefan's mum's house and broken her legs himself. Too extreme?

Did Kenton leave his brain cells in Australia?

As for Helen at Berrow farm - credibility advisor needed! No business would allow that. Totally ridiculous. And Tom providing the pig for Berrow. So much for their childrens principles

Thank god they've given up competitive bird watching. Don't think I could bear a repeat

Newtom has been told to make his voice more distinctive hasn't he.

Christine's going to find Scruff at her house isn't she?

dead or living it up in his own pad?

newtom has been told to make his voice more distinctive

Really? I thought he sounded more like Charlie than ever, not just the sound but the way he phrases things. I'd love to hear a dialogue between C and T if only to find out surreal that would sound.

he's dropping his t's and trying to rollercoaster his voice a lot more. i thought he sounded very self conscious

trouble is that they are so identically voiced that he's going to have to go further and charlie is going to have to go more cut glass

maybe we should have an episode with only charlie, tom and the fairbrothers

would make great radio....

Newtom sounded very like his dad tonight, I thought. All very confusing anyway. Auntie will never leave he stables if she finds a dead scruff on her ''good' rug. Oh dear.

but that opens the cottage up for newcomers (or the grundys once hazel evicts them)

Scruff will be fine. (I hope.) Weak but fine. First she'll call Lynda, then she'll call Alistair, then Lynda will take him home to the Dower House.

Which brings me back to the Amside question. Previously the business needed the full time efforts (with golf and shopping breaks) of three people - just to keep going. So how on earth is one grief stricken Lillian, not on the premises, able to run it by herself?

Hope she won't mind a dog in the house ... Perhaps that will be the cue for Lynda and Robert to move back to Ambridge Hall.

He was last seen quite a while ago - what's he been living off?

More likely a family in grange spinner have adopted him assuming he's stray an there will be a tug of love battle

BertrandRussell and enoch Thinking about it why would Hell even entertain going out with a bloke like Rob, let alone speak at his farms' open day? I reckon that he did a lot of 'pretending to be green' when he was courting her.

She was so blinded by lust she didn't think it through and now she's so desperate for a family of her own she's still not rational (maybe she just isn't rational )

He reminds me of our dear Prime Minister; a complete liar, saying want he thinks people want to hear.

I do hope Shula or Jolene or someone is going to slap Kenton around the head and tell him to stop being so bloody stupid. Where does he get off with all this misplaced pride and "We can look after ourselves" when the whole bloody mess arises because he was freeloading on money he didn't have?

Icimoi - yes Kenton was poisonous last night - and poor David, it wasn't his idea he was talked into it by Shula.

Scruff will have been living off scones and the casseroles that Jill kept taking round for Aunty Cardboard.

IIRC Auntie C mentioned she's been there once, so would've found Scruff if he was there

He might have arrived since the last time she was there. Poor thing would have gone to Ambridge Hall first and found no one to welcome him ...

He's probably been eating the rats that floated through with the flood debris.

He could have turned ferral and be living off rabbits and rodents. I still have hope for a happy ending for Scruff.
Helen leapt on the first seemingly single man with a pulse and abandoned all for the security she thought he offered.

There are too many mentions of Scruff for him not to be making a reappearance soon. Is it too much to hope that he's been guarding some vital piece of culvert evidence? "What's that Scruff? You saw Rob block the culvert? And you've kept his piece of corrugated iron with his prints on it?"

Isn't the point with Hellin doing the presentation that Knob won't have cleared it with Charlie and something will go wrong? OR Charlie will praise her to skies, she'll get a taste for working life again and Knob will add another padlock to the Aga.

They really missed a trick not having Pat's reaction.

I'm new to this thread.... what does BOOP mean and what is 'the film'?

Welcome rumbelina, you won't regret joining us!

BOOP is named after poster BitOutOfPractice who complained we were all getting too negative about the storylines in The Archers (or TA!). So now when we're happy with a particular storyline or convo between characters we give it a BOOP point or .

The Film is another name for the Omnibus. Someones mother, aunt or granny used to call it The Film .

I'm sure there's a glossary somewhere...

Aha! Glossary for our daft acronyms and nicknames here

Awwww I was getting all excited there thinking that Scruff must have reappeared (I'm not listening at the moment) but is it just all speculation on your part, dear Archers thread colleagues?

OMG. I have divined Helen's future.

She has farm management qualifications.

And experience.

And she's enegised by running a business.

Efficient (away from Rob).

Energetic (away from Rob).

Will do brilliantly with Mega-Farm Sunday.

Helen's going to get Rob's job.

Well someone's going to get Rob's job!
I doubt if he'll survive much longer after Sunday, one way or another.