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

[PseudoBadger]

Is Ed's wedding very soon?

Arghhhhhh it sounded like Pip wanted to lick Toby. Run for your life manboy.

Rob is stepping it up. "Say what you like about Ian" Erm Helen's never said anything?! "Harrison isn't your type is he"...

flirting...sledgehammer style Zero

Um, have they not heard of voter registration requirements?

And since when is voting having a social conscience?

Soc put the sledgehammer away, the nuts can be cracked much more gently

Pip is a simpering try hard wannabe fool

Just been catching up via podcasts. So did Rob sabotage the culvert or Charlie, on JE's instructions?

It's worse than that Pseudo - he also persuaded Helen not to accompany him to the landowners' dinner by making her think Henry was ill.

BYOS both Pip and Jazzer were registered to vote (because they live with responsible people). It's a shame they had Toby say Pip didn't have to bother with voting - now he just looks stupid (even shirtless).

I only heard that bit after I posted Zero. What a shit he is.

Bugger. You started a shiny new thread before I had an idea for a title, which was: MFI investigate Clarrie's dresser in a culvert operation.

Anyhoo, NewPip trying to flirt with whichever of the Fairbrethren it was, Rex or Toby, was bloody awful. Whoever he is sounds too much like Adam.

with individual registration it may not have been so simple - particularly for Jim

they definitely aimed the voting storyline at the 'yoof'. Very weak

When Knob said "Say what you like about Ian" he meant
"Considering he's a raging gayer". Do other people find themselves regularly muttering "Oh, fuck off" at the radio whenever Knob's speaking?

Given all the oddities going on at the moment I've got to admit I do look forward to hearing Knob. I'd love to meet him in real life.
I only started listening 10 years ago so can someone fill me in with the history of Brian's affairs?

Yes indeed!

Brian had affairs (the ones we know about, that is to say) with:

1. Caroline (long before she was married to her first husband, Guy, who then had a heart attack and died on air, as Ambridgeites so often do - now of course she is married to Oliver)

1. Mandy Beesborough - silent character, used to run the Pony Club

1. Siobhan Hathaway, sultry Irish flame-haired temptress - married at the time to the village GP, Tim, who moped about in the company of the female vicar, Janet. Siobhan was Ruairi's mother. Brian nearly left Jennifer for Siobhan but in the end (to my immense disappointment) he decided against it and Siobhan left the village for several years. She contacted Brian to tell him she was dying of skin cancer a few years ago and he must take Ruairi. Jennifer (saint or doormat?) agreed to take him in, but of course has packed him off to boarding school now to get rid of his strangely persistent Irish accent.

Brian also attempted to have his wicked way with Mike Tucker's wife Betty (mother of Roy and Brenda) who was cleaner at Home Farm at the time. She confided in Jill who managed to warn Brian off. Betty's reward was to be killed off with a heart attack in middle age.

Any others?

Anyone read anything into Rex's mysterious medical appointment? No dramatic reason for him not to be there at the start of the shearing so is it significant?

Surely also Knob loves Ian because he cooks well
Knob thinks only with dick and belly no?

Brian and BETTY!?!?!

So Knob's ideal menu must be pork belly followed by spotted dick then Olivia?

Lillian I wonder if they are trying to set up a competitive brother love triangle with Pip. So maybe it was a joke sti insinuation from Toby?

I assumed Rex's medical appointment would be connected to the neck injury he sustained playing rugby.

It was obviously serious - enough to end his career and cause both brothers to re-assess their lives. I don't really see a Pip based rivalry - but there might well be a continuing story of Rex's declining health and mobility.

Ah yes I forgot that Zero

And give it a few weeks and the SWs will forget it too

i thought toby was the rugby player

i'm never going to be able to tell them apart

They both played - but Rex (who we met first) was a professional player. Toby played at Durham University (?) before going into the City.

oh i thought it was the other way round

so eddie and joe met rex and then toby first appears at the sheep shearing?

no, i am not going to be able to tell them apart