Continuing culvert conspiracies in Ambridge - discuss The Archers here

[PseudoBadger]

Won't someone please give Kenton a kick in the FA Cup Finals, and a link to Money Saving Expert?

yes Brian has sheep, they usually have a few mentions of him and Adam being up all night during lambing season.

Brian does have sheep, Adam went off on holiday in the midst of lambing this year. I wouldn't have thought that raddle powder would be left in close proximity to a swimming pool. I've always envisaged the house and surroundings to be very much that of a "gentleman farmer" and fairly well removed from the mucky part of the business.

JD is the kind of woman who throws parties for a kitchen. There's no way she'd have raddle powder anywhere near the house. It's definite a cream-carpets-boots-off-at-the-door place, unlike Brookfield.

Regarding Toby - he can't be that young. Both brethren must be skirting 30 so Kate isn't outrageously older than him.

So are we to believe that she and Toby dtd and Kate was branded in the manner of an ewe (although accidentally)?

Was she the only purple person or was Toby too? If so, that strikes me that the sw were doing some 'slut shaming' which takes the mysogyny to a more unpleasant level.

I am not sure what was supposed to have happened but it sounded as though the raddle powder ended up in the swimming pool where both Kate and Toby (stripped to his boxers) were disporting themselves. There was a bit of Kate-shaming but Toby was made to look incontinent and uncouth too.

The trouble with threads like this is that your mind goes into overdrive.
Are we setting up the scenario where we pair Pip-with-land and Rex-looking-for-land? We need a way to nicely parcel up Brookfield between slowing-down-to-retirement Dave'n'Ruth and young Pip'n'Rex. How would we do that? Put a road through it?

I have to say I found the Toby in his boxers in the pool scenario another of the completely unbelievable things the script writers expect us to believe. He's not a teenager who would get completely rat arsed on a pint of cider, ffs!

I'm developing a bad habit of tuning out during the more ridiculous scenes. A variation of putting your fingers in your ears and saying "la la la. I can't hear you."

R for Rex, R for rugby

T for Toby, T for tosser

Sorted.

I assumed another Young Farmer had brought the raddle powder with them, knowing that there was a pool, specifically to chuck it in. Or alternatively, Kate knew where to find it, but I think that's less likely.

I had no trouble believing the Toby gets ratarsed story but I suppose that's because back in the dark ages when I worked in accountancy our divisional conferences were fairly boisterous affairs. The first sessions in the morning tended to be rather sparsely attended.

On one occasion a man in his mid-20s got so plastered that at the end of the evening he fell off a pier and an ambulance had to be called. Fortunately the injuries weren't too bad but he had to take sick leave and there was a disciplinary when he got back. )I always thought that was pretty hypocritical given that the firm had more or less explicitly encouraged the hard drinking but was now saying there was reputational damage from those who went just a bit too far. )

In this instance, Toby and Kate were back at Home Farm long before everyone else so they'd probably been drinking steadily for hours by the time of the pool incident.

"I assumed another Young Farmer had brought the raddle powder with them, knowing that there was a pool, specifically to chuck it in"

God, really? How unlike the home life of our own dear Queen..........

Haven't heard - but am I to infer Kate is now pregnant with a Fairchild?

Pregnant!! Blimey, I hope not!

What happened to Kate's hair? Did it go purple in the pool?

It's very quick work if Kate is pregnant by Toby. The raddle was from it being thrown in the pool while she was in there, not from its more traditional use. Even if they got it together at the end of the night (and it's very possible), I don't think even Kate would know she if she was pregnant yet, let alone the rest of us.

That yoga chat between Kate and Toby reminded me of Friends when Pheobe's trying to get Chandler to admit he's with Monica. "I'm looking forward to all the sexual intercourse we're going to have". "You should be. I'm very bendy".

I assumed tot the raddle powder (once I knew what it was - thanks DFW) had been brought by someone to chuck in pool and cause a sensation (hick!) or Kate had been shagging in the cupboard where it's kept and Toby? tho0ught this was a bit of a lark.

It's a while since I've needed to know this stuff, but, even if Kate is pregnant, won't the egg still be travelling along a fallopian tube?

and there you have the episode summary for tomorrow night Topaz...

It is possible that Toby chucked it in the pool. I think the implication is Kate has bleached hair so the dye took.

Don't think it was slut shaming, just Kate shaming which tbf they do a lot to no avail.

Don't think T is meant to be that old, mid- twenties?

Rex had his career cut v short so presumably not that old either.

Was it just me that thought Pip was switching her attention to Tex having realised T is an arse.

Poor poor Phoebe.

Och, it'll probably still be Friday night. It'll be one of those 3-day parties ..... I so hope not.

mink - i think age was discussed on the other thread and it was concluded that for toby to have made any money in the city he will need to be late twenties (given he will have gone to uni and done a gap year or two). But then rex described him as flakey and not the type to stick at things so I can't imagine he did very well in the city and they may be using daddy's money.

rex played professionally and long enough to get a reputation - was injured - found out he couldn't play again - went to a dark place (long enough to lose all his friends) - came back from a dark place - to me he needs to be late twenties too.

either that or the sw are trying to cram too much backstory in for their tender years

Is the Heatherpet storyline a case of NHS negligence? I thought a TIA was effectively a warning of a possible further stroke, therefore they do the full check for further blockages/clots, put the patient on Warfarin etc to prevent that happening?

This is similar to what they did with Betty. Heart attack (or actual cardiac arrest?), hospitalisation, home, sudden death. (Second saddest thing I've ever heard on TA.)

I'm surprised she was sent home too.

If this is going to be the reason Pip doesn't leave then I guess poor Heather has to cling on to life being looked after by her DD. It's not a pleasant prospect.

There was no implication that Granny Heatherpet hadn't been properly treated, was there, Icimoi? Obviously I wouldn't say this if she was real but I hope she shuffles off quickly, I couldn't stand it if Pip had to turn down the job at Big Agripoisons Inc to stay at Brookfield and fill in for her mother.

My ds just played me this

It was like getting into a nice warm bath of radio 4 - recommended!

No, I think it reflects sad reality that once elderly people have a stroke they're very likely to have more - often a series of mini ones but sometimes 'massive'. Being in hospital is grim, warfarin has its own risks.