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?

Also, I agree with mummytime, Toby is one of those people who's charmed himself into a City job then very quickly got found out.

Quite surprising that sensible Rex wants to go into business with him, knowing his record.

Last nights was all a bit Of Mice and Men "don't forget what happened in weed Brighton"

Toby should have been smarter and stuck with Kate and got some land cheap off Brine. Or just kept the geese in her back garden of her newly smudged cottage. Bash some sage about and she'd be happy.

I really don't find Kate believable. And it's all ott

What has happened to Roy?

Roy who?

Two questions:
What was the background music at the party? I couldn't hear it properly in the car.
Why was Fallon not drinking? Is she preggers?

Yes, what was the point of Fallon not drinking? Is it to show a reformed character from the circs in which she met Harrison. Kate is kind of OTT but would be believable if it wasn't all the same yoga/ vegan/ om shantiantics stuff. There has to be more to her than that.

There has to be more to her than that.

She had a starring part in tonight's compare and contrast.
Pip: studied hard, got through exams, should get a good classification in her degree, has a purpose and a job
Kate: being very flakey in her ReCycling Proficiency Test and looks likely to drop out.

Om shantiantics! I love it. Kate could call her cottage the Om Shanty.

Maybe fallon had driven - are the home farm cottages off the beaten track a bit.

Why wasn't Alice at her sisters party - too much sense? (Or just the SWs have forgotten her). I guess she's have been able to turn off the alarm so would have avoided dragging poor old brine out of his bath. I'm a bit surprised that in the compare&contrast they haven't done good sis/bad sis yet.

I think Toby is there to be both the attractive but faithless wastrel and the liability that less attractive but more dependable Rex's shoulders.

Whatever business they get set up T will ruin it.
Possibly the condition of daddy's money was thry had to go into business togethet and it had to be in or near Ambridge.

Don't think Toby is nasty (like Rob) just childish, spoilt and selfish.

If phoebe came on mumsnet I bet they tell her her mums probably a narc.

Good point, Errol. Alice was in the odd scene earlier this week about cancelling the fete so even stranger that she wasn't at the party.

golfhotel I'd been thinking the same about Of Mice and Men. The pair of them turning up with their dream of finding a bit of land and then the hint about something unspeakable that happened in Brighton.

There was a very similar scene when Siobhan and Tim first arrived in Ambridge. Strong hint that there had been problems before and that they'd moved to Ambridge to make a fresh start, but the old familiar pattern was starting to appear.

Oh I find her believable BYOS I've got relations who behave just like that with smudge sticks and all. She's hilarious , and there's no way that Brine's 'best Burgundy' would've been vegan, Kate is such a hypocrite.

lol @ Om Shanty

I did consider registering the domain name omshantiantics.com but that was as far as I got in my master plan. She'd actually be ok if she wasn't so selfish. Brine's vegan vino was particularly low though. Apart from that her behaviour was ok (unless you're phoebe in which case you have a free pass to be utterly appalled and also feel badly hurt as far as Kate is concerned). I hope Susan's cocktail party goes well.

Wow! I thought she was a stereotype! Glad I'm not relate to a 'kate'!!

I find it odd we haven't had any Alice/Kate interactions and Alice should have been at the party. Was adam there?

I guess the no drinking was due to driving.

It's odd that the S.Ws don't just get Kate to say "Come on Alice and Adam we're all going to set fire to conga around shanti cottage with our smudge sticks now" or some such thing After all it is RADIO we can imagine that they 're there can't we?

Quite honestly I doubt that Alice would be able to pick either of her sisters out of a police line-up.

It didn't make sense. Even if unheard, if Alice had been at the housewarming she could have dealt with the alarm. If she'd left early or simply been at home she would still have been able to help. Even driving home from work!

It's so unlikely that each cottage would have a different code. I think the SW just wanted to force us to listen to Brian climbing into his bath.

Party was even better than I hoped for. Pip really is a big dull dud these days, isn't she? They're gearing up for her to change her mind about her shiny new job, aren't they?

We also need a Rob and Helen update. Come back Stephan and point your finger at the man we love to hate!

Please don't let her train to be a yoga teacher. It would be an embarrassment to yoga teachers everywhere. And yes something lurking behind T Rex.

Am I the only one who thinks they've got TRex's names the wrong way round? Toby, to me, is a solid dependable name. Rex is more racy. The brother's characters should be the other way round in my mind.

SorryMinim But Kate seems just right for a yoga teacher . That's what my smudge stick relations are . They don't drink alcohol though, ayahuasca yes, alcohol no.

So sad that ambitious young women are either cut down to size like Alice or portrayed as dull like Pip.