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?

pip likes the bad boy of course! can you imagine having kate as your mum - cringe!!

I didn't quite catch what happened: what got into the swimming pool to turn it purple?

i haven't listened but don't some pools put chemicals in that turn your wee purple so as to shame you into not weeing in the pool?

or is that too gross for the archers?

No it was raddle powder, (which is mixed with oil to make a paste to put on tups to see which ewes have been served). Not the sort of thing usually hanging around in June

Would the pool need to be drained,what harm does the raddle power do?

Hmm... I don't actually know what's in it... Some long lasting pigment I guess. And I know nothing about swimming pools and their workings. But I guess the water would be purple if it wasn't changed. Not sure Jenny darling will like that!

Heatherpet moves into Brookfield and Peggy moves into Woodbine Cottage with Chris, I reckon.

I'm really hoping that the build-up to Open Fram Sunday at Berrow Farm is all hubris, ready to be punctured by an angry Stefan shouting the truth about the culvert.

Toby was a dick, Rex turns out to be sensitive and nice and Kate was...Kate!

Good for Adam with his stance on the Open Farm Sunday charade. Even sexy Charlie can't sway him.

I can't stand the prospect of any more wailing over Heather. Just as well she's not real or that would be a cruel sentiment. I also hate the expression 'massive stroke'. It's how my dad's friends described his last illness - after he was dead. I wanted to say OBVIOUSLY it was a massive stroke. I think maybe I was being a tad tetchy.

The Fairbretheren arrived during my trip away. Have they always been TobyGood, RexBad, or is that a new character development? My scant attention since I got back hasn't shown a huge difference between them till now. Kate is a total PITA.

Oops, just read Golf's post. Have I got the brethren mixed up? Yes, I was pleased at Adam's stance. He's also seen through Kate. I imagine he was doing the bbq to support his niece.

tobyBad
Rex Good

BYOS - Isn't that a bit two dimensional? Oh wait...

There will be a childrens book out soon

Page 1 - Toby sits (at desk), Rex runs (with ball)
Page 2 - Toby tall, Rex short
etc
Page 10 - Toby bad (cavorting in swimming pool with kate), Rex good (looking at map with pip)

Oh. Blimey I'm mixing them up again.

Can't they just be called BadBoy and RugbyBoy?

maybe when toby comes on they should play that reggae song about 'bad boys' that they have on some us cop reality show. that would make it much easier

in fact toby, rex, charlie and tom should always have their own musical background so we can tell who is speaking

Great idea. Except those of us with poor hearing would then not hear anything they said. So GoodRex is the ex-rugby player?

well of course - why would soc let the stereotype of 'city worker = bad' go!!

it could just be gentle background music, or just before they start talking

do you think everyone who has worked on soaps gets a book of great british stereotypes?

Of course all the girls are more interested in sexy bad boy Toby! Poor old Rex, I bet he's always acting as the sympathetic shoulder to cry on.

RexyNotSexy and TooBadToby

silvery the dc and I are all far too invested in MKR.

ici i thought that too about the non organic potentially foot in mouth spreading party food

And was Pip not turning agaibst Toby and towards Rex by the end of episode. Now she realises he is the "man your mother warned you about"

And errol yes Chrisyine and Jim did live in same house. Cannot remember why. Then I think Jazzer moved in and Christine went home. But they had quite a bit of fun letting people think there was something going on.

TobyToyBoy, if Kate has her way. (Phoebe must have been mortified by her raddled mother - I'd never known that dye had a special name but seems apt!)

I bet it doesn't wash out of Kate's his easily either. Serve her right.

So, poor old heatherpet. Ruth will need to spend a lot of time in pruddah, so pip will feel obliged to turn down her shiny job to look after dad the herd, and thus is the prediction that ambridge womenfolk aren't allowed to have proper career paths be fulfilled.

But isn't Kate only about 13 years older than bad rugby boy? He must be 25-6 and she's around 38 and incredibly flexible.

Just realized that he & Kate went back to the farm early & now she's purple like a ewe whose been serviced by the ram - apologies to all those who didn't need me to figure it out step by step & now need brain bleach.

Why was someone who wasn't a sheep farmer have raddle power- and even if he was a sheep farmer, why wold he have raddle powder in June? Or was it next to the pool and got knocked in or something? But does Brian have sheep?

And how come Toby's suddenly turned into a drunken oaf?