Aldridges Assemble! Await the return of the prodigal daughter to Ambridge with the rest of The Archers audience

[PseudoBadger]

I can't resist alliteration

But really posting to say OMG they are doing Culvert works in my village!

OMG, Olivia, have you checked your flood insurance? Checked where your wellies are? Locked the dog in? Sorted out a long term stay at the local luxury hotel?

Pipperoo, YY about Ruth deserting them all long term for Prudhoe. If she's spending all this time sitting at Heatherpet's bedside, they must be bored to death with each other.

I don't know, but I think there may be more to Toby's secret than just that he shags around. Didn't Rex do a heavy, 'I mean tell her everything', thing. So maybe married or he is a dad or we could have an STD storyline (yawn). Do we think the SWs were told to make TA more sexy so they have just added sex to every storyline...where will it end?!

So Ruth has come back at the same time as Eddie? Can I start some village gossip ...

Someone pointed out recently how much David sighs and I can't unhear it now! It's every other sentence.

Arghh. I wish you hadn't posted that Elephants. It's true!
Jill was doing very good dove impersonations tonight, too.

When Kate was first back, Phoebe did make some mention of Skyping Noli and Sipo, and getting their side of the story - it was clear she was in touch with them independently of Kate.

My MIL was in a similar situation to HP and DH certainly didn't go away for weeks on end to sort things out - lots of trips up and down the motorway and lots of phone calls.

Either tobes has kids or else he's having to do community service for some crime. Or maybe see his parole officer. Either fraud or some drunken idiocy.

Parole idea is interesting. Or complicated divorce.

It can't just be that he has to tell her he is a massive knobcheese who isn't that bright.

Addiction maybe?

I thought, wrongly it would seem, that he had lied to get out of the ag day do that Rex could go with Peep and it was a noble act. Clearly not.

Her voice is finally settling down a bit though. Way to go yet but improving.

Olivia, if one of them goes home for dinner and is either named Rob or is annoyingly patronising (or both) can you save the SWs time and effort and just smack him on the back of his head with a shovel? TIA.

Do you think soc is planningone of those dreadful eastenders style nurses that drag on for years and then have a ridiculous perpetrator?

Rob is the obvious victim. Henry the killer?

Gaspode "Tobes of Tobe Hall" yes I like that, very good

To be fair though Peep is suspicious about Toad she ain't gonna get 'er leg over wivaht harsking a few orkward questions

Also to be fair to SOC a bit of sex does brighten things up.

Perhaps Tobes' secret is that he's gay, and really he's destined for Charlie.

So he's over compensating is he Icimoi ? Praps SOC fancies him

My first thought was gay, but married/children/parole/all of the above works well too. I must say the fairbrethren are annoying the least of the latest storylines, it's all most amusing to me.

I loved loved loved the conversation between JD and Phoebe. JD was gentle, non-judgemental, discrete, just lovely. She must really feel for Phoebe I think, and wonder where she went wrong with Kate.

annoying me the least

Hmmm ... Actually, given the tone of voice used by his goody two shoes bro to utter the word "Brighton", and the fact that TT, having been something in the City, now has no future except polishing glasses and clearing up empties - it does sound as if it's disgrace rather than hungry offspring hanging over him.

Good.

Once again Ambridge people don't act like other people ... Surely Pip and David would have sought out the brethren on Google / FB / whatever long before now?

What kind of misdemeanour / crisis doesn't leave an Internet trail?

Police caution maybe? Career crucial exam failure? Being caught with drugs by the DM of your DC, who throws you out and reveals all to your financially supportive parents?

Oh yes! I forgot about 'what happened on Brighton'. Hmmm cannot really imagine a sex offender SL...got it- public indecency! (ie topless on the Pier). I once met a completely naked man in
Great Yarmouth on a Saturday afternoon. He looked ever so confused.

Ah - you mean wandering outside the designated clothesless area while under the influence? Excellent thought! And would be a witty use of Brighton.

Would anyone bat an eyelid at nudity in Brighton?

I would say drugs

Or he made tea for the Hound of Hounslow

Will I be arrested if I google that BYOS?

No!!

He's too youn to have done anything major in the city. He probably got sacke for snorting cocaine at his desk as he seems thick enough to think the wolf of Wall Street is a modern day training book

If not drugs then maybe sexual assault? He clearly has no respect for women.

Is this being ripped off from a literary classic btw? I feel like I've already read 'feckless and idle brother married for land and cheats on wife continuously whilst his hardworking brother secretly hankers after her. Idle brother dies with everyone thinking he was a hero but he was only trying to save his own skin and bro and wife get together'

It has points of resemblance to Vanity Fair and The Mayor of Casterbridge, certainly! No brothers there, but the rest of it works.

I'd go with the cocaine, or maybe fingers in the till, but for the mention of Brighton. Maybe he was arrested for indecent assault or something and managed to get out of it with the aid of expensive lawyers or paying off the witnesses? If so, it's surely a matter of time before the victim turns up in Ambridge eager to Tell All?

Maybe he was done for insider trading which is why he was kicked out of the City? Or sexual harassment and it cost his bank millions. But again, hard to link that to Brighton…. Unless there was a work jolly there that got out of hand and that is where the sexual harassment incident took place…..

He got the Mayor of Brighton's daughter upduffed, promised to marry her (they were not a rich family) but was done for breach of promise because he did a runner, and there's a little baby that he has to go and see.