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I don't understand the Mapp and Lucia routine. The SW seem to be implying that there is no point going to the opera unless you are fluent in Italian - not yer usual BBC inclusivity message.

I used to like Kenton.

La bella lingua!

I zone out as soon as they start up in (terrible, I assume) Italian.

I think it's Lynda who is implying there is no point in going to the opera unless you are fluent in Italian. I rather liked the fact that Jim put her on the spot - but then I like Jim as a character (though agree they did drag it out a bit). Glad to get away from Pip and Toby to be honest which is panning out to be another ridiculous charade of her supposedly moving but then having a lightbulb moment in High Wycombe If you ask me. Still ridiculously irked by the totally transparent Great North Move story and so therefore by any fall out from it (ie Heatherpet moving to Brookfield, Jill being evicted, all Kenton's woes etc etc). It all feels too artificial - I know it's not real (goes and washes mouth out) and the false move was there to jump start lots of new storylines, but when I stop believing it might have actually happened like that then it's just not that interesting anymore.

Jim's Italian was competent.

It does make me cross when Kenton is whinging on about how he alone has been shafted. If any shafting has been going on, surely he has to realise that Shula and Elizabeth have been shafted just as much as he has? The difference is that they had the sense not to spend their money before they had it. When you've got the disastrous financial history that he has, doesn't the time eventually come when you have to acknowledge that you might bear just a tiny bit of the responsibility for that yourself?

And he was bailed out endless times all through his rackety youth and beyond.

A name-changed Songbird here, back from hols and up-to-date with TA and the fred.

Kenton - GOD he's getting on my wick. That is all.

Knob - ugh where to begin? He won't make any official complaint to BL. There are things he doesn't want looked at too closely, and threatening Charlie is his knobbish way (and ensuring he gets a reference) is far more his style. He really thinks he's 'won' doesn't he? I pissed myself when he was caught out in the cricket - definitely a combo of bad loser and Charlie being right making him behave so unpleasantly. Do you think he believes the 'truths' he spins for everyone else? Is he deluded as well as everything else? Or just desperate to be seen as the good guy. It is incredible (and not unrealistic) how quickly he's escalating his horridness now the ring's on the finger. The actor is BOOP BOOP de BOOPtastic!

Pat - I'm hoping she's not going to fall for it. I like the way she's questioning things and making funny little noises at 'Daddy' but I'm worried by her seemingly heart-felt 'I had no idea' when he span his 'big agri-business was never for me but I was pushed out of the family farm' shite. Good God the set-to's they had when he first arrived, and now he's completely changing his tune!

Brookfield - ....... frankly, words fail me. Ruth wasn't really wrong about 'one rule for the Archers, one rule for everyone else' thing, but it's playing out in the worst way. No-one is looking good in this, to be honest. Pip is clearly going nowhere.

Toomuchtea- and plenty of earlier times- there was an antique shop and lots of other stuff. And Lizzie gave him a job at Lower Locksley and had to boot him out in the end.

Did she give him a job? I remember that he lived at LL for months, probably after he and Kathy split up.

Talking of which, the SWs seem to have decided to forget about it, but surely Jamie and Lucy have a stake in The Bull? Sid can't have left his share of the pub to Jolene outright, can he?

At least Harrison gave Kenton some sensible advice. Whether he'll take it or not......

Rather wishy-washy filler episode. I don't care about Harrison's family and I hope they're not about to be introduced. (Although perhaps it's inevitable once he and Fallon move in together.)

Lucy, on the other hand, would be an excellent return character. You're entirely right Gasp0, Sid must have left her something. And Jamie, who we're being encouraged to forget.

I do think they must have let go of the archivist ...

Rather wishy-washy filler episode.

Oh, I don't know. There was some excellent counting of change.

Oh, well reminded, R4! Change counting was often mentioned on the old BBC MB where Keri Davies was host for many years. When he switched roles from producer to scriptwriter it was very noticeable that he often shoehorned in a change-counting scene. I wonder if he's writing this week, because that seemed to me to be almost an anti-change-counting scene - it was a very obvious device for Kenton to start getting irritated again, not that that takes much these days.

O noticed the change counting too and laughed, thinking of this thread.

Why won't Helen just punch him for his hideous insincerity?

"I want to find him and kill him"
and she thinks that's sweet.

This is SO horrible.

Oh lord. This is grim. I have a very bad feeling about this indeed.

Yikes....can hardly bear to listen. She is drunk. Rape within marriage ?

Effing waste of a dress.

What did that last bit mean?

Argh someone phoned in the middle of the H and R conversation.
And why did she say Rob as if it was a question right at the end?