Knob throttlers form an orderly queue at Blossom Hill Cottage! Discuss the Archers on the Official Thread

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Do you know that I was 3 months pregnant when the first thread started - DD was 2 yesterday

That must also mean that Poppy Grundy's 2nd birthday has passed by unremarked upon...

Ah, Fink - think of this thread as therapy.

I have not RTFT, but there's an Archers jigsaw! Fantastic!

Fink - once you've posted its too late, there is no going back.

Squeaver, no, I find it difficult to believe that she wouldn't have said anything to Brian. I would certainly regard that as a legitimate subject of conversation unless I'd been sworn to secrecy, and I don't think she had. Unless (grasping at straws here) she felt she didn't want to bring Berrow up after Brian's history with it and the Borchester Land situation.

Fink - you have joined this thread. You are no longer on the slippery slope. You are down here in the swamp of the over-infested. Enjoy it. Wallow.

At the very least I would expect Jenny to have needled Pat'n'Tone a bit about Rob but I would also expect her to have discussed the culvert with Brian after she had met Stefan.
Instead she obsesses about Carol!

It is the most baffling thing- that Jenny and David never mentioned it again.

I don't know... On the one hand it's a juicy bit of gossip and potentially very damning - I would want to discuss with someone at least.

On the other - he was shacked up with one of her relatives, he's a manager, there was no other reason for J to doubt he was a respectable responsible person. And all STefan reported was an eyewitness report - in the rain and presumably from some distance - of him stuffing a culvert. She could have thought S was mistaken either as to the identity or to his actions, and may have not put much store by his words.

If they knew Stefan had gone they might find that a little fishy, but why would they?

alright, actually as I write this I am finding it less and less believable. You would gossip with someone, or would follow it up more... And didn't Stefan tell them it was Rob but they just told Charlie it was a Berrow farm employee? Can't remember how that bit went....

I'd forgotten '.... and it's masculine...'

Charlie pursued it as far as he could without speaking to Stefan but Rob played the hero card and Charlie was stymied.

Cow's twitter feed is very good value at the moment!

How long before somebody gives Toby a well deserved punch on the nose?

Hopefully not as long as it would take me to get onto the cast in order to do it. Punch Toby on the nose I mean, in case this thread has moved at the usual lightning speed before I post!

That should be Lonely Cow, btw. When will I learn to preview? Sigh.

How much more reassurance does Pip need?! She's already had conversations with both parents, Rex or Toby and Adam FFS.

Pip needs idol worship because she's been brought as if she's the messiah

How about: Charlie gets the sack cos of cow disaster. Justin Elliot brings back Rob in his place thus elevating him to even more prestige in the village.
Helen enlists the help of mw to 'miscarry', as she isn't preg.
More Rob nastiness as its all her fault. Helen heads towards breakdown.
Doom doom and more doom.
An everyday story of country folk

Yes, what really irks me about the Pip-worship is that one minute D&R are on about her being the future of the farm, and essential to its running etc etc and the next there's some actual farming to be done, and they're all, "oh don't worry, you can't possibly do that", "gosh I can't believe you managed that" as though she's still a child rather than a fully paid full time employee/partner/whatever she is.

I did like it a little while ago when Elizabeth was less than impressed with the cow track that Jill and David were in raptures about. Obvs not a fan of the Pip-worship either

On a more positive note - warmed my heart to hear the Will and Ed bonding tonight. Clarrie would be so happy! (hopefully they're not going to be involved in some wild poacher shoot out and one dies in the other's arms just as they reconcile.... Just a nice normal storyline about a long rift healing please!)

one dies in the other's arms just as they reconcile ...

I wonder if, from the SW pov, there's not much point having two Grundy brothers now they're reconciled. It's not as if they can build any career progression for Will within the village story. And if he should erm ... cease to be I suspect Nic, Jake, Mia and Poppy would go the way of all things Tucker-ish and unconnected to an Archer. Leaving Ed n Emma and George and Keira as a nice little uncomplicated nuclear family.

They killed the last gamekeeper - they can't kill this one too. And they will not kill Ed because I will not allow it. I know where you work, sw

Mmm ... Good point re Greg.

I couldn't countenance an Ambridge without Ed. Emma, as an Archer in-law, presumably has a job for life and would make an inconvenient widow. Nic's much more disposable.

It's about time for the recurring coma, I think Ed has already had one so maybe it will be will's turn next.
Loved the scientific explanation of botulism, lifted straight from dairyfarmerwifes post. And David didn't know this already?

When I can't sleep, I run through the miraculous coma survivors....in alphabetic order.

Sigh, thanks for dragging me down with you all.

The poachers are obviously just a side issue; Ed Grundy's second coma will clearly be occasioned by him attempting to come between the beautiful relationship that is Jazzer and the Prof.

Popping in to ask, as a very infrequent listener to the Archers and confused, whether Rob is an abusive twunt and whether Helen would be well advised to LTB? I caught a bit of what I assumed to be a midwife appt on the Sunday omnibus and thought the midwife was a total numpty to be missing what was blindingly obvious subtext of hovering/overbearing husband and Helen seemingly on pins, despite it being the first time I'd heard the Archers in about 2 months. What gives, Archer fans?

Loved the scientific explanation of botulism, lifted straight from dairyfarmerwifes post. And David didn't know this already?

I'd have thought so. We used to have "George the Bleeder" coming to test the cattle every now and then. It was a good thing to have a botulin-free tested herd. Don't they still do that? Plus we had a copy of Black's Veterinary Dictionary, and "Symptoms: death" was a sort of family joke if you were really ill (not that we were ever allowed to be really ill.) I think it was mostly a bit of public information broadcasting, because I can't believe that any dairy farmer worth his or her salt wouldn't know about botulism, even if they've never seen it.