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...

BOOP, I just keep thinking how pleased Clarrie must be.

*note: I do know they're not real. Most of the time.

Thank you Dad3. Presumably they will be selling them at a lower price as a supplier too. It don't add up do it?

Just checked Lowfield, and Rex came to Ambridge end of April looking to start goose farm, so it's more like 8 months' work. And as I know nothing about profit margins in geese-farming, who knows if the profit will be £10,000 or £40,000 or nothing at all? And that's assuming they sell them all.

It's really annoying me that David blithely loaned Kenton 15k a few weeks ago and now they're worrying about Pip's salary. If she was really concerned, she'd move back to Brookfield so they could rent out Rickyards.

And why oh why don't they get bloody supermarket delivery?!

Emma handing in her notice is going to push Ruth over the edge, mark my words.

Not nepotism Gruach but sex and violence mainly and in the 50s too!!! It's exactly the same age as me give to take 11 days !! So began in the days of rationing and leftover shire horses in Brookfield

Not all the geese will survive to meet the dinner plate either

The Beeb is a hot bed of nepotism!

Wasn't thee a casual reference from Toby to friends in the city. Are we to assume he's previously made a fortune in stocks and bonds?

And yes, Ruth and her omelette / take away / shopping shite. Get it delivered, move Jill back in. I work FT and still manage to do the shopping.

Did David actually give Kenton the money? Thought we were going have a revelation about Shula and Alistair at that point. strokes chin

I know I say this on every thread but there is no way Toby made money in the city or was there long enough to make decent contacts

This business of Ruth as the kitchen slave. I'm a bit disappointed in the SWs her. Given her opening position when she married it seems odd that all these years later she is still the default cook and bottle washer.

Oh dear Hellin. Badly done. He's not going to like that is he?

And Toby will need earplugs

I doubt Berrow Farm will ever see any Bridge Farm silage ...

I'm buying a hat!

(Poor Ian.)

Ooh! What did Helen do?

And why does Charlie sound like he has hypothermia?

Hoping that Adam & Charlie are about to compare notes on Knob, but I suppose they have bigger issues to deal with.

Hoping that Adam & Charlie are about to compare notes on Knob, but I suppose they have bigger issues to deal with.

BitOut you must be in a similar field to me... I write business contingency and national incident plans.

It would wholly depend on the size of operation and the risk appetite of the board as the whether they had a defined business continuity process. It's quite true to life that many Agri businesses at this level don't have that, although I would've thought F&M would have proved the need for them way back in 04.

I thought they were about to compare notes on Knob - definite question in Adam's voice after Charlie's comment that he had to let Rob go.

But then on with the emotion... but oh, poor Charlie. And poor Ian too.

BitOut you must be in a similar field to me

with your posting name, StubbleTurnips, I was imagining an Ambridge kind of field

Please let this be the moment Charlie tell Adam precisely why he booted Rob, and about the blackmail. It feels like there's this precarious house of cards hiding the truth about him, and that it would only take one little push to bring the whole thing down. The trouble is, waiting to find out which card will fall is getting too stressful.

"I thought they were about to compare notes on Knob - definite question in Adam's voice after Charlie's comment that he had to let Rob go."

Me too! Felt like finally this thread's long-running prediction of Knob's downfall was about to be unleashed. Bit of a let-down.

But I did like the scene - inadvertently did a big 'Awww!' for little vulnerable Charlie at the end - sorry Ian!

Otoh - I don't think I can take any more of the Fairbrethren! They are driving me nuts. They remind me of the chuckle brothers - 'to me Toby', 'to me Rex' and are about as entertaining. Can the geese stampede them or something and leave them running bruised and battered back off to the city?

Jill needs to talk to her bees about the fairbrethren

Rob was recruited following an international recruitment campaign. His salary must have been immense. He never spent any money, he lived in a small rented cottage, he never went on holiday, never went out for flash dinners, weekends away, no mention of a flash car , no mortgage to pay. He must have many tens of thousands in the bank.

Hoping Adam will remember to ask Charlie about Rob.

Also surely Ed would be the person to run Adam's herd. His cv would just have "good with cattle" written on it.