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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...

I like the alphabet sleeping game for thread title inspiration (sorry, forgotten whose that was but I thought it was genius) Scruff or Stefan in the silage and all that...

Thanks Gruach- haven't read the full article yet (am having trouble with some macaroons) but it's an interesting question. I just remember "badly done, Emma, as Mr. Knightley's rebuke on Box Hill; and it has always seemed an oddly quasi-fraternal and yet uneven relationship. I think Jane Austen was a realist: women were at tremendous economic risk if they didn't marry, so they almost had to do so, even though, as a legal matter if nothing else they vanished as soon as they did. There are glimpses of equal marriage- the admiral's wife in "Persuasion".

It's Fanny Price who really resists- she's Austen's most rebellious.

Hellin is hurtling into near nineteenth century levels of economic dependence and his legal grip over the children is tightening. Horrible

Could it be possible that Rob has had something to do with the outbreak at Berrow Farm - contaminated something maybe for revenge on Charlie?

They have to be a significant danger to themselves or others and to have a treatable mental illness. It is rarely done for people who aren't psychotic and deluded.
Fictional characters often seem to get sectioned for nothing in particular though. SWs are stuck in the 1940s.

I don't think the plural of Grundy can be Grundies - the rule about changing y to ies can't apply to proper names, can it? So it has to be Grundys' Turkeys. Unless they want to work on the basis of pretending it's one Grundy so as to be Grundy's Turkeys. Which to be honest is the one I'd go for in their shoes.

I've been wondering about the business of slaughtering the geese and plucking and drawing them. I can't really see either Fairbrother wanting to soil his hands on that one. Are we going to have a scene where they go begging to the Grundys to do the dirty work? If so I expect Eddy, Ed and Clarrie can name their price.

I'm not a grammarian , and I'm sure if I'm wrong someone will correct me but if it was a one person operation it would be Grundy Turkeys. I always thought that the apostrophe stands for the letter 'i' in Grundy's. Even dh doesn't effing know and he went to a grammar school !!!

No the apostrophe combined with the s indicates possession not a missing letter. So Grundy's means "of Grundy" and Grundys' means "of Grundys". But Grundy could be more like a brand name with no possessive at all, so Grundy Turkeys as you suggest, like saying Ford Cars not Ford's Cars.

Just checking in with an early Christmas name change

ddd It is when the name already ends with an s I get confused.
That is Ross's house.
The is the Ross's / Rosses' house. (The Ross family a.k.a.The Rosses.)

James & Thomas are dreadful names for that, eg Newcastle's football ground is St James' Park but the one in London is St James's Park

& the London hospital is officially St Thomas' although it's always pronounced St Thomas's IME

(I avoided those names for my sons!)

Technically if the word ends with an s my understanding is that the apostrophe comes after the s. Therefore "That is Ross' house". However, I think that is one that is rightly falling out of disuse, as it just sounds incredibly awkward, and you wouldn't be criticised for writing "Ross's house".

However, it is certainly correct to write "That is the Rosses' house". Because you would never say "that is the Rosses's house".

Ambridge cricket about to be on Feedback!

Loving Roger Bolton and the cricket analysis.

My first name ends with an s so obviously I'm an authority on this and it comes up now and then on Pedants Corner. Both James' and James's are considered acceptable. My view is that when you say "James's house" you say James-iz so the extra s indicates this.

That's my view too, DDD

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/2493584-Badly-done-Helen-badly-done-youre-as-stuffed-as-a-Grundy-turkey-Discuss-The-Archers-here

Anyone else think that the insidious knob-Rob will turn out to be a psychopath? He arrived just at the time they were getting a lot of mentions in the press. And I seem to remember that lovely chef Ian hated him from their first meeting. What does Ian think now? Have not heard from him for ages.(Or have I missed this while away over summer? Update please.)

PS: Many years ago one of my friends claimed to know the scripwriters for The Archers and said they were a bunch of feminist lesbians. Can this be true?

Umleila click the link above to the new thread - this one is defunct.

I for one would be delighted with both lesbians and feminist on the writing team, (and assume all manner of women are represented therein) though I doubt they would arrive at a single, corporate viewpoint.

Keri Davies is one of the writers, and he's definitely a man. So they can't all be a bunch of lesbians.