Badly done Helen, badly done - you're as stuffed as a Grundy turkey. Discuss The Archers here.

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New thread in time for Friday's episode...

Here's some info on silage - How to Make Good Quality Silage

And here's a bit about maize silage (which will have just been harvested, and I got caught behind every trailer-load of it in Dorset a couple of weeks back when I was home for a memorial service. Bloody farmers.) Forage Maize

German Shepherd Cross apparently.

a small dog might go through the forage harvester and come out recognisable, depending on the type of machine and sharpness of the cutter.

Have I ever said how much I love you all?

(Though it appears the person who called this thread "obsessive" was quite massively understating the case ...)

I do hope the new Bridge Farm Burger King outlet doesn't cause any coolness between Ed and Emma - he wasn't keen on her hanging up the mop, was he?

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11913870/Rob-Titcheners-evil-in-the-Archers-makes-for-uncomfortable-listening.html

Interesting article in the Telegraph, mainly about Rob.

But Brian is not a creep...

Agree, Brian's not a creep - more of a roué.

Roué and often voice of reason when dealing with Kate and Jenny

Which one of you wrote that?

Was very good apart from some highly objectionable terminology - but it did seem familiar ...

And Brian has been a creep. In the past. There's nothing amusing or sexy about inpregnating your mistress then begging your wife to bring up the child. But he does appear to have improved.

Fabulous to have TA making the news for a positive reason.

Eurgh!
Mind you, I just read that Telegraph article and thought it said Rob was 'subtly cajoling her into bunting'...

They never did find Fallon's bunting, did they?

Good article although I disagree that Rob is the red-trouser-wearing type. RTW are (or appear) jolly like Oliver Sterling or Boris Johnson or Dom from Gogglebox. One could never accuse Rob of being jolly.
I voted to keep the Rob-hating going.

#scruff brings up some rather shocking results that have nothing to do with a fictional dog belonging to Linda Snell.

Please please may Rob turn out to have a criminal record...

Silaging is the perfect way to cover up a murder then? Much simpler and cheaper than acid!

However, wouldn't the person operating the big mower or chopper notice if a rotting corpse went through the blades?
Would a corpse lie undiscovered as carrion if it lay in the field until the grass grew up around it? Here the buzzards would call attention to it.
Would they be using this year's silage as feed now or was the contaminated silage cut last year?

If anyone knows how to sabotage the berrow farm cattle feed it will be Rob. I bet he came across poor dead scruff and strung up bits of him rest probably scavenged by foxes

No one but no one gets one over on RT without paying for it.

It's not actual ideal if it results in botulism outbreaks and the death of several head of cattle though, is it?

Usually I hate seeing photos of the actors, but Knob looks EXACTLY as I picture him. I don't think the comparison with Brian holds up - Brian has worn the mantle of Ambridge cad over the years, but he never tries to diminish Jenny. It strikes me that she is very much in the driving seat - whatever Brian does. Also with Brian what you see is what you get - he's not trying to smarm and charm everyone. You can see what he believes in and he's prepared to stand up for it. And he is genuinely good at what he does whether you like his style or not. Not like Knob - the incompetent mega dairy manager who claims he would really rather be running Bridge Farm or project-managing farm shop or whatever else suits the circumstances of the particular moment. As much as Brian can be over-bearing, he is not a control freak - he's letting Adam do things his way (all be it rather reluctantly!), Kate is setting up her yurts and yoga retreat on the farm and Debbie can pretty well do what she likes in Hungary. True he's had his moments of being thoroughly unpleasant with his various infidelities, but these do not define him. He is able to admit he has been wrong - he has accepted Adam's homosexuality in spite of his initial misgivings, he is genuinely grateful to Jenny for taking on Ruari. Knob is in an entirely different league - I honestly can't think of a single redeeming feature.

E. I thought that's exactly what he wanted to do. Cause as much trouble for Charlie as a parting gift for being forced to resign or being under suspicion, which he was, and with good reason I think.

But at the time Scruff must have crawled there or been dumped there or whatever, that was long before he knew he'd be forced to resign (or get sacked), though he and Charlie have never really got on. I'm not convinced he'd have been able to pin it on Charlie though, even if he was under suspicion from him (with, as you say, good reason.)

Totally agree. I like Brian despite his flaws. He never once thought to abandon Raury (spell??). I suppose rob could have got someone to do the DNA test for him? Not sure? Think the baby involved must have been someone else's because thingy would have been going mental knowing she'd only sleep with Rob.

Are the poachers just more bad luck heaped on poor old Ed for stealing his brothers wife?

Is Pip dumb enough to fall for Toby shag them and leave them fairbrother?

One would hope not but she probably will.

Rob is so scary...

The poachers are also effecting a reconciliation between Ed and Will.

However, wouldn't the person operating the big mower or chopper notice if a rotting corpse went through the blades?

Not really - the grass is over your knees when it is mowed, then it it raked into thick lines of grass so entirely feasible that the dead body of something like a dog would end up on the bottom of the swath and the chopped driver wouldn't see it. Whether there would still be and flesh on the bones by silaging time, if scruff did perish in the flood in Feb, I don't know. Could behave starved to death and lasted a bit longer? Poor scruff. Am I over infested? Probably