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...

I still have no idea where Charlie lives ...

Maybe because it would be really unusual for a dog to wind up in the silage? Wild birds or small mammals or a chicken carcass would be more expected.

I read that as 'desperately short of sheep'!

A sleek, shiney apartment?

Yes, I can see a dog would be more unusual but it was pointed up as highly significant which struck me as odd.

Either they're messing with our heads or Charlie is equating a dog's body with the night of the flood and connecting Rob to it - which is a bit of a stretch.

Meaning it's a bit of a stretch for a TA character, not for we sleuths!

I read a book recently - think it was a Jack Reacher one [highbrow] but it had a bit about men who abuse their spouses. It said one way to catch them is via other criminal acts, ie, if someone abuses their wife then their moral compass is so wrong that they're probably doing other dodgy stuff.

This is so the case with Rob and it does feel that other people are going to start putting the pieces together - how long before Charlie and Adam compare notes and Fallon and PC handsome?

As someone else said - I feel this is all heading towards a murder on the orient express type finale. And we just know it will be at Christmas time.

Surely it has to be Rob's fault. He's been going on about how he was the only thing preventing Berrow from total collapse. Comeuppance on the cards!

Ah, Charlie wasn't leaping to conclusions. Just heavy-handed scriptwriting.

Perhaps JD will make the connection between the dog it was that died and Stefan's information, if she ever stops fawning over Carol for long enough and thinks clearly.

It said one way to catch them is via other criminal acts

Like Al Capone and his tax evasion.
So what's going to be Rob's downfall? Double-parking while taking Henry to school ... wearing the wrong jacket for hunting ... punching an insolent workman (shades of Clarkson).

Anyone want to start a book on how long till Lynda finds out? I can't imagine it being a secret for long in Ambridge. Besides we all know!! Probably it will need someone with the interpersonal skills of a family liaiaon officer to tell Lynda but she shouldf eb told ebfore she finds out.

Re-Knob, I have a feeling talk will start soon. The farmers will gossip about the improperly cleaned silage clamp. Fallon will be gutted when Rob puts the kibosh on her ideas for the cafe, and will moan to Emma, her mum, Kenton, Plot, and then Kirsty must be moving abck soon to start her job. It could still be a while before it all falls apart. Sadly.

Plot's voice annoys me. Anyone else? Sounds a bit whiny and nasal. I'd like to think him talking at teh party about KNob telling everyone how he'd saved the dairy (and the world or whatever) was Plot fishing for info. But I fear he was just being as dim as the rest of them.

Topaz At least we all RECOGNISE PC's voice, don't say anything, the producers might change the actor to one who sounds like all the other new blokes

Thanks Pseudobadger for the brilliant thread title.Could it be a pseudo badger in the clamp rather than Scruff?

I like the compare & contrast of Brine being told off by JDarling(when he was eating the leftovers meant for the pilaf ) & Hel having to kowtow to Knob.

Haha an accidental alphabetization there for all you dreamtosleepers.

I love Brian, easily the best character on TA. 'Beardy weirdies' has become a standard phrase in this house!

It surely can't be sensible for Rob to go round maintaining that he left Berrow because he could see the writing on the wall and it was a disaster waiting to happen. Surely anyone with half a brain will point out that if it was that bad he has to take responsibility having been in a senior management position, and that if he couldn't do anything about the allegedly obvious problems it would have been more impressive if he had whistle-blown rather than walking out. Also, of course, it carries the substantial risk that it will provoke Charlie into letting the real facts be known - or, with any luck, that it will push him into making contact with Stefan and finding out all about the culvert.

Fallon has already tentatively mentioned her concerns about Helen & Rob to Emma at the housewarming (Rob taking control over the Bridge Farm shop project), but Em was having none of it- gushing about Rob and making Fallon second guess herself.

I read a book recently - think it was a Jack Reacher one [highbrow] but it had a bit about men who abuse their spouses. It said one way to catch them is via other criminal acts, ie, if someone abuses their wife then their moral compass is so wrong that they're probably doing other dodgy stuff.

There was a police force that checked all drivers who were not disabled who were in disabled parking spots for all other outstanding offences and the likelihood was very high. If you had a low enough moral compass to park in a disabled spot then you had a low enough moral compass to be guilty of other more serious crimes.

I like the way they wheel Carol out for comic relief. Obviously she would be interested in Hallowe'en because we know she likes brewing her own 'potions'.
Very sad if the botulism dog IS poor Scruff, but I had to chuckle at the idea of Scruff as Lynda's familiar.

Although it would be poetic justice for Lynda's dog to bring down the mega-dairy I'm still hoping he'll find his way, live and intact, to Lower Loxley on Boxing Day.

A minor driving offence maybe. The police pull him over, he gets stroppy, they check his record.......

I LIKE Carol we have stuff in common; herbal remedies particularly. I think,I hope the days are gone when women with cats living on their own were branded witches by the locals.

Scruff love and speculation. Via the BBC. So much. And so funny. (Possibly best viewed on Twitter but link is to website.)

tedhis - That would be so good. Knob parking in a disabled bay. Hellin still smug and annoying. I'd like her to get her bank card declined and see that Knob has spent all the money.

Aw poor Scruff!
thanks for new thread

I am also hoping that somehow, Scuff has survived, and perhaps was swept downstream where he was rescued. All the hu-ha about Berrow Farm will make the papers, and the Scruff-rescuer will see it, realise that it was not Scruff as did it because they have him (there will be a pathetic picture of Lynda with Scruff in the article) and ta da! Scruff and Lynda will be reunited.