Delurking - have maybe posted once or twice but can never think of anything clever enough to say, unlike regular posters who absolutely enhance the listening experience!
Have listened about 35 years. Outraged at personality transplants, plot lines that go nowhere, the casting of clone-like male toffs......all the usual stuff.
Peep is beyond annoying, Ruth a self-obsessed bore and David a mummy's boy with, as I think a pp said, all the emotional intelligence of an ironing board. I like Lynda, Brian, Jenny (normal Jenny, not that alien who inherited her brain last week), Kenton makes me laugh.
What infuriates me is the way that the Grundys are comical working class knock-about characters. They work hard, live by the rules (mainly!), have inherited neither businesses nor land, do their best by each other yet are treated like figures of fun by the middle-class, entitled, land owning farming families who have had everything handed to them on a plate. Jill's almost total disinterest in their plight (homeless at Christmas) even though she was recently devastated at having to move from one of her children's huge farm houses to another's stately home, illustrates this very well.
I do hope somebody (David? Caroline? Brian?) will offer them a place soon. Even though it will mean years of pathetically grateful cap-doffing from Eddie & Clarrie 