SOC reveals he's a quitter whilst Keri sews up plot holes on Twitter about the wicked wife-sitter! Discuss the Archers here.

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Not long until our thread's 3 year birthday!

Justin said he would pay for the storage so why not let him?

Yes, quite. An odd episode but at least we were spared Ursula.

Well I reckon our Lil likes "Young Men" and wants to give local boys a chance, maybe she'd be the 'sponsor' that they mentioned they needed. They could be taking some of it to Brian's and some elsewhere. who knows.

Lillian would use specialist removers, surely, but I think it's just another type of odd job that the Chuckle Brothers do from now on instead of Grundys.

I don't get the fairbrethren and these odd jobs though. Toby is bone idle - wheeling and dealing is too much like hard work isn't it? Or do we think Rex will have to ask josh to help him?

It's called money, they are obviously kept a bit short by Daddy.

It just doesn't seem like a way they would make money though. They don't make sense as farmers either to me.

I'm surprised Toby isn't just wheedling money out of his parents. Or becoming an estate agent.

I imagine Lilian quite likes the idea of sitting out the front in a deckchair with a pitcher of G & T and a long straw watching these young rugby chaps hauling furniture about. :o

I am wondering if we are going to see Toby become the new Ed, while Ed (please!) eventually gets what he deserves and does well for himself.

As long as they don't play that out on the radio. Can you imagine the outcry if Justin asked Emma to clean the house just so he could ogle her

HULLO! and thanks for the new thread.

Just place marking! Thanks for the new thread - great title.

I'm not convinced by Rex and his half-assed lines of work, dossing in a caravan with annoying, work shy brother - he absolutely seems the type to need/have a steady Proper Job.

And I've said it before - eggs schmeggs.

These threads move fast!!

What with the Fairbrethren and Hellrob... I' switching off more and more.

Please please please can we bring back Moike. And have more Jim, Carol, Alan. Anyone else really!

Pip in love is even more irritating than usual

Lillian remembered she has a business. But she can't possibly look after it all on her own so it's a good thing there's a man willing to help her (and has better contacts than her despite her knowing the area/living there forever?)

This is what Toby's actor looks like. It's not what Toby looks like. In my mind, he's Stephen Mangan.

To clarify - that's not Toby's actor! That's Stephen Mangan, who has no connection with TA, as far as I know.

And hasn't Rex got a bad back?

Nice to hear the sisters chat. Even if it's a bit of navel gazing

Yes, I liked that bit. Sisters, brothers, mother/daughter, mother/son. A family-based episode.

Stephen mangan is quite a bit older than Toby!

It's the voice. Mmmmmmm. I hasten to add that Toby isn't and never has been a type that I would have gone for. But I do like his voice, and unlike some of the rest of you I have no problem telling it apart from Rex's or anyone else's. I've always been a sucker for an attractive voice.

I think he sounds sleazy! I could tell him apart from Rex because he was trying to sound like Leslie Phillips

Hmm ... I'm not mad about Toby's voice - he always sounds so impatient and patronising. (Just realised I've described myself) but if his father is assumed to be similar (and like Stephen Mangan) I can see how he would have appealed to Elizabeth.

Anyway, I am beginning to enjoy the difference in Rex and Toby's personalities - particularly Toby's headful of ideas.

Mmm Stephen Mangan. There is a tenuous TA link though... He's in "episodes" with Tamsin Greig and before that was in Green Wing with her so while he's not been in TA he works with someone that has 😆