Things To Do in Ambridge When Rob's Dead. Can The Archers get Home Deliverance for Helen?

[PseudoBadger]

In Africa, kids still go off to boarding school at age 4+. I was talking to a gal the other day who had been sent at 4. She wasn't talking positively about the experience, mind.

Have Pat and Tony actually seen Helen recently?

BYOS - totally agree about Ruth's PA huffing and puffing!

They saw her at Tom's birthday dinner when she rushed out crying. Tom visited her soon after.

I think this -torture- SL will run and run as it's bringing in so many new listeners who probably don't mind the personality transplants of so many of the characters involved, in particular Pat & Tony. At this rate they'll probably just calmly accept that their beloved Grandson should be dispatched to boarding school!😢. Aged 5?! Surely that's not even possible anyway. Or maybe it will finally prompt Pat bot into emerging from her trance like state?? One can but hope.....

Pat and tone who are anti private school - if they don't wake up at that suggestion then all is lost

Perhaps they'll offer to have henry living with them?

Recently we were watching 3 men and a little lady. In that the wicked step-father to be tries to dispatch the 5 year old girl to boarding school.
The school used for filming is Stoneyhurst College in Lancashire. As we watched we suggested GD who is 6 might like it (as a joke).
We went on the school site - which has facilities for 3 to 13 year olds. I couldn't see at what age boarders can start and I thought it was a bit cheeky to email just for the benefit of this thread
GD thought it looked fantastic and couldn't believe you could have sleepovers at school.

Great thread!

I am still placing all my hopes in Kirsty.

Perhaps she and Tom can overcome their awkwardness, discuss Helen situation properly, and come to her rescue, which will result ultimately in a huge romantic reconciliation between the pair of them. (Or is their relationship shattered beyond repair?)

I think Pat's "acquiescence" is credible in one way, given Helen's previous history and "issues" and wanting to do things her own way without interference.

Can't fathom relationship between Ursula and Knob though. Apologies if this has already been discussed ad infinitum but I thought they'd had a terrible falling out. (Or was she punishing Knob for letting Jess escape his clutches?)

Having said that, I know that two or more members of a family, in certain circumstances, can collude against those who join their family through marriage.

The feminist in me would, along with others on here, be hugely disappointed if it all ends up being "the mother's fault". Although, I am sorry to say that I have had personal experience of four mothers who have manipulated and colluded and interfered and have completely destroyed (or have almost succeeded in destroying) their offspring's lives.

Oh yes, forgot to say, wish we were a little more enlightened as to Helen and Rob's financial situation.

The last episode did seem to be trying to flag up something horrendous that had gone on in Rob's past to do with him being sent away to school. I suppose it's just possible that that will make him remember that mummy doesn't always know best, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

We need Miles to turn up and be a completely normal, well-adjusted chap to put the lie to this all being Ursula's fault. Or at least proving that you can have an unhappy childhood, get sent away to boarding school and not turn into an abusing arsehole.

"It was the making of you" said Arse SO NOW WE KNOW WHY HE IS LIKE HE IS. Even he sounded unenthusiastic about her paying for poor Henry to boarding school.

Oh sorry, thanks for the new thread AGAIN Psuedo I wondered where everyone had gone .

oh that makes sense, missed latest episode, must catch up this lunch time ...

Well most people who are sent away to boarding school at age 5, or even under 10, are very pissed off about it as adults even if they're not abusers. Gruntled

TASWAMA.

Have just worked out what TASWAMA means. Fear I may be using it quite a bit…..

Perhaps Hellin may want to post on the thread about boarding prep schools when she discovers the plans.
My DM boarded from age 5 but that was back in colonial days. Strangely, she never suggested that either of her children might benefit from boarding!

Bertrand I'm sorry as I know it was on the previous thread but what does TASWAMA stand for The Archers Script Writers are ?? The start is me guessing

Though often children are boarded because their fathers were and it 's down to the fathers Bertrand.

Well, if ever the BBC wanted to drive me away from TA they couldn't think of a better way than turning this thread into an outpost of the anti-boarding Education threads.

I am rubbish at sitting on my hands ...

Can't we just talk about Chris and Alice? Or Shula? Or, oh - anything?

I think your start is correct, Eastpoint.

My ending is…… misogynistic arseholes.

Is that right, Bertie??

Misogynist arses

Ugh - Ursula is such a nightmare! It's like who can outfox who with her and Rob.

I love Helen being described as 'unconventional'!!

Pip = pain in the arse

Surely Helen won't go along with this? If most of us wouldn't be keen to send a five year old to board, I think Helen would be least likely of any!

And sorry, Gruach, to post this just under your last - but I think whatever anyone says about boarding in this context (even if they're also dubious about boarding/prep schools) is no more a debate about boarding itself than anything we say about charity shop maternity clothes, dressed salmon, or out-of-school trips on the Blackberry Line are really about those issues IRL.... if that makes sense.