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

[PseudoBadger]

Yes that makes sense. And is reassuring for my blood pressure!

I'm on a 24hr BP test today. I might have to explain the spike during TA. perhaps the CA should read a government health warning these days.

Thank you, I missed Misogynistic - how foolish of me.

How is Helen unconventional? Because she works on a hippy farm?

Nasty of Rob take henry then take a photo to show her 'what a great time henry is having without her'.

Agree. The 'unconventional' comment seemed odd given that Helen doesn't express any views or opinions anymore. Barely speaks, in fact. Hard to form a view about her being conventional or otherwise.

That was ursula getting at rob.

Also, the sainted Jess was/is a social worker. Hardly conventional middle-class wife fodder.

I think Ursula is making a bit more sense.

If Rob only cares about himself and how the world fits around him; the same is also true of Ursula.

So she sides with Jess over Rob because she had a potential grandchild then dropped her like a stone when it wasn't.

The not turning up to dinner may have been genuine, rather than Rob making it up.

She's still an unnecessary character though and still doesn't explain why she's moved in.

I got the word "misogynistic" but was struggling with the other bits.

Plotwise, ursula gives rob the chance to work on wrecking the shop and keeping Helen away from her family and infantilised. Maybe later there she'll be crucial to the unravelling, eg saying something really odd that means that someone puts the pieces together.

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I still don't understand why Rob is trying to wreck the farm shop and cafe. Even if he wants to take it over,what's the point of getting hold of a business that has been ground down and lost its customer base and reputation for quality?

Maybe he thinks the values get in the way of profit and wants to demonstrate that it's a poor business model, so that he can turn it into a 'proper' shop and put the village shop out of business too.

just listened by mistake, stuck up a ladder

honest

I don't know why everyone loathes Ruth

the poor cow! imagine sat with your mil blethering on about her crab starter while your teen kept obsessively checking how many bars her phone had

and the beloved heatherpet not even cold in her grave

if I were her I'dve been up at the bar. Ordered a double. Choked it back. Wiped mouth with back of hand. Ordered another

plus lol at Hellin being Unconventional

she's about as unconventional as old arry's arsehole

Actually, fair point about the turkey baster…...

Yes, I don't understand about Rob and the shop either. Unless he just has to have his way and thinks it will work economically because in his eyes he is a business genius.

But he and Hellin must have collectively taken a huge cut in salary and I can't see Knob living very successfully on a low wage as it doesn't really suit his knobby image.

Ruth is irritating because she stews and expects everyone else to figure it out. She is the ultimate in passive aggressive sighing

As for pip - she doesn't even have the excuse of being a teenager for her pathetic behaviour

Thanks for the new thread! I haven't listened in weeks now - will start again when HellRob is over, so thanks for keeping me up-to-date.

I don't think Knob is intending to wreck the farm shop and cafe - it's just that he is a rank incompetent and takes advice from no one so that is what will inevitably happen (and he'll blame someone else - Tom,Fallon even Helen herself). Ursula is the plot device that allows him to have total control over the shop and Helen - she has to be just like him for the purposes of the plot otherwise Helen would be off chatting to anyone who would listen and in any case if Ursula was OK then Helen would be OK too which wouldn't work.

oh you see I don't ever think that about Ruth

I just think ah poor overworked underappreciated woman and uncaring family

NOW I WONDER WHY THAT COULD BE

I did wonder if I'd missed the bit where David had said 'today's going to be hard for you, love' and given her hand a squeeze

I guess deciding to have a baby alone would be unconventional to a stuffy snob like arsula; I expect she sees Henry as a bastard and Helen as some sort of fallen woman. Plus - organic? Eco-friendly?

Q. I'm quite sure Knob didn't so much as mention his mother last Mothers' Day, so why the overkill in doing things for her this year?

A. He's buttering up Ursula now because she's got money and he's running out of that.

Very true. It's also important that my wife understands - poor thing, she so often forgets - her place in my family. Just my little way of letting her know. I wouldn't want to embarrass my darling by having to spell it out, would I?