Discuss The Archers here. There's hut construction, new teen arrivals, pastured eggs, pining Pip and other fun Spring-like stories to choose from.

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Maybe if we don't look directly at the other storyline it will disappear?

Thanks Gaspode - Shula is blandly annoying these days, nice to hear she's had a scandalous past... I remember my mum and her friend talking about it when Mark died - I'm 34 - and when John died - clearly my childhood was defined by TA !

oops - too many finallys

YES!!!

How did she know Eddie had been told about the surprise party? Did I miss that?

Thank god Kirsty!

As several of us predicted Kirsty is contacting woman's aid!

Go Kirsty

Listen and learn Kirsty!

Yea. Bang the bastard up for a year or two. That'll bring him down a peg or two!

Thank god for phone lines to the outside

(Dadx3/ i don't like to be told to move on when maybe I'm not ready to)

Spot on Kirsty! In denial!

BYO I agree wholeheartedly.

I posted in this thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2591210-boycotting-happy-eggs-is-there-a-better-free-range-brand?msgid=59926672#59926672 about the difference between free range and organic.

😀 go for it Kirsty

Oh. The bro stole clarrie's money!

K is such a good friend.

H doesn't deserve her - but thank god she has her for all our sakes

Enjoyed that. Nice to have an episode with characters having a good time. Could have done without Wayne's ode to Eddie though.

Yes - it is odd how good a friend Kirsty is when there seems no obvious reciprocity at any point of their relationship

Well done Kirsty!

Someone asked up thread about coercive control legislation - as I understand it only acts after it came in count. However behaviour before that ( I e before 29 Dec 2015) can be admissible as 'bad character' . I suspect if it comes to court, and I do hope that is the way the s l will play out- Knob's defence will be all about doing things in Hellin's best interests.

The boarding school thing is clearly going to be pivotal, and I suspect if people felt it had been done to death they'd feel confident in not talking about it any more.

I personally sometimes feel that the 'I'm a man, is anyone else a man, who is a man here?' Intrudes on what other people are talking about, but I wouldn't come and tell people the manner in which they ought to discuss the archers!

No obvious recprociity? Helen didn't want to take Henry out for the day to meet Kirsty?

Helen does indeed deserve Kirsty, and Kirsty knows this.

But that was for Helens benefit

Helen certainly needs a good friend right now and luckily Kirsty is around. I'm sure knob was livid when Kirsty came back and he hadn't got her successfully off the scene.

Kirsty clearly has a thing for people who don't treat her that well

Phone call to WA tick.
Mention coercive control tick.
Point out abuse is not a class issue tick.

But that (very true to life) she's not you know one of those women you see on the telly. She's not a battered wife.

This is 1) why the shame and 2) why women often think it's not great but it's not that bad.

So all in all well done TA for pointing out not all DA involves having seven bells knocked out of you and that it can happen to anyone.

I remember to my shame having both the idea of what a survivor of DA was like (not me) and also that because other people had it much, much worse that made it ok.

That's what I'm worried about if this gets more physical - women will think 'at least my rob doesn't hit me/rape me/alienate me from my child'

What I like about the sl is that it will make people realise ea is bad enough and violence isn't the only form of abuse

Did Helen stick up for Kirsty when Rob said she made a mess of running AO?