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?

Charlie arrived after Tom left. And then we were all confused when Charlie turned up at bridge farm and was then sitting by Tony's bedside

(Which bit bow? I got a bit ranty...)

Helen has always been a character described in one way (strong independent woman) but portrayed in another (pig headed, selfish and needy)

You need to start taking bets on how and when knob's manipulation goes nipples aloft

To me it's a certainty knob has got rid of Ursilla so that he can get the boarding school idea over Hellin and is preparing to get very heavy handed and doesn't want witnesses. That in turn will make Hellin go into early labour and the home birth nonsense will be an irrelevance.

3/1?

I do think there should be a lesbian relationship in a bridge though. To you know, mirror the men ones...

Pseudo its Holy Week next week. Will our saviour rise, Alleyluya ?

Knowing our luck bow he will then come back a reformed character to make amends and return the Sterling silver.

I'm still thinking about classic literature, so I predict that Alf will meet Alan in the middle of the night while creeping down to steal the silver and this meeting will change his life. He will flee, change his name, start a factory, be a model employer and adopt an orphaned child. However, Harrison will never give up the quest to find him and it will all end tragically, after the Felpersham Brexit riots. There might be a bit of singing along the way.

Words - the legislation bit was very interesting! We will see how that gets portrayed in the sl

Didn't someone post a brilliant potential title two or three threads ago which it was suggested might be better kept for the coming apocalyptic birth event?

Ooh Gruach what was that?

(Being a bit slow, BYOS, I've just worked out that you were already referring to that. Sorry!)

Just don't read the post if you don't want to read about it - I don't like thread police!!

That's fine, and equally, if someone makes the tentative suggestion that the discussion moves to a new topic, just don't pay that any attention if you have something you want to add - hardly justifies calling them thread police.

Words Had to scroll back to remember what I'd said. Currently having a good laugh at the thread wandering a bit Don't let's have it in for DDD - if anyone should take it personally it should be me since his comment came immediately after my post on the subject - he's getting bored of boarding. I'm picturing the thread police as Harrison in search of the bunting.

Your rant at 20:13:27 BYOS

Ok then daddaddad - think thread police is pretty tame but whatever. This thread has generally been non confrontational and open to all regardless of what they want to talk about (spoilers aside)

Gas - I wasn't!! But now you mention it....!

Thanks for those kind comments, lillian, (and BYOS too, a few posts after your thread police comment - this thread is moving fast )

I don't mind being told (the irony) that people don't like being told what to post. What I'm less impressed by are some posters seeming to make an issue out of me being a man. Why does that matter?

Whenever I think of Les Mis, by the way, I remember an odd incident many years ago. A very well-known and successful actor/singer lived near us. He made his name playing one of the leading roles in Les Mis. I once walked along his street and encountered his wife. She was smoking. She visibly jumped when she saw me and said hello. Then she virtually begged me not to say in front of anyone else that she'd been smoking, because her husband didn't know that she still occasionally had a cigarette. She didn't spell out that he would hit the roof if he knew, but I could well believe it. She once said that he wouldn't allow them to have any junk food in the house and I knew he was an extremely forceful personality. Later he and I had a prolonged and very unpleasant run in over another matter, and it did occur to me that he had reverted to his breakthrough role - he simply could not let the issue go.

I've often wondered about that marriage. As far as I know they're still together, but they're on the other side of the world now.

Rob may have bern a bit controlling then but I don't think that was why Hellin dudn't stick up for her best friend. I think she had picked a sude at that point. Kirsty didn't like Rob. Helen thought he was bee's knees so her lotalty to Kirsty went out the window.

It doesn't daddaddad - ignore

And answer the question - is this the fastest moving thread of all time!?!?!

Love the proposed new storyline Gasp0de but isn't it a tad too late for 70 year old Alf to be setting out to make his fortune by honest toil?

Will it involve singing? And Anne Hathaway? Can't bear her

True, and I don't think he put in all those years in Gloucester Gaol after stealing a loaf of bread for Ed and Will Grundy.

Words I'm coming round to the fact I may spend the next half century of my life wailing that I don't remember. Sorry ...

Is Will already in rehearsal for a pantomime? We rather needed his voice tonight, welcoming the prodigal uncle. And wasn't there a moment when Nic was shaping up to be Helen's friend? In fact, surely all the newish mothers of Ambridge, or even just people who remember Helen's first pregnancy would be besieging her with good wishes and pre-loved baby items.

Does ambridge need a mayor?

You are so right that will would have been a brilliant counter to Alf turning up. Now there is a man who bears a grudge!!

I'm quite surprised we haven't been treated to a scene where Rob tells Helen that Nic and/or Emma tried to palm off their hideous Primark baby tat on him in the shop. 'As if I'd want any Grundy castoffs for my son!'

As you were. Thread de rail not intended