Will it be porridge or curtains for Knob? Await a sensible and sensitive ending to That Storyline on The Archers thread.

[PseudoBadger]

Threads are moving so fast! Will this thread be here to welcome SOK?

Bore - did you go to the same convent as me ?

Ah yes, Bearhug , had forgotten she has form for keeping quiet about violent man.

redshoe - it's possible. Did yours have a vile maroon uniform?

Maroon and grey

Am having fantasies of Rob turning up dead with 12 stab wounds, and PC Plum Harrison uncovering a Murder On The Orient Express plot.

Another dark thought: is Rob pushing for homebirth because he's hoping Helen might die and thus conveniently get out of the way?? Seems weird he'd risk the life of his unborn child, though. Or is he just so controlling he really doesn't want too many outsiders around Helen?

That doesn't fit, either - he was keen enough to send her to a psychiatrist.

That was horrible but my god bloody good acting. I was standing in my kitchen with tears pouring down my face and didn't even realise! Heart pounding stuff.

I thought I heard a door before she got off the phone? 😣

Yes, there was a door opening, that's why she said she had to go.

Yes!!!!! Well done Helen. She's breaking free! Mentally at least, if not yet physically.

Rob has no plan that Helen should die in childbirth; he probably doesn't even care one way or another about how she gives birth, he just wants her to do whatever he says. He doesn't actively want her to die, he wants her at home, cowed and isolated, cooking his bloody supper and looking after the baby.

I found that episode very chilling - more so than all the others - waiting for R's reaction to the change in Helen.
Will the old Helen completely rise from the dead on Sunday?

Great episode. Love the "Helen Archer" comment. Hate Rob for taking her keys and using Pat and Tony.

PseudoBadger where are you ?
Time for a new thread !

Don't worry I'm here

Oh thank goodness you're here. I've been more worried about the thread than about Helen!

50th thread coming!

No doubt MNHQ is knee deep in bunting and PresidentOliviaMN is probably hiding a thread medal in a huge Easter egg ...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/2600463-No-more-walking-on-eggshells-for-Helen-Heading-for-a-eggsplosive-Easter-weekend-in-The-Archers-will-Helen-Archer-be-resurrected-by-the-end-of-this-thread?watched=1

Rob doesn't want to endanger the baby or Helen. He wants Helen to be incapable of thinking for herself so constantly moves the goal posts.

"Of course you must have a home birth, mother knows best" becomes "of course you can't change Helen's mind once she's decided something" and would have inevitably become "you stupid woman, what on earth were you thinking, I never should have allowed you to endanger our child"

Helen needs to be confused.

He's employing the exactly the same tactic with "lie down, lie down, lie down, lie down, lie down, how dare you spend the afternoon lying down"

CLICK PSEUDO'S LINK AND RACE TO THE NEW THREAD!

redshoe my uniform was unrelieved monotonous maroon - we'd have been thrilled to have a touch of grey- so think we must have attended different convents.

But this thread is not fuuuuuulllll yet... :-D

That's just what I was thinking Glowfrog. And I can't be expected to fill up all 29 posts myself can I ?

< folds arms >

< looks put upon >

I bowed to pressure - posters were getting twitchy

The DCs have driven me to gin already today - is that wrong?

I think you could get away with calling it special occasion gin, what with it being Easter and all. Just look upon it as the adult substitute for chocolate.

N