No more walking on eggshells for Helen! Heading for an eggsplosive Easter weekend in The Archers - will Helen Archer be resurrected by the end of this thread?

[PseudoBadger]

Helen knows she's not cracking up - Knob is an eggomaniac.

Are we eggshausted with this storyline?

I once received in the post hundreds of local societies bank statements. I immediately rang the bank and told them and sent them back. I also once returned to the bank a wadge of banknotes stuck in the hole in the wall.

Apologies if anyone found my posts horrid, but the subject of domestic abuse isn't to be taken lightly.

Psuedo that's if we're still allowed too

Very sad to catch up tonight with a rather different tone of thread

Regarding breaches of patient confidentiality, I had to have bloods taken in the very early stages of investigations as to why I wasn't conceiving... About two days later my dh rang me at work to ask if I was ok because he'd picked up three increasingly frantic messages from a GP he'd never heard of in out landline. The last one was totally rambling, begging me to pick up but saying things like "of course with blood sugar like that you might be unconscious". I was with a bunch of pupils on a school trip!! It was pretty shocking.

My midwife wouldn't have spoken to my husband on the phone. My hv specifically engineered a situation in which I was away from dh and mil to ask if I was ok after ds was born. I'd have been brave to say no, though...

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b074vtgp

Pseudo threadus horribilis made me think of thread worms, which I haven't had to think about for several happy worm-free years now.

And the Queen's annus horribulus was no laughing matter to her either, I recall she had tears in her eyes that Christmas.

Sticker - that sounds like a plan

Yep, I reckon Rob is a strong candidate for the theft. Maybe that's something for Helen to run across accidentally - a stash of cash.

Elendon I think the hectoring bits is where you accuse everyone on the thread of hating on the women of TA, and berate the mention of cricket bats to heads in reference to a fictional character...

@EBearhug

A sporner is someone who likes pus-porn, i.e. a good video of someone squeezing a zit or lancing an abscess. There are about a million videos on this subject on Youtube. And here is an example of a recent thread.

DO NOT BRING THAT FILTH TO THIS THREAD

Careful Glowfrog - remember your place!

Apologies if anyone found my posts horrid, but the subject of domestic abuse isn't to be taken lightly.

You must have skipped a lot of posts if you think any of us are taking the subject of DA lightly, especially considering some posters here have had direct experience of it.

Stick don't mind me, I'm just being feisty and challenging.

President Olivia I thought you would be here to spread Love and Cheese

Been reading but haven't had much to add.
But the thoughts of earlier posters about Rob and his motivation have made me wonder. People have said that for Rob it's all about control rather than some over-arching scheme, or master plan.
It set me wondering, where does the desire to control come from? I can't imagine anything less fun than trying to control someone's every move - far too stressful and too much hard work. So why do it? Is it because you feel crap about yourself and this makes you feel powerful? To boost an ego? Because other things are out of your control so you take charge of something? Or just because you're an arse? There are probably as many answers to this as there are controlling bastards, but I'm interested now.
I needed to spend more time worrying about Helen, so this is welcome...!!

Especially as PresidentOliviaMumsnet is checking up on us.

I think it's very much because you feel crap about yourself and it makes you feel powerful. It may be that you grew up with little agency of your own and think that's how things work - people have to control each other.

@ threadus horribilis

Badly done glowfrog Badly done!

@Elendon

A hairdresser at the hairdressers I used to go to was killed with a cricket bat to the head, by her ex. She had two beautiful children.

Bloody hell Elendon that is terrible.
The mother of one of DS's good friend was also killed in a DV incident just 18 months ago. I do understand that it's not funny to joke about this in any situation.

Peace Cheese and love all please.

Thanks

Thought we were nearly straying into crossed threads territory Glowfrog. Back to psychology again now. Much safer.

Glow I didn't say everyone. And I certainly wasn't responding to you. Plus the person has apologised re the cricket bat.

It's amazing don't you think that a storyline in a radio soap has raised £90,000?

Still, I'm remaining feisty and challenging. I will not be controlled.

Good. I hope PresidentOlivia has time to read the whole thread, because it's posts like this one that rattled my cage

This thread criticises women and posters seem to glory in the fact that their lives are oh so perfect. If, and of course it's a big if, their daughter, brought up in middle class shires happened upon a baddie like Rob, death by scotch eggs eh?, why they would know immediately and send for Dixon of Dock Green to sort it out.

Sheesh.

Apologies all. My last word on the matter, I promise.

Yes, I could do with a bit of Borchester Blue right now, with some lovely black pepper crackers.

Peace too.

Some more 50th thread bunting for you Bore. I shall join you with it. Shame we haven't got a cheese emoji to add to it.

I hope it wasn't my scotch egg comment that upset anyone - I was just dipping in and out of the thread as was on a deadline, so may have misread the tone. I didn't mean to belittle anyone's suffering at all.