50 ways to leave your lover. Get on the bus Gus, give a knife to your wife, Rob. How not to write helpful storylines masterclass from The Archers.

[PseudoBadger]

Poor poor Henry

Anyway what kind of a Knob wants real custard on fish pie ?

Soc has food issues. He has to have all big scenes revolve around food. Knob couldn't even be deaded without there being a pie in the conversation.

I think soc could well be a psychiatrist s dream

DadDadDad will probably sidle in soon and admit a slight miscalculation....

I'm just glad the Rob/Helen thing is over, even if he's not dead at least she won't be living with him any more.
Agree that if you're an abused wife the worst way to leave your husband is to leave a half packed bag on show put your son to bed and tell him over dinner ? and alcohol.
Better to just leave when he's out and talk to him in front of witnesses in the future.
When Kirsty phoned back she should have asked her to come round, as Rob knew she had the secret phone what was the point in waiting as he could then take it off her? It was all silly.
Her packing a bag and taking Henry to Kirsty's and Rob coming round ranting and Fallon's PC Plod being called to take him away as he tries to beat them both up would have been a better outcome.

I'm guessing she didn't actually stab him badly/deeply but he knocked himself out as he fell. I'm hoping he might come round and in true horror-movie style creep up to Helen and start throttling her just as the police burst through the door.

I don't have a massive amount of experience of stabbing people but I would have thought that a heavily-pregnant woman (with no knife-fighting experience of which we are aware) might struggle to deliver a killing blow on her first ever attempt. I rather had the impression she only stabbed him once. Banging his head hard on the floor/the edge of a worktop would explain Knob's very sudden total silence.... aagh why on earth am I trying to make this seem realistic?????????

Sorry Margie if not obvs am trying to say I agree with you.

Oh Paperm0ver - I can't believe you have fallen for Knob's custard lies .

Custard is not easy to make because you have to stir it for blardy ages and never let it boil or it will curdle. It is therefore ideal for keeping your barefoot and pregnant wife in the kitchen, but everyone without a spouse to oppress should buy it ready made in M&S.

She must have gone to grab him or push him so I would have thought the initial stab would have been weak and to his arm/back rather than vital organs.

Like the Tony goring, some things don't work very well on radio

Congrats Pseudo for the magic number post and the new thread

Home made custard's really, really easy. (Grateful to be sidetracked to recipes).

I have a failsafe recipe if anyone feels the need of a little therapeutic stirring followed a lovely saucepan bowlful.......

red thankyou for making me laugh.

I will have to back.away from twitter. I hardly ever tweet. My meagre group of followers will wonder whete all the fury has come from.

I think we should boycott TA. Home Front all the way.

I despise SOC.
Amd I am livid with TA for tweeting with their smug shit about when you are leaving being the most dangerous time.
Yeah that's right I better not leave my anusive husband...in case he gets hurt.

I am so angry I cannot spell.

Now that the dust is settling (in my kitchen at least) I think I'm going to tentatively agree with 2rebecca. I too am glad, I think, that her living with him is finally over. At least we won't have to endure any more of his controlling/abusive dialogue and her denial about what's happening. Whatever happens, at least it's out in the open now. Even writing that I'm doubting myself!

for Pseudo

I really thought Kirsty would burst in, or the police would arrive, surely Helen's tone and the 'I can't talk now' would have been enough to make Kirsty think someone else should be there. She wouldn't just put the phone down and wait and do nothing.

Sorry, not on Twitter (and have no idea how it works) so what does that tweet by Keri actually mean?
Apologies for dimness.

Poor wee Henry though, he'll be traumatised. That has to be a storyline doesn't it? He'll be a Ambridge's next teenage delinquent a la Jamie Perks but worse...

I agree homemade custard is easier than powder nit not as easy as putting something realistic from M&S in the microwave for two minutes.

Any decent man would be grateful for custard in any form. I know where I'd like to put boiling custard in relation to KnobTitch aka wankstain.

Funnel anyone - quick before he comes round.

Phew these threads are whizzing along!

Pseudo for the threads, titles and 50k post.

I was quite enjoying the early part of the episode as I pottered about the kitchen. Did anyone else notice the background music while Helen was lying about the suitcase? 'You can't hide your lying eyes'

But I had literally stopped in my tracks at the end.... Like most on here I think it is an over dramatised cop out. Though I am not convinced, musically possible or not, that he is really dead. Dh thinks I should stop listening. TA was my go to sleep thing. Less so now. FIL told me yesterday that he has stopped listening. It's really not comforting radio at the moment.

Forgot to say thank you Pseudo for such a great title. Best ever. Not sure how you devised that so quickly. And gave me the only Archers related laugh I'm likely to have this week 😀💐💐

What it usually means is that abused women are more likely to get seriously hurt or killed at the point that they leave their abuser. It definitely does not mean that abused women stab their husbands and it is supposedly more dangerous for the poor abuser.

That was to TeaAndCake.

Abel 2 years of a slow burn , and one night of a quick burn (of the pie) Too, too much to bear.

It's bpretty easy to kill someone by stabbing them - a lot of kids who killed people in the early days of the stab-panic genuinely thought they'd just hurt their victims. There was a doctor other radio at the time explaining how easy it was.

If I was Kirsty I'd have stayed out by the bins, whatever Helen said.

If we go totally EE then I fully expect a convoluted plot in which Kirsty attempts to take the blame, therefore saving Helen a cameo appearance in Bad Girls.

I do like the Scooby Doo style ending though. I think it should be Stefan pulling off the Helen mask.