Come in to The Archers thread - we've redecorated! Take a seat in that distinctive yellow chair and discuss events in Ambridge.

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New thread for tonight's episode.

Do you like the decor then? My 'personal' assistant did it.

Typical sibling one up man ship though. (I am typing this to a background of my two in full rivalry). So although it does make the beef baroness a bit of a cow it isn't out of character.
Eventually once Bem comes out of the cupboard he will no doubt turn out to be a mutton millionaire.

Minimammoth, I don't think Louiza Patika is pregnant. A few of us have been discussing that on and off over the last couple of threads. It keeps getting mentioned here that she is about to go on maternity leave, but it's not been mentioned in any of her (many) recent interviews. Nobody is sure where the idea came from, except that she was pregnant in real life at the same time as Helen was pregnant with Henry.

I was half hoping Ursilla would slap henwee in public after it was mentioned he was having a tantrum because he wanted coke and she would only give him apple juice. Pity as a public gathering would make a few more people question the loving father and devoted granny shite the pair have been peddling.

Oh.... Thank you Gaspode. Must not perpetuate myth. Gotcha.

I'm sure they'll soon tire of Henry - particularly once it dawns on him that Mummy has still not come back ...

No word at all from Roy, Kathy, Mike in Brum, Hayley in Brum, Oliver? (+ Brenda, Charlie, Stefan ...) And Ian still hiding in the GG larder? Weird, weird, weird.

When Pip was wittering about beef and mentioned using a local butcher my poor heart leapt at the thought that the SWs must obviously want to bring Maurice (still no word, again) into the centre of the action. But inevitably they'll force Pip to say she has discovered a cool, new, hipster butcher, barely out of school, sweeping up online awards and living just the other side of the Borchester bypass. Ho hum.

Oh! Is George miraculously going to find himself with enough saved "pocket money" to pay for Keira's dance lessons?

Not long to wait for Frilly to emerge from their chrysalis and start taking a full role in the cast. Surely the SWs can't prevent that from being fun?

Okay - we could campaign for Maurice to get more work, I think he may do anyway as part of the family thing. I don't think I've heard Pip call her "Aunty" Pat before.
I also think maybe the cash/tin has turned up at the fete yesterday (the Horrobin/Lilian/Eddie tin). That just has to be significant.

Ohhh! Yes. Possibly.

But even if not, Eddie will undoubtedly find something in there that will pay for Madame PoshDanceTeacher.

Here's a letter from The Guardian yesterday!

My husband, Rob, introduced me to The Archers over 25 years ago. I became an addict and now listen every evening (except Saturday, obviously), while doing my knitting. Imagine my utter dismay when it turned out that the worst villains ever to have featured in the programme are called Rob and Ursula.
Ursula Hutchinson
Newport, Isle of Wight

I love that letter!

She could always comfort herself with the though of Robert Snell.

Maurice got a mention the other day.

Well, I've been keeping quiet about it as I don't want to out myself, but my first name and middle name are both names of members of the Titchener family, so spare me a thought too.

Please don't try guessing which names, as I it would be nice to keep the anonymity of my username!

I can quite see you'd want to keep a middle name like Ursula under wraps, DDD.

I said no guessing! So I am going to neither confirm or deny that my middle name is Ursula.

Sorry - no guessing!

Jess still goes by the Titchener name doesn't she ...?

what were your parent thinking calling you jess?

I'm increasingly bemused that Neil hasn't told Josh to get lost. If he put half the effort into promoting their business as he has into the upper class eggs nonsense, I suspect their profits would be doubled. It's got to be a direct breach of the partnership agreement.

BOOP for Lynda and Lil's bit of bitching about the box from the Horriblebins on the MayDay stall. What will it have in it a Ming bowl?

Poor Henry, I wish Ursula had just let him have a Coke.

His mum's in prison, he's recently witnessed a bloody attempted murder, his grandparents and stepfather are fighting through the courts over where he should live and he's having nightmares about ogres. If any child deserved a bit of special treatment and an "ok, just this once" response, it's him.

Lets hope the SWs introduce a Henry-in-a-strop report into every episode - until his evil jailers admit defeat and hand him back.

( In lieu of Coke. )

Perhaps the box will have the missing £400 stashed in it.

I'm quite surprised they're letting Henry out of the house, I'd have thought the village is too infested with his maternal relatives and they'd worry he could be contaminated. Plus, according to Arsula, Knob was pining to see him when he'd been out of the house for a day (despite being with them 24 hours a day when he's not in school), so how can Knob bear to let him out even for an hour or two?

I guess, (in the realms of overinfestment) the evil pair were keen to parade their dominion over the scion of Bridge Farm.

But I'm hoping that, now the novelty is wearing off, Rob was desperate to be rid of Henry for an hour or two.

Jazzuurrrr deserves to sleep under a tree. He is crass and loud mouthed and probably swills larger and pees in people's doorways. Not my favourite character.