Will Lynda agree that the Grundys are fungis? And is Peggy finally realising that Helen is faaahmly? Await the Ambridge Fairy on The Archers thread.

[PseudoBadger]

"Get outta my village" screams Peggy Mitchell

And just to celebrate the joy that is Olivia…

What do we think Anna's plan is re: Pat-at-birth?

Peggy will be birth partner.

Except she won't in the end, because Prat will somehow manage to be allowed to be there (hinted at by Anna yesterday)

Which will be a load of [bull]

Oh no! It didn't work

How do we get the Bull emoticon?

Maybe its for when we call BS.

Fabulous

I feel like lets all go to for a celebration

Bore its [ ] with archers in the middle

I CAN'T DO IT!!!

TELL ME HOW - PLEEEASE

Ah, thank you red

We are like the Illuminati with our secret sign

Anybody got any idea how/why Anna thinks Pat can be there? That confused me!

That's what I was wondering, Seek.

I think she'd have to get herself disallowed (football fan not lawyer) as a witness, wouldn't she? But no idea how. Or why Anna wouldn't have suggested it earlier if she could?

yes, it's hard to see how Anna came away from that conversation with Helen with anything helpful on that score, yet we seem to be being told she did! Especially as Anna never seems to follow up on the hints Helen gives her in between maundering on about toffee.

I'm drawing a complete blank!

at Seek's excellent summation of what passes for a script three nights a week at the moment.

isn't on the emoticons on the mobile site yet. But then neither are some others like etc. Exclusive like.

Just to see if it works.

Oooh I love it!

When the blurb said that Tom was calling a meeting, I foolishly hoped it meant a get-together to galvanise everyone into doing something about helping with Helen's defence. Instead of which it's sodding pigs. FFS.

Augusta I thought that too!

Whaaaaa? I'm sure I was one of the originators of this idea: "Emoticon would be very exciting! I'd like The Bull, a tiny pub. MNers would LOVE a pub emoticon, I'm sure."

This is so exciting, I've never helped invent an emoticon before.

Asking - I share your excitement! On this thread I wrote: (so I'm acknowledging I was promoting suggestions other had made):
How about this: make it a picture of a pub displayed by [inn]. As was said on other thread it could stand for community spirit / peace and love / keep it friendly, like a collective . That could be used across mn.

On TA thread, we could then use this and write shit after it. We would know it stood for bullshit but it wouldn't have that connotation to non-Archers listeners.

So I celebrate the collective spirit that us brought us here: nearly 56,000 posts and our own emoticon!

Just checking the thread on phone and wondering why you are all posting mini diagrams of a woman's reproductive system....

it's hard to see how Anna came away from that conversation with Helen

As northernlurker said last night, Anna is supposedly an experienced DV barrister so she will have pieced together from

• I'm not looking forward to seeing this baby
• I didn't want a child so soon after we married
• Rob wanted us to have a baby straight away
• I'm pregnant now so no point in talking about it

That Helen was raped and she finds it difficult to admit it.

I'm sure it's slow progress in RL cases but it doesn't make for good drama. Are we supposed to get cross about women in the CJ system now? If so, I'm cross bemused that they are taking Helen on a 2 hour drive in a prison van within days of her due date.

They made a big point of Tony telling Pat that it was possible to volunteer or train (?) to be a birth partner for prisoners. I wonder if Pat isn't planning on doing a crash course - claiming she is suddenly deeply concerned about the plight of pregnant women in custody - and then, by astonishing coincidence, appearing at Helen's bedside in the nick of time….

Oops. Well done on the

If I had been more alert in my last post I would have said this SL is a load of

I've missed a lot of the discussions on here recently, but wouldn't someone - presumably Anna - have got some kind of abusive/controlling relationship checklist and put it in front of Helen before now?