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.

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"Get outta my village" screams Peggy Mitchell

Gumpen you would certainly hope so, but I don't have enough confidence in Anna/the SWs to believe it until I hear it!

Is there a reason she wouldn't ask anything further of Helen herself, if that's what she's thinking?

Archers and bull shit in one emoticon

I am no longer listening (did try 5 min yesterday but arrgh) but seem to be overinfested nevertheless. I still cannot quite believe this has happened to My Programme

So is the jolene and Wayne 'girlfriend' sl going to be 'humorous'? Yawn

Helen is giving Anna so little, I wouldn't be surprised if she is wondering whether Rob isn't really a perfectly nice man who has been wronged and whose only crime was being keen to become a father.

Henry loves him, he is a great father etc.

Augusta I was hoping Tom's meeting was going to start proper support for Helen / or that he would point out that they can fire Rob, what with the shop being shut and there being no work for him to do, and him having no contract, or a contract too recent to have any rights. I'm bored with the pigs. But maybe Johnny is going to come up with a bright idea.

I'm sticking with it though I DO feel a bit like you lot. But once tweedy twatfacesoc has gone it'll improve won't it?? The swallows are arriving gradually; Peggy?

I'm still listening and I'm happy to go against the grain and say I'm enjoying lots of it, in the usual grumbly sort of way.

Plenty of farm business back on, and while we obviously have Helen, it's a lot more absorbing and (occasionally) believably than the endless Route B/Prudhoe chapters.

Instead of phoning an ambulance Kirsty should have dragged Rob's body to the pigs who would have eaten it. Helen would then be an abandoned woman as Rob had clearly walked away and never seen again and we wouldn't have to listen to Pat sobbing about how unfair it all is. I get the urge to lob something at the radio when she starts!

Some kind of karma thinking that Rob would be made into scotch eggs.

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Every time Helen says, in tones of absolute surprise that anyone might think such a thing 'but I'd never hurt anyone!', I just want someone to say 'well.... obviously except with the stabbing though, right?'. Pat and Tony's astonishment that anyone might think their stabby daughter might just possibly have a violent bone in her body is bizarre - I mean yes, they know her, they feel there are probably mit circs, but surely they would have some sense of how it might look, just on the face of things, to a disinterested judge, you would think!

I wonder if Anna has in mind for Pat to make a statement that would make the prosecution side drop her as their witness. I have no idea what though and Pat would probably mess it up.
The baby is due on Thursday so, whatever it is, she'd better do it fast.

OTOH, Helen might go into labour in the van.

The baby will be wrapped in a towel at Trowell at the exact same spot where HeatherPet shuffled off TMC.

Why the fuck didn't Hell TELL ANNA THAT THE BABY WAS CONCEIVED BY RAPE?????????????

Me too Seek! Much as I think Jazzer etc have been a bit twatty about it, the fact that somebody has been arrested for nearly killing their spouse with a kitchen knife MIGHT make you doubt their pacifistic tendencies.

Has she admitted this to herself though?

Another one here thinking along those lines, Seek. The other day when Helen was asking (with ref to the Mother and Baby unit) how anyone could possibly think she might be a danger to anyone else, I was muttering at the radio "Well, you did sort of stab a man, that might get them just a tad worried."

Yes, me too, Augusta. It's not the sort of thing you'd miss on the submission form, is it?

And just because I can . Thank you Olivia.

Is it possible that Helen could sign something to say that she doesn't dispute Pat's statement? Surely then there would be no reason why Pat couldn't be Helen's birth partner.

The sign looks a bit like a nuclear hazard sign to me.
Not caught up at all yet. Let me know when something happens.

Thank you mini! I knew it was some kind of warning sign but couldn't remember which one.

Absolutely, Seek!!!! With bells on.

I'm basking in having posted something people agree with!

Bask away…. It really is absurd.

And I guess all this 'she couldn't hurt a fly' nonsense is being enabled by the fact that she is refusing to refer to 'the incident'. Clearly if she doesn't talk about it then it didn't happen ….

Can't decide whether I feel huge sympathy for Anna or contempt for her inability to do her job.

If Helen says Rob raped her then everyone wil know that her baby was conceived through rape which will be awful for the child as he grows up. Imagine the gossip and the taunts in the playground.

Not much worse than being taunted cos your mum's in prison for stabbing your dad though!