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

I suppose the stabbing was unpredictable. But that was because we rashly never thought that SOC would be so crass.

I listened...so that's the Hellin I've been missing eh? How have you lot been able to stand it??

It would be v unrealistic if H had a girl after 2 scans showing a boy. Still what's realism got to do with it, so I predict the delivery of bouncing twin girls and they shall be named Peggy and Kirsty. Hellin will dress them only in yellow clothes.

How much are barristers paid per hour?

Caught the end and cursed myself for getting the right plot device but wrong bloody week

At the waters breaking I thought of every woman I've ever known who has had this happen to her (and to be fair to the script writers I'm one of the 5% whose labour begins with waters breaking so it's not vanishingly unlikely although definitely hackneyed) and I thought "surely Anna would say 'are you sure it isn't wee?'" because both times somebody asked me that as my pants recreated Niagra Falls

About £800 an hour in my experience Betrand but that's an average.

the stabbing wasn't what we hoped for but I don't think anyone was surprised

Actually criminal law barristers often earn a pittance for years after completing pupillage. My cousin is one - she barely breaks even some years despite working full time and often makes a loss on a case. A huge number of costs have to come out of the hourly rate - the take home pay is a tiny fraction of that. Lots of her colleagues have left the law or moved to more lucrative specialities.

Having said all that, Anna is supposed to be an eminent barrister, so would certainly be taking home 6 figures.

I know corporate barristers who take home 30-50k for an afternoon (including preps time though!!)

Let's hope the waters breaking jog a few memories about the flood and some thoughts about why it happened and soggy endings.

I was glad to hear Ian's name mentioned. Excuse the pun but a drip of the real story.

I can work out most nmeunomics but what does SOC mean please? I just keep thinking scene of crime but I am sure that isn't right.

spiker, I am so glad I'm not the only one frustrated with Helin, I have never met a Helin before, give me a good old fashioned Helun any day!

I was hoping Adam would mention the conversation about Pat not being at birth to Ian and Ian would be her bp. Now it will be an £800p/h barrister (although I know they don't get that from LA).

Sorry my DH is corporate. He supported the "strike" over the cuts to legal aid and the shambles that has been made of the judiciary.

The chasm between corporate and criminal work is less gray post ling.

SOC = Sean O Connor or Smug Obvious Claptrap (or any other C word)

Thank you.

SOC = Sean O'Connor, the much loved editor of The Archers.

I don't understand why it's the barrister going to the prison to see bloody annoying Helen, rather than the solicitor.

Not to be confused with SOK - Spawn Of Knob.

Will Anna charge though. How many six minute units can Hellin push through? Where's Peggy?

My grannie always said Hellin and Kaaaarun for Karen.

Oh and SODOFF = Sean O'Connor's Date Of Finally Finishing, an impatiently awaited moment due any day now.

I was in the car so listened for the first time in weeks.

pah. If Helen has been like that the whole way through thank goodness I have given up. 'Ohh look at the lovely blossom...

Will she get her brain back when the baby is out then?

SOK - I guessed Son of Knob, but spawn or perhaps 'sperm' of Knob is more sinister.

If I was Anna, I would have felt like saying, OK. Don't tell me, so that I can prepare your defence. Keep Stumm so I have nothing to go on and you will go down for years because of your unprovoked attacking of Rob. Who has your son in his care.

Up to you.

The waters breaking was such a male pregnancy plot device. Mine didn't until they were made to!

Criminal barristers tend to earn less than the minimum wage, and even QCs don't do that well. But if Anna is working on legal aid, she will be earning precisely zero because those assessing her bill will say, rightly, that it's the solicitor's job to go to see the client and take the client's statement, not the QC's. And frankly they wouldn't even pay a solicitor to go along and make conversation about the pretty blossom on the trees and how mother and baby units work.

Anna should also tell her that "oh look at the pretty blossom" angst angst rend hair "he musn't have the children" would you like some tea? Is unlikely to wash with the prosecution and when she is in court she will be asked questions and she'll have to have some answers.

Is this supposed to be some recognisable condition? Is this a common survivors reaction? Because to be honest if she behaves like that all the time I'd be exoecting these conversations to be with her MH team not her legal team.

I wonder what the women who helped reasearch this storyline think about the way it is playing out?

I do know the rates of MH issues in female prison population are appalling high but I don't think this is at all helpful or convincing.

It does not illicit sympathy.