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

^ the sl does not illicit sympathy not that appalling rates of MH issues! Sorry if that was unclear. If they are trying to draw attention to a real issue then it is badly done

Somebody asked why Anna sounded panicked when the waters went. Clearly this is because Anna is a SHFL and a Career Woman. Therefore anything to do with babies and childrearing will be a complete and utter mystery to her.

Lawyers don't have to pay bills or morgages. They don't eat food like most other people. In some ways they are much like artists, who gain their knowledge and experience through their love of the subject and live on thin air. I am soooo tired of this current storyline. I am no longer listening.

I quite agree easy. Mine relied on me for the first five years post pupillage and certainly isn't used to chips and cheap. He is a bit like an artist actually who has had the freedom to do what he likes mostly. However, he's never been a knob.

That was a bizarre episode.

"Friday night, so obviously we need to end with a cliffhanger of H going into labour"
-- "Right-o, so what does H do before then?"
"We could have her talking to her lawyer"
---- "OK, time for H's intense monologue as she finally describes the stabbing and what led up to it?"
"Oh, no, I've got plans for that, just have her completely go off at a tangent with every question, like some madwoman."
---- "O...K... then"
"Oh, yeah, Matthew needs to dump Pip, can you give that a minute in the script?"

But Anna's not a baby barrister is she? I thought she's been practicing for ages. She won't be cheap.......

And of course proper professional women are freaked out by the prospect of childbirth- because TASWAMA..

Somebody asked why Anna sounded panicked when the waters went. Clearly this is because Anna is a SHFL and a Career Woman. Therefore anything to do with babies and childrearing will be a complete and utter mystery to her

See also Lynda Snell who, particularly when younger, was over-involved with her step-daughters and animals to fill the gulf in her soul that every childless woman must have. They did an impressive job of inviting listeners both to pity and laugh at her

I don't know why I listen. The only characters I actually like are Marjorie Antrobus (deceased) and Caroline (exiled).

OMG Marjorie Antrobus and Arsula. There are parallels although Marjorie was a god egg.

I had forgotten about Marjorie.

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Nòoooooooooooo!!!!! He is a controlling cockwomble. Thete will be no bloody TA for him to come back to.

Sean O’Connor: ”I fully intend to return!”

TASWAMA

is Helen's story, of her going through this dark phase of her life, that the audience want to identify with

No. We don't. We want her to stfu. Or actually we want her to say something useful. I am not identifying with her one bit.

Anna wouldn't normally be cheap. However, if she's paid by legal aid, she will have to justify every minute she claims. There's no way legal aid will pay for all these fruitless visits, particularly when she's doing the job the solicitor should be doing.

SOC may be consulting lawyers about legal procedures as he claims in that FB thing, but he's certainly not paying any attention to what they tell him.

Ultimately, what Helen is charged with is not necessarily her crime but the complexities of her own personality.

A) nope pretty sure the charge is attemptex murder /wounding with intent not being a special snowflake.
B) ahhhh si reallly it is all down to the flaws in her character. Whilst help should be foxussed on the victims of abuse everything else should focus on the abuser - the law, the blame, society. If you want to know why some men abuse don't look at the women they abuse to answer that question you twunt this boils my piss.

Foxussed? Focused even. Sigh. The phone has been drinking.

What do SHFL and TASWAMA stand for?
Love these threads, I read them daily thanks all

The phone has been drinking

Are you having problems with the complexity of its characters?

The Archers Script Writers Are Mysognyst Arseholes.

Glad it's not just me Notso

TASWAMA. ??


And I believe SHFL = shit-hot female lawyer

Thanks. I missed tonight's episode but I've got the gist of it.

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.

YY exactly. I've been wondering this. Is it normal to completely cut off and refuse to talk about it? Because I would expect that to be a sign of really deep trauma or PTSD or something, and yet she doesn't seem to have any sort of MH help (and it doesn't play true for me anyway).

I admit I actually rolled my eyes when the waters went.... "Well yes, what happened was...." #Gush#

Bah!

The waters breaking was such a male pregnancy plot device.

Yes, but isn't that always the case in soaps? They always gush and everybody runs about shouting "the baby's coming!!!"

Well actually no, the baby probably isn't imminent (not in the next ten minutes anyway!). Mine went in a bit of a trickle and then precisely nothing happened until induction. No great panic needed.