Elves have needs too - will there be a pheasants' revolt? Discuss The Archers here

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I've just browsed Lowfield for the first time - they really don't like Pat do they!

Blimey!

Ah, same old Keri - he always was rather touchy.

He went ballistic when the fictional Daniel, who was played at the time by Keri's son, got nicknamed 'Fat Dan' -

It would be interesting to know what has happened to statistics of women reporting and/or leaving abusive partners before and after the stabbing. I suspect there may well have been a rise previously from women who recognised that they were being abused and that they were not alone. However, given the extremely negative picture painted subsequently, it wouldn't surprise me if that effect has disappeared

Shula was having to be careful about Dan's diet at the time because he was on steroids for his childhood arthritis wasn't he? So what we heard ("not too many sweets now" etc) led us to believe he was Fat Dan. He wasn't necessarily fat, but it sounded like he was.

He now sounds very slim and handsome in his army uniform.

That's right Cheesy and iirc Keri had a massive rant about it on one of the threads

Strikes me as someone who can dish it out but can't take it. Rather like soc

Tend to be the people most at risk of disappearing up their own arses

DadDadDad - I'm a daily lurker but would just like to report that I was pleased with the SODOFF acronym. We can still use it. "SODOFF was yesterday" How long do we think the fallout will last before new better-knitted plots come in?

Hope that worked. I wanted a little hesitant wave of the bunting/flag! hooray!

New person not being appointed until September, I think?

So looks like no change in direction of storyline for a while

(interesting stuff on Spoilers thread, for those who go there - won't say anything here though, although not spoiler, per se)

IIRC, the job advert said 'take up duty in (mid?) September', Bore. So first influence on show will be late autumn.

Ah yes, Grumpendorf, you are right, of course.

So they could make annoncement quite soon then, but no change to what we are hearing for months yet.

We will know more when Lynda announces her Christmas Special - if it's not another Editor's vanity project then that will be a Good Sign.

I have been reminded of Toby and his drone

What a lovely topical insert. Isn't it nice that the sw read the papers and pick out the pertinent stories of the day.

Do you think he will get arrested for flying to close to a jumbo landing at Birmingham international? One can but hope.

(Still waiting for Freddie to convert to Islam and runaway to Syria - only to be rescued by cousin Dan and ifti (he is due a reappearance surely a he could criticise knobs cricket technique while he's here))

I think that while listening to the earlier part of the Knob and Hellin saga might have helped other women to recognise that they were in EA relationships - seeing that what Knob was doing was abusive and then equating that to things that were happening in their own relationships - I can't see how the conclusion has helped them in any way. Apart from the single, brief phone call to Women's Aid it has been a lesson in what not to do - rather than getting out while you can stay and confront your partner and stab him with a kitchen knife if he hands you one then refuse to say anything in your own defence when questioned. Also don't expect anyone to remember any of your partners behaviour beforehand or say anything in your defence whatsoever. If this had really been intended to help women like Hellin surely we should have had Women's Aid giving her advice on what to do (and what not to do) - even if she had subsequently ignored that advice at least other women in her situation could have been made aware of what help is out there and what their options are. For me this fails both as a convincing storyline and as a public information service. Badly done SOC, badly done.

Do we take it from Adam and Jennifer last night that the culvert blocking has been airbrushed out of history?

It seems it was airbrushed the moment Charlie left. Was it why he was written out, I wonder. He had developed into an interesting character.

Well they needed rob to leave his job in dodgy circumstances so that he could take over Helens

That was achieved but then they had to get rid of charlie so no one knows

So a load of old baloney basically.

I miss Charlie fittie too, Enoch.

I would guess a hard-working, long-standing woman Archers staffer will be doing the Editor's job for no extra pay during the summer.

So farewell then Sid. You were a great landlord. Apart from the Jolene thing.

So farewell then Sid. You were a great landlord. Apart from the Jolene thing.

woah...steady on Peggy

hah! Rob reveals his true colours

Hahaha Peggy you're an idiot but glad she's seeing rob being a shit

And the scales drop from the eyes...

Aargh PEGGY! Stop meddling!

...but yes, I hope she sees him for who he really is now..

If Peggy still excuses Rob after that, I will just . . .