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[PseudoBadger]

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

Was Rex - not Toby.

Thanks Iggy.

Ah yes, sorry - I can never tell the difference between Rex & Toby.

I think Pip's love life is only marginally less irritating than Pat's wailing.

Thanks for the new thread, Pseudo.

So I take it that is meant to show us notjing will part Pip from Brookfield land. Not Brazil, not a man.

2.03 pm... Siesta time! I kipped through the entire episode despite dogs, lawnmowers, trucks... I'm thinking Pavlov's Dog. Dum de dum de dum de dum....I hear the sound, I drop out.

I'm going to nitpick too 😁

Rex asked Ruth if Pip was up at "Bridge Farm" and Ruth said yes!

Aren't the cows on Home Farm land? 🐄

Marking new thread!

Glad I didn't bother listening

We had lots of message-taking. Pip sent Matt to Brookfield House to tell Dave something can't remember what, got bored, wasn't listening properly. This meant that Ruth knew about the break-up and could mention it to Rex when he dropped in. So Rex could haretail it over to Home Farm to invite Pip out to the cinema ("there's a crowd of us going" but Pip saw through that). Pip asked why he went over specially to ask, he could have texted, and I thought "why didn't you text Dave in the first place instead of sending lover boy?".
Fallon manged to contact Kirsty by text later in the episode, in a fairly straightforward manner. These countryfolk are getting quite good a tech these days, aren't they, considering they only seemed to have learned how to use landlines in the last ten years.

Ps. Thanks Pseudo for the new thread.

If I'd been writing that episode I think I'd have left out the Ruth/Rex interaction and added a couple of extra lines to the Fallon/Jazzer conversation. I was sorry she didn't just say something along the lines of "Helen's facing an attempted murder charge. Is it any wonder Tom reacted the way he did when he heard you?".

They're making Jazzer sound uncharacteristicly insensitive.

Thank you pseudo.
I can't actually remember what I listened to tonight

Gah! *Uncharacteristically

I thought Pip sounded remarkably chipper for someone who has just waved a final goodbye to someone who was, until very recently, her One True Love.

Thanks Pseudo - am off to read the Pat-hate on Lowfield.

Really didn't get the whole Pip sending a letter to Dave thing. What century is she living in? Unless it was a formal resignation (wishful thinking).

R4 Yes, and I think it was only recently that they started to refer to social media sites by their actual names - so now its Facebook instead of "FriendSpace" and Bebo instead of erm..."Booby." *

Many thanks Pseudo . Missed tonight as I was out with DS in his new car practicing manoeuvres for his test and he banned me from tuning to R4. I have failed as a parent Doesn't sound like I missed an exciting one though.

Here's my nitpick, which is one of those straw that breaks the camel's back sort of things: tonight Fallon (scheming accomplished) said to Jazzer, 'now eat up your ploughmans before it gets cold'.

It's like a sort of pretendy attempt at verisimilitude - they sort of know that a ploughmans is something you ought to be able to order in a pub in the country but they clearly have no idea what it is, let alone ever having experienced a real one. Lazy, lazy, lazy...

And if they can't get a writer/editor to pick that up then what hope of one managing to remember the blocked drain/disappearing Pole etc?

I also thought that about Ruth and the cows, vango

OhBugger - I haven't listened (surprise!!) but is it possible that it was a joke?

Nah - surely the ploughman's thing was a joke?

I spent the whole episode distracted by how the CA introduced it: "Fallon and Kirsty get their heads together" - waiting to hear Fallon and Kirsty have a meaningful conversation, but it turned out to be Fallon on the phone right at the end and we didn't hear K's voice at all.

I definitely thought ploughman's getting cold was a joke.

Oh, then I just have no sense of humour. Or it was a really shit joke ;-)

"Here's my nitpick, which is one of those straw that breaks the camel's back sort of things: tonight Fallon (scheming accomplished) said to Jazzer, 'now eat up your ploughmans before it gets cold'."

That was definitely a joke.

"Fallon and Kirsty get their heads together"

We were so intended to think that was supposed to be about Helen- and it turned out to be about Jazzer. I don't like being played for a fool.