As the Archers threads age like a fine wine, or a cheese, come and join us - it's nearly time for the Ambridge Flower and Produce show

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Hopefully we can go back to an ordinary tale of country folk?

Spoilers are frowned upon.... There's a thread for that.

And Lass you are spot on with your picture of Pip. I don't have very strong pictures of the characters in my mind, although I know what they're like iyswim. But that is exactly Pip - you have clarified her for me!! Agree she doesn't sound attractive though, nor does she make me interested in the Fairbrethren

I quite like Rex, he seems a decent chap, but would be more than happy for Toby to have an interesting encounter with a combine harvester.

Rex Pip and Toby are a trio of charmless twats.
Surely josh will have to give david all the docs for the mower which will include the invoice showing he paid less than £3200

I too rather liked AmBex but have to say the inner monologue of Alistair drooling over Dan's gf ("mmm so young.." seemed to be the gist of it) is up there with Sid 'n' Jolene in the shower on my list of Archers moments I'd like to unlisten to.

I don't know why they wimped out of telling Rex last night- he seems such a push over I think he would have just accepted it. Unless this is gearing up for a Ménage à trois......Pregnant Pip- ..... which bros is the father?

Surely Pip wears skinny blue jeans with thick walking socks you can see over scruffy brown walking boots and long dark hair in a messy bun. TRex both wear rugby shirts and blue jeans.

Spot on about Pip and TRex, Budgiebonbon - not that I've ever thought that deeply about any of them before now as I can't stand that trio either. Nor Josh, actually.
Urrgh, yes, just remembered that terrible inner monologue crap. It would have been dire even if the circumstances hadn't been soooo... mucky...

I think Toby doesn't want to tell Rex because Rex knows whatever-it-is about Brighton (maybe a more-or-less abandoned wife and child?), and Rex cares about Pip.

I too rather liked AmBex but have to say the inner monologue of Alistair drooling over Dan's gf ("mmm so young.." seemed to be the gist of it)

amelie ahem I think you'll find it was 'mmn...so fresh' VOM

Toby doesn't want to tell Rex because it wasn't long ago he was advising Rex on how to land the girl of his dreams. Toby has broken the bro code

He's a coward.

Also agree about the skinny jeans and messy bun.

Anti - I think its both. Although the brighton woman has probably moved on with her life by now and is happily running a stall on walford market.

I think it's high time we found out about this Brighton business. Such heavy signposting a while back. Surely the inevitable sibling warfare that is about to break out will be the perfect trigger for the big reveal. Given how utterly tedious TRex is/are and how little listeners care about them, they should be racing to make everything they can out of the Brighton 'mystery' in a desperate attempt to kindle a bit of interest.

Mystery woman is Brighton Arts Student who needs money to finish her degree as cost of accommodation and Class B drugs are horrendous down there. Toby Junior needs a Bugaboo not just any old pram. His twin sister has need of latest baby ballet outfits.

Well it's hard to see how Tobore is going to be funding any of that on a share of the profits from a few eggs!

Place your bets on the 'mystery' here

• Toby is the sub sexslave of a woman old enough to be his grandmother. When she cracks the whip he has to obey instantly and hurry off top speed to her sex dungeon under the arches on the seafront .

• Toby is in fact astonishingly clever and is completing a Phd at Sussex University in 'The Semiotics of Rural Life in a Post-Modern Age'

• Toby suffers from a rare and complicated condition. He has to attend a specialist unit in Sussex General for immune suppressant drugs and gene therapy treatment to stop him turning into a complete 100% arsehole.

Any other suggestions??

are there any parents who tell their children to stop moaning, get off their backsides and start trying to fix issues instead of pandering to them and tiptoing around them?

Brian. It's just no one listens to him.

Kate does :o

I can't believe the Archers is really doing not one but TWO Love Rival Sibling stories, just a few years after they did the last one which ran for ages!

I think we presumed Toby has a kid he doesn't really keep in touch with, who lives in Brighton, didn't we?

Good point about Papa Fairfather coming to stay and upsetting everybody.

Ha giddy I think Toby's drugs aren't working very well

at "fairfather"

Maybe Pip won't go after Rex, but Fairfather

redshoe

Surely not?

Really agree with everyone's depictions of Pip. She'll be "outdoorsy hot" - she's obviously physically fit as she's always on her feet and lugging stuff about, and probably has a lovely tan. She'll be in skinny jeans, wellies, a big jumper and yeah a gilet, or a wax jacket from the local farming supermarket. But always smelling of cows. Probably scrubs up well for the Young Farmers.

Toby would have to magical and SILENT during sex to make up for his awful personality.

Have you ever seen a young farmers night out Francis? There's more skin on show than in Carry On Camping.