Surprise surprise - Kirsty has a Mini Sausage Roll in the oven! Discuss the Archers here

[PseudoBadger]

Happy New Year to you all.

Would it not be Borchester Land? Which would have implications for Brian (as a shareholder).

I don't think BL managed Berrow at that time, did it?

Mega BL set up the megadairy. Brian appointed Rob. Damara later became the majority shareholder in BL and brought Charlie in.

www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thearchers/entries/c86114a3-244e-3497-8c70-d310dabfc7f0

This gives a potted history

Thanks, Vango - total attention deficit round here when it comes to the ins and outs of Brian's and Justin's businesses.

You're welcome. It's difficult to work out. Though I wonder if JD ever thought through the implications for Brian of a BL manager being guilty of stuffing the culvert. Your original question about prosecuting someone further up the hierarchy is interesting!

Definitely a Roy/Kirsty thing going to happen. He's so calm and caring- a slow burner. Robs polar opposite.
Can see a lot of grieving by Tom when they have a grown up relationship.

Your original question about prosecuting someone further up the hierarchy is interesting

Employers have vicarious liability for employees in relation to actions carried out during the course of employment.

Environmental liabilities can carry vicarious responsibility too.

Sadly, I might not be able to read the whole thread today as ds is in from college and wants his machine back.

Puppet, I fear you have failed to train your son to set his priorities correctly.

I think rob is basically incompetent and it always catches up with him - This. And it's already starting to show in his new job with his random day off and failure to complete his report for Justin. His management plans seem to be based on shafting Adam out of spite so it's not going to end well and he's in sole charge this time, no Charlie to carry the can.
I also think Kirsty and Roy will end up together - apart from anything else Roy has no family breathing down his neck trying to smother her. I also think it would set up an interesting dynamic for years to come - Roy bringing up Tom's child (a Bridge farm inheritor), Roy's relationship with Tom, Kirsty's with Helen etc etc. I don't think would have been attracted to each other initially, but I think living with Roy (and working with him) and seeing how he is a father to his own kids, her re-packaging of him for his internet dating (and seeing other women being attracted to him - even if they are Tracy Horrobin) have the potential for her see him in a different light. It won't be a coup de foudre type of love - more a growing realisation that she has feelings for him especially as he continues to help and support her through the pregnancy.

Agree. Rob is far too important to do boring admin and for his talents to be wasted on doing what he's being paid for.

I noticed one little line of gold last night. When Susan was discussing with Jim the discounts on alcohol in the shop she said the Merlot was rough and she didn't think she'd ever get rid of it.
The same Merlot Tracey brought to Roy and said Susan had described as his favourite.
I love how Susan is such a saleswoman she'd even use blarney on her own relatives to make a sale.

Great spot, mummytime!

Yes, I noticed that - and she obviously didn't think Tracy would be able to tell.
I'm not a wine buff but I don't think I've ever had a rough Merlot, must have been bad.

I also liked Jim's continuing rivalry with Robert Snell, and that Helen used the alleged black-necked grebe to move the conversation onto neutral ground. And I've still a little hope that if Kirsty is into spending hours in a hide that she and patrick will find each other - roy is a brick but I think they should stay mutually supportive friends.

Very very old news I'm sure, but did anyone spot Anisha in Silent Witness?

So Phoebe is coming back to Ambridge just for one night for a party? Very suspicious. If Freddie mows her down and she's too injured to return to Oxford, but can manage Felpersham, I swear I'm never listening again.

Ooh selsig - that would indeed be a difficult moment for listener loyalty.

For no reason at all I've had a presentiment of Kirsty not surviving / disappearing after her child is born. So s/he would be brought up at Bridge Farm.

No, she's coming back for her bicycle, which seems quite plausible (I had a strange conversation with DD the other day about the impossibility of all the students, their baggage and their bikes all arriving in Cambridge simultaneously).

Hopefully she's there to prevent some total disaster, but if there was any mowing down surely it would be Lily not Freddie behind the wheel?

There is a whole presentation on "Phoebe Goes to Oxford" at the Academic Archers conference, after all. /keen

Ebearhug, in the event DS showed great loyalty to TA when i explained i needed 10 minutes more to skip through this thread. So his training has been adequate after all.

BTW is there access to the programme for Lincoln conference that isn't on FB? If someone PMs me and I give my email address, then I could receive it as an email attachment? I don't know if that's the best way or not, but it's certainly one that would work, sort of (we have no functioning printer as dh has mislaid the relevant CD - in happier news one pair of glasses from my most recent test has turned up).

Puppet, there's hope for him yet, then!

You can PM me, but I won't get to send it till I'm home from my evening class it's evening.

Errol - you just brought back my memory of going up to Cambridge for the first time. My parents had all my stuff packed in the car, but there wasn't enough room left for my bike - or me. So my journey involved trains and a cycle ride across central London.

Thank you, Ebear. I won't be on much till tomorrow - boy will be back in soon and I have to go out anyway too!

I have a memory of crossing London (Kings Cross to Waterloo) with a bike and two large bags after my first term in Cambridge, too. Remarkably, my bike never got nicked in my 3 years there.

But don't trains typically only have space for a couple of bikes nowadays, or do they have special trains with extra 'guards vans' ?

I lost the key to my bike lock in my first term then spent the next few years eyeing it up forlornly as it got more and more rusted to its place. Eventually a porter did a cull of all the unclaimed bikes. Not like at Magdalen where they did a cull of deer. I wonder if that's Phoebe's college, she'd feel right at home.