Who let the cows out? Moo, moo, moo moo! Will Pip be caught out, and will Matt or Justin bowl a maiden over? Discuss The Archers here

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'Ello pusscat!
I am eagerly anticipating Pip's downfall.

It seems increasingly likely that Justin is penniless, probably mortgaged to the hilt with loans galore. Miranda will get anything of value. All the talk of "spend what you like" is a bit of a giveaway.

I'm not sure it's plausible given what we know of him. But agree it is likely!!

And Pip is still bloody lying. She hasn't told them about Ed. Which means that the minute Ed says something casually in the pub to someone and shows that he knew all along, it can be his fault. Because after all, Pip is only a kid 24 who made a mistake.....

I'm thinking car crash due to someone speeding, and one or the other has life-changing injuries.
I think this will happen and Lillian will get nothing. Something will come of all the mentions of speeding cars and my money is on Justin.

Just caught up and coming on the echo what other posters have said. PIp is the future of Brookfield - spoken aloud. And all the signalling re Lillian and Justin about being just as happy living like church mice along with Lillian's confident assertion that she's never going back to Home Farm. Ed is the loose cannon - still unmentioned by Pip. I imagine once he hears compensation is being paid out (any estimates? I'm guessing it will be fairly astronomical?) he'll assume the escape is common knowledge. Pip's off the hook again - though hopefully feeling uncomfortable enough about it to get her act together. A final thought - Jill and Ruth's exchange was kazoo and swanny whistle par excellence.

Hang on! We're all saying re Lilian and her "happy ever after" that it's a car crash (perhaps literally!) waiting to happen.

So, on the same reasoning, what do we think of "Pip is the future of Brookfield"?

I thought Jill was brilliant last night. She struck just the right tone.

Yes Vango I was surprised tht Dave is still covering up for Pip, one word from Ed and she'll be in even deeper shit.

Oh yes! Pip hasn't told her parents that Ed knows. So when that comes out they will look even more stupid and dishonest to the village than they do already, and all trust in Pip will be destroyed

That Ambridge FM site is brilliant, @puddock - thanks for the tip-off!

I think 'Tainted Love' ought to be Pip's personal theme song. 🎶 Now I know I've got to/RUN AWAY, I've got to/GET AWAY 🎶

She managed another flounce when she was talking to Jill and David, I notice. I might start keeping tally of the number of times she turns and bolts from a room mid-conversation on the grounds that she 'can't deal with this'. Good luck to Brokefailed if that's their shining hope for the future

Thanks, Gallavich, that's answered a question I had. So Ed's potential revelation is an unexploded bomb waiting to go off...

It's really irritating that Pip has managed to turn this whole situation with Ruth into a "Poor Pip, she's so upset" one with David and, to an extent, Jill. What about "Poor Ruth" and indeed "Poor David" having to cough up so much money - sure, it was David's error that started the problem, but if Pip had come clean at the start then the damage would have been limited to their own cows and the cost of vaccination for the other farms. I do hope as a minimum she plans to pay them back.

Still could be a slow-burn on the Ed revelation storyline: Adam's offered Ed the caah-work, hasn't he? MIght Brian not lean on Adam to give Pip the work ('we are family') now that David's playing all nice and handing out lashes of money? Ed gets blown out when Pip has no option but to take the work on again, her pretexts all wiped away and her need to earn money pressing, and Ed gets drunk and bitter, spilling the secret in the Bull? or, tells Emmur about the great caah-escape and she spills the beans/confronts Pip in a 'why can't we ever catch a break and those Archurrs always come up smelling of roses?' mood.

Ach, once the compensation is settled they'll all be simply poor. I was surprised David didn't even ask Brine how much it might come to.

On another theme I liked how Emmur put Will right on the extra night for George. In front of others too. It felt to me like Will was being manipulative. Was he? Along with all that griping about the girlies playing cricket. I've never liked Will, even when I felt sorry for him.

I've always disliked the way they write will as I feel they are trying to manipulate us into forgiving the odious behaviour of ed and em as we are supposed to like them. All a bit too obvious (not as bad as how they tried the same trick with Miranda though)

But IRL some people who are treated badly are horrid too. One doesn't rule out the other. I liked Will's speech at Ed and Emma's wedding where he was sort of moving on. Did that scene happen in Soc's regime? I think it did.

That's true but I feel they were specifically written like that so we would ignore the 'crimes' of the characters we are supposed to like

The brothers reconciling was under soc!

TBF, Pip is the one who works in and on the farm and chose to stay there when she could have followed her then BF. She's the one who is invested in the land. Ben doesn't come out of his bedroom, and Josh is after a quick buck building his own empire with no regard for anyone else.

The whole thing was an unfortunate series of events, none of the should have been disastrous. An oversight buying the cows, then a bump to the fence, then a slow repair, then a helpful passerby puts them in a random field. Does Ed know nothing about bio security?

Pip's real mistake is in listening to anything Toby says. His judgement is appalling, and so is hers for tolerating him. If only she and Rex had got together she would have been a better person!

YE OLDE ARCHERS - can anyone remember Mrs Antrobus's dogs were called? And what type?

Oh, she had afghan hounds. Was one Portia or am I making that up? I'm probably making it up. Now starting to doubt they were afghans.

Stick to your instinct, Too. Going for afghans.

i guess i am in the minority in thinking Ruth is over reacting ( i find Pip quite loathsome too) , i just cannot bear her voice and her generally pessimisitic take on anything...

Definitely Afghan hounds. My trusty Archers book mentions Portia, Georgina and Bettina. She bred them commercially and had some success at Cruft's. In later life she took in Nelson Gabriel's spaniel, Charlie.

Mrs A and Nelson are right up there in my list of favourite ever Archers characters. It's not a long list. Brian features too.

I loved Mrs A and Nelson too. I still think nostalgically of Nelson and his wine bar.

Will was definitely trying to needle Emma about how Ed isn't man enough to support her and the family, hence her need to work in the chicken factory.

After the wedding stuff I did hope they were going to move forward into a more adult relationship, and it's a bit annoying that he seems to have regressed. Poor Clarrie deserves not to have to worry about her sons constantly snarling at each other.