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Hides in laundry rooms

I love Freddie's espousal of Epicurus as a way of life. Presumably the common misreading of his ideas as the pursuit of pleasure at all costs.:o

Yes echt Freddie certainly is a chip off the old block, even putting a name to the lifestyle he craves. So funny, like a cavalier against his roundhead mother. Who, like all roundheads, is an enormous hypocrite. I like him being a picker and pretending it's for the summer.

Thanks for the new thread psuedo

The land valuer will pop up in about two days time - I'm sure the SWs are following this thread because every time a glaring oversight is extensively discussed here, the SW seem to do a swift reverse ferret and address it (such as why the Dopeys inheritance money wasn't bailing them out).

Maybe be in their regret at having killed off Nigel they will just get him to live on as Freddie

I really think Elizabeth should just let Freddie work as a picker for the summer - I certainly would (and talk to college to let him return if he came to his senses).
A bit of hard work, it will not be sunny all summer, and mixing with probably highly motivated young people from Europe will do the "little Lord of the Manor" a world of good. If possible I would get him living in the caravans too - to know just what it is really like.

5Live I suppose if the families were totally sensible and did everything correctly there wouldn't be much of a 'drama' . There are quite a few people who don't behave rationally all the time. I just CU with Sundays' episode and Justin's reaction to Tom treating him in exactly the same way he would've treated him was brilliant. (You could almost hear Lilian laughing up her sleeve at him).

Has anyone else noticed that Justin is turning into Uncle Walter? I swear I heard him say "Doh!".

And in other stories … Wasn't Anisha supposed to have booked the table for dinner, not Rex? Is he letting Anisha downs because he is still pining after Pip?

Yes avocado, that's what I was thinking. Rex definitely said 'why don't you book it' or something similar.

Yes I thought that and having started to listen to Dum Tee Dum - they definitely said so too. So the scriptwriters have dropped the ball between last week and this week. I wonder if they are having a "disagreement" over who Rex ends up with?

I don't think Rex said he'd book (after telling Anisha to book it) he later asked where were they going, what type of restaurant , I thought.

ppeat as I remember it last night Anisha said "where are we going - why don't you surprise me?" whereas the other night it was definitely agreed that she would book somewhere.

Off-topic (ish) I went to the Lincolnshire show today. Was pleased to see Grundy Agriculture with a presence. Oh, and the Dopeys got a shout out from the main ring commentator for keeping a herd of Herefords!

The glorious Nancy Banks Smith is back in The Guardian today

ha! ha! serves you right Tom!!!!!!

Tony didn't want to sell in the first place. Why not accept Tom's cock-up and gleefully sorrowfully acknowledge that the sale was Not Meant To Be.

NBS

Also, Matt's dastardly meddling has ensured that Justin got the deal he wanted ... but £100k cheaper! That doesn't seem very clever.

I think Lilian is going to tell Justin that Tom acted on his own after taking advice from Matt. Justin might then up his offer to the original £1Mn, or even increase it just to spite Matt.

lurker alert - listened to a snippet this evening prior to showing 2 sweaty grumpy children and bloody hell, Tom is so naive. Tony and/or Pat need to boot him up the bum. lurks back

Custard - please don't lurk for long: these threads thrive when lots of people contribute.

And to all the other lurkers reading this, please join in. There are some real Archers experts on here, so this is a good place to ask questions.

I can't believe what a terrible negotiator Tom is. When Justin said £850k, he should have said then "I need something over 900" but he just went home and said that was Justin's final offer. Good old Tony proved that wasn't the case!

But Tony wasn't much better! He should have just said no - it's not like the need for housing is going to disappear. A few years down the line they could get more money particularly if they can secure outline planning consent. Mind you I now can't remember whether they need the cash urgently.

Dadx3 Justin's attitude was incredibly arrogant\derogatory towards Tom, he only just managed to hold it together in face of the onslaught.

Lilian should watch out.

Delurking to say that Justin is ghastly, but Tom never learns. And why on earth didn't they get can independent valuation? I know this has been said before, but how can all these thriving farms make such daffy business decisions.

And as for the glorification of Pip's hard work... Damn right she should do so.

Scuttles back to lurking mode.

For goodness sake, why is Bridge Farm suddenly so desperate to sell this land? Three weeks ago it hadn't even occurred to them. I know they want to go ahead with the spiffy new building, but would it really hurt them to go and talk to a specialist estate agent and make sure they know exactly what they're doing? Or to wait for Justin or one of the other developers to come back to them? The reality is that in that area Justin won't find land as easily as he claims.

Loved NBS!

Oh, don't scuttle back to lurking!

You make a good point - in real life, you'd pay a surveyor to assess the value of the land and the likelihood of planning permission, and use the report as the basis for negotiation.

What I don't understand is what value the land has if they kept it as agricultural land. If they walked away from the deal, they won't have £900k in their pockets, but presumably the land is yielding several £10k pa for the farm, or is it sitting there unused? (So by selling the land, they are giving up future income)