Alas poor Nic! I sacked her, Kenton. Death comes to Ambridge. Discuss the remaining Archers here. (Title Edited by MNHQ)

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So it’s taken a sad, untimely death to bring me out of retirement. How I have missed you all
Welcome to thread 86!

In my circle, several people have lost husbands or close friends, and I am amazed by how "normal' they seem - people are very good at holding it together in public, you don't know what's going on inside.
My Dad died recently and I was immediately involved in the practicalities. Once I had cleared his house and sorted the probate etc. I was free to grieve. I went to see Dunkirk and came out a snivelling wreck, he wasn't there but he had had a thing about Spitfires and it was a trigger. I probably needed it.

GG

I don’t get the “nobody sounds upset enough” thing. What are you hoping for, wailing and gnashing of teeth?

I agree Bertraand I thought Ed and Emmur both sounded really upset. And Joe is struggling to process it all isn't he?

I agree too. Having experienced a fair few bereavements of my own of late, grief is a long slow burn. It's not necessarily an immediate break down with rapid return to normal but a slow and dogged getting on with things with occasional unraveling. Which is what TA can excel at (if the scriptwriters don't get bored or forgetful)

my experience as well. grief tends to break out on occassions, like first school play without, a child on the bus screaming 'I want mum'...

all the administrative things that have to be done distract a lot.

Yes. Done well TA could really show grief in all it's mundane reality. It's that gentle rhythm of life which I like in it - not the big headline grabbers (granted though this one brought me out of hibernation!).

We are all different. In my own experience, the sudden death of a young mother leaving young children would cause shock, sadness and crying. I could just be moving in emotionally incontinent circles though. I can't be bothered debating it, I just agree with pp.

But we only "catch" them, as it were, for a period of a few minutes or even seconds in the day. If they were all in floods of tears for their entire waking day it would just be weird.

Plenty of shock and sadness I thought....

I though Ed n Emma were particularly well acted.

Yes- Emma focussing on cooking and cleaning because her feelings are so complicated......

That's what so many people do in these situations isn't it? They are so desperate to help but they know they can't take the pain away so they offer practical support. I know I have done in the past

Sunday's episode was set on Sunday. So they would have had Saturday to be grief stricken, floods of tears etc. I too would have reacted by practical stuff I think. Especially when there are children to be looked after you can't just stop everything.

Yes - I only have to hear of a local death and I’m reaching for my soup pan............

Just listening - Ed and Emma sound devastated.

Yes - I only have to hear of a local death and I’m reaching for my soup pan

For a moment Bertrand I thought you were giving a colourful indication of the volume of tears you shed at such news.

Yes, I was worried Bert would dehydrate.

Yes, I was worried Bert would dehydrate

Hope she has handy reydration bottles!

I'm the same - my house and my mother's were never so tidy nor the freezers so well stocked as in the aftermath of DF's death.

If the thread goes over the 1000 post edge tonight someone else is welcome to start the next thread

I can confidently predict this thread won't get near 1000 tonight. You've got a day or two to come up with a thread title.

#PrayforPoppy ...

(Inspired by a very funny post somewhere above.)

There were lots of thread titles earlier on. Not sure if any were suitable however.
I remember after Nigel’s death the Grundies (sp?) had a madcap schème that provided some light relief. Discussions of milk parlours isn’t really the same.

"Yes, I was worried Bert would dehydrate"
It's not just deaths- any life event in a 5 mile radius and there's soup and bread on the doorstep within hours.........

It makes no sense Pip choosing what sort of parlour they will have if she isn't going to be the one using it. It's hardly "project management" anyway, It's just Ruth ordering and paying for the option she wants.