Ambridge is in the doldrums. When will Pip pop? Does anybody even care? And Anisha’s off, leaving Rex in the (pig) trough? Discuss the Archers here.

[PseudoBadger]

Sorry about the title, nothing particularly inspiring in the storylines currently

No spoilers please, there’s a thread for that.

Rex + Pip, sure thing.
Home farm nonsense, same as Great Move North, agreed.
Tony and Tom, get the violins out.
Am enjoying the scenes at The Bull though.

I'm going to go on record as saying I don't believe Kate OR Phoebe OR Alice are pregnant. So there.

Ugh I’ve said it before, I LIKE Rex, he’s a Good Guy and deserves a Good Woman, not Pip. It is fairly inevitable but I don’t like it at all.

Oh and Aberystwyth is lovely. We went on Friday night to watch The Goonies at an open air cinema next to the castle. Lush mun

Ugh. Lord save us from Bridge Farm proselytising.
And save us from clunky compare&contrast. Again.

Rex and Hannah maybe?

Blossom Hill Cottage will need new tenants.

Rex and Pip have got to get together! It's fate that Aneesha is leaving.

And there was I thinking Pat was going to build her own affordable houses on the plot where the new barn was going to go before Tom and Helen put that on hold....

That bit about the new barn must have passed me by, confused it with the new milking parlour.

Have Helen's legal fees been paid off yet? Must have been quite a chunk. And surely the market for cheesemaking must be pretty well exhausted by now.

I think either Helen or Kate should get into an MLM scheme.

Might not be a barn... they were talking about a new building.

Nice to hear Adam and Brian at loggerheads again.

What the hell was Tom wittering on about?

Maling cheese-making classes more inclusive?

Making not maling.

My phone has Aberystwyth as an auto- complete too.

I usually am a v benign listener

But I dislike everyone atm

The only saving grace is No Ian. But that is not enough to offset far too much Tony n Pat n Tom n Helen. Yawwwn.

PatnTony increased the mortgage to pay off the legal fees, didn't they? And if they wanted to pay that off I would imagine that the land sale covered it several times over.

I too was listening (though not with much attention, I admit) for Pat to exclaim to Emma that Bridge Farm would itself be building some affordable houses.

It seems such an obvious route to take.

Years ago, when they were engaged, Tom showed Brenda an area of Bridge Farm land which he wanted to use to build their new home. Does anyone know where it was? I have no idea if it was part of what was sold to Justin or not.

Bridge Farm would itself be building some affordable houses.

Very altruistic, but it would let Justin off the hook. Unless BF finished their scheme before Justin, moved in some Horrobins and depressed the sale price of his luxury houses.

Was it Brenda or Kirsty who was shown the Ideal Spot? I seem to remember that it was raised up, with a good view of the surrounding countryside. Kirsty rebelled in favour of a new-build (which was reneged on, so presumably a lost deposit - another cost (along with the abortive wedding) that somehow got swallowed by BF finances).

Oh God! I’d almost managed to forget the sheer idiocy of a previous editor portraying Kirsty - Kirsty - as someone who would prefer a billion dollar, newly built house, somewhere anonymous outside Ambridge, to a handraised house on the family farm.

Jazzer is on fire tonight!

Jazzer is on fire tonight!

If only half the cast and the LSWs were.

Tonight's episode was just a cliche too far even for me. I see myself taking a summer holiday for a while.

I thought Neil and Will were good tonight.

I'm mystified by Alastair having to buy Anisha out. Anisha as the exiting junior partner is entitled to get back whatever capital she put in. A new junior partner doesn't usually put in a significant amount- especially here where she was joining a long standing existing practice. And an exiting partner usually only gets paid out on a schedule to suit the practice/partnership- which could be as long as 12 months.

Of course they do things differently in Ambridge.

What on earth has Susan done? Ringing Justin? And then Alastair going back to gambling, ugh!

I know - cringe! Remember what happened when Tom decided to try to get a better price for the land. Justin doesn't like to be challenged.

I thought Neil and Will were good tonight.

Yes agree - that conversation was done well.

But for the rest of it - I just don't care about most of the storylines. Some of them don't make sense, others are predictable repeats. I know its Summer storylines but honestly its just tedious.

I thought that the pairings were weird. Since when have Jazzer and Alistair been best buddies?
Ditto Will and Neil. Wouldn't Will have asked Eddie for help?

Jazzer lives with Alistair's dad.

I know that Jazzer has lived with Jim for years but there has been no mention previously of J&A being particularly pally. In fact, the SW have been laying it on thick that Al has no friends/allies in Ambridge (despite having been captain of ACC for years). I could argue that Al going out drinking with Jazzer (an outsider, who will drink with anyone) only emphasises his isolation.