The future at Brookfield looks Rosie, and will Home Farm be home no more? Discuss The Archers here.

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And there’s some rubbish about an ex-stripper policeman?

While I’m here -

• I guess on her eighteenth birthday Rosie Ruth (poor cow) will decidede she hates her first two names and will only be known by the third from that day forward.

Jill (still rocking silently in a corner near the Aga) will rise from her chair and bake all her hatred into a cake. All lemon, no drizzle.

😂😂😂

Rosie Ruth is the name you’d give to a heifer

Or an Eddie Stobart lorry

Just caught up with the wedding. Felt a bit sorry for Jazzer with his wardrobe and like pp am a bit sceptical about Susan as the llama kidnapper.

rather than leaving Freddie to flounder alone without representation

He wasn't left, was he? He was represented by Usha's firm. Though I agree it seems highly unlikely that someone like Lizzie would have gone for the local all-purpose general practice law firm rather than an expensive barrister instructed by expensive specialist solicitors.

I think peartree has a too negative opinion of British Prisons they are nothing like as bad as US ones. Anyway Freddie would surely go to a young offenders institution, which are aimed at offenders aged 18-20.
Although these are not necessarily much better, they are supposed to give more education.

The perfect punishment for Freddy: two more years of studying...

I love lurking here, and just wanted to agree, Freddie is such a great actor. He is totally convincing unlike Pip, the worlds worst radio actress despite the unconvincing. story line that she’s some wonderous thing of Beauty and a gift to the future of farming.

Well, unless 12 months has brought a radical and comprehensive change, it seems the prison inspectorate agrees with me:
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/not-a-single-young-offender-institution-is-safe-prison-inspector-s-dire-warning-a3590436.html

I’ve had a very confusing morning. Just as Jazzer introduced the band at the wedding, l heard a pipe band. I thought that’s odd, l don’t recall that from Friday. Yep, it’s highland games day here.

He'll be fine in Felpersham YOI Peartree - different system in Borchester

Have I mentioned that I hate Pip?
Jill will find out soon enough about Heifer/Eddie Stobart's other middle name.
Rosie Ruth is awful. I have nothing against either name but not together.

Same here, MUM, l don’t mind the names - l’ve even got a personal connection to one of them - but together Rosie Ruth Archer is awful. Too many r sounds IMO. Grace is altogether a nicer name, even with its r, though l can see why they might not want to use it here. Though as Jill is being such a cow to Alistair maybe they should just call the child Grace and dig a hole at St Stephen’s church yard.

Has the child’s birth been registered yet? Was that delayed due to the farm meeting? I wasn’t paying attention at that bit. Is it normal to have to make an appointment with the registrar? I could imagine it happens in busy cities but really in rural Borsetshire?

I think the registration duly went ahead immediately after the farm meeting.

*Is it normal to have to make an appointment with the registrar?

Yep even in Rural Not-Quite-Borsetshire we had to make an appointment to see the registrar, though with our second we registered him in the hospital on the day of birth, no appointment that time.

The conversation about adding Grace into the name happened while Toby and Pip were in the waiting room at the registrar.

Haha and there was me thinking it was inconceivable they'd their next appointment on the same day. You have to wait weeks in our fair (ahem) capital.

That was a very depressing read Peartree but thanks for posting it.

If Harrison is so good, how come he's still a PC?

He’s doing his Sergeant’s exams next year.

But isn't he in his mid-30s?

The continuity guy had the bit between his teeth tonight!

I think the sergeant's exams is the get out of Ambridge card, as he might be posted elsewhere, like in Hot Fuzz.

How is the bad feeling about him being voiced, e.g to his face? If so, then they need to be reminded of exactly what Harrison said about dereliction of duty...but then Lynda Snell would say he's doing that by not hunting down the abductor of her llama.: o

@MikeUniformMike

Quite agree. She is single handedly driving me away. Even her voice sets my teeth on edge before we even get to the content..

And Rosie Ruth being a heifer - yes!! Spot on!! Or a very short, difficult, but pretty, pony.