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?

Just agreeing how good the Freddy actor is , especially compared to Pip.

I rarely hear Pip. I listen on the iPlayer and fast forward in 20 second bursts when Pip or Ruth appear.

but pretty, pony

I cant see Ruth or Pip as pretty so I imagine Rosie Ruth won't be pretty.

Is Hanna grating on anyone else or just me?

Hannah's being set up as an extra Ambridge cow, isn't she?

LassWIA so it's not just me?!

Not just you Karting, I’d have been edging away with gritted teeth in real life!

She’s a dreadful character - not sure where the scriptwriters are heading with her.

Why would Susan be at the hen-night anyway? Just because she's Chris's mother? She's not a good friend of Jolene's or Fallon's, is she?

Why would Susan be at the hen-night anyway?

I wondered that originally but I think she comes under the 'colleague' category. Fallon, Emma, Susan and Clarrie all work in close proximity at Bridge Farm, with S&C popping across to deliver dairy goods and kefir samples.

Have I got permission to add Hannah to the list of People We Don't Like. That business with Tom was cringe: mention a member of the opposite sex and it must mean you fancy them. How childish. Trouble is, she is probably going to be right.

Yes ... What was Hannah like before? (I really cannot remember her.)

I know characters often seem exaggerated when they first arrive (the only one who didn’t was Rob, who was incredibly bland until SOC noticed him) but at the moment it’s hard to see what she’s for. It’s all very well being the incarnation of disruption - but she won’t gain many friends. Another Charlie?

I don’t know why everyone keep a describing Usha as a “local one man band”. She’s a partner in a law firm in Felpersham and she specialises in crime. She’s always talking to Alan about being in Court. Can anyone give me one example of the last time we heard her advise anyone on a civil matter? When Kate needed a lawyer for her partnership issue she recommended a suitable specialist. I don’t think that they have ever painted her character as doing cinveyancing and wills from above a dry cleaner’s.

The problem is that the SWs are unclear about what she does! (I know she’s a partner but she seems to take on work I’ve never seen a partner involved in.)

Didn’t Roy and Hayley consult her when they were splitting up? (Can’t recall if she told them to get proper advice.) Both of them forced out of their secure jobs because one had an affair with their boss. And no legal consequences whatsoever ...

There was a time when Usha was portrayed as "the only available lawyer in Borsetshire" and the joke/ label has stuck. It's the same as the way we go on about David and badgers.

If Usha does crime, why did she pass Helen on to a colleague?

I think because the crime took place in Usha’s cottage so it was a conflict of interest.

Sorry “alleged crime”

The Harrison story line is really annoying me. My ex is a police officer. He has been at several different stations, but never his local station. They do not like to post you to the station where you live for the exact reason that it's very awkward to have to arrest your neighbours. Also because it puts you in danger of reprisals if people know where you live.

It was also ridiculous that he was the one that arrested Freddie on his night off. He should have phoned in the details and someone else on duty would have come out and arrested him. Harrison and Toby would have had to give evidence. The only reason to jump in would have been if there was a violent incident or someone was in danger.

As for the llama thing. Let Lynda call it in. Does she really think a llama being taken, then returned will be high priority to the police?

Does she really think a llama being taken, then returned will be high priority to the police?

This storyline crystallizes the utter bollocks that is TA at the moment.

I have no idea why they brought back Hannah just to turn her into a totally different character. They might just as well have brought in someone new, it might have seemed more credible.

I don't think there is a single story I care much about atm (although I'd like Russ to get his comeuppance and Josh to tell his family to stuff their job propping up golden child).

Does she really think a llama being taken, then returned will be high priority to the police?

I would have thought that Harrison would be all over it - it would do wonders for his 'crime solved' statistics!
It might annoy his Best Man and his wife's (sole?) employee, though.

Is it going to be a comedy storyline where the two wage war via their hen-pecked husbands. Lynda will call Lilian to her side, and Susan will call JD to hers? We will have thesps versus bellringers? Twitchers v swineherds?
You always know when we are bored - we start making our own storylines.

It is not remotely clear what Usha does. The impression I get is she knows a teeny, tiny basic bit about everything but nothing in any detail.

Oh. My. God.

We have a name!!!!!

I think the twins and phoebe are the best written and most convincing characters at the moment. Lily's heartbreaking certainty is so well drawn. Anyone who has ever watched a young person going wide eyed into disaster can't fail to connect.

Or anyone who has been a young person going wide eyed into disaster

Oh god, witch, don't! I can only cope with so much!

She's going to end up homeless, because she hasn't applied for halls, and Russ's mate won't find someone suitable, and Russ is not going to get round to resigning, because he's going to realise that he's not going to get his hands on the Gwen John or the Pargeter fortune, and there's some fresh new sixth former catching his eye, and she's going to end up deferring a year and having to live back home, where Freddie will be, serving a suspended sentence (or back after a few months in prison,) and it's all going to be very tiresome.

Russ's mate won't find somewhere suitable