The Archers No. 94: Freddie’s doing porridge, Tom gets his oats, but will Home Farm be toast? We’ll have to wheat and see ... Serial production is in full swing in Ambridge

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Thanks to LilG for the title, and DDD for starting the last thread and the tradition of the thread starter nominating the next thread starter

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Oh look, we’re 800 posts in. Which means we’ll soon need a volunteer to start the next thread.

If Lexi is dumping Roy why did she come back at all. Maybe she's pregnant and having doubts.

Ok, I get that Lexi’s feelings have cooled and she was trying to hint (“you have to listen to what people are not saying” - yeah, thanks SW, we get it). So when Roy declared his love, why wasn’t she more evasive rather than saying “I love you”? Or is this just the enigmatic nature of womankind?

Yes, glamarousgrandma’s question occurred to me. Surely, she would phone Roy from Bulgaria and let him down gently “my girls need me”. Is there something else at play or is she is very committed to Adam & Ian’s plans?

I felt Tony thought she was a tedious know-it-all.

Well she could be coming back for the same reason she came in the first place, to earn a living and send money home!

Maybe she does love him. Doesn’t mean she wants to be in a relationship with him.

I got the impression that the conversation about bad backs was really Hannah's coded message to Lexi that she had better watch her own back.

Change counting!

The announcer poor Roying ruffled my feathers this evening. Poor Lexi more like, leaving her children behind. Is Roy so completely self obsessed that it didn't occur to him that this would be hard for her?

My last cleaner was Bulgarian - she was a speech and language therapist at home but had taken time out from her job to earn money here as a cleaner. The children she worked with weren't even hers and she still missed them and her home terribly.

I had to take my 2 year old to A&E with an orange pip stuck up her nose last night so have noticed my phone autocorrects pip to Pip.

She's inadvertently been in thoughts a lot today. Ugh.

Oh, I hope little Inky's nose is OK now. My DS got a pea stuck up his nose many years ago, and my DW rushed down the road to friends who are paediatricians, who suggested the blowing in his mouth trick to propel it out (and it worked).

The inkling was instantly much better, if a little chagrin thank you DDD. Hopefully she's learnt her lesson, I thought she was the sensible one.

Ooh we tried that method too (amongst others) but to no avail. The dreaded Pip was so large we definitely needed a nurse with a special hoover.

Love how the autocorrect struck again.

Poor Lexi, I wonder if she’ll want to save up so she can see her girls at Christmas?

Well I guess she's come back to try for another baby so we'll see how that goes.

Was the insistence on a glass of wine at the Bull their way of telling us that Lexi is not pregnant?

Because I had a slight feeling that the rest of her behaviour might suggest that she is ... Though I guess it would have been difficult to hide from Roy.

I reckon the trip to the pub was just an attempt to put off going home- she’s wimping out of dumping him.

Was the insistence on a glass of wine at the Bull their way of telling us that Lexi is not pregnant?
Good point.

I’d have needed a glass of wine if I’d been met with that barrage from Roy and I wasn’t feeling the same.

If she’s dumping Roy where is she planning to live I wonder?

With Adam and Ian?

I keep missing it this week, what is the Lexi situation? From the sounds of it it's to make everyone think she is/not pregnant, but what are we thinking?!

what is the Lexi situation? From the sounds of it it's to make everyone think she is/not pregnant, but what are we thinking?!

Lexi can work in chicken factories anywhere so she has come back to Ambridge specifically because either
-she's in luuuurve with Roy. Didn't sound like it last night. Or
-she wants to do the surrogacy thing, which would be tricky if she was already up-duffed.

She's not currently pregnant. And wants to stay that way until the surrogacy.

I'm catching up with last nights now so i'll listen carefully!

Oh dear, Roy! That welcome was a bit much.

Yes change counting!

Nice to hear Lilian too.

she's in luuuurve with Roy. Didn't sound like it last night

I feel for Roy but I find him so boring!