Just catching up on the thread. Sorry to @ you, @pattyhoo, but I don't think anybody else responded - yes, I get withdrawal symptoms on a Saturday. It's more to do with the power of habit than addiction, honest guv! 
It was a lamb stew, wasn't it? I thought I heard Natasha say she would eat the lamb. How she wouldn't taste the cinnamon flavour in the meat I don't know. I do think a grown adult should be capable of thinking ahead and notifying a host of something they really can't/won't eat and avoiding that sort of scene. Cinnamon is a very common cooking ingredient. She'd have been up the creek if it had been moussaka.
I hadn't thought of Natasha having made money from something like Younique. Sounds more plausible than making a lot of money from a few years in a conventional career starting with a graduate trainee job in a multinational, but maybe I'm just out of touch. She must surely have had some capital to start her business off.
I don't take to Natasha. I think she's two-faced and will hurt Tom in the hopefully not too long run. I don't like Hannah either. What a pity Tom can't find someone like Hayley and settle down with her. There might not be a lot of soap-style drama in having a good, long-lasting marriage, but it's soothing to listen to and lends itself to the little trivial storylines I like best, e.g. Phil starting to cook when he retired and inadvertently putting Jill's nose out of joint, Tony driving Pat mad last night. Most of the older generation in Ambridge managed it. What are we going to be listening to in 30 years, I wonder?
(Yes, I am so obsessed that I am wondering what The Archers will be like when I'm nearly 90. 
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