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Well hasn’t it been a fun few years! Thank you all for supporting the threads and sharing in love and critique of The Archers.

Tom has spent his whole life wanting to be A Successful Entrepreneur and I wonder if he is going to get a case of 'be careful what you wish for'.
Natasha was late for the engagement party because she was on the road, selling to some new contact. Natasha was late for the wedding because she thought schmoozing Tony was important. Will Natasha spend the whole marriage being Mrs Hot Shot, giving attention to anyone other than Tom and he will spend the marriage just following in her wake. He will then realise, late in the day, that business success on its own isn't all it's cracked up to be and that you need togetherness too.

OMG Pat was right to resent the name issue. So are we to believe the ink wasn't dry before Natasha started boxing up Pat & Tony's belongings?

What a cheek Tom has! (And why do I feel this about him, married, when I didn't about David and Ruth wanting the big house? Oh. Wait. David was the only sibling actively working on the family farm. Whereas Tom Twat has completely forgotten about his farm working elder sister. The one with two small children who already live at Bridge Farm.

Yes I agree with the above posts . BUT has anyone had suspicions about Russ and Lizzie??? Or is it just me and my dirty mind

I actually did a sharp intake of breath at tom’s utter barefaced cheek. Dh thought I was subtly criticising his driving (long car journey in driving sleet) but no - was all Tom.

What a twat.

Bet it's Nat's idea to ship Pat and Tony off to a little bungalow.

Oh, I'm dying to hear what they say when Tom tells them his plans! I do so hope it's explosive.

Also very 😱 at Tom!

I wouldn’t want to go walkies with Lily either. She’s being incredibly patronising. I have experience, sadly, both of trying to help a depressed person and trying to be helped so I “get” that it’s hard, but seriously she’d wear me out!

That may be, but surely better than Russ. I would rather go for a walk with Pip than Russ.

I really want pat and tony to pass their shares to Johnny to give him a proper foothold. Tom is clearly a bit edgy about johnny’s clear stockmanship skills and wasn’t best pleased when he was a bit negative about them buying that separate but nearby plot of land. He’s a young whippersnapper with an easier relationship with tony, and a genuine love of farming rather than new-fangled enterprises and the sausage boy is not happy about being usurped.

Well ha! In your face, Tom. Fingers crossed he is firmly thwacked down by pat and tony (especially tony).

I missed a few recent episodes.

Has Natasha told Pat n Tone to move over or something?

Would you rather walk with Lily or Russ...? It’s like a drunk student game 😂

I have had an unpleasant thought. Which I'm praying has not occurred to the SWs.

It seemed to me that the quickest way for Russ to get himself kicked out by Lily would be to become over-friendly with Lily's mother. But Elizabeth is a little ... irrational st the moment. What if she decided she preferred Russ's company to Lily's? And decided Lily should go and Russ should stay?

Tom asked Helen to keep the wedding presents there, then explained that he and Nat were planning on moving into the house, and Pat and Tony can live in a bungalow on the farm.

Bet it's Nat's idea For sure Motoko! Tom doesn't have ideas, he only parrots them. Reminds me of a an old boss I had as department head, my job was to ensure he had brilliant ideas, sadly never had any myself.

• Tom told Helen he and Natasha spent their honeymoon sat up making plans to build a bungalow. He then dropped the bombshell that it would be for Pat and Tony so they could live in the house. He didn't mention where they'd planned to dump Helen and the boys.

#TEAMJONNY

Wow Lily was patronising at the start of the episode, no wondered Lizzie didn't want to helped around the estate by her. Imagine what she'll be like when Lizzie's actually frail.

Tom the Twat George ** TTT I shall always think of him thus. For politeness' sake I shan't divulge what I used to call him but it rhymes with stoat

Why the hell does Tom think he has a better claim to the farmhouse than Helen or Jonny? And indeed where does he expect them to live if he moves in?

I absolutely hate my new, just-for-this-thread, user name so I'll maybe just use it once.

100threads, eh? And I remember when it was all orchards and pigs round 'ere.

BOOP for lovely Johnny being all lovely and mature lately. Would Tom ever look himself in the shaving mirror and consider how it is that a young lad of 20 (?) is so much more stable, rounded and empathetic? Tom genuinely doesn't see any issue moving his wife in with his former lover. No one is that thick, surely!

I thought Susan and Neil acquitted themselves very nicely at the dinner party. Susan put so much thought and effort in. I shouted at JD and Brine several times. They are horrible, nasty, small-minded, snobby...gah! I usually like them but I hate being reminded of how much I would detest them in RL.

Why is Justin up in arms at home much they are spending on meals out? Irritation with Kate I can understand but to kick up dust on financial grounds seems odd.

Goodness, I had to ask (adult) children for help with rude words rhyming with stoat. They obliged, and promptly. I fear I am slipping- but the word is good, and SausageBoy is indeed one.

This business of who gets the big hoose must be a common problem in farming families. It would be good if PatnTone made an unusual decision and left a substantial amount to the grandchildren. I suppose Tone will inherit from Peggy- after the way Peggy originally stated she’d leave her house to Helen and thereby upset Tony, I don’t imagine they’ll give Helen and Tom nothing. And anyway Helen is the older surviving child and has 2 dependents so surely she gets some consideration. It could be quite a good story if it was well written. Aye, I know .... andnow that JD and Brine have fallen on hard times (ha, it’s all relative of course) Peggy’s money might be handy to them too. Anyway, none of it’s going to be financially realistic, going by past writing at any rate. Right, to bed, g’night all.

This business of who gets the big hoose must be a common problem in farming families.

And when. I remember my godmother and mother discussing it when godmother's parents were still in the big house, and godmother's brother and growing family were still in a tiny cottage. They compared it to Phil and Jill at Brookfield while David and Ruth were still in a smaller dwelling with 3 children, which had been a storyline a year or two earlier.

It can certainly cause fallouts. What I don't fully understand here is why Tom thinks he's got automatic rights to the farmhouse when his sister, who is a partner in the business, and has dependents lives there with their parents (as has been pointed out.) Although he doesn't seem to have considered it might be a bit awkward to move his wife into No.1 the Green, either. He only ever seems to think his way is the only way, whether it's his idea or one planted by Natasha. Or others, like Rob suggesting he go to Canada, and I have vague memories about business advice from Brian.

Am as one with the horror of Tom's utter cheek. He will not have thought of this on his own. He is an eejit. I still think Natasha is a double-dyed wrong 'un.

Also Lily's being an absolute pill, wanting her mother to hurry up and get well. For once Russ talked sense. And the irony of Lily's moaning about Elizabeth lying to her about going for a walk when she still hasn't told her mother about not being able to pay the rent on Manchester.

@GeorgeTheBleeder the potential of Russ turning Elizabeth's head was put forward last year when she first went to the school to speak to him about Freddie.

Hence 'Call Me Russ' - he came over as a slimeball smoothie with the morals of a gutter rat then.

Thanks EverybodysTalkingAtMe - it's ok, I was there!

What exactly is the correct etiquette when wishing to inform a stranger on the Internet that you have listened to TA for over half a century and have contributed to every single one of the one hundred threads. Except ppeat's; and that only because you didn't want your ridiculously high posting rate documented and used against you?

Though there should have been a few ...

Tom undoubtedly.has in mind what happened at Brookfield - the deliberate use of the word bungalow neatly makes this connection. Of course the difference there is that David and Ruth were very much the ones running the farm, Elizabeth lived at LL, Shula at the Stables and Kenton I can’t remember where, quite possibly the pub. Someone with a better memory than me (since all the name changing I no longer know who is who - this thread has become something of a masked ball) will correct me if I’m wrong, but I seem to remember the actual swap was suggested by Phil and Jill - D and R certainly didn’t start off in the farmhouse. Bridge Farm is much less clear cut - Helen and Tom both work on the farm along with Johnny (the true heir!) who, of the three of them, looks like becoming the real farmer. This is more and more shaping up to be an inheritance story with Tom taking his inheritance very much for granted and assuming precedence by mere dint of the fact that he’s just got married. I’m sure doggedly independent Helen will eventually have something to say about that and I hope we’ll hear Tony speaking up for Johnny. I’m still not clear about where Natasha’s own very successful business is based and how she can just abandon all that in a Bridge Farm takeover.

Rather odd logic on Tom's behalf. If the house becomes his simply because of marriage then by that logic Rob should have moved in. Perhaps Helen should hurry up with Lee in order to get her hands on her inheritance.

Tom undoubtedly.has in mind what happened at Brookfield

That was my assumption too, and also something discussed when Tom was supposed to be marrying one of his previous near misses (can't recall which but the plot and type of house were discussed in the same "retirement home" terms used for the building of the Brookfield bungalow).
Not sure why everything has to be Natasha's fault!