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Spot on about the ED, I was thinking similar during the episode.

Yes to be fair to Pat I am a bit distracted today as my youngest is going away with school for the week! if I had gone through what Pat has I might not be that confident in my decision making.

I thought Pat's mention to Tom last night of Helen's not eating was an indication that she was indeed worried about the implications and the possible recurrence of Helen's anorexia?

I thought Pat's mention to Tom last night of Helen's not eating was an indication that she was indeed worried about the implications and the possible recurrence of Helen's anorexia?
Hmm. Well, let's wait and see what she does. My betting is either (a) nothing or (b) blunders in and makes things ten times worse.

Pat using her sewing machine is the S.Ws getting into the 'reuse, repair before throwing out or taking to a charity shop' fashionable mode. It was only Fallon who was into it in Amb. before.

Except Tom said it reminded him of her doing the same for his trousers, about 35 years ago.

Nothing wrong with that. Choccy

It's the SWs mentioning something Pat has been doing all her life, I guess.

What is it with the Brookfield women and cardigans?

Was thinking last night that Jill and the lilac must be the source of Shula's cardigan obsession. Then remembered how, years ago, Elizabeth wanted to borrow money from Shula for a pink cardigan (possibly from Underwoods.) Shula laughed and retorted that "no-one needs a pink cardigan!"

Well Precisely, PPEATFRUIT, I mean the Bridge Farm Archers have always been ecofriendly, before it became fashionable.
I'm feeling as though we are getting the same plots recycled over and over. Sudden weddding; (Chris and Alice) repeated for Tom and Natasha.
Do-it-yourself wedding; (Emma and Ed) repeated for Fallon and Harrison.
Wedding that didn't happen (Tom and Brenda, Tom and Kirsty, Lillian and Justin) And Caroline and Robin but that maybe 30 years ago.
Not noticing Lizzie is ill, not noticing Helen is ill...
"Doggedly independant" single parent, moves back in with family. (Helen, Pip, Emma though she's not exactly single)

Probably about time for another coma and miraculous recovery.

Cardigans are useful if you're variably active, especially moving between differently heated environments, and moreso again if menopause buggers your temperature regulation.

However....I'm more concerned by Brookfield having run out of flapjacks and only shop-bought ginger something-or-anothers being available.

And Caroline and Robin but that maybe 30 years ago.

OMG, Choccyp1g. How old I am

Did someone mention flapjacks?

In a series running as long as TA there's bound to be some repetition, but the proportion of unusual/non weddings is excessive. I wouldn't include DIY ones among those though, surely that's pretty normal in the real world?

To be fair, real life is just the same old story recycled, maybe I am getting too old and cynical and have literally heard it all before.

The problem with Tom's claim that the thing about taking over the farmhouse was just drunken meanderings is that he repeated it to Helen when he was stone cold sober. So his sober self couldn't see anything wrong with it till Natasha beat him up about it.

Yes I would say that Amb. has a fairly normal range of weddings and non weddings (going by the records of my 3 dcs friends, (dd2 does have a LOT of friends with very varied post and pre weddings not one jilted at the altar though )

To be fair, real life is just the same old story recycled, maybe I am getting too old and cynical and have literally heard it all before.
I have been feeling this recently. It used to be a strength of TA that nothing much happened, just like RL. They do seem to have accelerated the rate of storylines which means that they run out / repeat / get more extreme, but it's nothing like the rate of TV soaps.

At least TA does have some genuinely new material in the form of developments in agriculture/agribusiness- different applications of robotics, now the aquaponics.

True Radio I don't watch any of the TV soaps now, they make TA seem like an intellectual fest!

DM watches Emmerdale and the amount of make up, wigs , bad acting etc. makes me cringe.

Sadly R4 is majoring much more on DRAMA now , I would like to know why? Have they done market research to show that that's what we want?

Kill has not been focusing on flapjacks but on unhelpful things like her appearance and Leonard's picture that he didn't paint

I see Kill Jill is back. sorry.

We can't have it both ways - grumbling about too much Drama and the grumbling about "irrelevant" or dull things like Jill flapping about her wardrobe. I liked the wardrobe but a lot more than the "Will Lee find out" drama for eg.

Oh h I blame the SW's for my thinking that yesterday's ending was not dramatic enough!! I have to remind myself that it's fine to be calm and 'normal' {annoyed with the producers emoji}

I never understand the excuse of not meaning what you say when you’re drunk. Surely if you reveal anything in a disinhibited state, it’s what you really think but would normally keep hidden.

Apparently Women’s Hour are doing ketamine tomorrow if anyone wants to learn about it. Perhaps that will come back around as a story.

lido it makes it sound like WH will actually be doing ketamine on the programme tomorrow

Maybe it’s another thing to get the younger listeners in.