Archers thread #185: Some farming would be nice. Discuss The Archers here.

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@Horticula Agree completely.Wasnt he hiring out farm machinery? Does he still have the hens 😀

Didn't Josh have rather an interesting and sad conversation with someone about how he loved his girlfriend but she had no intention of anything permanent with him? I thought it was quite weird how that never went anywhere, and we never hear mention of him and his girlfriend nowadays.

Another one in team Tony here. It really is deeply unattractive how the younger generation are busy working out how to spend Peggy's money within a few days of her death.

I think Rex is the new Roy.

I was wondering whether Pip might decide she wants a second child and ask Rex to be a sperm donor. That would tie him to the Archers and give him a sort of reason to hang around. I did laugh at his line about being a weird man who lives on a boat (I paraphrase).

I liked the detail of Henry being encouraged to spend an inheritance that may not exist.
The Bridge Farm Archer gene coming through, @TherapistInATabard

That would be good, the children would be simultaneously siblings AND first cousins. Take that, Grundys!

@JudyCoolibar , Yes, but it was with his odious sister, who as The World's First Mother and The World's First Lesbian, put him firmly back in his box. After all, what could Josh know.

Haha I did think that… quite an unusual set up outside of Ambridge (I hope)

@WitcheryDivine , it is probably more common than you think.

Ha! You'd be surprised.

Not that I know anything about these things but presumably Pip is bisexual? After all she had a thing with Toby and at least one other man, so must be attracted to men too.
I have a gay family member but he was never ever attracted to girls or women, so if pip was lesbian presumably she would always have been attracted to females. That's why it was a silly story as there was never a single hint that she was anything but straight until it suddenly came out of the blue.

Are there a few zeros accidentally missing from Peggy’s gift?!!

To quote Sherlock - the game is afoot!

That's pretty bloody quick for an inheritance divvy up

Oh snap, Brian had the same thought as me😂

Pip's suppressed chuckle and way of turning every conversation to the privilege of breathing the same air as her child drive me to drink! Maybe Rex's pain will lead him to join Rochelle in witness protection after she snitches on Saskia's gang? Anyone else think of the Levellers when Rex said he was a boatman?

They might be the cash bequests, with property/ shares etc being left to someone else

Or she had nowt

Or left bulk to cats protection.

Paws crossed for the cats.

See it's on BBC sounds already, which must be a record!

I wonder if 278 has some kind of special meaning. A random amount to leave in a will!

The disappointment in Helen’s voice and the entitled, barely suppressed fury we can expect from Tom, Kate etc will be wonderful.

Of course it is.
Unless it's a minuscule estate( perhaps it actually is?) then you'd have to obtain probate first before distribution of the estate. Plus funeral expenses come from the estate before distribution and the funeral hasn't even taken place so they won't have had the final bill from the funeral directors yet, so there would be no way of knowing down to the penny what's available for distribution.
Yet again a totally ridiculous scenario showing the SW have no clue about life. I can't believe none of them have had to deal with an estate of someone who's died.

So many of the men seem to have multiple piecemeal jobs, which I get might be the case in the current climate and a farming community, but it’s so many of them.

or she’s left it all to Kate for looking after her in her last few years at home…..

I suppose she could have given the undertaker £10,000, instructions on the funeral and a request to hand any surplus over to the home for deserving cats, leaving a tiny estate (5 or 6 grand I guess) to be divided between the vultures. Henry was sweet and genuine, and I'm glad for him.

Will Johnny come home for the funeral?