Archers thread #196: Run, Rex, run! Discuss The Archers here.

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Thank you, @PseudoBadger, for kicking off this long, long series of Archers threads.

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So now we know who bonked George on the head. Will the stunning revelation lead to anything interesting or credible happening? Answers on a postcard, please!

Will Alice and Rex become an item? Will Amber come to her senses? Has Adam's constant languor and fatigue now removed his ability to speak on air?

Over to you!

But I imagine you just post it through the letterbox rather than giving it in person to someone at the address to engineer an exchange.

Yes. I'd shove it through the
letterbox and run.

There are stickers for caravans and motorhomes that say 'if the van is rocking, don't come knocking'. Perhaps Rex needs one for his boat!

i thought the Rex/Adam/Alice convo was quite sweetn. Normally i loathe 2 of the 3 of them so there's at turn up.

Am currently reading a set of essays by a German woman who lives on a narrowboat on in London. They are 2.5 metres wide. That seems... narrow.

Yes, I found myself thinking the same, Brefugee. In spite of myself!

What does Bonner mean please?

Because I read it as boner

Mark Bonnar.

@AnotherHormonalWoman , I cut and pasted a pp's post hence the typo. The Finlay character is acted by Mark Bonnar. Mark Bonnar - IMDb
The link will probably explain why we are keen on hearing him.

Don’t shoot me but the first few times I saw mark bonnar on tv he was playing absolute creeps and, as he clearly is very good at his job, he now makes my skin crawl!

I'm fine with that @Bruisername . I am now thinking he could be the 'heir to Rob'.

Wouldn’t that be something

if Helen has an unplanned pregnancy I may need to write to feedback

Thanks fatrosie!

They are 2.5 metres wide. That seems... narrow.

It's about 8 feet. About the same width as my kitchen, which is not dissimilar to many Victorian/Edwardian terraces built for railway workers and the like, as this one was.

I'm voting croquet!

Adam & Ian love a gossip. How long before it gets back to Susan? I estimate under 48 hours. Maybe a Friday cliffhanger (of sorts).

Maybe the mystery sport is bowls. That'll generate lots of excitement.

Same.

I've got a ghastly feeling that's what will happen, it'll be another ridiculous story about a woman who thought she was too old to get pregnant, didn't use contraception, thought her lack of periods was the menopause, then finds out she's 6 months pregnant.

Yes I felt the conversation about Tom being in a different stage etc etc was foretelling a really shitty sl

But a little Finlen would be gorgeous! It would mean Mr Bonnar would have to keep appearing intermittently (maybe like Toby) either by phone,or in the village, or whenever Helen should take the child to visit him in the Highland.

Utterly splendid prospect. Can’t recall if Finlay said he had children, or if Finlen might inherit all he owns?

I heard Sid and Jolene in the shower. It had about as much to do with sex as a rugby player's dirty socks do. They talked about shower gel, for goodness' sake.

So that’s why they’re shoving Miranda into Home Farm House. To destroy Ruairi with shame.

Why on earth is lovely Brian going to shack up with that ghastly woman? She sounds as if her neck is being stretched. One only hope, I suppose.

I missed what it was that Brian didn’t want disclosed.

They haven’t done death in childbirth yet, and it’s reasonably topical…

That Ruairi clonked George on the head with a bottle, I assume.

It does happen, though. This thread was started within the last few days. www.mumsnet.com/talk/thirty_days_only/5497393-shock-pregnancy-im-as-old-as-the-hills-ffs?reply=150828131