The Archers

[hellywelly4]

I've started a new thread, hope that's ok.
Just wanted to shout at Ruth tonight, she really is getting so irritating. Does she expect them to discuss every detail of everything with her!

[Hopkirk]

I presume that's the night she got pregnant.

[zebo]

Why has Charlie not briefed Justin on why Rob left? By keeping quiet he is allowing Rob to set the agenda. There must be a paper trail of his duplicity. Will the Polish guy come back for Christmas? That would stir things up a bit.

[hellywelly4]

It was the way she said "Rob" as though it was a question - 'what on earth are you doing?' He got her drunk that night, the same way he did with Jennifer when she told him about Adam. Perhaps someone could work out how many weeks she is from that episode? The ultrasound this week is for 16 weeks, so if it matches up with that episode, then it wasn't 'unnatural' but if it was 'normal' why did she object? It would have just been a natural follow-on so to speak.

[Hopkirk]

Perhaps they had been using contraceptives, but he decided to start a family without her consent?

Just a thought.

[mikey4444]

He took advantage of her, after having got her drunk. Helen did not want a baby at this time....but Rob does, and he needs a boy. So he made sure she got pregnant...call it rape if you like.

[mikey4444]

OK, OK !....I am not going to spoil things for you Sunday Morning Omnibus Edition, but we had the result of the scan tonight !

[hellywelly4]

Oh b****r! I hoped it would be a different result. Helen didn't sound over the moon though.

[mikey4444]

She didn't want the ruddy scan 5 minutes before she had ! She should grab Henry and high-tail it to a women's refuge without any further delay.

He is evil personified !

[hellywelly4]

The trouble is Mikey, to all the family he comes over as a kind and loving husband. I haven't had any dealings with a control freak like him, so I'm not sure really how he hopes it will end. Does he want Helen as a woman who does nothing else but pander to his needs? Confined to the house cooking and cleaning? I tend to forget it's fiction!

[Hopkirk]

Don't tell Mikey it's fiction.

[mikey4444]

Hellywelly...I have known a control freak or two in my time ! Without total control, they collapse and melt way.

Sooner or later, Titchener will be seen for what he is. The frustrated script-writer in me wants this story line to run and run, but the listener in me wants a lynching mob to appear over Lakey Hill asap, holding pitchforks and lighted brands !

[mikey4444]

Hoppy...fiction ?

How on earth can it be fiction ?

I distinctly heard a cow go moo the other day and how the ruddy hell are you going to get a cow into a BBC recording studio ?

[hellywelly4]

I've received the Radio Times for 12-18 December (always sent early before Christmas) and the Ambridge Diary says it's the week of the wedding (Adam and Ian). Might RT drop a bombshell (although he has said he won't go to the service, hasn't he).

[jourdain2]

hellywelly - I lived with one I was stupid enough to marry him (he'd got me out to France as the 'caring' Rib type OK). When I finally walked out (with doctor's certificate as to my injuries) - incurred every time I stood up to him, (remember this was in a remote farm in France, no neighbours for me to run to ) he swallowed just enough paracetamol and swigged just enough whisky to make me feel guilty. (6 weeks in psychiatric hospital ensued - I was jolly lucky, every felt hands round your throat?
Helen is lucky in that she has family on hand.

[bookbinder]

Some of the storylines in The Archers are very true to life. Many a time, my wife and I have listened and said something like, 'Yes, I once knew someone like that.' So there really are people around like Rob and the Grundys and the rest of them.

[hellywelly4]

Jourdain - I'm so sorry you had to endure that treatment, hopefully you have come through it and are ok now.

[Hopkirk]

What is going through Helen's mind at the moment?

[hellywelly4]

It sounds as though she's not quite sure what's going on, and is starting to argue with him. He seems as if he's trying to make her doubt anything she thinks, and knocking any self confidence she had - particularly over her driving.

[zebo]

Re the Grundy's predicament, does Bert Fry have a spare room, take Joe in for a bit of company?

[jourdain2]

Someone in Ambridge must have a spare room for Joe. Bert is a good idea.