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Am I alone in thinking Ruth's reaction to Heather going AWOL was a little OTT?

Definitely OTT - what does she think she is going to do up there? - run round with a torch? Dramatic license I guess. But it leaves the way open for the dreaded Tony to creep in - or will Jill be the chaperone?

Charlie is closing in on Rob - and then the s**t will hit the fan!

Ruth did go over the top a bit. Not at all like a practical farmers wife. Perhaps they're working up to the strain of looking after an Aged P - especially at a distance. I think she's heading for a breakdown.

I didn't hear that Charlie was bisexual, I thought he was just gay.
I was enjoying the idea that a number of the young women were eyeing him up not realising he was gay.

There really was no point in Ruth and David dashing off up to Prudhoe. I am sure the home would have known whose taxi she used. Get the police to ring around.

Oh nooooooo! As Ruth would say on Dead Ringers!

Old people do go missing - with some sad outcomes. I think I would be pretty worried such a distance away and not knowing where she has gone - although probably home.

My initial response to David and Ruth charging up to Prudhoe was the same Nelliemoser and Nfk but on reflection, I expect I'd have charged off to wherever my mum was in the same situation. My husband almost drove 250 miles at 10pm after we had the police get into his 92 year old mother's home because she wasn't answering the phone and neighbours reported her curtains hadn't been opened that day. She was safe, admitted to hospital, the paramedics and police could not have been kinder to her (or indeed to us on the end of a phone). I persuaded him to sleep and go when he woke, which he did at 5am. I can't see the sensible Ruth taking off but maybe Nfk is right and the stress of selling up/not selling up/moving mum in law in/Kenton being impossible etc is doing for Ruth. I don't get it though - Pip is about to move out, so there will now be a bed room won't there?

Would Jolene have covered for Kenton? When will she tell him to grow up?
Isn't it fun

Rob is showing his true colours tonight. Wake up Helen!

Oh yes indeed! And what on earth was that reference to a "dowry" earlier! This from someone who was modern thinking enough to arrange having a baby on her own terms, i.e by donor.
OK, it's unlkely that she will convert to Islam with the hijab etc, but perhaps with the background in organic farming, could it be perhaps a leaning to the Amish?

No, of course not, but to hear that reference to a bloody dowry (sp).............

Run Helen, run!

Oh yes indeed - he has hooked her and can do as he wishes now!

I can't stand the soppy, simpering woman.

Did I imagine it or did she talk about actually framing the first piece of junk mail they recieved addressed to "Mr & Mrs R Titchener" ?? Please can we have a sort of "bleurch/vomit/sick" emoticon?

I have been asking for a finger-down-throat icon for ages! - come on HQ!

Her uter joy was being hyped up to a ridiculous degree and it was clearly heading for a fall.

As an Isle of Wight native I find it hilarious that Ryde was the destination for their dream wedding.

If they'd asked me I could have pointed them in the direction of beautiful and romantic St Peter and St Paul's church at Mottistone where Benedict Cumberbatch recently got married.

No taste, that Rob

Joint account, pooling their money, dowry!!!!! I think he will soon run off with the money. What with duffing up the hunt sab. causing the Ambridge flood, and what ever it is he's done at Berrow farm, Oh dear.! He is a naughty boy. I'm beginning to warm to Charlie and what have the script writers done to Susan Carter. And how long before Hazel Woolly comes to the Grundies and says she is going to sell Keeper's cottage and also the village shop. Must go, I really have better things to do.

Just listened on catch up. Hoping Helen will see the light and that Rob will get his come-uppance.

I've been thinking for ages that Rob is about to snap and take out his temper on poor Henry. Also still wondering whether he fixed that DNA test, bribed Stefan maybe or had he already fled. Perhaps Stefan will finally turn up, one way or another. Did we ever find out who stole Christine's treasures?

He will get his cumuppance soon!

Now he wants a baby - can you see him up all night with a colicky baby?!

I missed the episodes when the DNA test came through. What happened? I gather Rob got off, but how?

I'm afraid that the Rotten Rob thing will be dragged out for aaaages, as Ruth might say.

Nfk - the DNA test proved Rob isn't the father of his ex wife's baby. I say "proved" there were a number of gransnet posters who suggested he'd somehow submitted DNA from someone other than himself

At least it's an interesting story line, unlike Ruth and Heather, yawn.

Different story lines are of interest to different people suzied. I am really glad there is something about the difficulties of the care system and the horrible guilt you feel while trying to do your best for your loved one.