Archers Addicts 5 !!!!!

I was, wasn't it. Very 'Archers'

I think Lilian should have fired back at Miranda, 'But daaaahling, he's not marrying the mistress, he's marrying the landlady!'

Not that it matters but did Miranda ever discover that Lil owns the Dower House?

How very dare Miranda ask Lillian to pack the ornaments! I wish Lillian had told her to fold her own newspaper, but I suppose there is a rather delicious pay off, in that the items in question, that Miranda thinks so highly of, are cheap imitations from a Grundy car boot.....*or are they?* We could be in for a twist on this one!

I'm loving Miranda

Interested to know why, I.e. any particular traits, characteristics etc, because even before Justin &Lillian got together, I thought she looked down on everyone and was very rude.

Well my guess is that they are the real McCoy but clearly ill-gotten. She will take them to be valued and the next thing will be the boys in blue will come knocking

Ruari's surname is Donovan ???

Yes, his mother was Siobhan, but I thought she was married to Doctor someone, but must have registered the boys birth name as her maiden name, rather than her married name?

Could be wrong, often am.

Thought that Brian would have claimed him as ' his own' what with inheritance + shares in the farm and all

When Ruari was very small and his mother died it was considered important to keep links with Siobhan's family. May be this is a precursor to some involvement with his Irish relatives. They've not been mentioned or seen him lately as far as I remember.

I thought we were going to hear him speak last night after he was runner up in the single wicket.

I know teenage boys only grunt but I'd love to know whether he has a dead posh grunt or an Irish one.

Surely a Local Plan already considers areas good for housing. How can Justin nip round to landowners + pick the bits he likes? Am I missing something?

Justin said it was in the Local Plan, but don't think good farm land would be. In my area opportunistic developers are cruising round the countryside looking for fields that they can persuade local farmers to apply for residential planning permission for. They have had a go at a field behind my house, which is not in the local plan, and been refused twice, but there is a great pressure on LAs to build more houses. (More profit from large detached but they have to throw in a few "affordable".)

Ok, so let's have marks out of ten for the Lily irritation factor.

They can be divided into 3 categories, namely:

Voice

General characteristics

Overall annoyance

Smugness

Please, please please let Lily fail that biology exam

Edit! Should have been 4 categories!

Edit! Should have been 4!

Bugger

Oh, dear. Poor, poor Toby. He wants to cut all ties with Pip. Probably to get her more interested.
Conveniently forgetting he owes her £5000!

Yes, good for her for not leaving her friends when he appears. Maybe she really is over him. But where will he look to use his charm next? Anisha, Lily?

Does anyone else suspect that Johnnie will be let down by dreamgirl at the last minute? If so I wonder whether Kirsty would use the ticket - in a genuinely 'just good friends' way.

Yes, the Amber thing seems a bit too easy.

My DD and DGDs are ducking out of the IW festival this year because in their opinion, Rod Stewart is beyond the pale!

Anthea is coming back!! Great character.

Hardly heard a peep from Freddie for years. Now we can't shut him up!