phoenix, your suggestion was one of my first thoughts when the loader was stolen.
Kate is a riot isn't she, the moral high ground is her favourite place. I suspect Nolitando will cause her as much grief as Kate caused her own mother. I do hope she doesn't seduce Johnny, he needs a pleasant young woman on the farming/beauty therapy/early years course as his college. Someone who isn't complex, rather like himself. Freddie would be putty in Nolitando's hands wouldn't he. As for Lilian and Justin. As ye reap, so shall ye sow (or would that be sew). Poor Lilian, I'm sure something dreadful is about to happen to her again - and again, of her own making.
It seems that things are brightening up in Ambridge.