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Good story line about Jim's abuse experience, well researched and written.
Will Shula and Alistair reconcile? It's one of my Polyanna moments, I don't believe they ever would have separated - well, not if I'd been writing the scripts anyway.

Was there any point to Lilian's party that I may have missed?

Just a " by the by "I suppose, he doesn't really featured any more. Has Phoebe really done 3 years at Oxford? How time flies.

I think I heard Shula thanking Alastair for talking to Dorothy, I didn't know whether I had missed a reconciliation with Dan.

What was the point of Dan’s girlfriend? She was in a couple of episodes, disappeared, then Dan was apparently dumped!

Ditto Merelina.

Excellent performances and very good script. Poor old Jim - not what I was expecting. I was going down the cuckold route

I didn’t guess that either, poor Jim, moving scene between the three men

You weren't wrong Dazed and I found it very sad and not what I expected at all.

I suspect it's a hamfisted storyline of Jim being abused as a child by the man who is in the wheelchair hence the mega wobbly he threw when he learned his keyboard had been played by wheelchair chap after Jim's swift exit from the party he didn't want a party is still a party no matter what you call it

I feel desperately sorry for Jim. His long suppressed painful memories that still hurt when they're exposed to daylight.

I do hope that I'm wrong.

I think the man in the wheelchair who sent Jim into a frenzy is Alistair's real father, and that Jim was cuckolded many years ago.

Oh dear scriptwriters of the Archers, you really aren’t inspiring us at the moment. Very thin story lines. We want something to gossip about please!

I don't think they've thought of that, Lazigirl. Eddie will be rubbing his hands at the thought of all those free apples

If Joe's 'Tumble Tussock' grafts have taken they could plant some in his memory. Are you reading this SWs??

Flippin heck Merlot had to google that ?It does sound quite yummy, but don't fruit trees take a bit of looking after, as well as harvesting the fruit?

Toby could branch out into slivovitz.

Thought it wasn't such a bad idea. "Ambridge" is near Evesham so they could try plums.

Aha! That’s a good possibility. Who invited the wheelchair bloke?

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Anyone else think Nocasha's idea is daft?

How can they plant fruit trees on any available space in Ambridge including gardens? What if the homeowner doesn't want a tree blocking their view. Who will actually own and manage them and harvest the fruit?

Eddie Grundy?

Aha merlot or should we call you Sherlock?

Before Jim legged it, IIRC, there was an earlier scene where Fiona told Alistair she didn't know who the man in the wheelchair was but he might be the son of friends of their grandparents. She's got a flipping good memory!

So that would make him Jim's age?

Alistair's real father?

Jim seemed quite happy to see people until he spotted one person and left. I missed that it was the piano teacher. He did give up lessons - because she couldn’t teach him anymore. Perhaps something there which brought up something else in his past?

What an unpleasant character is Jim, nothing excuses his behaviour! I am getting fed up with Jill and Leonard too, wish they would retire together to the Orkneys. Peggy's control with her money over her family is getting ridiculous, setting one against the other, owoukd tell her to stop playing games and do what she want with her cash. As for Natasha! As an Archers fan of 40 plays years, I wish we had some more likeable characters, apart from David and his family, Pat and Tony and their children, there's not many. Sigh.....

Lazygirl and Mumofmadboys exactly what I thought.

Something nasty in the woodshed!

What is wrong with Jim?????????