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Farzanah Thu 20-Jul-23 19:30:39

Is anyone still listening or have you given up?

NotSpaghetti Thu 22-Aug-24 21:35:28

Or Alf?

eGJ Fri 23-Aug-24 19:07:26

NotS didn’t know you wrote the scripts!

eGJ Fri 23-Aug-24 19:09:03

Sorry not Alf, but Clive. However a Horrabin not a Grundy ex con!

eGJ Fri 23-Aug-24 19:20:34

Hope Susan’s not around. The last time 5hey met didn’t go well

mae13 Fri 23-Aug-24 20:31:30

Georgie is well on the way to becoming "a wrong 'un". Turning to 'Uncle Cloive' for moral support and advice?

It'll end in tears......and probably prison.

Wyllow3 Fri 23-Aug-24 21:39:04

Cloive threatening, and creepy. George more manipulative.

Wish they hadn't gone down this route.

No it doesn't bode well unless Em and Will decide to do the right thing.

Scribbles Fri 23-Aug-24 23:17:53

If Emmur and Will won't give in to blackmail and Cloive carries out his threat, then Emmur and Will can bask in the comfort of knowing they didn't break any promises but the whole thing will be blown wide open and, with luck, George will go to jail.
With even more luck, Emmur and Will could be charged with concealing a crime, withholding evidence, aiding and abetting a criminal or something . I'd settle for anything that wiped the holier-than-thou tone from Emmur's every utterance and got her thrown off the parish council.
One thing puzzles me: how did George have a phone number for Cloive? Surely, nobody in the family would have it and pass it on, and the last time Cloive had any contact with the Horrobins, George must have been a very small child (if he was even born then. I'm struggling with the timeline).

Delila Fri 23-Aug-24 23:32:13

I wouldn’t say Emma’s tone was holier than thou - I’d say she’s experiencing a “dark night of the soul”. Serious stuff.

Wyllow3 Sat 24-Aug-24 00:48:47

Surely she cant bear the awfulness for long -something will crack. and they always leave us with a cliffhanger on Fridays, most frustrating...

merlotgran Sat 24-Aug-24 10:18:12

FGS Emma. Tell Ed before things get any worse.

Iam64 Sat 24-Aug-24 12:04:12

Ed will be so angry and upset. A betrayal by his wife and his brother / again. Is there any coming back from this

Delila Sat 24-Aug-24 13:28:18

Hope we don’t have to drag through another week of Denise & Alistair’s tedious “romance” and Paul’s angst before we get to another cliffhanger next Friday! When is the court case scheduled to happen?

Wyllow3 Sun 25-Aug-24 09:03:07

I don't think it has been scheduled yet?

Farzanah Sun 25-Aug-24 10:35:27

If it was realistic the trial would wait 2 years or longer! Thank goodness it’s isn’t. How much more can the deteriorating drama be stretched before finally imploding? Not more than a week I hope.
I agree about Alistair and Denise.
Don’t want to hear them in the shower 😱

eGJ Sun 25-Aug-24 11:29:44

That doesn't bear thinking about Farzanah Perhaps Alistair and Denise will move into Willow Farm together, but where will Kirsty go?

Wyllow3 Sun 25-Aug-24 12:44:04

Thata a good guess I reckon them moving into Willow Farm, but I wondered again - poor Kirsty. Unless she rents from Alistair's Dad!

Wyllow3 Sun 25-Aug-24 12:45:02

Alice is probably due another "remembering session" this week too?

mae13 Sun 25-Aug-24 18:49:44

Delila

Hope we don’t have to drag through another week of Denise & Alistair’s tedious “romance” and Paul’s angst before we get to another cliffhanger next Friday! When is the court case scheduled to happen?

Same here. Denise and Alistair's romance/not romance/romance-after-all is so much zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......

This particular storyline is just lightweight ballast to drag each episode out against the REAL drama of George's increasingly chaotic behaviour over Alice's court case.

eGJ Sun 25-Aug-24 19:00:14

Alistair and Denise’s relationship is there to show how diverse Ambridge is becoming. But is not catching our interest and is just boring us all!

Farzanah Sun 25-Aug-24 19:42:40

Well there’s been diversity for some time but most seem to have disappeared.
Usha
Adil
Noluthando
Alan’s daughter ? Louise
Now Adil’s sister Azra.
That’s as many as I remember

eGJ Sun 25-Aug-24 20:02:04

You're right that most of those don't even get a mention now. Alan's daughter's Amy. Lucas Madikane appeared a few times and we can't omit Paul Mack of course.

NotSpaghetti Sun 25-Aug-24 20:10:30

And Sunday's episode was a snooze too.
😕

Wyllow3 Mon 26-Aug-24 00:51:57

I suppose it was inevitable we got the stables and the fete but nothing on Cloive really except he is in a B and B.

eGJ Mon 26-Aug-24 16:32:18

Linda does B&B😂

mae13 Mon 26-Aug-24 18:05:46

I'm expecting Georgie's blind faith in Uncle Cloive's "advice" to spectacularly backfire on him, and I can't wait.

Do nothing and see how the court case pans out? I think not.

I think either Emmur will crack and go and tell Harrison the real story or Alice's hypnotherapy sessions will produce the correct result - thus Georgie will go to pieces but won't get any support from Uncle Cloive.

He'll be out of Ambridge like a rocket!

And then Georgie will have to deal with Brian Aldridge......