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But where’s all this heading I ask? Ruth says she’s been feeling left out since her miscarriage. She’s definitely feeling estranged from her husband and daughter. Could there be a separation on the cards? And will it lead to a divorce? Ruth’s always been whiney and always never quite fitted in. Time will tell.
That’s the way this tale of ordinary country folk is going.
Why doesn’t she talk to David? She tells all to Usha. If your marriage is at stake shouldn’t you at least try to talk the issues through in a calm moment instead of just blowing up when your partner irritates you. David has no idea what is going on. I think Ruth should sit down with him and tell him how she is feeling, in general and in relation to their marriage.
Amen, Ms Bubbles.
However… poor communication & misunderstanding are staples of drama (especially a soap opera). I fear this is all going to head in a Sam-The-Herdsman kind of direction. :o(
The chances of roof talking to dayvid are the same as hell freezing over!
She like to complain to usha all day long but it wouldn’t occur to her to actually, you know, try and sort it out properly. And as Chris says it’s the meat and veg of drama so we’re gonna hear and awful lot of moaning toward xmas I fear.
Ruth is right in my opinion to be quite put out about not being informed of quite a long list of rather important things such as the Fairbrethren, their geese and their caravan, David lending a lot more than Ruth had agreed to Kenton, Pip’s sheep, Pip going into business with Adam and David assuming without asking that they would use some of Heather’s legacy to lend to Pip. Of course, the way Ruth is dealing with it all, slagging off David to Usha and – of all people – Kenton, is not showing her in a very good light. But I get why she’s angry.
What I don’t get is why Pip is doing Ruth’s job now that Ruth is back. Simply tell her not to!
Nor is it awfully clear why Ruth and everyone else were so busy last week that they couldn’t even feed themselves, keep the house clean or do any laundry yet now Jill is back, Ruth has nothing to do. It’s not as if Ruth (or anyone else) had been doing any of the things Jill does to keep the household running. They simply were not being done!
Sounds to me as though Ruth is now excess to requirements because Brookfield is employing one too many people and that one too many is Pip. If anyone is ‘entitled’ it is she; she just moved back in, assumed there would be a full time job for her and, instead of asking, presented them with a fait accompli while continually begging for reassurance from everyone that she was needed. When of course she isn’t.
They need to get rid of Pip then the balance will be restored.
Here, here Spare Mousie…you have voiced my thoughts exactly.
But I am hoping that Pip going into share farming with Adam might mean she is not quite so involved with Brookfield, leaving more space for Ruth.
I am so hoping that the predictions about Ruth finding solace in A N Other are going to be wrong….infidelity is a subject we have followed with far too much regularity in The Archers. As a resident of a small country village for the last 15 years cases of this kind of thing have been quite rare……not any where near as frequent as in Ambridge. It must be something in their water!!I’m with Spare Mousie – I’ve seen people execute a will, it can take forever (especially where the sale of property is concerned) but after the initial bits, it just tends to drag on with the lawyers, and you only have to do the odd signature here and there. Yes It’s all the way up in Pruddoe (I have genuinely no idea how to spell that one), but my mum just finished executing a will in Manchester, and she lives in the South West of the UK. It was a pain, but she wasn’t there all the bloomin time. Why could Ruth not find any time last week, and now seems to be swimming in spare time? She was so upset about the state of the house last week, and now she’s verbally slapping Jill for breathing. And why is Dayveed wrapping her in cotton wool and assuming she’ll be incapable of anything except putting on a kettle?
Besides, normally she’s an overworked farmer/mther now she’s just lost her mum, and is grieveing – can’t she enjoy the week off? Have a coffee, do some shopping, go to a museum?
Or here’s an idea, how about thinking about your daughter going for a massive loan for cattle, and connect it to the fact you inherited an improbable amount from your dead mother? Does that take a week to figure out?
Sorry. I’m just feeling pissy.
I said my bit in my voicemail message to Dum Tee Dum last week. Never could stand Ruth. Wish she’d either put up and shut up and do her mourning in dignified silence – or bugger off to Prudhoe.
Roooth is boring herself now. Enough already with the mug tree and the cereal cupboard. Can we all move on please? Those who can’t listen to Rob’n Helen… Be careful what you wish for. Wall-to-wall Whinge-bag would be far worse!
“When Heather started singing in the car I knew it was either her or me …” – priceless!
If it wasn’t for the wit and sparkle of fellow Dum Tee Dum contributors, I don’t know how I’d endure these dreary storylines.
I’ve just rung in to Dum Tee Dum but as it was with a piece with the discussion, I shall add it here too.
The problem I am hearing isn’t with Ruth’s marriage, whatever Ruth says, it’s with Brookfield’s failure to grasp that Ruth grieves by doing things, if that makes sense. None of the Brookfield Archers seem to react this way in my listening memory to emotional upset, so it hasn’t occurred to them that Ruth is/does. So Pip taking over Ruth’s job is meant as a helpful gesture and is in fact the opposite. She doesn’t want people walking on egg-shells, she needs normalcy. Where I come unstuck is working out why Euth has never confided this to David or Jill. Is that just me?
I think it’s hampered to by the fact that David once warned Pup (when she left for uni I think) that Brookfiekd mightn’t stretch to covering three salaries, in which case Ruth feels she is out of a job because with Pip doing her job she genuinely is. Now that may have changed but if it has we ought to be told. Or have we and have I forgotten? But in light of that I second those of you who can’t understand how we’ve jumped from no time to stop at the grocery store to Ruth’s total superfluity.
Yes, doesn’t make sense at all. There is something she could do though! She could be in Calendar Girls! I know all the female parts are cast but she could be a stage manager or something. Why not? I am sure they don’t have understudies what about that?
I’m with Miss Mid-City on this one.
Ruth’s the proverbial emotional black hole – everyone gets sucked into her dramas, but when it comes to giving other people emotional support, she’s rarely there. Witness the number of times David’s been distressed about something: Ruth’s attitude isn’t much more than ‘What’s wrong with you? Pull yourself together’.
David may be a bit of an emotional clod but he is solid, dependable and a devoted husband. Ruth is simply irritating.
If I had the money to put her on a Virgin Galactic flight I would – and pay them extra to leave her in space.
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