Will

Gosh! I feel sorry for him – he is blaming himself most of all and I feel it is his unbearable guilt and pain that makes him lash out at everyone else. I would not be thinking straight at a time like this.

I see a long-term story arc here, as Will settles into his role of “always grumpy gamekeeper” (assuming that Brian does not accept his “stuff yur job” suggestion!) So, as Pip’s now 13 year old child goes scrumping for pheasants and strawberries with his/her friends, they encounter Will and find themselves on the wrong side of a double barreled shotgun.

“Get off moi land!” says Will.

“It’s not your land,” says one of the children. “It belongs to Adam Macy (who’s running things until Brian Aldridge comes back from an extended 10-15 year stretch of “vacation” since something before I was born happened in 2018)!”

And as the children walk away, one says “Gosh – what’s up with that guy? Why’s he always so mean and grumpy?”

“Ere!” shouts Will. “Oi ‘ered that! Moi woif is DEAD. And not you, nor you can ever bring ur back! So woi don’t yew just go back home and oil stay ‘ere in my inside out shirt being all grumpy, ok?”

(Sign me up as a scriptwriter – I’m on a roll!)

Purple P,
I am only as nice as just about everyone in Ambridge. I was going to say they are not only absurdlypatient with Will, but not even talking among themselves about how nasty he is being. Until tonight that is. Clarrie, of all people, is fed up with how Will is treating Joe, and Will and Joe finally talk.

I have been listening to the Archers long enough to know that when a character is too awful or too nice, they eventually get a personality transplant. After Roifield and Lucy went on about how insensitive Shula is, who is surprised that it is she who got Will to the funeral?