Heather is dead

[Andrew Horn]

I fear we are not going to be spared endless sighs/whinging from Ruth. She’s revving up for a massive guilt trip.

[Roifield Brown]

Is it a bit mean to admit that I’m glad she’s gone pet?

[Witherspoon]

I agree with Glyn: the show missed an opportunity to explore the challenges of caring for an elderly, infirmed parent-an issue that is a very common subject in my office. Instead we have a group of super octo- and nona-generians running laps around the village green, cooking three course dinners, and stopping for cocktails at sunset with nary a physical complaint among them.

And the script writers could have been kind and given Heather a last supper at Brookfield with her family and then having her not awaken the next morning…

[Spare Mousie]

Well call me a mean Mousie, but I was looking forward to Heatherpet leading them a merry old dance at Brookfield, thumping her stick on the floor to summon aid, telling them off for forgetting to put sugar in her tea and generally wreaking havoc. They’d soon rue the day they pushed Jill out as she would have been invaluable.

I’m also not sure why they were so gutted by the news at Bridge Farm or why Elizabeth was ‘very fond’ of Heather. They hardly knew her, any of them, even Ruth saw her very rarely.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see if Brookfield descends into its erstwhile chaos as they are now sans Jill. How long before they are begging her to come back? I’d make them sweat a bit if I were Jill!

[Becky Black]

I’m breathing a sigh of relief that she isn’t coming to Ambridge, even if they did have to kill her off to achieve it. I couldn’t listen to her accent day after day. It’s nails down a chalkboard – because I have a Geordie accent and Heather’s accent is just awful.

So, aw, sorry you passed on in the motorway services, Heather (an ignominious place to die) and I hope you’re now enjoying stottie cake in heaven. But phew!

• This reply was modified 10 years, 6 months ago by Becky Black.

[Glyn Fullelove]

Although it was on the motorway, Heather seemed very happy just before she died, and, for her, it seemed quite peaceful. Rotten place for Ruth, but she could take some comfort from the fact that she had made her Mum happy at the end.

[kiwi_listenerer]

Funny how Heatherpet seems to have become Ambridge’s favourite Granny all of a sudden

[Becky Black]

Heather’s dead and now she’s buried, and now we have months and months of Ruth wallowing in guilt and sighing a lot to look forward to. Hooray.

I wish they hadn’t had the funeral in the episode to be honest. It was a combination of boring and distressing to listen to. Nothing really happened that we couldn’t have guessed – people crying and being sad. It’s a funeral. There was nothing especially character revealing or plot advancing in it. I wasn’t moved by Pip’s reading. If they were hoping to evoke the same response in the listener as the poetry reading scene in Four Weddings and a Funeral, they missed the mark. (Of course not many dramas would ever manage to hit that mark. I’m getting a bit choked just thinking about it.)

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