This reminds me that Purple Pumpkin started a thread about recycling old storylines …
We don’t need another story of a woman “torn between two lovers” – it’s too tedious (we’ve recently had Lilian and Matt and Justin).
And being torn between two brothers has already been done, too (Emma and Will and Ed).
I suppose being a single mother as well as a working farmer is slightly more novel (except for Helen perhaps making a similar claim) …
If they must be together, I’d rather Pip and Toby moved away from the village. I can’t believe that he’d be happy to tie himself down to Ambridge – child or no child. To be honest, I’m surprised he’s stuck around so long – but maybe he’s got nowhere else to go.