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Hooty-Nanny Jill – or at least, Patricia Greene is a Derby girl – like me.
This is her month! Apart from the excitement of being on Woman’s Hour all week next week she got an honorary degree from the University of Derby last week.
http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/longest-serving-soap-actress-patricia-218211
Perhaps Anisha will stop running with Rex and do some “coconutting” with Latif – he’s part of the horse racing nonsense, so I’d expect them to meet at some point.
Then she and Rex will both be in short-lived flings before they see that they’re meant to be with each other … Maybe?
It would be too easy for someone who’s unattached to find someone else who’s unattached and attractive in Ambridge, for it to be mutual, and for it to develop into a healthy connection. There has to be a good dollop of drama before there’s any romance.
At the end of my previous post, I mentioned the cricket but the connection to Caroline’s will isn’t obvious!
What I mean to say was, with Will Grundy apparently quite deeply emotionally affected by Caroline’s death, will he indeed come to realise that there are more important things to worry about?
I imagine Caroline has been sensible and has made a will. (There’s a serious lesson to be learned about the mistake of not making a will but this might not be the way to do it.) Anyway, who else other than Oliver would she leave her most significant asset to?
There was talk of surviving siblings who we never really heard about during her lifetime, so we’ll see …But I do hope she doesn’t leave anything to Will. It’d be more than that horrible oaf deserves. His reaction to Caroline’s death seemed to soften his horridness a little – but hasn’t redeemed him . To my recollection, he’s already unjustly been the beneficiary of a will of an aged Grundy aunt that wasn’t updated.
My guess is that if Oliver ends up as sole owner of Grey Gables he won’t want to deal with it on his own and he probably won’t want to stay in Italy on his own – because that wasn’t the plan – but the scriptwriters may feel that he’s not interesting enough without Caroline in tow. There’s not much to do for the more mature people in the village – especially the widowed men like Bert, Jim and Lewis. Bert and Jim have younger house mate/companions in a kind of “odd couple” set up but they’re not featured very often.
A cremation in Italy. A memorial service in Ambridge.
Is that what it took to stop the unlawful/improper/misuse of tenancy B&B nonsense? Which should never have started …. And does it stop the cricket nonsense? Which should never have started …
There you go again, Kosmo, exposing the folly of this storyline!
Just one note of caution: there was no “murderer’s defence” to pay for – there was no corpse! Helen was acquitted of grievous bodily harm from what I recall …
I can’t explain!
Maybe the good thing is she’s been up front about it and he’s accepted it – even though we suspect he’s not being honest with himself.
Anisha doesn’t want to lose the option of dating someone who’s solid, nice but boring. And Rex doesn’t want to lose the option of dating someone who’s vibrant and focused and a bit unpredictable.
The problem obviously arises when (as with Pip and Toby starting off with their “no strings”/“friends with benefits” fling”) one person in the couple decides they want something more than casual. That sets into motion a whole new relationship dynamic. Then (again, as with Pip and Toby) you end up with a relationship you didn’t bargain for and didn’t really want because you’re with someone who can’t give you what you want. Good for Pip that she recognised it. Are we going through the same thing with Rex and Anisha?
The residents of Ambridge are often seem rubbish at normal, romantic relationships. There’s usually something unbalanced and unhealthy going on like a lack of commitment, staleness, emotional game playing or something predatory.
It seems to me that the mercenary lot down at Bridge Farm have been outplayed spectacularly by Justin. Their approach to this deal was naive to say the least.
Why didn’t they seek an actual valuation of their land from Rodways or something? Why didn’t they take professional advice? How did they know that the price Justin was offering was a fair one? Just because an offer has come to you suddenly out of the blue it doesn’t mean that you should feel pressured into accepting it just as suddenly.
It doesn’t sound that attractive to me – £1,000,000 to buy land to build 18 houses? I’ve a rough idea of what rural properties cost in the county where I live, the cost of building a house (just going by the rebuild cost of my house for the purpose of home insurance) and the cost of buying a house on a new development. A million pounds doesn’t sound like nearly enough money to ask for the sale of land for the development of 18 homes that Justin is planning.
The Bridge Farm Archers didn’t do “the math” before jumping at Justin’s offer – I agree with what Claire Astbury says.
I don’t have a spare £1,000,000 or even £850,000 lying around but I hazard a guess that once they pay off their debts (Helen’s legal fees, their loans (haven’t they borrowed from family members such as Lillian and/or Peggy?), overdraft(s) and mortgages) and sunk a big chunk into Pat and Tony’s pension it’ll look like they’ve sold out far too cheaply.
It’s nothing more than completely ill-judged short termism on their part.
Kosmo has demonstrated encyclopaedic knowledge (as ever!) of the James and Leonie relationship. I had no recollection – and cared even less – that they had been together for 6 years or so. I found their contribution to last week’s episode(s) irrelevant.
Like a lot of characters, to me they seem entirely unnecessary and one dimensional.
Will is odious. Even the description of his character on “The Archers” website struggles to say anything nice about him.
I don’t know any Archers properties nearby but I do know some Archers: I know a Derbyshire Dales dairy farming family of Archers headed by Mr Anthony Archer. He’s a fine tuba player but he never goes by the name of “Tony” to my knowledge.
Also, the head of my former chambers was a lawyer called Usha – but she was married to a doctor, not a vicar. I reckon she’d be rubbish at cricket, though. Just thought of my niece who has a Jack Russell called Harrison however I’ve yet to meet anyone called Fallon. That name really reminds me of the 1980s and “Dynasty” – a sudsy, frothy soap with some daft character names (like Krystle Carrington, Farnsworth “Dex” Dexter, Dominique Devereaux).
As a big fan of Ingrid Bergman, I’ve seen the film “Gaslight” – but it’s been many years since it was on TV. And as for “safeguarding”, it’s an issue I grapple with in my daily work life. Broadly, safeguarding is the action that is taken to promote the welfare of children (and vulnerable adults) and protect them from harm. As you say, the language we use and how it develops can be very interesting. The writers have already managed to work “alternative facts” into a recent script (some remark made by Linda about Eddie echoing President Trump). I’m waiting for “virtue signalling” to be shoehorned in somehow, somewhere, probably by Linda.
As for Justin Eliiott, he’s posh and amoral – like a moustachioed, cape wearing villain – and a bit one dimensional. But for me the Justin and Lillian storyline has an added frisson because Justin and Miranda are married in real life! Lucy Fleming is also the daughter of “Brief Encounter” actress Celia Johnson. Her father, Peter, was the brother of James Bond creator, Ian Fleming.
Justin’s a posh villain on the one hand and the Grundies are supposed to be lovable rogues, on the other hand. However I, for one, am sick of their scheming and hustling.
Like you, I find Aneesha curious. I wonder how long she’ll be around. The actress who plays her has been on TV recently in “Apple Tree Yard” and is going to be in the new series of “Line of Duty”. She’s also done work for the RSC. I’m not sure she’s in it for the long haul. She’ll probably single handedly save the cricket team, break Rex’s heart, bankrupt Alistair and then do a runner.
It’s less a case of what Helen does now and more a case of: “When will the scriptwriters wake up or follow a storyline through properly?!!”
To my recollection, Helen started divorce proceedings back in the autumn which led to Rob threatening to drag things out and defend the divorce. In the end he decided not to defend the divorce petition.
That ought to mean that Helen has already applied for a decree nisi and after that, a decree absolute. In the real world, she might already be divorced by now because it can take as little as a few months. The wheels were already in motion when Rob said he wouldn’t defend the divorce. It doesn’t matter that he has “disappeared”.
If he doesn’t defend the divorce she can apply for a decree nisi. It can take around 5 weeks for the court to pronounce a decree nisi. Then once she gets past that stage, she must wait for 6 weeks before applying for a decree absolute. When the decree absolute is obtained it’s officially all over.
The question that might be on her mind is what happens to the marital finances. That’s might be a bit more tricky …
Back in the autumn when there was divorce talk, it sounded as if Rob had spent most of the money that was in their joint account. However, it also sounded at the time as if Helen was worried he might pursue her interest in Bridge Farm. Sorting out finances after a divorce involving family businesses like farms can be very messy so I sympathise. And there hasn’t been any talk of child maintenance so I assume she doesn’t want any money from him to support Jack.
Somewhere along the line, Helen has also been involved in family proceedings regarding Jack (and Henry). I can’t remember whether it was, but I think it was a final order which granted a child arrangements order to Rob for him to spend time with Jack on a supervised basis at a contact centre but stated there should be no contact at all with Henry. So hopefully she doesn’t have to worry about that.
Somehow it doesn’t surprise me that we weren’t given a more truthful scenario … My sister is a midwife of more than 20 years’ service – I’ll ask her view on this one.
Sounds like another situation where the script writers may well have consulted with an expert about the most likely outcome and then decided to go with their own ideas.
After the debacle of the Helen and Rob criminal trial hastily followed by the conclusion of the family proceedings I’ve kind of given up on The Archers being a “reality docu-drama”. It’s all drama. I’m still a fan but it bares little resemblance to any reality or truth I might recognise.
Having said that, I’m still sorry that Kirstie lost her baby … !
