Ireland bound!

I'm really getting bored with this story line now - The constant arguments between Jennifer and Brian about the fate of the silent lovechild. Friday night's episode ended with Brian saying 'Well I'm going to Ireland, whether you come with me or not!' As if Jennifer was going to drop everything to go to Ireland to see Brian's mistress. Maybe I'll be surprised on Sunday.
The other storyline that is beginning to bore is the endless cricket conversations.
Give me plenty of Linda Snell please and the ever more senile Jack Woolley to keep my attention. It'll all in tears though. Just wait for Adam to spill the beans to Debbie. Brian won't be laughing then!
I know it is a 'rural continuous drama' but the constant discussions about milk gets a tad dull, as does discussion about contracts for machinery.

Thank Goodness for Linda Snell

Now the man pictured here is Bert Fry - another example of a cast member looking nothing like the voice that comes out of the wireless (to use a very old-fashioned term!)
I haven't written this blog for quite a while - mainly because my mind has been totally over boggled by the triangle of love formed by Brian, Siobhan and the incongruously spelt Ruairi. I notice however that the solution to the dilemma formulated in an earlier blog of mine (see below) is gathering popularity. Jennifer is extremely unlikely to take on the brat but Adam & Ian as gay adopters seems to slip more easily into the 'radical' agenda of the Archers scriptwriters. I will just say though that for an agricultural rural continuous drama (ie soap) that everyone denies listening to, isn't it remarkable how many people have an opinion about this topic.
Anyway - the re-appearance of Linda Snell means things are looking up, and the audiences will be flocking back in the near future. I couldn't bear to live in a village containing the monumental busybody that is Mrs Snell, but Ambridge would be very dull without her. Would anyone want to stay at a bed and breakfast run by Ambridge's answer to the Wicked Witch of the West? Nothing about your life would escape her examination and investigation and would rapidly be paraded on the Internet for general consumption.
At the moment she has so many things going on - the Maypole, the Church Graveyard Survey, a Bed & Breakfast/Guest House, instructing Bert on being a room steward at Lower Loxley, general adviser to all and sundry. Don't you just love her? I know I do!

My Solution

So my answer to the Rory problem is that Adam and Ian will adopt him - hiding his true identity - and dealing with all sorts of 'issues' beloved of the producers of this allegedly 'rural' saga.

Things Can Only Get Worse

David and Ruth were playing happy families on a picnic in Ambridge whilst Jennifer was making her views extremely clear about taking in Rory the love child in the face of Brian's overwhelming sense of fatherhood. The doomed Siobahn was convinced that Jennifer would welcome Rory into the bossom of the Aldridge family, because Brian blatently lied to her. Jennifer cannot bear the idea of having to announce top the world about Brian's infidelity - Alice is totally unaware of Brian's affair and its' results. Tom (desperate to talk about his sausage empire) stumbled into Jennifer on the warpath. She declared that Rory would never enter into her life - especially as at her age she had no further desire for motherhood when she was keener to retire with Brian into being full-time grandparents. This really cannot end well!

There are tears before bedtime

Now I was complaining about life in Ambridge being so dull, and now the sparks

really are flying - big time!

Brian tells Jenny the news about Rory and she kicks off big time. Now I'm sure we're all surprised at this lack of compassion - what woman wouldn't be happy to take in her husband's secret love child thereby announcing to the world about a long standing affair and its results. Adam becomes incredibly masterful and rides to his mother's rescue. Of course there is an irony here. Adam of course was the product of one (of many) couplings that Jenny indulged in during her mis-spent youth as single mother. My how times have changed!

The truth is out!

Brian finally tracks down Siobahn after many weeks of leaving messages. She revealed that she now has probably terminal cancer and asked Brian to take on Rory as his child in all senses of the word - but only after he's discussed it with Jennifer. Stands backand waits for the explosion! The implications of this news are going to rock Ambridge to the core.
Matt thought he'd discovered Lillian at the booze, but yet again she managed to deny strongly enough to convince him that she will win the trip to New York Matt had promised.
After the April Fool prank that Bert played on Eddie on Sunday Eddie is more determined than ever to become the Town Crier.
Ed Grundy has once again announced that he can't be in the same room as William - even when it comes to George's birthday party.