I wonder if Ruairi is going to confide in Paul? Paul would be appalled, both by the attack and allowing someone else to be tried for it. He could well talk some decency into Ruairi. #TheArchers

Ruairi, if you had any real decency in you, when you came back into the room, it would have been to say that you'd phoned the police to confess, and that they were on their way. Not whinging some more about how sorry you are and hoping it would all just go away and be forgotten. #TheArchers

I wonder if it's going to occur to either George or Brian that the police will have Brian's dulcet tones recorded on the 911 call he made. He has a pretty distinctive voice. #TheArchers

Has Chelsea budgetted for fitting her new horsey salon out? It'll need power and water, for a start, as well as cosmetic changes. #TheArchers

Doesn't The Bungalow have an agricultural wotsit on it, so it can only be used for a farm worker. How will that work out, if it's left to a nurse? #TheArchers

Surely Glebe Cottage belongs to Jill, not the farm, and she's promised to leave it to Shula and Elizabeth. I also wonder whether Shula and Elizabeth agree that their shares don't need to be taken into consideration but that it can all be left to Pip. #TheArchers

Talk about cloth eared, Pip telling Ben that it's OK for him, because he won't have to pay the Inheritance Tax on the farm! #TheArchers

Listening to the TA snippet, on PoTW, makes me wonder whether Amber's mum is going to meet up with Emma, in the hope that the two mums can gang up on Amber and George. I can't think of anything more likely to make Emma move to unblinking support of her son... #TheArchers

It was noticeable that New George was a lot more generous towards Josh than he had been towards George. #TheArchers

I would love to hear George explain what he considers to be the difference between rage and anger! #TheArchers

Hearing Azra talking to Pip about the downsides of being a non-farmer, in a farming family, makes it sound almost certain that Akram is going to end up taking over Meadow Farm. #TheArchers

What's the betting that we'll have the situation where at least two people are lying like mad, in order to protect the other person who they, wrongly, suspect of clobbering George. Thus muddying the water and disguising the truth. #TheArchers

If an ambulance call handler got a call for a body found in some woodland, would they take it for granted that this was the same body they'd had a call about, ten minutes or so earlier? Surely they'd have to at least allow for the possibility that there were two bodies in the same area? #TheArchers

Merry Christmas to all the wonderful #TheArchers gang!

I think we need to add Harrison to the list of candidates for the ICU bed next week. Alternatively, he could be the one who puts George in it. He won't be happy, if he comes home to find Fallon in pieces over what George said to her. #TheArchers

No Ben, you really shouldn't have said anything! Certainly not to Esme. #TheArchers

Am I alone in expecting Leonard and/or Joy will find that no good deed goes unpunished, and that they've caught norovirus off Paul's stuff. Lily and Josh had probably been clear for long enough to be clear but it sounded as if Paul was only just surfacing from it. #TheArchers

I suspect that Amber wanting her parents at her wedding is part of reality dawning. She isn't really the glamorous rebel, who runs off to marry her bad-boy without a backward glance. She's a nice girl, who's trying to work out how to construct a silk purse from her sow's ear. #TheArchers

It goes against the grain but I'm finding myself feeling very sorry for George. It must have been tough to find that even Amber doesn't trust him and it sounds as if he's right about her getting cold feet. A rather depressed ex-con isn't nearly as glamorous as a boyfriend in prison. #TheArchers

Surely Tom and Helen should be discussing the possibility of George working at Bridge Farm with Tony and Pat, even more than Alice, as they'd be the ones overseeing him. #TheArchers

Erm, Alice, you also went to boarding school and then to university. You're right that Adam isn't likely to want to either retire or move elsewhere though, in the next few years. #TheArchers

Given David's history as the local NFU rep, along with his, and Ruth's, assorted projects cooperating with other farms, such as Hassett Hills, and with how close a neighbour Mulligan was, I find it surprising that David didn't even know his name. #TheArchers

I do hope that Stella knows that she's taken her new job and that tonight's surprise isn't her approaching Brian to say that Cleo needs her and please can she have her old job back, after all! I'm not sure Brian, let alone Adam or Ruairi, would have heard about Sunday's wobble. #TheArchers

Alice really doesn't sound happy either with the idea of Adam and Ruairi taking over the farm or with them joining her birthday lunch. #TheArchers

Why did Alistair arrange to meet up with an old friend, for lunch, on a weekend when he's on call? He must have known that it was all too likely that he'd be called out. #TheArchers

What kind of employer, looking for someone to fill a senior, consultancy role is going to expect their preferred candidate to start work less than a week after the interview. Most half way decent candidates will have to work a notice period of at least a month. #TheArchers

I think Stella and Ruairi could make a good partnership. Ruairi is keen to learn the farming side but seems aware (at least at the moment) that he has a lot to learn. His business training may be useful in looking for new contracting clients and fresh income streams for Home Farm. #TheArchers

I do hope George isn't in an open prison. If he is, I could see him taking unofficial leave of absence, in order to go to visit Bartleby, and finding that, as a result, he won't be allowed out in time for his party in a couple of weeks. #TheArchers

What's up with Lily? She told Azra that she didn't have any ideas of what she wanted to do but, I'm sure she said recently, that she was planning to go to Australia for a time. That was why she wasn't interested in going for the more senior job at GG which Dane wanted her to apply for. #TheArchers

I would love to know which class it was that contained Azra's cheesecake, Jill's Black Forest Gateau, and Rosie/Ruth's scones! #TheArchers

Yes Lily, you did mess up. In the days when I was involved in such shows, we would have had signs, and stewards at the entrance to the tent making clear that only competitors were allowed in, while setting up. There would then have been a strict no entry sign, during judging. 1/ #TheArchers

I thought Ruairi sounded rather evasive, when his graduate trainee post was mentioned. I wonder if that's fallen through or there's some problem with it. #TheArchers

I'm disappointed in Freddie and, to a lesser degree in Lily. I thought he'd grown up, over recent months/years and was better than that (I was less surprised about Lily though). I was expecting him to speak out and to shoulder the blame. #TheArchers

Amber and Kate's meeting was always going to be interesting - the two most self-centred people in the village - even without Kate being Alice's sister! #TheArchers

Well said, Brad! The victim has definitely become a bully. #TheArchers

I can't help wondering whether the insurance on the Home Farm combine harvester covers it when it's being used for guerrilla harvesting. Is Stella, or maybe Ruth, going to discover the hard way that it doesn't? #TheArchers

I really hope that Stella says "A plague on both your houses" and resigns from both Home Farm and the BL Board. This would free her up to join Pip at Brookfield, with a view to them both taking it over in due course. #TheArchers

When supermarket home deliveries first started, there were countless tales around the internet about surreal substitutions. For some time though, they've generally been pretty reasonable. Today they went back to the good old days. Thanks Tesco! #supermarket #Tesco #substitutions

It's a long time since I've ridden but do you really take both feet out of the stirrups first? My memory is that you only take one foot out before swinging that leg over the horse's back. #TheArchers

Is Lilian either qualified or experienced as a riding teacher. That requires specific skills over and above being an experienced rider. I'd also be rather surprised if Aziz was a good beginner's mount. #TheArchers

OK, so Amber clearly isn't who she has claimed to be. Who do we think she really is? #TheArchers

Pip, you REALLY don't have the right to be told all Stella's confidential business information, just because you're partners. Especially not when you're in such interrelated jobs, where there could be a conflict of interest. #TheArchers

Stella should have spoken up, in the meeting, and made the point that Justin had agreed, yesterday, that his idea wasn't fully thought through and needed further work. I'm sure she could make it sound flakier than Justin thought he had agreed to. #TheArchers

Kate's comment about herding cats made me profoundly hope that Peggy didn't think to stipulate that poor Hilda had to be taken on the holiday! #TheArchers

A large element of its popularity is that it's been running for over 70 years. A lot of us have been listening, on and off, all our lives and it's part of the backdrop for our lives. The characters may, frequently, irritate us but they're people we've known them all their lives. #TheArchers

Hmm. I wonder how accessible The Bull Upstairs is? I doubt the wake is going to be open to the contingent from The Laurels. #TheArchers

Poor Hilda, being dragged round the service and then the wake is going to be horribly traumatic for her. It's no wonder she feels the way she does about the Archer family! #TheArchers

Surely someone running a business such as Kate's should have done a first aid course, maybe even installed a defibrillator, and have some idea what to do if a client passes out - and how to check their pulse to see if they're alive. Mind you, that wouldn't have been nearly as much fun! #TheArchers

I'd have thought that one basic thing, which would be put up every year, at all the farms taking part, would be posters and/or flyers advertising all the other farms in the area which are taking part. A lot of their visitors would be interested to see different styles of farm. #TheArchers

If Stella's that keen on Open Farm Sunday, how come Home Farm isn't taking part. #TheArchers