I've had a horrible thought about the clonking. I think that George is going to be doing a brilliant job rehabilitating himself and will get a lot of credit for Borchester Show being a huge success. #TheArchers 1/2

Alice, you really didn't need to apologise to Rex for having been talking to Ed, when he came over, especially given that it was an unannounced visit! The dynamic between the two of them really didn't feel healthy this evening. #TheArchers

I can't help thinking that the best thing for Brian's children would be for him to sell the farm and share the loot out with his children. Even after IHT, that would probably allow each of them a 7-figure sum, which would be a pretty good boost / safety net for them all. #TheArchers

I really can't see Kate being interested in a cleaning or bar-work job at Grey Gables. As for admin... #TheArchers

And Carol, while you're at it, replace your mother's pendant with a wrist-worn alarm. They're far more acceptable to most people. #TheArchers

For goodness sake, Anna, just buy your mother a second camera. She can still get the pleasure of watching the bats, while Anna gets the security of checking Carol isn't lying in a heap at the bottom of the stairs. #TheArchers

It sounds as if Den is dreaming of £ signs, when he sees Brad. He has visions of Brad earning mega-bucks and being able to keep his old dad in the style he would like to become accustomed to. He also assumes Brad is soft enough he'd be able to bully him into doing that. #TheArchers

I'm told that Heather's funeral will be at 11am on Wed 3rd June 2026 at York Crematorium. I don't think it will be streamed over the Internet for those unable to attend in person though. If you wish to make a charitable donation in her name she has opted for Cancer Research UK. #TheArchers

I was interested to see this interview with Brian, sorry, Charles Collingwood, and was glad that he's still showing no sign of wanting to retire. He says “I’ll be 83 in a few weeks, you know. I think it would be rather cruel of the BBC to write me out before I die.” inews.co.uk/culture/radi...

Someone should remind Pip that there are no guarantees in life. She could have the test, discover she's negative, and then find out that she has some other, unrelated, cancer. #TheArchers

I think Carol's pushing her luck, expecting David and Ruth to build a downstairs shower room, or even a loo, onto Glebe Cottage. Permission for a stairlift, if one will fit, is fair enough, but it would be Anna / Carol who would be responsible for paying for it. #TheArchers

I know that a number of the #TheArchers crowd will be sad to hear that @heathercawte.bsky.social died at the weekend. She'd been largely in hospital since developing pneumonia, and a few other problems, late last year, but remained incredibly cheerful, and very much herself, till the end.

How does a care farm work? What do people do and how is it funded? Will the NHS have to pay Bridge Farm to run a drop in centre, or will Bridge Farm have to pay new workers, or what? Will they have anyone working there who has real mental health training? #TheArchers

What are the chances that the budgie is going to find a home as a companion to Carol Tregorran? #TheArchers

From what Brian said, it sounded as if he wasn't actually planning to leave Adam a controlling share in the farm. I think he said his codicil would "tell the others to vote with Adam", or words to that effect. I really can't see that holding for more than five minutes. #TheArchers

Is Azra going to get a Men's Shed set up in Ambridge? #TheArchers

I enjoyed hearing the penny dropping for Ruairi, that George is a real person and that, if his clonking had been a bit more successful, it would have represented a huge tragedy for his family. George then rubbed salt in the wound, by showing him some empathy. #TheArchers

What is Celia up to, the way she's lauding Helen to the skies. Even if her two cheeses are amazing, it's far from being the most dynamic business around. #TheArchers

Am I alone in thinking that Brian's chief concern is with the potential risk to his own social status, rather than with either Ruairi's wellbeing or morality? I'd include his relationship with Miranda in that but, even there, I suspect it's more status than Miranda herself, in his mind. #TheArchers

I don't know why Helen was so surprised that she felt happy about cheating on her boyfriend. She was happy enough, a few years ago, to collude with Rob cheating on his wife. Let's hope, for her sake, that Finlay is a more decent man than Rob was. #TheArchers

Are Chris and Hannah going to be the next Ambridge couple to get together? I seem to remember that Hannah really fancied Chris, a while back. #TheArchers

I do hope that Henry and Jack aren't about to acquire a baby sibling. The fertility rate, from those occasions when it's made clear that Ambridge residents are up to it, is startlingly high! #TheArchers

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