BIB: Not much chance of that unfortunately.

I hate Rob but I love the storyline.

I think Helen's baby would have to be an immaculate conception not to be Rob's. It would be good if it came out that he'd somehow fiddled the DNA test for Jess's baby though.

I like it. The new doctor in the village probably knows something about it. Maybe Jess decided she didn't want the baby to be Rob's after all.

I love it too and Rob is one Hell of a baddie However, I do wish it hadn't been Helen he got his claws into as she's such a wet blanket anyway who I don't care about at all. It would have been better putting him with someone who has a bit more spirit whom you could actually see change and become over whelmed by Rob. Helen spoils it for me with her whiny voice and needy attitude and ever keenness to please Rob before he even started his true manipulation of her.

Haven't heard from Peggy in a while have we?

I can't be bothered with Helen either and am enjoying Rob's sinister manipulation of the silly cow Long may it continue.

I expect she's busy considering a few new year changes to her will and sneering at Chris's efforts at baking

So which Archer man is next due for a work-related injury after Tony being crushed by a bull and David breaking his arm?

I wonder if the 65th surprise will be Ruth asking for a divorce?

Or Ruth running off with Mathew?

I too think Rob interfered with the order to make Helen doubt herself. I also felt sorry for her that she missed Henry opening his presents

He could have artificially inseminated her with donor sperm on that fatal 'date night' when he got her drunk. Maybe he himself is unable to father children.

Well that would rescue him from Pip's clutches!

I hope the sperm was human and not some Rob found at the back of a fridge at Berrow Farm

Definitely


It's this kind of stuff that makes me despair of Helen that little bit more. Why did she miss it Does she need Rob to wake her up nowadays. He may be an arch manipulator but she, very annoyingly, has zilch back bone and seems willing without any manipulation even to make things hard for herself

Anyone understand what is going on with Helen and Ian? They had words when he told her to get lost basically because she knew about Adam and Charlie but now she keeps trying to speak with him to ask him to be God Father to the new baby I believe Has Rob manipulated her into forgetting Ian wants nothing to do with her

Would that mean Helen gives birth to the minotaur?

I hope he takes an instant dislike to big brother Henry.

Good point there. She should be able to wake up at a normal time unless Rob is slipping her sleeping pills which I doubt he'd do when she's pregnant - I hope!

Which is coming close to my earlier theory about Rosemary's Baby. Anyone keep goats? Or are Linda Snell's llamas the closest?

Bleedin' Ruth still moaning, being cryptic, and saying how she "doesn't want things to go back to normal".

And they're all tiptoeing around her, the family-abandoning, Christmas-wrecking harpy.

Her idea of going back to grassland milking works fine in NZ where there are massive pastures, and fairly cheap. Difficult to do here where even out biggest farms are small in comparison.

Never mind, Jill thinks it can all be sorted out with "I think we could all do with some FRUITCAAAAAAKE!."

Quick Jill - man the casserole pump! To the vats!

Is it conceivable that Pip could raise the money to buy the Berrow Farm site and equipment, the Brookfield dairy herd and set up on her own?

It would be interesting to see how the modern dairy methods compare with Ruth's traditional, low input approach and they'd be in competition, sort of.

Hey an uber well-spotted plot development there (if it happens!).

Will Pip have the time though, preoccupied as she is with bottling the testicles of her suitors?

... And all this fracas has led up to.... Ruth going all 'Bridge Farm'.

It'll be organic trotters next and muesli.

David needs to grow a pair. From having a manipulative old bag as a mum, he then marries a manipulative old bag. Then we have Pip, who, if he doesn't watch out, will be picking his care hom soon.

Yes, David is a pussy. He really gets on my threepennies.

How he can be bothered about that whingeing old moo is beyond me. It would have served her right if he'd decided he'd prefer her to stay on the other side of the world.