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Why we don't trust the Emmerdale writers any more (Emmerdale 4-15 May 2026)
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Cain tries some good old-fashioned kidnapping, Dr Todd continues her reign of quite confusing evil, people end long-running careers at the drop of a hat, and we see more darts than we could ever have wished for. Simon and Lizzie look over the past couple of weeks of Emmerdale. And maybe we got a shout out?!
Do get in touch at dinglealltheway.pod@gmail.com - and thank you for all your engagement over the past year. Happy anniversary us!
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Introduction to Dingle All The Way
00:00:01
Speaker
Hello and welcome to Dingle All The Way. I'm Simon. I'm Lizzie. And we're covering the past two weeks of everyone's favourite Yorkshire village. um it's sure ah it's I guess it's been lots of stories just like carrying on it feels like in the past couple of weeks. I don't think we've got anything super new but um yeah i think so I've quite enjoyed it though. I've been enjoying it.
00:00:22
Speaker
Yeah, and it does feel like, as you say, nothing particularly new has come to the fore, but there have been enjoying there have been enjoyable progressions in all of them.
Bear's New Job and Emotional Challenges
00:00:33
Speaker
Although I did feel for you when Bear got the job at the place, what's it called?
00:00:40
Speaker
That shipping place. The haulage, whatever they do. you a this good um And now he's like getting triggered by being in the workforce again. And I just thought, Simon, you were so glad to finally see the plaque of that modern day slavery thing. and yet, just before it was all over, he's still being a slave in his heart.
00:00:59
Speaker
Isn't he? And look, i know it's more realistic um for it to take time, et cetera, et cetera. But also I'd love it to take time off screen. because set other things developing like e.g. Carrie and Jay's entire relationship is happening off screen like can't come on screen okayp so how how old is he like does he need a job surely he should be retired at this point I'm pretty sure he turned eight oh no that was Pollard but I think he's very he should be retired by now you'd think wouldn't you we'll simply never get to the bottom of what this company does because I know that they
00:01:34
Speaker
walk in and out of a room and they have got lorries. But what are they what are they doing? They put things in those lorries, but nobody knows what or why.
Ruby's Comic Relief and Enthusiasm
00:01:44
Speaker
chiefly dead bodies. but yeah and Something I loved, though, with the whole um getting people jobs thing was just Ruby...
00:01:52
Speaker
like suddenly springing into action and being like mandy's best mate and like she was completely unhinged and i adored it and she like kept doing impressions of caleb being like we're fully staffed and i just thought i love you that was so fun all of that stuff she the way she burst into the pub to announce it she did seem drunk and it was also just i mean it to make any sense in the context of the scene totally it was it was like It was like she'd read her lines and she was like, you know what, I'm going to have fun with this. I'm not going to read the rest of the scene.
00:02:26
Speaker
I don't know where it comes in anyone's story. because i think it so just simply don't care. And good for her, actually. so Yeah, I did think, I feel like we're seeing more of Beth Cordingly than of Ruby Milligan at this point. And I'm kind of up for that.
00:02:40
Speaker
Yeah, she's one of the most enthusiasts, I think that's fair to say. She also had some very funny lines um earlier when, I guess, the things she was trying to make up for with Mandy, where Mandy was like, i could cut your hair. And she said, would you take your Ferrari to a secondhand bike shop?
00:02:56
Speaker
Yeah, that was good. So good. um she had a meeting about the wine business, whatever that means. She literally described it as a meeting about the wine business. It's like, you work in the wine business, all your meetings are about the wine business. Absolutely about the wine business. As I said, I've got a meeting about the charity sector. What does that mean?
00:03:16
Speaker
that's your entire nine to five i think i did enjoy mandy orho or her or manpreet someone being like oh you're still doing that she's like yes i'm still doing that which did feel a bit like the voice of the listener of the viewer rather yeah it certainly felt like my voice of like oh that had definitely fallen off the radar i thought it was just that you accidentally ordered wine once but apparently and i do love that for her the speed
Mandy's Sudden Career Change
00:03:39
Speaker
with which mandy closed down her post business and got a new job she had the idea one morning about the afternoon she had ended the business she was working somewhere else presumably she'd because you have to like do all sorts of filing to close a business yeah she presumably has rent on this place for a while surely she'd be maybe trying to sell the lease if not the business itself
00:04:01
Speaker
Yeah, there are no future appointments. know she said it was like empty, but did it go so literally no one was coming ever again? And it was quite, yeah yeah, your observation about the emotional sort of turmoil of it all is quite good because, like, she was apparently so sort of down and ashamed about it that she hadn't told Paddy. And in the space of a morning, was weeping about it in the salon, told Paddy, and then was like, actually, I don't want this anymore and I feel great.
00:04:30
Speaker
And you're like... I think that's the kind of thing that maybe means you should hold fire for a minute and just work out what your emotions actually are and then work out what to do. Yeah, at least think about it. I feel this is a hasty decision that everyone is unquestioningly supporting her in. No one's like, are we sure that you're not just feeling a bit sad, re your husband maybe going to prison before you like make these big decisions?
00:04:57
Speaker
Yeah, and I think like I, so I work for a business broker's And quite often I'm writing documents for businesses that are like not doing super great and their owner wants to like sell on.
00:05:10
Speaker
And I usually do a section in the documents that are like, here's the growth potential, or like here's ways you could change the business to like make it better. There's always things you can do. i don't know if she's doing much marketing. Maybe she needs to change her opening hours. Maybe she could appear to new appeal to a new demographic. But it's not surprising. She's just been like not really putting much effort into it because I guess she has had a husband nearly go to prison.
00:05:34
Speaker
And then she's like, I'm not going to bother. Bye. Bye. And used I feel like it used to be an office. Was that where the office was for the haulage company before? Hmm. Because Jimmy used to run a whore-age company, possibly still does. Who knows? He does.
00:05:50
Speaker
He knows what he does day to day. just these sort of wanders around. But it did feel like maybe there must be a reason they've done this. suddenlyly Maybe it's just because they want Mandy in the office scenes up there, in the factory scenes rather. Maybe it's because a new business is coming. don't know.
00:06:05
Speaker
But there does seem to be an awful... Yeah, there's a lot of scope for people to go into whatever this factory is and if it is manual labor or like moving chiefly moving things from A to B are we sure that Mandy and Bear are the dream team for that like I don't I don't sexist or ageist lots of women and older people I'm sure could do this and maybe Bear is stronger than most old men that's fine he was a wrestler as we keep being told but Mandy doesn't scream to me like manual labor I mean she's got very nice nails famously so she can't really be hauling many boxes around No. And she doesn't seem like she'd be great at any sort of administrative task or task that involves going to your job. Yeah, I mean, she did kind of make a big song and dance about the fact she doesn't want to run a salon anymore, but then set up a new salon within the warehouse. that was and I've never seen anything more revolting than those, inverted commas, floral arrangements that she was putting everywhere. Yeah. like They were mostly feathers, but they were so horrible. It was a really tough watch, wasn't it?
00:07:11
Speaker
Grueling. Yeah, and everyone thinks that Jay is being very unreasonable he's like, what are you doing? But I think think he was for once the voice of reason in the scene. Yeah, it definitely felt to me like ah you should at least have asked permission for this rather than like, I'm just going to do this, by the way, and I don't care.
00:07:29
Speaker
Yeah.
Dr. Todd's Unexpected Retirement
00:07:30
Speaker
Speaking of like fast job turnarounds, dr tard retired with no notice and then was she my i wonder if she'd been in that meeting with hr and they were like we can either go forward with this or you can just please leave but yeah i think that's what it was that sort of like jump before you're pushed thing yeah i mean it's not great if they like their approach to bullying complaints are just why don't you get out to retire
00:08:01
Speaker
because that doesn't really have anyone. but um And she, for some reason, had like a little presentation in the waiting room. Like, if I was there waiting for an appointment, I didn't think I'd want to see like an impromptu speech by some of some medical staff who was leaving who possibly someone I had an appointment with that day. it's like, actually, I'm done. That's weird.
00:08:18
Speaker
I just think I can't be bothered mainly to go through this whole thing. You know, when it was like, oh she's leaving. Great. That's really nice. and now she's not leaving she's blackmailing charity she's still bullying jacob she's trying to go out with vanessa but just like kind of using her as an instrument for whatever she wants and you're like oh i don't want to watch anyone else ruin lots of other people's lives yeah i still feel more invested in this storyline than you than our usual sort of villain of the week just because think she's a more interesting character and i guess that there will be
00:08:54
Speaker
I feel like there will be a reason connected to Maya, as we've talked about, rather than just like she's randomly evil. Yeah. Obviously, Manpreet has not been central to the story in the way I had hoped, but... Yeah, that's true. That was your main aim for this whole thing, but... Yeah, some reason, instead of moving in with her ded dear friend, she moved in with someone who she didn't know who lived next door. Yeah, and then fell in love with her. Can you imagine if I moved to live next door to like my best friend? Yeah.
00:09:21
Speaker
because and i like i can't move on with you because ryan is living with you ryan who you have never to have met before but you do or since um there were there was something i did really like in this story which is jacob finally tells sarah and sarah just believes him and supports him it's like it's so so refreshing that they didn't go down the like oh but you lied about xyz or any of these other things but she was just I mean there was a bit of that I guess when she's like I didn't realize he'd been bursting into the toilets but um broadly like just supportive and I thought he did really well in those scenes when he was just so like devastated by like I can't cope with this yeah I think I was also a bit worried that there was going to a big back and forth especially when because didn't Vanessa have that conversation with Sarah where she was like don't you know that he was like bursting into the toilets and stuff
00:10:15
Speaker
and then that kind of never really went anywhere. And you think, I didn't want it to stand in the way of their relationship or in the way of her believing him. But I did think they would at least be like, so what was going on there? Yeah, maybe move that happened off screen. Or maybe it happened after not, I don't know. um I will say, like, if he is trying to avoid her or doesn't want to do you know add fuel to the fire of her allegations... I'd avoid just like constantly cornering her in private spaces. He's never not at her front door or in the looes with her.
00:10:50
Speaker
Like keeps on relentlessly dropping around flowers and you think not really necessary given the circumstances. Yeah. And then when he was trying to record her and she conveniently just like admitted everything. don't know if that's because she knew he was recording, but either way, like considering before that she had never admitted anything.
00:11:07
Speaker
i mean, I have very, I like, everyone enjoys popping balloons was very menacing in a way that quite appreciated well do think she's got a lot more menacing since leaving the hospital she's just her fully unhinged self and it's just like i will crush you and i don't care yeah um i think it was in that phone scene there's a line that i thought you might have taken to heart when she said to him when were you born the ninety s um yeah i feel like he was probably born in the 2000s again because he might have been born in the 90s but it'd be very late ninety s like i didn't really know what she meant by that wasn't meant to be like wow you're so old for a medical student i was thinking it was like gosh you're so young but i don't know because either way it's like ninety s doesn't feel either old or young at this point it's just you it's we're just people that exist
00:11:59
Speaker
Because she said, oh, when we were born? Like yesterday. Sure, a common expression and relevant sort of to the thing. But when were you in the 90s? Yeah, probably was born in the 90s. Well, let's find out when Joe Warren Plant was born. think he was probably born in like 2002. That's right.
00:12:14
Speaker
He was born in 2002. My gosh. Can you imagine how clever I am? Yeah, you're totally obsessed with Warren Plant, I've learned on this this school. I'm not stalking him, just for the record. Guess his birthday um The 19th of June. It's the 12th of April, but wouldn't have been great if you were right? It would have quite exciting, but I think i would never have beaten the allegations. No, it's probably for the best.
00:12:43
Speaker
um Yeah, so do who knows what that line meant, but I enjoyed hearing it nonetheless. It's quite strange, but... the The worst line I've heard in this is when Vanessa said... your mum would be ashamed of you. I believe it. ah And then wasn't it like kind of the next day or something where she turned up and was like, never mind, your mum would be proud of you. Or maybe it was Kerry who said that. But it did feel quite like, oh you can't just say that and expect it to make up for it.
00:13:13
Speaker
That was so chill. was like, you've known this boy since he was like eight or something. You've been known this woman for a week. yeah why Why don't you believe him? a or even if you don't believe him,
00:13:26
Speaker
like don't say your mum would be ashamed of you to someone whose mum died a year ago it's so bad it's unforgivable but my big worry is that i spend all the my time in these storylines just thinking like it's okay because the truth will come out and they'll get their retribution and everyone will be like wow you were right all along but do you know what still hasn't been resolved ah surry hurry And so now I don't trust the Emmerdale writers to give closure where it's needed because Mac has still been blamed for the slurry.
00:13:57
Speaker
So I just don't know whether Jacob will ever fully be sort of like forgiven by the village for his perceived crimes. Yeah, because I really think often these things, we do get like some sort of half-hearted, half-seen of them being like, oh, turns out you were right all the along.
00:14:13
Speaker
Never mind. Yeah. Or it becomes really fixated on one small point, like it'll all be about her upsetting Vanessa rather than about what she's done to Jacob or something. but Yeah, she'll do something small and then everyone will be like, that was the final straw. Yeah, exactly. And so now she's blackmailing charity for £100,000, which...
Charity's Blackmail Dilemma
00:14:35
Speaker
she doesn't have. Just because you own half of a pub doesn't mean that the turnover or indeed the profit is going to even like touch the sides.
00:14:44
Speaker
And I don't wants her to sell it, because you talk about being a seller's market, but how does she expect her to sell the pub without any of her family noticing? ah Again, I work for business brokers. I'm sure we can make it work, but... It be bit awkward if they're just like, oh, by the way, we can't live here anymore on account of someone else owning it. But um just don't worry about it.
00:15:03
Speaker
yeah It'll all come out in the wash, okay? Actually, haven't said that Cherry doesn't live there. Chaz lives there, but even so. More awkward for Chaz. I guess she could sell her half.
00:15:14
Speaker
But to whom? but And for why? yeah maybe she would tell her share in the pub to like Bob or something because he is always there. And who knows what his personal finances are? There's no way of knowing.
00:15:24
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, Bob is really just a concept more than a person, I think. Yeah, he did also say that he would never retire, which is an anecdote that no one needs to hear at a retirement party. The actor Bob?
00:15:40
Speaker
Bob said this in character. I mean, I'm sure the actor won't either. But it's like, well, i understand weren't retired, Bob, but what exactly is your profession? You just sort of turn up occasionally in the pub, turn up in the shop. thought in the shop, but he does seem to work mostly in the pub now.
00:15:54
Speaker
Not a shop, cafe, sorry, cafe. um It was at the B&B, I thought. Oh, yeah that's right. He used to be in the in the um in the cafe under Brenda, but he's gone to yeah gone to the B&B now. who's He running the B&B because Bob's always at the pub.
00:16:06
Speaker
Does the B&B still exist? Does it still exist? Would anyone ever say that? Maybe that's why Mandy's... clientele have dried up everyone was doing a lovely b&b horrendous makeover bargain package it's almost definitely what was happening um yeah who else used to bernice used to be at the b&b i don't know who owns the b&b maybe jimmy maybe that's what he does now i don't know i think jimmy's just like doing the cafe with nicole nicola oh where did that go from does she in that it's very confusing
00:16:37
Speaker
um while we're talking about the pub can we talk about the enormous amount of darts that we've had to watch for the last week it's really become quite dart centric and i to the point where i think we very hard to enjoy a drink or meal at the pub without people throwing darts near your head you would just get stabbed in the eye whether you wanted it or not exactly and that's um a guarantee that's a wolfpack guarantee yeah um something fun was Claudette's um customized darts with a little Christian fish on them yes that was a lovely touch and I could see she would have got deeply into darts at some point because she might well have helped out at some like young man's club in London at some point it seems like have I yeah she was probably part of like a Mennonite center wasn't going where I was going but yeah no probably because I can see
00:17:26
Speaker
While she is horrible to everyone most of the time, I can see that she would put her heart fully into like outreach, like dartsby darts-based outreach. Darts-based outreach. Outreach with a spike.
00:17:39
Speaker
um And yeah, I love that she's good at it. I love that Vanessa's bad at it. They've made the most of what is a totally unnecessary storyline. Lewis coming up some fanciful tale about how he's brilliant for no reason.
00:17:53
Speaker
Yeah, we love that. Yeah, I think the darts was a bit of light entertainment that we all needed, even though i was a bit like, is this going anywhere? And then realised it wasn't. Once I realised it wasn't, I was like, that's just nice that this is a storyline in and of itself, rather than like it's teeing up something random later. That's true, yeah. The last thing we need is it to become about like someone actually going into professional darts or yeah or like someone gets hit in the head with a dart and then it becomes an insurance claim against the pub and then someone blackmails them you know you can see that happening because yes we're rolling and rolling but we don't want that no um yeah so part of lewis claiming briefly the hulu darts champion did involve vinnie declaring his love for him which i don't think we've seen them together on screen except them getting together definite when they were trying to engineer cammy and bell and now they're in love so yeah all they did was look at a sheep and kiss cammy and bell and then sit in the pub and declare their love for each other which don't get me wrong i oh they also went on a date with mandy there that's right so they've done all the big milestones
00:18:57
Speaker
it is quite an unusual one like Maybe we could see more of them and obviously more of Belle and Cammy and less of Belle looking sad. Maybe. Yeah, just... Oh yeah, I was going to say less of everything else, but actually i'd say I'm enjoying the majority of the storylines at the moment, which is big.
00:19:17
Speaker
Yeah. I would like um of them to be wrapped up sooner than I know they're going to be, e.g. the Dr. Todd thing. But I'm like, on the face of I am enjoying it. Yeah, and I loved Nicola...
00:19:29
Speaker
being really angry were playing dance on her birthday that was a lovely touch and that was quite on brand yeah um what other stories have you got going on well we've got dawn has a revenge plan so true that's oh yeah because there was a big like it was at the end of an episode wasn't it when it was like i've got the money in my account and i'm gonna buy the salon and it was like wow theme tune plays and then it's been a few days and we haven't heard anything and just a vow she was playing wasn't she yeah yeah take a vow you're right um and i did think you know she played him well and he's
00:20:10
Speaker
surprisingly stupid about these sorts of things no i think it's because he's in love he's very astute and like wily when it comes to other people but he like dawn could do anything and he would just yeah and you can see she's struggling when she's like macking on with him when um oh i hate that i wish you hadn't used that oh i'm bringing it back um she wouldn't
00:20:37
Speaker
uh yeah she's doing lots of over-the-shoulder anxious acting which is a soap staple of course um i did enjoy joe saying you lucas clemmy whatever the other one's name is i know it was a textbook uh example of like trying to have an emotional heart-to-heart conversation and someone who's not in the right place for that and you just think like can you stop making jokes and just like actually care about me Oh, it's just what it means to be in a relationship with a British person, I assume. Yeah, maybe.
00:21:08
Speaker
Yeah. um Yeah. And I am intrigued to see where she goes. I feel like she's going to have the like the regrets of like, no, I do love him. i actually want to stop this, but I can't because it's snowballing now. Because Moira is like, once it starts, it can't stop. Although so far, what seems to have started is him investing in her business, which I feel like could stop. Yeah.
Dawn's Revenge Plan and Family Dynamics
00:21:29
Speaker
Yeah, probably because I've got any point, but who's to say? What's the rest of the plan? I don't know. Yeah. Something I did think was quite interesting was that she came down incredibly hard on Lucas for telling Billy that um they were having another baby. And she was like, can't believe you tell Billy. But like that poor little boy's frame of reference has been like, go upstairs and tell your sister that you were we're pregnant. Like he probably he just thinks it's his gospel to share. that' what we do. My mom is pregnant and the world must know. Like you can't set that expectation and then take it away from him.
00:22:03
Speaker
Yeah. And in his defense, like telling his dad was probably, make or stepdad or whatever he is, makes more sense than like telling the cleaner. Like I think this- important news yeah oh but it was nice to see billy again because he hasn't really had anything going on for a while even if he he was only there for like a little bit and i did think when dawn was being like i do just promise that my kids are not going to be like playing second file fiddle to the tates like you can trust me with this obviously she was saying that because she knows she's going to take them all away and run
00:22:39
Speaker
I was like, maybe she would go back to Billy. And in some ways, I'm like, I hope Billy wouldn't take her back. In other ways, I'm like, I want to see Billy on my screen. So maybe that'd be a way that he could stay on screen. Although I guess if Dawn is leaving, then... Maybe they'll both leave together. No! Because, I mean, I would also love to see more of him. But if she's saying like, don't worry, I'll always look put the kids first. But then there's also going to be like, FYI, I'm fleeing the village with them and you'll never see them again. That just... does lets feel difficult so i'd rather he went with them and got spend time with his kids i mean i'd rather they gave him a story but that's never gonna happen his story seems to be like leaving yeah so well it'd be nice if they all left together if they are leaving rather than what would be really annoying is if she leaves and then he just like leaves for unrelated reasons two months later or something yeah because they could have tied it up nicely and given those kids a better life but yeah
00:23:31
Speaker
Oh, and I suppose there is potential for the children to come back in sort of 10 years when they're teenagers or young adults and have their own storylines and stuff. That's true, because it does feel like Jay's not going anywhere. It does feel they want to bolster the Tate family. Yeah. And I'd see there's more Tates coming at some point and another Sugden coming, or at least they said these executive producers like someone else for the Tate and Sugden units or family, so not necessarily actual Tates or Sugdens, but maybe...
00:23:57
Speaker
something to bolster them um obviously they've lent into bringing grain back with mixed success but um yeah did you see they're bringing back um oh my word i've forgotten her name oh patsy kent yeah what was the yeah what was the say is it sadie yeah it my time he was like going out with jimmy when some of the rob ron stuff was happening because i remember seeing that in the rob ron playlist Oh, no, it won't have been because she shed left long before that.
00:24:29
Speaker
Oh, who am I thinking of? Like little one woman who was like quite shallow and had had a boob job. and Oh, yeah. Adele Silvers is the actor's name. I'm trying to think. She she came back and then Jimmy got amnesia. Was it that story? Maybe. she She hit him with a torch. well I thought it was her that was coming back and i was quite excited. So I was like, you're unhinged and I can't wait to see you and on screen. But it's not her.
00:24:52
Speaker
Oh, she was fun. Interesting cover. Yeah, she, I think, is the mother of one of the children that's running around at the roost the moment. ah Kelly Windsor. Yeah, that's who that was. Oh, I wanted it to be her.
00:25:04
Speaker
Yeah, that would have been great. Of course, she was there for a long time. um I i'm judging from the fan reaction. People are very excited that Sadie's coming back. So i I guess it could be fun, but I don't.
00:25:15
Speaker
I know she had relationship with Jimmy and Kane different times. Gosh, how would that be then? I don't know why she would come back or how that would fit into anything, but maybe we she'll marry Graham. Who knows?
00:25:29
Speaker
That could be nice. And then they could both kill him. yeah It does seem like, oh, sorry. um Like Dr. Todd is um very keen to get murdered. So it's wondering if she'll get murdered because when you say to someone, i need a hundred thousand pounds, it's a surefire way to be murdered.
00:25:45
Speaker
Yeah. It's basically asking for it at that stage. So we've not had murder for you know a good couple of months. We are Ron. Speaking of like complex plots that finally... like Some people know stuff and some people don't. Kane now knows about Robert and Joe. and like This whole like sprawling Joe, Moira, revenge, whatever. Who knows what, who knows when, what they're go to do about it. It's quite hard to keep top of it all, isn't
00:26:16
Speaker
Yeah, my impression is that it's all just sort of come out in the wash. Yeah, I couldn't work out if So Cain, yeah, attacks Robert, or Sam attacks Robert with Cain. Then he tells her about Vic. And then Cain maybe forgives him at the end. Because when they went into hospital, he's like, this isn't over. And at the end, he was like, take care, bye. I think he had a chat with Aaron. And Aaron was like, you would do the same for your family, you know. And then Cain was like, oh, to be fair, I would. And then it's just like...
00:26:45
Speaker
okay, great. Which doesn't feel very Kane. It was, don't get me wrong, lovely. me Glad that it happened. Refreshing for me personally. But I don't feel like it's very Kane. No, it doesn't feel very Kane because I mean, a lot of the time he does things that, or he's like, he's he's angry with people who are doing things that he would do in a heartbeat.
00:27:05
Speaker
so i don't know and what yeah but but but it did feel a bit like one of those okay we've moved on moments in a soap hot line actually needs to end now so we're just gonna call it one yeah but someone's burning the farm down say who yeah who do we think that is i thought maybe joe well was wondering if it was sam just hadn't picked up what they were meant to be doing next so he's like yeah maybe it does feel quite sam coded yeah but who else would do it like ross for no reason maybe yeah Maybe someone's coming back.
00:27:38
Speaker
mean It might be Joe, but why would Joe... Because Joe owns the farm, so why would he burn it? Wait for insurance or something. Unless it would be like Kyle or something, if he had like overheard stuff. that That's a good shout. does feel like something... Because, he yeah, we we're getting lots of like him not coping stuff going on.
00:27:57
Speaker
I think maybe he's like... He's probably overheard things that are going on and he's like, I have to do something about this. Yeah, Kyle and Isaac, particularly Isaac, pretend continue to be absolutely brilliant in the story. Honestly, so good. I love them both. And they're so cute. And I loved that moment when um like Kyle bought Isaac a magazine and was like, I think you just need a distraction. was like, oh, you're so nice. I love that.
00:28:23
Speaker
Those actors are both so good. Yeah, i did I was slightly aggrieved in today's episode when they were fighting over the last piece of pizza and Isaac was like, is mine and then immediately left it on his plate. It's like, eat pizza, Isaac.
00:28:37
Speaker
It's very stone cold at this moment. Yeah. So it was... slightly odd when they leading up to Cain finding out when he referred to Robert as maid and i'm like I can't imagine Cain has ever called Robert maid before like why are you building up this friendship to fall apart yeah it's really true like even before any of this happened they were never friendly he always resented him he was like I never trusted you didn't he like previously beat him almost to death in a warehouse before oh of course he did it's like a home from home for him yeah it's part of his annual routine yeah
00:29:13
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yeah it's sign of spring like the doubts are out yeah i mean it's yet another reason why this farm surely had no estate agent values like it's always being set fire to like who's insuring that place what insurance company is like sure we'll do that for you Yeah, it's constantly being vandalised or arsoned or they're like there's just criminal activity running through its veins. Running through its veins.
00:29:46
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Yeah, I mean, all being covered in slurry, of course. that But I guess the insurance company didn't cover that, so that's something. And it doesn't appear to have any livestock. That's true. Something I loved, and i am I wrong in thinking it's a shout out to
Podcast Easter Egg: Fixing the Fence
00:30:00
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the podcast? Maybe i am.
00:30:02
Speaker
About this horrible new non-existent dingle farm. Kane said to Mario that they had to and fix the backfield.
00:30:10
Speaker
I heard that and I was like, surely they're listening. I think at least one writer who wrote that episode is listening and put that in for us. I think so. I literally heard it and I was like, stop. they said and like And she was literally like, did you manage to have time to look at the fence in the top field?
00:30:29
Speaker
And like, they don't even have fields. So what are they referring to? It was so good. I can't believe that I didn't say that as like the first thing in this episode because that tickled me so much. And it didn't really think like, I think surely someone's listening to us.
00:30:44
Speaker
If you're a writer named out and you put in for us, let us know dinglealltheway.pod at gmail.com. We want to know if it's actually from ours. Thanks so much. Oh my gosh.
00:30:55
Speaker
That was a big moment. yeah and and We did have a pretty solid end to the um Bear Paddy Dylan ongoing saga this time, I hope. It was, again, one of those put a button on it scenes where they stood by Enya's grave and just they're like in a I would say quite uncharacteristic way summarized the state of modern slavery in the country it was quite weird and they were also kind of it would appear recording it in a wind tunnel there were times they were going to be pushed over by the wind and you could barely hear what they were saying and I think they're just like that's our best take and it was kind of atmospheric so we'll just go with it but Bear was just there like they're all out there they're in our car washes they're in our nail salons all the while just like see yeah it's like who are you talking to why is elicc saying it like this yeah oh gosh i mean it might have been enough to sustain the nail salon in it in yeah for mandy if she'd considered using slave labor ah so she said oh why didn't you think that she could have got bear in it simmo could have done it yeah and what was the point with simmo they finally convinced him to come forward and it was like yay victory he sabotaged it and it was like oh no so sad and then it didn't make any difference at all no they were like the lawyer was like as it turns out no one even listened to that so it's you know what it turns out none of us care about what you think
00:32:25
Speaker
uh i did think it was good bait and switch um writing when when paddy was like one of us didn't get let off and it's him and dylan then it pans around and bear is there because i think that was leading us i think that was in prison but yeah and then it's a suspended sentence which i did have to google because i was like what does that even mean but it essentially means nothing Yeah, it's a classic soap trope. So I've seen a few suspended sentences in my time when they they sort of act like they've got off, even though they do have a criminal record and it presumably would hugely devastate their lives in the future. but But it's like, this is a thing where we don't ever have to think about it again. Because now if he commits another crime, he's to prison. but Really?
00:33:04
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but he's paddy, so like he won't, surely? Yeah, vets board are like, honestly, we don't care. Keep vetting and whatever. who That was nice that they came to that conclusion, I guess. Mandy offered to go with him to this meeting, which I think they would have been horrified by.
00:33:20
Speaker
It really would have the cat amongst the pigeons in quite an unhelpful way. Yeah, imagine if you were at some sort of tribunal and the wife is just there being like, it's a lovely guy, he's really trying to start it. Like, especially when she is caked in as much makeup as she is, I think it would bring whatever you were saying into disrepute. Yeah, I'm wearing like eight different types of animal print at once. Yeah, I think it's best that she stays out of these things. And I say that with love.
00:33:45
Speaker
Oh, we love her. um I do find that she she's never issued a subtle line in her life, but a assistant character, I think. She's 0-100 in any direction.
00:33:56
Speaker
And we love her for it. And we love her for it. um This is so unrelated, but I wanted to get it in here somewhere. it It's honestly got nothing to the show, but I feel like people need to know.
Simon's Literary Influence
00:34:06
Speaker
it that Nigella Lawson started following me on Blue Sky yesterday.
00:34:11
Speaker
Blue Sky? What? It's like fake Twitter. Oh, that's cute. um What do you tweet about books? I do. And I didn't even follow her, but um I do now because, you know got to support the fans. You are good like that.
00:34:26
Speaker
She quite tweeted, blue skyed or whatever, um a review I did of a novel by Alice Thomas Ellis. And she was like, loved this book and loved your review sort of vibe. Oh, Simon, you're famous. Nigella and me go way back to yesterday, but it's great. I always forget that outside of this very small podcast with like little to no interest in it.
00:34:50
Speaker
You actually have quite a successful podcast and like a fairly well-known in literary circles. And then we're just here like watching Emmerdale and chatting. Nobody made us do this. No one no one actually asked or wanted it. But um yeah, you can you can find me stuckinabook.com if you want to find my book stuff, to your books and my podcast. but ah But I will say this is my favourite podcast. That's so nice. Yeah, to be fair, we both have kind of like more respectable things like i run a pottery business and not really successfully but that is my main thing so but but but based more time on this than that we both have things that we're good at and respected for and yet here we are making ourselves watch emerald
00:35:39
Speaker
Nobody wanted this but us. And sometimes even we don't want this, but it's a cross to bear. I do love it. I love it so much. But I also do think like there are three, four million people who watch Everdale. Why aren't more of them listening to this podcast? I don't think many Everdale viewers know what a podcast is.
00:35:55
Speaker
yeah but mean don't go wrong we've got a lovely loyal audience um yeah we love you we love you and we're gonna keep doing this oh my gosh it's our anniversary episode that's maybe that's why we're having like a crisis one year since we uh it was the 18th of may james got in touch that's the exact date yeah um should we take some time to reflect yeah let's just be in silence for 10 to 12 minutes and then we'll just do farming content and it'll be done oh I've enjoyed it so we're going to keep doing it it it's not like a sort of farewell but like it's so fun and it's so silly yeah I quite enjoy having this as an aspect of my personality that I keep under wraps and then surprise people with like it was few months into my job when I was like oh yeah like
00:36:41
Speaker
I watch Emmerdale and people were like, lol, no you don't. I was like, I watch it so much that I have a podcast about it. And it's just, it's a great one to whip out the back pocket. good. I've had a lot of fun doing it. I love the people who we feel like we know now through it, i.e. like James Ellis and like the Rob Ron podcast people. Rachel. Rachel Groutman, we adore. um The Conversation Street people. Like i one year ago, never thought that my life would have been enriched as much.
00:37:11
Speaker
by doing a silly little podcast with you and getting to know all of these great people. But it's been so fun. Yeah. or On the Home to the Farm Facebook group, that's fun as well. Yeah, it's great. And um I think it's less of a surprise to my friends and family, given that I've made loving neighbours part of my personality for so long. But it's just like another one. And quite often at people who are like, oh, you love EastEnders, don't you? Like, no, at least learn the right soap. That's been exciting. Yeah. um i've yet to convince many my friends to listen to this podcast but you know here it is whereas kind of a weird number of my friends do listen to the occasional episode just because they're like oh it's just lizzie and her friend simon being silly my friend marley loves her so you know how i love marley now that i've met her at your 40th yeah
00:37:57
Speaker
yeah So yeah, we're going to keep going. We've seen off other Emmerdale podcasts in our time and time. I don't know if that's true.
00:38:08
Speaker
No, I think you're right. but ah But when we go to the tour, that's when that's when we move into the into the big leagues, when we get it get the Emmerdale cast invested. you You know as well as I do, we're not going to have the gumption to do that. We're just to be at the back of the tour thing. like i like emmerdale yeah we're gonna go home we're gonna be like maybe next time we'll go back next year um my plan was and currently is to get whichever guest for me to record quick voice note of like welcome to jingle the way but yeah that be cute
00:38:46
Speaker
It really depends who it is. Because if you get like, if it's like Charlotte Bellamy, I'd happily ask her. But if it's like Jeff Hoardley, yeah, she's obsessed. She did not reference Dingle the Way when I mentioned it in another in the cameo that I requested.
00:39:01
Speaker
But she does love me. I just think Jeff Hoardley is a treasure. He is a sweetheart. I think I just... Yeah, but if it's like... Oh, gosh, if it's like, obviously, Russell, can we We know that I won't be able to say a word. You will be weeping, unfortunately, but will have to just push forward.
00:39:15
Speaker
if Yeah. Are we going to go in together when we meet them? Are we going do... yeah, go in together, yeah. And does that mean... Because presumably they allocate a certain number, at certain amount of time per person. I don't want to only have half of our allotted time. Yeah.
00:39:33
Speaker
I don't want to go in on my own. of you I also don't want to go in on my own Can I just feel that person who's like, no, we've not had enough time. I'm not leaving. You can't kick us out yet. There's two of us in here.
00:39:47
Speaker
this means too much. It's just like Lewis there being like, what's going on? Unless it is Graham, in which case just wave through the door and then i'll be on my way. If it's Beth Cordingly, she might end up getting a restraining order against me. I love her so much.
00:40:02
Speaker
I want it to be Dawn, so she'll be like, oh, it's you from the shop. I already know you.
00:40:10
Speaker
dear Oh, I think I'm down to strays. do you have anything more? Well, I didn't make any notes on any of it, so i can't remember. you have any strays you can make out of?
00:40:22
Speaker
Has anything else happened, plotline-wise? Nothing I read a note about, but sometimes you do just they admit huge stories because we're not interested in them. And I think we probably have done, but ah I don't remember any strays other than, oh, wait, um there was when Bear was sort of forced to do a lot of work on the allotment, which felt like slavery but again. And I remember thinking, like, surely this is triggering for him, but weirdly he's taking to it.
00:40:48
Speaker
Yeah. And it was also the rainiest day in the world. And I thought, I bet the actors were gutted about this, but it did actually work very well for the scene itself of like, just you have to work outside in the rain the whole time.
00:41:01
Speaker
Yeah, one of the things I noticed around that scene was the most fake-looking asparagus I've ever seen. Just like someone just bought some, but bought a lot of it. mean, asparagus is expensive. it was about 50 quid worth of asparagus in that bed that they just like jammed in at random. And look, I don't know how asparagus grows, but I'm pretty sure it's not like that.
00:41:18
Speaker
No, it is. I found out this week. I was reading the Waitrose Food magazine, Shoot Me. And there's a picture of just like sprigs of asparagus. Like they look like they've just been rammed in the soil and it threw me. And I sent a photo to a lot of my friends like, guys, this is how asparagus grows. Can you even believe it? Because I thought asparagus just had like a central stem and then the bits we eat are the bits coming off the stem. But no, you were eating the whole thing. They all one. wow i wish had to take it back the art department were on it but i mean i don't know normally wave around in the wind that much but it did maybe like maybe it was completely accurate and i should know better because i come from the vale of use i'm famous for its asparagus so stop telling people that you're a northerner that you're from a farming background you're from all of these like listen to yourself
00:42:05
Speaker
The Vale of Evesham is in Worcestershire. That is actually where I grew up. Okay, fine. I'm so used to thinking, like, I'm actually from Liverpool and I'm actually, ah grew up in the farms. And you're like... that Both those things are true. I'm actually working class.
00:42:24
Speaker
What you don't realise about me is that I'm salt of the earth. yeah I'd say you're salt of the earth. I'd say you're overqualified for everything you've ever done. But I am from the north, I'm from Merseyside, and I didn't grow up on a farm, but I did grow up in a small village. And my granddad was a farm labourer, is why we called him Granddad Tractor. That's a nice touch.
00:42:48
Speaker
Yeah. I've never been near an asparagus field, clearly, though. So so I must been near them. Wick, I believe, i grew near Pershaw, couldn't move for the stuff. But...
00:42:59
Speaker
You can't move for Spargus and Wick. yeah but If you take nothing else from the podcast, to take that. but um I also wanted to note that Cami wants extra hours at the garage, which is encouraging for him moving to the village.
00:43:12
Speaker
so good, isn't it? I'm just obsessed with Cammy as a concept. I imagine if he ever got a story or if he ever saw him. like Imagine if he ever got the airtime he so clearly deserves. He's just like holding the village together in quite an understated, well, not necessarily understated, but definitely under-recognised way. And you think you're doing the most and I love you. Yeah. Well, you know what I miss is his little story of when he was trying to defend Vinny against the bully and admittedly did it terribly, but I loved it.
00:43:42
Speaker
Yeah, it was sweet. It was a sweet touch. And now that i have a good friend who is a Bradford boy, you know, i just feel like I get Cammy. a whole new way.
00:43:54
Speaker
sorry in a hony way Yeah, exactly. In a whole life. ah But we haven't promised a story about his family later in the year, but sometimes you get the cast being like, oh, we've got a big story coming up, and then it's something that happens for like three seconds once, and then obviously no one's informed them that it's not a storyline.
00:44:13
Speaker
Yeah, that's a shame. Maybe he'll just speak to his mum on the phone and that'll be it. Yeah. yeah yeah Who could he move in with? We've probably talked about that before. thought he already lived in that house of boys. No, you keep thinking that, but he doesn't. Oh, well he should live in there.
00:44:29
Speaker
He commutes from Bradford. needs to move in somewhere else. And that is quite a classic Bradford move. I believe you. have I have been to Bradford once and it was terrifying. I should qualify that with I was waiting for my brother in the car outside the football ground when like a full football ground worth of people flowed down the road and it felt like I was going to be killed.
00:44:54
Speaker
Yeah, I too would be terrified. and the one that started kicking someone else's car because they'd either park too close or they like almost hit something, I don't But I was there being like, please, I just want to leave. I've just spent a lovely afternoon in the cafe reading Deidre Madden's Molly Fox's Birthday. big recommend.
00:45:10
Speaker
I just think if you had said that to the football outs, it might have turned even more sour. It's like, can I get your hot takes on Dear Drew Madden, please?
00:45:21
Speaker
Please, I know you have opinions. Oh, dear. It's a good book. Anyway, um i Bob gave Vanessa relationship advice. can you imagine anyone in the world you're less likely to take relationship advice from them Bob? Like, truly not.
00:45:38
Speaker
Yeah, he's been single for a while, hasn't he? Yeah. Yeah, didn't he briefly, like, oh, he slept with Bernice when she came back for Gabby and Vinny's wedding. Yeah, that's right. he was with Wendy for a while, but, know, then she... Oh, it was Wendy. Wendy was that one who had to leave because she was, like, blackmailing Ella or something.
00:45:54
Speaker
Oh, the nurse. Yeah. Yeah, I'd forgotten about that. Yeah, she didn't do very much. She was she she brought in because her two sons were relatively big characters, but then they left and she just hung around for a bit.
00:46:08
Speaker
There is quite a high turnover, isn't there? When you think about the fact, like, we haven't been doing this podcast for that long, brackets, exactly a year. um And there's been so many people who've left and quite a few people who've come in. Is it normally like this?
00:46:23
Speaker
I guess so. I think there's been, a like, there was a bit of an axing spree, ah I guess, just before we started recording the whole limousine thing. But, yeah. but Yeah, you do tend to get like people who stay there for 100 years and then people who come for like one or two years. Yeah.
00:46:40
Speaker
And I guess everyone's hoping they'll get to the second character to the first category. rather like I just need to get through a bit of ah a quiet period into classic character. and then But then Layla would have been there for forever and she would still act. Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:53
Speaker
No one's safe, I guess, other than like, awkwardly. Presumably. Can you imagine? um Charity read Moses' little project about her being a but giving birth. I thought it was quite sweet.
00:47:07
Speaker
No but then I couldn't really understand what it motivated her to do because it was like yeah I really do need to put my family first and I thought that meant I will tell them the truth about their lineage but it didn't it meant I will steal money from them so that I can continue to lie. Yeah where did she get this money from was she like stealing Noah's tools or something?
00:47:28
Speaker
I thought it was that Ryan asked her to go pay that money into the bank and she like forged a pacece paying insolent, but maybe she didn't. Oh, that's right. I was sort of doing something else while I was watching the episode. because she She seemed to be like trying to work out how valuable his tools were to to steal or something, but then gave up on that. Yeah, I think she gave up on that and it was she was on a bit of hiding to nothing with it.
00:47:48
Speaker
Yeah, awkward. but yeah i mean sure i mean obviously it's going to come out at some point i sort of assumed it would be relatively soon but maybe it won't yeah i have no idea i want it to be soon but what i did like about that scene is that often people read letters aloud for no reason so at least they framed it like she's reading it to baby leila it's like okay that does make at least more sense than usual in these situations Yeah, true.
00:48:17
Speaker
And I don't think there's anything worse than when you have like just the non-diegetic voice of like someone just like reading it, but it's like overlaid over a montage. you like Oh yeah, horrendous. reading is that You can hear their voice. There's something that I think Hollyoaks still do this, but neighbours did it for a while when they're like reading things, particularly with some text message, it'll just appear on screen above their head. And that was that was a hard time as well. Yeah, that sounds really tough. Sorry you had to go through that. Yeah, i appreciate you saying that. um Imagine if it just be like handwriting scrolling behind her on screen. would feel quite medieval in a way. That would be nice. um I caught a clip of her on this morning or Good Morning Britain or something, Emmer Atkins, and she was talking about the storyline. But she also mentioned, and I have to go find this, that apparently her giving birth was on Gogglebox.
00:49:09
Speaker
no way and she was like everyone was just like she's too old have a baby it was really hard to watch oh that's really sad yeah and look she is too old to have a baby but you know hey geriatric mothers are still mothers well yeah i suppose she's more modern than anyone realizes but you are geriatric at 35 and she's what 50 it's Gosh, when I've got two years to not be a geriatric mother, that's a bit troubling. There's nothing wrong with being a geriatric mother. Well, I just said that and now I'm being forced to believe my own files. I never thought that I would.
00:49:48
Speaker
Oh my gosh. Yes, my friend Lorna had a baby. couple years ago and she would have been i guess 37 by then she's like yeah the people do use that term far too often that is crazy it's like let's have a bit of rebranding yeah i think we should rebrand it to like i don't know latter day mothers That's so much worse. and i like do i need a name Do we need a name for it at all? Can they not just like, oh, since you're over 35, there are additional risks. We'd have to be like, oh, because you're an ancient mother. Because you're because you're decrepit. Because you're on death's door, we're going to have do some of this first.
00:50:27
Speaker
You might not last yet to the end of your pregnancy just by natural causes, so need to have some backup plans.
00:50:35
Speaker
Oh, my God. Because you're withering, i think it's... You seem to rumbling, actually. Yeah, I mean, we joke, but I think had the word geriatric not be already been used in that context, that would sound worse than anything we're coming up with. Yeah, As you as a senile mother, it's like... like hey oh dear. um My final thing, I don't know if you saw this on Emendale's Instagram channels, is that Lauren Orton, who plays Carrie, has been teaching Michael
Lauren Orton's Sign Language Lesson
00:51:08
Speaker
Pah, a.k.a. Ross, some sign language. i did see that and i was gonna send it to you actually because i know you're learning sign language and then i totally thought yeah they did three lessons he was in full scar makeup but as himself so that was that was quite disconcerting um because yeah lauren orton's got two children who have usher syndrome which includes um deafness amongst many different symptoms so they're doing this as sort of awareness raising and uh
00:51:34
Speaker
I really enjoyed it. I mean, I knew the things, so was pleased about that. um And he's a little test at the end. And he was actually doing some of the mistakes that I do. so it's like, oh, yeah, I also forget to mouth the word whilst I'm doing my actions because thinking of too many things. You have much in common. That's crazy. Oh, my gosh. If it is him, I'll just get Gritman's sign language when we get to the tour. ah That would be so sweet. I mean, he I'm sorry to say probably won't remember anything of it and he'll just be like, a okay, okay.
00:52:01
Speaker
cool yeah i mean if it is lauren orton i could greet her in sign language but then she might reply fluently and i just feel like oh we have reached the end of what i can do i'm afraid to yeah and she might also just assume that you're deaf and then you end up sort of trapped in a awkward situation where i could be a translator i suppose which is like why are you asking me to do a voice note you really can't possibly hear it it was early it's great for you that you have a podcast but talk me throughout that work yeah so these are all obstacles strewn on my path but um
00:52:35
Speaker
Oh dear. I bet there are some really good podcasts by deaf people and I'd love to hear them actually. I'm sure there are. Yeah, there's definitely lots of good people on Instagram but what so does slightly annoy me is that most the ones they get recommended are American Sign Language which is totally different. Not useful to me.
00:52:52
Speaker
What we need. Yeah. Well, should we do a little random name generator? yeah do it. Today we're going to say, what do we think? Oh, please fix the errors highlighted above. I realise I'm not putting any of the names into the generator. That well ah will stymie it.
00:53:10
Speaker
What do you think of that the error generated above as a topic? i can I can talk about that for some time, actually. Pick a random name. is... Bell. Bell.
00:53:22
Speaker
I love Belle and I love that she... i think I've said this site comparatively recently, maybe when we were talking about um the storyline with Cammie, but I feel like... Because I started watching Emmerdale when she was in this horrible, abusive relationship with Tom...
00:53:38
Speaker
Obviously I could see that she wasn't well and she's like being gaslit the whole time and retreating into herself and that was really like sad but I don't think I got maybe the impact of that because I didn't know what she was like normally. um or is it so great to see her back on form and she's so like bright and she's got so much charisma and like just like motivation to get things done and to help people and push things forward and I think...
00:54:07
Speaker
she's just a ray of light and i'm so glad that she's with cammy because he's the other ray of light yeah i i also love her now like ah as we said at the time the tom storyline went on for so long that i did get so sick of it and then consequently sick of seeing her on screen um and she blesses she's been soothed so much in her life like there's other sort of big stories i've seen her in was when she had like psychotic breakdown when she accidentally killed her best friend when she and they've actually had lots of like mental illness storylines because you know these things obviously do recur so it is good that they didn't sort do once they never refer to again but it has meant that a lot of her stories have been quite miserable um so i like that a that she's still a sunny witty feisty person despite all that but also it's fun when we get to see those stories and yeah she's gonna be great with cami once they finally
00:55:01
Speaker
get it together and maybe appear on screen sometimes um yeah she's a really good actress i love that she's been there for since she was like born or something i know i was gonna say that i love when you watch old episodes and she's there and she's so cute as a little girl yeah she was such a sweetie yeah because i think similarly like whilst obviously i'd seen her in the past I hadn't really seen her as an adult, I don't think, or she was maybe like 18, 19 or something when I stopped watching. So when she was in this really difficult storyline with Tom, was like, oh, this is a different stage of life. Because he had had like, she had a relationship it with a doctor guy who was much older than her turned out to be married or having an affair or something. So she'd had like adult storylines, but oh she wasn't as like established in her in her adulthood. Yeah. yeah
00:55:52
Speaker
And obviously she's a dingle, so she's got... so many different family members have relationships with and I love her relationship with Sam I like the way she like isn't a afraid to tell Kane what's she's got a lovely relationship with Lydia as like sort of mother surrogate yeah this yeah I feel like don't think do we ever see her interact with Sarah because they're like similar age but not massively not massively actually that was something that was quite nice over the last couple of weeks was seeing Sarah interact with Robert and Aaron because you're like wow you've never really done that before
00:56:24
Speaker
That was actually something i saw in that interview where the person was talking about new Sugdens and new Tates and she's like, I want people to remember that Sarah is a Sugden and it is her surname, but shea she never hangs out with the Sugdens. That would happen probably more easily than bringing an old character back. She's like, oh, she is literally here. um That's another thing that I call it so sad Andy couldn't be here when her baby was born. It's like well, he could be here. He's just decided not to be because he's on the run. it's not in many ways but because he won't yeah um so yeah that began because you know how frustrated i was that she never interacted with victoria auntie beg could have helped her through so much but change so maybe maybe we'll see more of because jacob's a sugden now as well isn't he he changed his surname to sugden yeah i forgot about that oh about sorry, yawning feel like all we've both done in this podcast is yawn the whole way through it's not even one of the ones we do late at night it is lunchtime it's actually lunchtime it's a real shame oh dear so yeah, Belle, we love you stay around forever have some happy times yeah, have a cute time we rate you I'd love to meet her well e without a be yeah that'd be nice
00:57:36
Speaker
um farming content Farming content, ah I guess the fence in the top field famously. we saw a couple of horses or possibly with the same horse twice just going through the high street. We saw Robert on a farm while he was getting smacked around the head.
00:57:54
Speaker
Of course, and the farm is now on fire, so that's farming content. That's a classic part of the arable year. Yeah, I don't think we've seen much you know like crop rogation or something.
00:58:07
Speaker
but that would be boring anyway would be quite tedious well you'd love it i would love it but i think the nation might cry out um and i guess allotments are not farming but we have seen some some plants yeah you certainly learned learned a lot about asparagus so i did i did it i was doubting but now i believe so yeah huge huge huge huge um well i guess we're done I was going to mention how weird it is that everyone refers to Dr. Todd as Todd all the time, but that that feels like a moment's passed.
00:58:40
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Well, it sounds like you did just mention it. You're so right. You're so right. Thank you so much for everyone listened during our first year. Can't believe it's a year. No, I can't believe been a year. We probably should have got a cake or something. but Yeah, maybe I'll go buy almond crust.
00:58:57
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I thought the leftover was quite dubious vegan coconut cake downstairs. Oh, babe. So that's a shame. You literally live like a stone's throw from a bakery, so... Yeah, I know. I can put myself out in a way that i probably won't. Whereas I'm going to drive to get my croissant, slash I do need to go and collect some Canadian dollars from a post office, so...
00:59:22
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It's a classic Friday afternoon activity for you. It is. It is. Don't tell my boss. Anyway, um every blessing to you and yours. Do you get in touch at dinglealltheway.pod at gmail.com. Thanks again for all your support. do rate and review if you've not done that. It helps more people find us.
00:59:36
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And we love that people want to find us. so Yeah, we love you. We love you. okay bye. Bye. i