Pip sets off to her new job. Jill plans to move out. Rob has his feet firmly under the table.

Radio Times: It is time to say goodbye, and Tom seems upbeat.

Characters: David, Jill, Pat, Pip, Rob, Ruth, Tom

• It’s no surprise that Pip is up early: she’s doing the milking for the last time for a while; Jill does not admit to what got her up early.
• After what she said yesterday to Peggy, Pat feels it best to keep out of Susan’s way. Rob arrives early for the meeting with the interior designer. First he has pressing business with Pat: he wants a babysitter for Thursday because he is planning to cook a special meal for Helen. Pat probes the background to his split from Berrow Farm. It had been brewing for a while; it’s not really his sort of farming, being full of margins, data and efficiencies. He would be much happier on a family farm like the one he grew up on – or this one!
• The assembled Archers bid farewell to Pip – only until Friday.
• Ruth has decided to go to Prudhoe on Thursday to reassure her mum, so Friday’s planned trip to the opera is a casualty. She must be back for Monday or Jill will be upset, though David is convinced that Kenton won’t come. Jill announces that she will visit Lower Loxley on Thursday to see which room she would like. David wonders whether he should have moved to Hadley Hough after all; he was trying to hang on to what he had but now, with Pip and Jill leaving and Kenton at odds, he is losing it anyway.
• Tom appears to have been outmanoeuvred by Rob, though Tom declares his participation as helpful – probably: the designer has gone away to produce two designs, the traditional one that Helen and Tom had discussed and the bright, clean, modern one that Rob favours. Is this the thin end of the wedge?