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I am not enjoying The Archers right now!

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MinkyBorage · 28/12/2010 17:55

I feel like everything is tense and artificial and building up to something terrible happening. What is going to happen? I don't listen to The Archers for the drama, I listen to it for the feelgopod factor, although I know there are always frictions and crises to cope with, but notheing too shocking.......... well there was the time when Ed was a crack head Xmas Hmm but that all got sorted out in the end and it was ptrobably for the best that he ran away to the big city and lost his way for a while etc etc....

I hope Helen's baby doesn't die. I don't actually care about Helen, but it would be just too awful.

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Ormirian · 02/01/2011 22:15

OKay. Catching up. Baby's OK but you've all screwed it up for me re Nige.....

Northernlebkuchen · 02/01/2011 22:22

Eh? Why did you look at the thread if you didn't want to know what happened?

timetosmile · 02/01/2011 22:55

Just heard it on Podcast Sad
DH has just volunteered to be the one doing the bedtimes tomorrow....thus avoiding having to see me snivelling in the kitchen.
I will join you all at 6.55 with a gin (all the brandy went on the Christmas pud..)

autodidact · 02/01/2011 22:58

Orm! you bananahead! Don't look at ze thread if you haven't listened yet!

GrimmaTheNome · 02/01/2011 23:01

Shall def have to clear time for radio tomorrow, from 6:30 as its I'm Sorry I haven't a clue.

From the sublime to the ridiculous ... or should that be the other way round ... nah, right first time Grin

carocaro · 02/01/2011 23:18

Did they take the ice rink away yet? Or could Nigel be laying there on blood soaked ice?

Or could he have been saved by one of the Christmas stall holders tented roofs (hopefully not the Hot Chestnuts stall).

Who is going outside to see what state poor Nigel is in? Is Titcome going to take charge and perform CPR?

Who will stop the children from looking out of their bedroom windows at all the commotion?

Vicky needs to come in and "help" (not)

How tall is the average stately home, is it Victorian or Tudor? The Victorians went for BIG the Tudor's less so.

DH already been posted on kids bedtime duty for the whole week, can't wait for the podcast/listen again service!

Ma Grundy needs to make a truck load of casseroles to help the inhabitants on Ambridge this week!

No doubt Helen will be miffed that all her new baby join is sidelined with possible death and heartache.

Whoose on the rota for the village shop, they need to order more tissues on condolance cards

So much to do and think about!!!!!

GrimmaTheNome · 02/01/2011 23:20

Ma Grundy needs to make a truck load of casseroles

Oh no! She can't cook with her broken wrist... so Joe will poison the Archers with one of his pies.

carocaro · 02/01/2011 23:24

Very good point GTM, I always imagine Joe to have dandruff and hairy ears and nose which will no doubt make their way into said pies - yuk

snice · 03/01/2011 00:22

Nic is the new Grundy saintly matriarch-she will casserole no doubt

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COCKadoodledooo · 03/01/2011 12:32

I don't think Nige is dead. I think it's a smokescreen, and summat happens to Hellin and/or the baby. Might just be wishful thinking re Hellonearth though Wink

NorkilyChallenged · 03/01/2011 15:03

Well the theory of something happening to Helen/baby could possibly be supported by the spoilers of "Pat and Tony face a dilemma" (who to look after the baby if Helen dies?) and then "Tony reflects on the new situation" (though that's a bit mild if Helen has actually died)

Ponders · 03/01/2011 19:04

oh no Sad

Greenshadow · 03/01/2011 19:21

What a pity.
Pat and Tony's dilemma looks like only being whether or not to tell Helen.

Northernlebkuchen · 03/01/2011 19:33

I thought tonight's episode was a mile better than last night. When Shula told us Pat and Tony what had happened I cried. Poor Elizabeth Sad

toeragsnotriches · 03/01/2011 19:41

Now this is more Archers-like. Much better. The Archers and 'shaking to the core' don't really go. Bit like turning the Rovers into a tea room. Good oh. Back to normal...

Panzee · 03/01/2011 19:43

I missed last night's but decided to just go in cold today. Fortunately Shula managed to give us all a half-decent recap! Not bothered about Nigel, wasn't that fussed about him.

Ponders · 03/01/2011 19:47

It pains me to admit it but VW was right - the fallout from this will SATTC (the Archer family element anyway)

David is entirely responsible for Nigel's death - he wasn't going on the roof last night till David came out with his man or mouse remark. Elizabeth will find out (Brookfield's guilty secret...) & there will be family war.

I will miss dear sweet Nigel though Sad)

GrimmaTheNome · 03/01/2011 19:51

Oh no... not fair to kill off poor Nigel. Would have been much better storylines if they'd spared his life.

This also means that, as the scriptwriters are by now aware of the lack of a disabled person in Ambridge (other than on account of age) they will have to maim someone else in the future.

Northernlebkuchen · 03/01/2011 19:56

It'll come out at the inquest if not before. I wonder how Ruth will react?

Was it heartbreaking when David called Jill 'Mummy'?

Northernlebkuchen · 03/01/2011 19:57

Sorry - 'wasn't' that's supposed to be!

GrimmaTheNome · 03/01/2011 20:00

Oh yes. Poor David - he's really such a decent solid bloke, rotten it was him not Kenton. (though better scriptwise, I'm sure - David can't run away from Ambridge to escape Lizzies wrath, which is what Kenton would - or maybe will - do)

Eleison · 03/01/2011 20:04

Has Jill Archer finally evolved from merely being saintly to a status of pure divine spirit? She spent the whole episode wafting about the place like an angel, utterly untouched by grief and soothing the senses of all around her.

traceybath · 03/01/2011 20:27

I agree with your Ponders.

But it really wasn't David's fault - Nigel should have been concentrating and not waxing lyrical unfortunately.

Was terribly sad though.

Ponders · 03/01/2011 20:44

But it was David's fault they were there in the first place, after Lizzie had advised against it & Nigel had been heading off to do something else entirely...David just couldn't be arsed with coming back the following day instead

I wonder who David will confess to - Mummy or Ruth?