And my next Archers rant will be...

[DuaneDibbley]

WTF have they done to Fallon??! What a simpering, desperate, insecure 'girl' they've turned her into AND now they're going to land her with boring as sin Rhys

"it was only on Amex" !!! an amex baby !

What happens on AmEx stays on AmEx!

Imagine if Fallon had a baby that was only referred to on Amex. The rest of the time people would just say things like 'no, Fallon's got her hands full and can't work behind the bar at the moment'.

As well as being a devoted dad in real life is Jazzer actually Scottish? I am Scottish (and indeed have been all my life), and I've never met anyone who talks like him. It sounds like the equivalent of when English actors get voice coaching before they're allowed to be English on American dramas.

I am so glad I stumbled on this thread - it was really bugging me that I'd missed Harry leaving and had no idea where he'd gone to!!

Has just taken me a while to work out what AmEx is too..I'm so behind the times!!

'Kelly was born in Glasgow, but moved to the Midlands at the age of three.' according to Wikipedia

They'd call her baby Ami !

Dis you know the actor who plays Jazzer is blind?

No I didn't Seeker that's good! He plays a sighted role which is interesting.

I'm assuming that because I've never heard anyone referring to him being blind on TA.

I know- I didn't know until I just googled
Him. I hope Jazzer's sighted- he did drive the van
To Scotland!

Only just seen this thread , roar at one milkman short of a float!
What about Kirsty's birdwatching/naturewatch chap? Patrick was it?

Patrick! What happened to him? And how come Kirsty and Ifty have suddenly become annitem? And where's Amy?

Grrrr - had to spend a lot of time driving around yesterday and was trapped with accompanied by the Archers omnibus, which seemed to be entirely about whether Fallon and Kenton could/should job-swap. After about half an hour, the husband (whom I blame for first introducing me to the Archers but who has now detoxed and been clean for several years), just started yelling: "This is SOOOOO boring. How can anyone possibly listen to this shit? Why would anyone be interested in this drivel?" I'm so used to it inducing a state of semi-consciousness, I hadn't quite grasped how truly vapid it can be . Last week's episodes were real shockers in terms of scriptwriting.

@ your DH's Ambridge detox.

Well, I like Rhys. There, I said it! I actually find Fallon pretty boring at the moment so they're well matched!

How long is it going to take Kenton to run the Bull into the ground? Or has he had a personality transplant into responsible, sober citizen, like Ed. And Jazzer. And Jamie.

Rhys has a lovely voice
But zero personality.

Yeah but the ones with 'personality' are shits! Rhys is sweet, he's been supportive of Fallon and he's funny(ish). He's also a relatively new main-ish character so he's a fairly blank canvas and should be easy to make more interesting (without being a twonk).

[feels a shiver of excitement at disagreeing with Mumsnet!]

I've missed a few - how on earth did Paul end up being with Lillian at the hospital after her whinging idiot son got hurt (I don't care how that happened. He's a complete tosser.)

Jazzer's being nice to old people seems to usually have a self-interested angle to it - manipulating Christine into a bed for the night and all the food in her house, then on to Jim (I rather like that odd-couple pairing of mavericks)

I LOVE Jim and Jazzer living together! Just love it!!

The Paul thing came about because Matt wouldn't go to support Lillian at the hospital and in a complete panic (she also couldn't get hold of Jenny-darling) she rang Paul and he leapt to her side sigh. I know James is an idiot and Matt quite rightfully said he was probably laying it on a bit thick, but Lillian wanted him there and that was the important thing. And when she got home you could hear he was sitting there watching the telly, and not 'bust with work' as he claimed. I totally despise Matt, cannot see ANY redeeming side to his character at all. All that pusscat shite makes me vom.

I guessed it must have been something like that, but ringing paul out of the blue seems too much of a stretch... dodgy plot device.

Yes I thought that. Clumsy setting up of an affair (or another almost-affair).

Well I think she'd been busting to ring him since she found out he was running the church restoration project at NotAmbridge. Or something like that.