Big Farma in Little Ambridge - come and talk The Archers talk

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New thread for the beginning of the pheasant season.

But she'd have to fight her sister-in-law for him! He and Christine are practically an item.

That's true but surely he'd have made a move by now if he thought about Chris in 'that' sort of way which maybe he does about Jill! It'd be a fun storyline, isn't Chris her cousin?

No of course you're right Chris is Phil's sister I think.

I'd hate to see Christine hurt - she gets little enough story as it is. And she must be so lonely. At least Jill has all her children and most of her grandchildren close by. Peter(?) seems to have abandoned his mother altogether. Apart from one trip to Berlin iirc.....

True but the actress makes a tree seem animated !!

Auntie Cardboard as she was rather cruelly labelled on the old BBC MB...

Cruel but true. London

Perhaps I'm outing my own country bumpkin origins but church/scout/brownie/school charity recipe books were never like this. Testing the recipes? GBBO style practising? All they ever featured were
1: Fifteens (a NI special everyone learns to make in primary school*)
*recipe can be provided on request to all you mainlanders...
2: Chocolate crispie buns
3: Any sort of casserole/bake featuring the key ingredient of can of mushroom soup and then crushed crisps on top

I'm having to tune out at any mention of this storyline as its so flipping annoying. On the other hand, I'm hoping the lead-in for Jill's poor eyesight will lead to something much more exciting happening on bloody Stir-up-Sunday - maybe poisoning

I'm so grateful to TA though - without them I'd never have heard of Stir Up Sunday. Being Scottish (that's the reason I give anyway) we don't have lots of those 'quaint traditions' you lot in England seem to 'enjoy'.

But I did catch myself thinking, while the photos of young Daniel were being gawped at tonight - I hope nothing happens to Daniel on his gap year. It's not that I particularly warm to Daniel, but I so hate the sound of his mother's voice I think I'd need to become an ex listener for the duration of her grief. Which being TA would be only a week or two anyway, so I could cope with that, I suppose

I think though it was all a mechanism to tell us that Jill is getting old and has sight problems. Oh dear, I wonder how that will be handled.

My hunch is that Jill is going to have a minor bump on the way to Lower Loxley with the wedding cake and it will be reduced to crumbs. Actually, scratch hunch - if this doesn't happen I will eat my hat.

Great minds London I thought exactly the same "oops there goes the wedding cake" .

I liked the tender scene between Tom and Hellin. I even shed a little tear!

OMG weird weird weird I wrote the above and I did NOT put the emoticom for cake in it is there anybody there???

Oh no! Londonmother & peatfruit you're probably right about the cake. I'm groaning as we had that all with Clarrie's cake for Will&Nic's wedding and the replacement from Ian. There'll be some last minute NZ baking from Mel & Merrier or something. A passioncake come to think of it.

Yeah or a pavvie puggle seeing as they're from down under the SWs are in need of original storylines from us IMHO.

I'd forgotten the cake thing. They can't have another Great Ambridge Cake Crisis. Not so soon. Anyone would think the SWs have no or few original ideas.

If I knew Jill in real life I'd think she had cataracts. I think that would explain her having difficulty seeing in poor light. Of course in real life it is now a minor op, it would be a good bit of public service radio if they treated it as such.

I thought cataracts too. Did you notice she couldn't see the pictures of the Sainted Daniel properly?

Do you think she's done something bizarre to the wedding cake because she can't see properly? Salt instead of sugar or something?

Meriel arrives with a Pavlova perhaps?

Sorry Ppeat I missed that you'd said that already!

That's oiright psued Yer jest missed my amazin' aussie accented post that's all sorry everyone

Salt instead of sugar or something?

I've been wondering something similar about Emmur's cookbook. Sabrina has a host of people who are going to receive a gift-copy of the book so it's got to be her recipe that gets the typo.

I'm sure Jill would have her dried goods in jars to keep them dry & in good condition. I bet she keeps the salt by her stove in one of those salt pigs so she can add it to saucepans.

How are you and the L.O. BTW psued?

Don't want replies on here as I'm not ready to read the latest chit chat, so please help!