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

[PseudoBadger]

New thread for the beginning of the pheasant season.

Peggy has Bill and Ben.

Oh yes Peggy I wonder if her cats do poos in the fields? Praps there needs to be a cat and dog cull in Amb.!!

Don't forget the ferrets!

Getting in 470 messages early, but I like Don't forget the ferrets! for a future thread title.

Ah but don't ferrets poo underground? my knowledge of ferret habits is very vague I admit; the Grundys' ones live in cages too don't they?

Songbird have you NC???

Oops, yes, Halloween is so last week isn't it?

What's the betting we're heading for a SATTC moment with Jill's increasingly dangerous driving?

Hmmm - I didn't get tonight what on earth Daryl could possibly have done to knacker Daniel's videos ... I mean VHS videos were pretty robust weren't they? Not like flimsy DVD discs, that are easily scratched. I'd've thought they'd survive being kicked, wine spilt on them, sat on, target practice etc ... so did he put 'em in the oven or something?

I didn't get that either. Did he pee on them or something?

I assumed he'd puked on them.

I also couldn't work out how you destroy VHS tapes, short of burning them

Goodness the SWs really don't like him. He has committed the worst sin of all - trashing actual Archer heritage. He's done for....

Regarding Jill; there was a tiny hint during BBC writersroom TA week that this could be a longer term story. And not necessarily a cosy one. But I might have misunderstood.

Actually the interviews etc held during said week (linked upthread) ought to give one confidence that they know exactly what they're doing. But looking back to the beginning if this (3rd) thread - there's so much that has been disappointing.

Maureen / Carol dug up out of the archives but not used to spice up:

Susan's birthday.... After all these years surely she deserved a "posh" party at GG as a surprise from Neil.

I still don't understand why Bridge Farm getting rid of the cows is not a fabulously helpful thing for Ed's business....

Why bother to introduce a social worker with no social skills?

And how exactly did they visualise Darrell using his superpowers to instantaneously evaporate DVDs before his hosts very eyes?

(Note to self - telling people how you do something is not the same as doing it well....)

WRF the social worker I know quite a few of those with no social skills! Bridge Farm is organic though so a different market for their milk surely Sthing ? Where is the link to the writersroom could I get it on play it again d'you reckon?

Still here!

I was thinking about the organic thing after I posted. If I were still a rural village resident and my local organic milk supplier stopped producing mil - I might well consider that localism trumped organic concerns, particularly if I knew the provenance of the milk.

Even if Bridge Farm had kept the cows Tom would have driven them out of organic production soon anyway....

On the neospora angle, foxes and badgers could also be responsible ref here and much more likely than a pet dog surely? Maybe this is a way of moving away from TB...

Thanks for the link Sthing The nitty gtitty is what type of writing they find 'exciting' isn't it?

'gritty' of course!

I rather liked the Robert and Lindy scenes though, dammit he is such a good 'un.

Have finally caught up on about a month's backlog of podcasts...this is a fantastic thread (not least because of real life babies being born - congrats!).

YY to pretty much everything that has been said on here. I have one random bit of speculation to throw in which is very much rooted in TA having moved so far from it's gentle plodding along roots: is there any chance that Jess will abuse her social worker position (which every bloody character has referred to since she arrived in Ambridge) to extract terrible revenge on Helen...? I'm thinking some sort of trumped up neglect/abuse thing with the snappiness over the terrible-twos brought into it. I really, really hope they don't do this but they've made so much of her being a social worker and Helen being fragile that I wouldn't put it past the scriptwriters.

As a small aside - I liked Adam's reference to having done things he's ashamed of when Helen was fessing up about Rob...could Pavel still come back...?

Hello RnRN! Nice to see you here. Have you recovered from the trauma of AmEx?

Interesting thought re Jess. Although I always have the feeling that all TA jobs that are not farming are considered pretty much interchangeable. I had imagined they just have a list of professions and tick them off. Although it might tie in with ppeat's comment about a shift to "working class" woes.

I missed tonight. What's the story with Jill's dodgey eyesight? Is she being lined up to mow one of them down and if so who is in the firing line? please let it be Ruth

I know where you're coming from RnR but there's also Pat and Tony to stop Hellin's excesses; IMO it's just to show how upset she is over Rob and will pass in the normal way these things do in Archerland .

Gypsy I haven't heard it either I'll listen again or wait till the omnibus