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

[PseudoBadger]

New thread for the beginning of the pheasant season.

TBF curlew, quite a lot of the non WC characters are criminal or funny too.

So for once.... Joe's decline, Eddie's frustration were minutely, exactly right. But I really don't see how money would help the situation.

I'm beginning to think that actually the fall was nothing to do with the beer or the loose carpet, and in fact Joe had a minor stroke.
Would they check for that sort of thing if a 92 year old goes to A&E with a broken wrist?

The Joe and Eddie scene was perfect. My only complain is that it's unlikely he'd have broken his wrist - far more likely his hip. What you break is a good indicator of how good your reflexes are. So if you trip when young and fit then you break a wrist. If your reflexes are starting to dim then you break a shoulder. If you're v old or frail then you don't get anything out in time and you break a hip. Thousands of old people break their hips each year and it is often a guide that they are failing physically.

Up to now though Joe has been a remarkably fit and active nonagenarian.

Interesting questions.... I shall ask someone who might know about the stroke possibility later - although I suspect a minor stroke would show up in even the most cursory investigation. I'm also pleased to hear that wrist breakage is evidence of rather superior elderly fitness.

IME it's breakage rather than stroke that robs a person of their confidence. Joe's fractious anxiety about his walking stick nearly broke my heart.

This is being far better done than Peggy's minor stroke. She seemed to suffer almost no after-effects in either her mobility or her personality.

Well something Peggy of course suffered a only mild case of the Ambridge-coma-with-no-discernable-after-effects, but maybe they are trying to be a bit more realistic with the 92-year-old-"has a fall"-and- goes-rapidly-downhill" storyline.

Even if Joe does get a case of the "all-back-to-normals" he can't go on forever. Agree with other posters the acting was excellent, making a great change from the usual woodentops.

But would any council really devote as much time as this on investigating a relatively minor accident in a hotel with a clean track record? I'd have thought they'd be happy to leave it with the insurance company.

Sorry if this has been covered already, or I am going off topic, but I am getting worried about Jolene's wedding dress. i remember that it is being kept at Fallon's flat and that Rhys (sp?) is making wine at home. I have this dreadful recurring nightmare that the wine bottles will explode and the dress will be ruined. Has anyone else picked this up. Please tell me not to worry!

I also liked that it was Eddie doing the looking after- usually that sort of thing is delegated to women....

You've made me start worrying now, dressing.

The Darrell storyline and the Joe's fall storyline have made me too fed up to listen to the omni today, I shall make do with this thread.

Well Soothsayer if you haven't listened this week - there has been an improvement in the Darrell story. The SWs have taken on board all our complaintsand the latest hasty rewrite has Shula (supported by Alistair) addressing Darrell's apparent MH and possibly employment issues. She's going to make him see a doctor - with a view to counselling - and be more organised about looking for work.

Something that escaped me at the time was how bitterly Emma excoriated Nic about not realising her good fortune - only to break off because "Mum will have our dinner on the table soon....." Now it keeps making me laugh.

Joe and Eddie were the best thing I've heard on TA for a very long time.

I confess I did listen to some of it, while making porridge, and then the last 20 min or so. So I heard the tender scene between Eddie and Joe :)

The insistence on counselling as a cure for the unemployed was one of the things that had my blood boiling. Well, as as cure for the unemployed and dumped by W after her nagging made him take up his old ways. Hmm, perhaps counselling might make sense, but Ilona is going scott free (feels blood boiling again).

Yeah... I also thought it was (more than) a bit of an insult when he was first "struggling". If he had been offered proper help after a few days of sofa-surfing he may have been able to carry on. Even though distraught at his family break up. But the subsequent nightmarish descent - bus stops, hostel violence, rejection by Rosa - has really pushed him into a different state.

Although I insist that any "counselling" would need to look at why he is so easily-led and therefore unable to stay out of trouble. Doubt that TA would want to pursue that though....

The strange and protracted removal of Alan's spine is painful to listen to. Usha must be wondering where her real husband is.

Did anyone else notice Rob's 'fed up of being told what to do by women' comment?

So he buys into gay stereotypes (which Hellin laughs along at even though her best friend is gay) and now he's showing himself up to be a bit of a misogynist as well.

Not much of a catch is he?

I think Joe's acting is really terrific, and that Eddie may well be right about the compensation they need.

Re Emma as comedy character, I don't think that's fair - she's had more than her share of troubles, especially when her uncle torched Bridge Farm, and its quite nice to hear her back to having small but genuine issues over Poppy getting a non stop supply of fancy frocks.

@kiriwawa

Did anyone else notice Rob's 'fed up of being told what to do by women' comment?

I missed this.

Last night's ep was a bit "EastEnders ominous"
Neil and Susan SO happy together - and the exchange of jewellery (echoes of Nigel and Elizabeth at New Years eve)
surely some kind of hideous misfortune due now that we have done this?

Olivia I'm sure the two headed Carol/Maureen monster is waiting in the wings. It would just be silly for them to have been mentioned and then not used.

Kiri I'm not convinced that Rob's words are meant to be character defining. It's more likely that they're struggling to find him any sort of character so are just using stereotypical "man" phrases. But he's started having an affair at the first (far as we know...) available opportunity - so no, he's not much of a catch.

Ooh robs pil dead... That has to mean some resolution to the worlds dullest affair .

No chance. Jess will insist on staying wherever she is. (Does she still have a mother?) So they will continue to live separately while continuing to be married....

Bit worried about Ian's career plans. He sounded (reportedly) a bit miffed on Sunday.....

Neil with the locket made me cry, then when she said instead of the grand kids she'd put her and Neil in then he said something about a heart of gold, I was off! Little moments in life we all need

grants - and the music was spot on for '70s last dance.

Neil is wonderful with Susan. I think he might just be my favourite character. Although I do also have a soft spot for Lynda, she reminds me of a certain kind of woman from my childhood. Generally to be found bossily organising the tea and flower rota in the local CofI church.

Yes - Neil has always been a good solid bloke.

I can just about remember the pair of them getting together.

Errol did he have a thing with Shula prior to Susan or am I imagining that?