They're not plucky Tuckers, they're turkey pluckers' sons - Archers festive chat

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Love the HellRob moniker ppfruit. Very appropriate. DH - a recent reluctant convert - was disgusted by the "vocal kissing" tonight

boobashka it was even worse in last night's episode - lots of heavy breathing and 'mmmmmm'ing. Gross.
It'll all end in tears....

Just available on listen again... 'you've been hard at it' arf arf...and he didn't say anything to Jenny about Jess having left.

Quote of the day from Rob: "I don't think my bag will be breaking any records" - that's not what Helen told us! Fnar fnar.

'Sorting out my cartridges..'

Jolene did a good job of reconciling Lillian to impending granny-hood

Now, what I want to know is why does there have to be about an hours lag between the first broadcast and it being available on Listen again for a pre-recorded program? Surely they could make it available immediately after the live transmission?

I wonder about that too, Errol. You get a bit of the continuity announcer and the trailer for Front Row before the programme and a bit of FR afterwards, so I suppose someone has to wait until it's been broadcast and then put it on the site, but I don't understand why it takes so long.

Gross indeed! I wonder whether jess really knows her marriage is over. Her voice was v irritating though, so okay by me! And she couldnae act.

I've been thinking about Darrell and suspect he is going to make it through, ie not die or commit suicide, hopefully with a non-speaking part! Hopefully his dd's scooter CD is mislaid by the Beeb.

Right, that's it. I can lurk no longer.

HellRob.... oooh..... I don't think Ambridge will stand for this. And I'm not sure that PatnTony will be happy at all about their grandson being potentially messed around.

The Jack and Peggy bit was very well done and reminded me a bit of my own dgps who just seemed to sense what was going on with each other. I suspected what was happening when Lil said Peggy had a bee in her bonnet about going back. Had me sniffing in the bath with dd.

Happy New Year one and all.

Welcome gwennie. And JaneE. Happy new year of Archers chat. (Last year was my first here - it has brightened my life listening immeasurably.)

You'll have noticed that most of the best stories happen on this thread rather than on the radio......

Hold on, how old is Lilian? Long before the child is old enough for booze and tongue studs she is going to be either housebound or dead of lung cancer. What planet does she live on?

She's in her 70's.

I understand from Mnet that the standard age for booze and tongue studs is about 10....

She'll be fine.

Is Lilian really in her 70's? I always assumed she was mid 60's . You're right about the lung cancer. I am amazed we haven't had that as her storyline.

Sad I know but I just checked and it seems she was born in 1947 so is 67 this year. So she'll be pushing eighty by the time the grandchild is old enough to appreciate a "groovy granny". Bit ridiculous having someone with a 40year old son feel too young to be a granny. IIRC she was quite a fun older aunty type to Ruari over the stone dog so interacting with kids isn't entirely new to her.

Checked Jennifer too- she is the older sister, born 1945 so pushing 70. (Tony's the baby, born 1951). They really should have a plan in place for Ruari, as the chances of him losing both Brian and Jenny or them needing care themselves while he is still a minor are pretty high. Did we ever hear about this on air? Would the court/social services have had to sanction the arrangement to live with B and J or is that not necessary because B is his father?

Thing about lung cancer is that survival rates are so low they could only use it to write her (or Joe Grundy) out. It is a bit statistically odd, tbh that nobody ever dies of cancer in TA-Betty had a heart attack, Nige off the roof, Phil falling asleep in the chair, Jeck Woolley will die of old age (I believe Alzheimer's not in itself fatal), Jack Archer drinking himself to death, Ruth surviving breast cancer. Even Ivy Horrobin, with the hacking cough and 20 a day habit allegedly died of heart failure. But then cancer is such a ubiquitous feature of real life that maybe fair enough to escape it for 13mins a day.

No one seems to have any life limiting illnesses , not just cancers but things like MS or rheumatoid arthritis .

I'm assuming that Ian and Adam would take on Ruairi if anything happened to Brian and Jenny darling. On that note , how come there was no gossip about that in the village? And do Helen and Rob really believe that everyone will turn a blind eye to them setting up home quite so quickly?

3 years out! Please forgive my ecstatic post-Sherlock recklessness....

(Although for ever and ever I've believed that Lilian was the elder sister.)

Thinking back I remember Dan having to move into a downstairs room - was it his hip? And then Phil started to feel old when he had a hip replacement. Can't think of anyone else with serious long-term health problems.

I wonder if there's a valid reason - rather than just lack of SW imagination.

Dan had juvenile arthritis - I think? It mysteriously disappeared. Jazzer had long-term brain damage from taking ketamine, again it has mysteriously disappeared .

It was cured by the same magic fairy as Brian's epilepsy from getting kicked in the head by a cow.

Lilian is nearly 70? And JennyDarling?
I had them down as being in their 50s! But of course, if the glorious James is 40, then that can't be right ...

Was Wasn't that just a huge plot device? She didn't go on living with a disease - just conveniently shuffled off.

Elizabeth's heart problem also only appears to suit a story...

Of course waswondering how on earth could I have forgotten that when in the same post I was speculating about Ruari's future?! I must still be hungover. I guess I was thinking of more local characters.

WRF to 'magical' recoveries; IMO Darrell's attempted suicide must be the most miraculous i mean it affects the liver which must've been compromised to cause his depression anyway FGS.