Anyone for a fondant fancy? Let The Archers eat cake...

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TA is in a purple patch at the moment, rewarding listeners for wading through the dross of the previous year few months. Welcome all!

composhat I would give away PFB well maybe loan him out between 7 and 11pm to hear Ian call Hellqueen a "dick daft wally"

They definitely do pak choi at Bridge Farm

puggle that would make my year too. Scriptwriters, if you are reading this, i hearby renounce all copywrite claims to the phrase 'dick daft wally' so please take and use this bit of choice dialogue gratis.

Oh I can't wait for Jess to resurface. Has Rob been off to shag her or rather belatedly end his marriage?

And Peggy is being an old bag. I don't remember her being like this before.

Peggy has been a complete cowbag many times in the past, Ladyflip!

Also if he was in harlow today he may well have been flooded like we are.

Perhaps that's the plotline. Hellin will hear a news item saying that no-one can get into or out of Harlow and the penny will drop.

Does anyone seriously think Rob is going to welcome Jack's old DJ with open arms? With any luck he'll give it to a charity shop, and Piggoi will see it and be mortally offended.

nenny its called reverse mugging in our house - mugging is where someone takes something from you that you want or value - so reverse mugging is being forcibly given something you don't want
You say thank you to be polite and find a charity shop the far side of Borcestershire...

DH had to go to Harlow for the snip....perhaps after having Henry around for 24 hours Rob thought drastic measures were called for .

It is so good at the moment isn't it. I don't know whether it's better scripting or I'm just more well disposed towards it but even the extremely limited number of actors per episode seems less obvious, rather than just alternating two pairs of voices they mix it up a bit more.

Making Helen even more odious is a stroke of genius I reckon, it is going to make the whole DV storyline even more uncomfortable. Not only for the listeners but also because there is a good chance she is going to have alienated a lot of her nearest and dearest by the time she will need them.

According to the Radio Times Helen's evening gets worse on the 14th.

Excellent!

Oh, a Valentines night special - how delightful!

I think it is great too.

We should let the SW know they are REALLY getting it right, they deserve a gold star and it will encourage them to keep it up

Baskets - bingo on Tony and the jacket!

In the Bull there, talking to Jill, Tony opened his mouth there and put his foot straight in it!

That was heartbreaking

bit worried about Tony...
he sounded like the 'black...black' man from the Fast Show

I'm just waiting for the plane to crash on Ambridge and then I'll know I was correct in thinking that all these fast-moving plots and character transplants were leading us nowhere.

The beauty of The Archers is its 'slow burn' approach to a story eg Brian and Siobhan's affair played out in real time, interspersed with nothing dramatic - change counting, idle chit-chat and the like.

Yes, there are a lot of storylines at the mo , but the more exaggerated they become the less I believe in them (as storylines, not reality!).

Jill sobbing in The Bull over a large glass of red? Very likely

I think Tony is heading towards some kind of breakdown. He had depression previously, didn't he?

(Am so glad I have found this thread, will join in when I'm good and ready......)

Selks It was Pat who had depression, after John died.

Ah right. Does seem like Tony might be heading in that direction though.

Ah, I did feel for Tony tonight, "No children, no grandson, no cows." :( He's a funny old stick, but I couldn't help thinking how my parents feel when dd and I go home after just a few days' stay, so how Pat and Tony must feel after having their grandson living with them must be terrible.

Love love love the "reverse mugging"! MIL does that to us all the time!

Bloody hell, if my offspring were the sausage king and horrid Hellin (one can only talks solely in business-related aphorisms, like someone who narrowly failed the audition for The Apprentice and the other who stomps through the house like a cross between a petulant toddler and a thwarted Tzarina, expecting you to yield to her every whim, I'd be glad of the peace and quiet.

When will Tony learn, his family are all arseholes and the only one who was halfway likeable got crushed under a vintage Massey Ferguson.

The cows. I can understand him missing the cows.

What the friff has happened to Darrell these days?

I hate it when what has been a major storyline suddenly disappears without conclusion. I know he was getting tedious but still....