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

[PseudoBadger]

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

[CuttedUpPear]

Hellin is yer classic PA. Really bullying her parents, who are so afraid of losing another their grandson that they flutter round her like bimbling sycophants.

[ComposHat]

Is it just me that thinks the way is now paved for Rob to conspire to bump off Peggy so that Helen inherits rather sooner than planned?

It would be very easy. All he need do is send Peggoi a nice tub of Bridge Farm plague yoghurt that Hellin sells at the shop.

[ZeroSomeGameThingy]

I'm not sure I'm ready for "WHO KILLED PEGGY ARCHER?" storylines!

Anyway he doesn't need to bump her off, just finesse her into thinking she'd be happier elsewhere or that Henry needs his house now. Not much of a stretch for him.....

[KIrsty7318]

Who I hate on the Archers this week (so far) and why.

Tom - after all what 'girl' doesn't see a wedding and becoming Mrs Tom Archer (first name irrelevant as anyone fertile and willing to pack veg boxes will do) as the appitomy of all her dreams and desires - so bless her little cotton socks, lets give her the best day of her life, because let's face it, it's going to be downhill from then on.

Pat - Tony should keep his mouth shut and it is all His fault that her mid-thirties daughter is leaving home, not that Pat is one to interfere in the lives of her adult children. No siree, not her, not her at all.

Clarrie - Susan should buy Keepers Cottage or whatever it is called and rent it back to Clarrie at a peppercorn rent, she should also buy a house for one of Clarrie's sons. Also how dare Will do something to upset Ed, and it is not like Georgie has a history of twisting the truth.

Helen - Just because.

[ThatYoghurtWontPotItself]

That scene with Pat and Jennifer was pure gold

[ThatYoghurtWontPotItself]

(Willie here)

[GypsyFloss]

Great name Willie. I can just hear her. Like ear worm.

[ZeroSomeGameThingy]

It did occur to me that if Hazel tried putting the Grundys' house up for sale Will could buy it for his parents. Funded by selling (No 1 The Green?) his buy to let house. After all it's not as if his tenants will need it for much longer.

I do hope Susan will find she has a job to come back to. The way things are escalating Pat might decide to advertise her position to save time.

Jennifer is evil. She was clearly hoping that a few well chosen words from her to Peggy would have been enough to disinherit Helen. Sneaky....

[KIrsty7318]

Oh, I forgot.
Jennifer sneering at the thought of going shopping with Susan - Susan with all her faults is a grafter, unlike Jennifer 'turn a blind eye and keep my comfortable lifestyle' Aldridge.

Pat (again) how dare Susan inconvenience her by leaving . Shouldn't she be happy to slog away a minimum wage job, even if she has won a fortune on the lottery.

[CuttedUpPear]

KIrsty7318 Susan hasn't won a fortune on the lottery.

She won £4,500, of which she gave Emma £500, and most of the rest will have been spent on their holiday. So no one will be buying any houses or giving up work.

By the time Susan comes back the whole village will have been whipped up in to a frenzy of blagging and sycophantic congratulating.

[GypsyFloss]

Poor Susan I hope it doesn't spoil her return.

I can just hear her now. " Oh Neeyul, we've had ever such a loverly holler day and now everyone's askin' how much we won and it's taken the shine right off my tan."

Blessed Neil, for he is a saint in my eyes, will shrug his shoulders, roll his eyes and nip down to check the pigs , safe in the knowledge that Soosan will always need something to fret about.

[KIrsty7318]

But Pat thinks she has, and instead of being happy for Susan she is pulling a face like a cat's bum and hoping Susan isn't going to give up working.

[BasketzatDawn]

As if nobody else in the village/environs thereof wouldn't want a job in the dairy. Susan's sister even! Pat is so annoying just now.

[ComposHat]

zero if anyone deserved a good disinheriting it is Hellin.

It seems money (either Peggoi's Will or Jailbird Susan's lottery win) has turned everyone into a unpleasant, avaricious arseholes or late.

This is okay because even though I love the Archers, I actively dislike about 80% of the characters.

[Saker]

Delurking to say, that I wonder whether the SWs might not see the Rob Helen storyline with the clarity and experience of the MN relationships board. I think they might more see as it true love triumphs, Rob and Helen live happily (for a bit anyway), Pat and Tony eventually realise they were wrong about him and Wise Old Peggy was right. I can't believe that Jess would take it all lying down without so much as a return visit to Ambridge to pick up some things and have a confrontation with Helen in Ambridge Organics.

I liked the bit with Tom and Kirsty. I never had a high opinion of Tom, but I felt sorry for him about Brenda and thought perhaps I had misjudged him, but no, basically he has his life planned out and just needs a woman in the right places and it doesn't matter too much who. I think Kirsty is way too good for him.

Loving the idea of Jim and Jazzer. It will be like Four Weddings and a Funeral where no-one realises until it's all too late.

[ErrolTheDragon]

Unfortunately I don't think either Jim or Jazzer swings that way.

Susan is going to be really pissed off when she gets back - such a shame, 4.5K was exactly the right amount of money for her to win at that point to fund the holiday. Neeyul (perfect spelling!) will as you say be fine. I think he's probably my favourite character - the unassuming pillar of the community.

[ThatYoghurtWontPotItself]

that's my fear saker, and where we heard rob being abusive and gaslighting jess, the SWs were just intending us to hear 'problems in the marriage'

[ThatYoghurtWontPotItself]

lol errol, do you think that whatever susan and neil say there will forever be a suspicion that they have squirrelled away millions?

[Panzee]

I didn't like Neil when Ed was on the bones of his arse re the milk prices. But that was during a dark period of the Archers - maybe it's a bit like Bobby in the shower in Dallas. :o

[ErrolTheDragon]

IIRC Neil (along with David) gave Ed support in working out how to manage the business better - which was what he really needed. That and a roof over his head.

[Panzee]

But after all the fuss he put the milk price back up anyway. Like I said though, the Archers was weird then.

[ComposHat]

NO it was Moike Tugger being an arse over the milk prices if I remember.

[Panzee]

Oh you're right of course! Neil is lovely, I'd just merged those two characters in my mind!

[ThatYoghurtWontPotItself]

i did laugh at jennifer's 'it's always hard when a child flies the nest, no matter how old they are' to helen

[ZeroSomeGameThingy]

Saker OMG I had no idea, until you pointed it out, that since I joined Mnet I have heard TA entirely through the prism of the Relationship board. And I totally assumed (weirdly, why?) that the SWs would be writing in accordance with that.

It's almost impossible, now, to think back to how I heard TA before this thread and its many predecessors. Listening "here" has added a completely new dimension to my Archers obsession.