Can I PLEASE just have 13 minutes? 13 measly minutes to myself to listen to The Archers?

[PseudoBadger]

Come and enjoy awkward dinner parties galore!

I could just about believe the kitchen designer getting all orgasmic about umbrian limestone, but Jenny's breathless "Oh, Kingsley" was a step too far…

Or perhaps there is out there a phenomenon of wannabe ladies-of-the-manor of a certain age who are seduced by smooth-voiced men caressing underfloor heating panels and whispering in their ears about sturdy cabinets and pentagons and nicely sliding drawers and TA is just doing us a public service in making this terrible deviancy more widely known

Even the Tom-haters (I am not one) must admit that Kirsty didn't deserve that!

"Oh no, we haven't set a date. We are happy as we are". Ugh!

Oh I didn't think Brenda was deliberately being bitchy (apart from the stab about 'not so independent', which fair enough!) - I got the impression they are all just a bit unsure they have what they really want which is why B is slightly over-compensating in the 'whopping Wapping' stories etc. and why K & T both feel a bit unsettled.

i agree that none of them sound sure of their choices oif

sad that iPM is on at 0545 atm

but happy it'll be on iplayer so I can still listen!!!

I loved Brenda's 'independent' dig

loved even more than Tom didn't get it (clunky though the writing was )

"It's all about the intuitive pentagon" - a contender for next thread title?! (We'll need one soon enough, the way this is going...)

I switched on halfway through, and was absolutely mesmerised by the intuitive pentagon stuff. I think it makes good sense

I have tiles in my kitchen badly laid by Ex which smash anything dropped to smithereens, and are hard on my feet and knees. (There is no underfloor heating though). Jenny spends such a long time in there when she does cook that I am quite concerned at this choice.

Didn't hear Brenda and Tom, Brenda and Kirsty just sounded mutually embarrassed I thought, and does anyone think Kirsty is questioning the whole thing? Perhaps PC Burns could be destined for her???

I cheered at Brenda's independent dig at Tom. Well deserved. Did nt think she sounded too show offy, just happy with her career success following her brilliant training in marketing at the internationally renowned seat of learning: felpersham "uni" , not to mention her oh-so-trendy loft living in seedy Wapping.

I was most disappointed in Kingsley - I was hoping for someone like Frank the wedding planner from Father of the Bride :o

They (the scriptwriters ) are back to taking the piss with the Jennifer/Kingsley thing. So completely put of character for her.....

Oh yes Frahnk! Definitely the best wedding planner ever and perhaps one of my favourite silly films.

Yes her simpering at him was mind boggling. And did she really shut Brian outside?!

I agree Martorana , I think it's a bit OTT even for her.

Brilliant episode. I have to admit to laughing out loud at Jennifer and Kingsley. Neat touch too having chip off the old block Alice similarly breathlessly excited and carried away about the wedding planning.

I don't believe Tom would know a highlight from a turkish delight though.

bitoutofpractice ILOVE that baby bison thanks!!! are you knitting your own insulation? (i would've loved wool insulation too).

Are you me? i agree about Brenda coming across as a beatch of the 1st order swanning in to Ambridge to show off her highlights and engagement ring and boasting about her HUGE flat in Wapping!!!!!

Oh and yes Jenny's ripe for the picking (maybe a bit old though). Loved smarmy Kingsley agreeing with everything she said .Of course he would she's going to spend 150 thousand odd on the kitchen from hell.

I foresee doom for Tony's poor cows :(

I think Brenda's being set up to replace Lillian - she'll work her way through a series of rich husbands, becoming personally richer herself with each divorce - the "we're happy as we are" period will buy time for her to identify a crack divorce lawyer and get a solid pre-nup drawn up. Then over the next fifty years or so she'll periodically reappear in Ambridge, causing turbulence and dissatisfaction among the more modestly caparisoned stay-at-homes.

ppeat I think we are lone voices n the wilderness!

Sadly the only knitting I can do is on a Knitting Nancy!

They need a bit of comic relief in the form of JD and Kingsley to offset whatever gloom is about to descend on Brookfield and the darkness of Rob.

Add 10% to the value of your house for a mere 20% of it's value.... besides which real farmhouses don't get sold, they get passed on to family one way or another (though how they'll sort that out with 2 farmers neither of whom is Brines birth child will make for fun in a decade or two).

I do envy underfloor heating on chilly mornings... but only when I've forgotten to put my slippers on. The dog would adore it.

I've heard that underfloor heating doesn't 'rise' IFYSWIM so you get sweaty feet and a cold nose!!!

I love your theory about Brenda Bluestocking

Kingsley's voice sounds really familiar. I jumped in surprise when I heard him. Do we know him, or the characterisation, from somewhere else?

Reckon you're right about Brenda.

BOOP, ppeat - if you believed everything in Wikipedia I'd be able to glean some bison wool from the hedgerows - the entry for my village used to include this:

'It has many great night-spots and is famous for a small herd of bison that were nearly all killed off by DEFRA during the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak, only to be saved by local villagers taking turns to chain themselves to the grateful beasts.'

Regrettably the entry was edited back to a stub with the comment 'i'm sure some of these things are true, but some seem unlikely and all need sourcing'.

Great idea bluestocking - especialy when there was such bitterness/rivalry/hate whatever between Lilian & Brenda.
DH is home (works half the week away) and chatted through the episode. Sigh! And my crazy eccentric father is visiting at the weekend and he only discovers the power of speech between 10 and 11:15 on a Sunday. I suspect talking during the omnibus may have been the "unreasonable behaviour" cited for DF & DM's divorce.

Sorry, I don't get all these bison references. It's making this thread come across as a bit cliquey- might I politely ask that we rein them in so that new posters feel welcome and the "13 minutes a day" community keeps expanding?