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

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Come and enjoy awkward dinner parties galore!

We seem to have similar plans for the lovely Brenda Bluestocking

It would be a delicious irony given how scathing she has been of Lilian for about twenty years... Perhaps there was some hidden psychological impulse - to despise the thing you will become? Every time she railed against the merry widow she was learning how to become her.

I want that for Brenda too _ at the last Liliam and Brenda kind of made up I thought?

She will of course have the redeeming feature of being lovely with her half-sister!

My son has a running joke that he wants a kitchen just made up of islands - maybe he is a younger Kingsley?

Errol your village sounds really great

Actually jessie i'm not sure about the origin of the bison references I just went along with them because they were amusing. Don't worry i HOPE we're not cliquey (not intentionally anyway ).

Though of course we can't all agree about everything can we?

Oh I'm a twit they were in Errol's village she just posted that reference to them in Wikipedia sorry for being dense everyone!!

Sorry Jessie. I said something about returning to the warm bosom of this thread and my phone tried to correct it to warm bison.

It's not a cliquey in joke - it's there on the first page of this thread. And I am a newbie anyway so shrugs

There'll always be little referneces and nicknames and stuff on long running threads / series.

I'm also right though BitOutOf aren't I? That makes your typo even weirder!

We don't really have bison in our village - llamas yes, a herd of deer yes, but the bison (and the rest of the wiki entry for the village at that time) were pure fiction. An object lesson in being sceptical of internet sources!

I now very much want the lurking SWs to have Tony's next venture be a herd of water buffaloes with Helen producing artisan mozzarella from the milk. I mean with all the flooding they sound like something we should have more of.

I had to give up listening when dd was born, 14 years ago. My life has been impoverished ever since.

Why Jux? You just need to inculcate her in the ways of Ambridge!

Ppeat that really made me laugh I can imagine the herds of bison sweeping majestically over the English landscape with Errol astride a horse and chewing a cheroot, surveying her herd

BitOutOf OH on R2 they want people who met Tony Benn to talk about him I thought of you (sorry just lurked on TB's RIP thread). Well my friend had llamas! I'd have alpacas if we had someone to feed them when we're away!

When we viewed this house (in rural Fr) the light fitting in the salon was an oxen harness a huge effing thing big enough for bison Luckily the old occupants took it!

That sounds like an interesting fixture PP!

I haven't had the radio on this morning as I've been doing an online training course (with a break on MN between each module, natch). I have just taken the exam and passed. I got 98% and a certificate. You may curtsey to me now

Phew finally caught up after three threads!

Tony's indifferent cow. (she's not interested in the fence etc) sounds ominus and I so want him to be sucessful.

The "Ruth is ill" thing is really obvious now, surely we are going to find out why soon. We did not have to wait that long to find out vicky was up-duffed did we?

Agree that Tom and Kirsty are going to be very in debt with all that money spent. They are not going to be able to afford the mortgage repayments and Gran is not going to have enough to cover it all. Will they move in with T andP or Peggy? If they move in with peggy is Rob going to be really nasty to get rid of them as sitting tenants when peggy turns up her toes?

The Hazel/village shop/Grundy house seems to have gone quiet...

Oh and Robs Red Flags. More red flags than a mayday procession in soviet Russia.

ooooh we'll have to pay to speak to you now and many congratulations !!!!

That's for ABitOutOf* .

Blackeyed Welcome! I reckon it's an early menopause for Ruth.

Hello Blackeyes - you're right about T&K I think. Although they are usually very coy about money on TA aren't they?

I so wish I could tell you what my certificate is for ppeat. It would make you laugh your head off. But sadly it would out me once and for all on here and I like my cloak of anonymity

I assume sorting out Jeck's estate is happening in RL time, rather than Borchester time, which is subject to fluctuation. So couple more months before Hazel actually gets her mits on it.

I do not buy Tony's ignoring of the ill cow for ONE SECOND. He should be all over this situation like a rash, given how much he wants this to work.

Been thinking about the voice of Kingsley. He sounded like Ifty the maths teacher to me.

Water buffalo, now there's a thought.

Trying to diagnose Roooth's repeat symptom of feeling light headed. Does that mean circulatory/heart problems?

So according to Kingsley and his 'pentagon', I have a perfect kitchen, which is strange because I always thought I just had a really small one!!

Toby's judgement is off Humphrey. I'm sure he is worried, but much like if Helen thinks anything about Rob is 'off', he will want to save face rather than admit he's made a very expensive mistake. He's being a ostrich. Ooh, maybe they should farm Emus?

I just read a fab \link{http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/13/robert-duvall-discusses-his-storied-career-a-night-in-old-mexico-and-why-he-s-ditching-the-gop.html\interview with Robert Duvall} in which his final comment is

What’s your take on the film industry today?

'Well, my favorite movie from last year was The Invisible Woman. I would’ve voted for the girl [ Felicity Jones ] for the Oscar. Beautiful movie.'

Wow - there's a tribute and a half! I need to see it now!

There were some ostriches being farmed in the next village to us a while ago. I think they're farmed for meat but I could see young Josh diversifying into ostrich eggs.

Now you mention it I think Tony is off his game - Ruth and David are always quick of the mark to check any cow related issues so why wouldn't Tony. I really want his venture to succeed - cant take a "told you so" from Tom and/or Peggy.

Why did I write Toby?! Tony Tony Tony Tony