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Will this thread make it to the wedding? Will it outlive Tony?

Skelf?? Never heard that before!
Pussycat - so you weren't born within earshot of Bow Bells then? My dad was and very proud of the fact (veers completely off topic).
Personally didn't notice it was a different Heather. I thought it was lovely how Ruth could cry with her.

Thanks for the NBS link earlier. Pity about the pictures!

JMcJ to Heather it would be a spelk.

My DF was born in Poplar, (the U-bit on the EastEnders map, on the other side of the river to Greenich.) I was born in Sarf London, in Fort'n Eef (as I would pronounce it if round there) (Thornton Heath), near Croydon.

Forgot to say, I can (or could) also tell a NW London accent - at least one dating from the 50s-60s (like my DP has!). The vernacular London accent now has a Carribbean lilt to me, as London has assimilated yet another wave of incomers since I came to the NE.

Ruth is from Prudhoe (pronounced Prudder). But of course we don't know Heather's back-story, except she's from somewhere round there .

• vernacular South London accent, I should say. There may be a more Indian sub-continent flavour in North-West London these days, I would guess.

I was born in the sound of bow bells as was my super posh friend (Hackney General). I grew up in Dagenham and loved how accurately they got the accents for Dagenham in "Made in Dagenham" (although they would all have been called posh at my school). I used to be able to place some accents to within about 1/2 mile.

But if we are going to complain about Archer's accents, they are pretty lose about their West Midland's ones, everyone seems to just come from "Birmingham" even if that isn't quite the accent they have.

mt, my friend and I, who both speak with quite "common" London accents, were thought posh round here on the basis of the way we speak

I did get funded by my Local Authority to go to a fee paying school though, which added a slight posh note to my vowels (detectable to my ear when I heard recordings of my own voice). (This was because I am Very Very Clever and did well in 11-plus, many of my class-mates were there with similar funding arrangements) and much good being vv clever has done me :)

has there ever been a proper norfolk accent on TA?

i expect it's more likely for a northumbrian to get to borsetshire than it is someone from norfolk. there's at least a dual carriageway out of the county

cheminotte if you are not Scottish then that's not surprising!

willie agree with you about Norfolk accents, being a Norfolk girl myself ( but one who has moved around a lot!) East Anglian accents tend to be lumped into generic country accents, and invariably sound more West Country than authentic. Jack Wolley and Jason ( the rogue builder) had brummie twangs, but those with country accents in TA do not seem to have natural 'twangs', Eddie and Ed don't really sound alike, and Will's accent can be bizarre. I often think Emmur and Susan sound alike though.

me too re moving around. i don't have a norfolk accent but can spot one at 100 paces

that stephen fry tv programme set in norfolk where he was a solicitor (what was it called??) set in ?swaffham had some appalling attempts

Finally listened to the sad episodes

Or could Fat Dan have a boyfriend? I'm keen for anything that annoys St Smugula (and I think it would annoy her)

Hmm... When did Shula last have a conversation with Adam or Ian?

Oh, yes, that would be a great storyline... lots of hand wringing about where she and (particularly) Alistair went wrong. It would take her weeks (years) to come to terms with that. I know they did that story with Adam, but I think it would take much longer for Smugla to come round than Brine.

Or maybe he could have a Hindu girlfriend?

Or is she just racist when it comes to vicar's wives?

Nope I'm not Scottish Jessie . If he'd said skelf would he then have had to make explain it anyway?

I was wondering if Dan might have a boyfriend with all the body building etc? Wondered if the next step might be a tattoo!

Hindu boyfriend!

(please)

Poor Brian - surely he doesn't deserve this?!

shalli - that'd be interesting

Do takeovers of that sort really happen without the Chairman knowing a thing about it?

TA is not a morality play though (or mostly not)

Funny that Nancy B-S had it in her column on Tuesday - I reckon this was delayed by the shoe-horned monsoon nonsense & she heard a mistimed preview

I don't believe a company can be taken over without a major shareholder & the chairman knowing nothing about it. Completely unethical of the other board members surely.

What will happen about the kitchen now?

Yes, I was wondering about the kitchen too!

Re-skelf, I can't think - and I've been trying, I tell you - what TA normally do if Jazzer says a word that others won't understand. And, although the word 'skelf' would trip off my tongue, I do tend to neutralise my language a bit for others. For me it would be for work colleagues who aren't from Scotland, and for DH's family. I say what I like to DH though after 2 1/2 decades he is still surprised by some Scottish words. Or so he says!! I wonder how long Jazzer and family have been in Meadow Rise, a while I'd think so he has probably adopted some English words.