Exeunt, pursued by a sow. And so on, for the next 60 years of The Archers.

[PseudoBadger]

It's all about the Sons at the moment. Tom is having an identity crisis, Dan is off to Sandhurst, and poor old Adam is working his socks off.
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I am unreasonably overheated about Loxfest!!! Who says they are putting on a festival in August and starts to organise it now??!!! Yes, you could leave the local band stage til now but the other stages would be signed and sealed by now. Apart from all the other things they'll need (try getting loos for festie on august bank hoilday). It is really winding me up!!

I was ranting to DH about that very thing stillearnin

just annoying

Surely stilllearnin you're not suggesting a huge and extravagant event being pushed through on a such a wildly unrealistic timescale that one begins to wonder if it can ever actually...... happen?

The O'Connor trope?

But I did love the way that Jolene saw the reformation of her band purely in terms of wardrobe opportunities!

As someone who enforces H&S at events it's making me uneasy...

oh if it is just a vehicle for Jolene to be Jolene then I could be slightly placated. I don't even know why it is making me so mad, when I can let all sorts of other things slide. Zero, point taken, as you were!

I was only half-listening tonight... drifted away during the builders and not very interested in the music festival but the 'apart from danny' made me audibly arf.

(the think I want to know about BC is if he can act without a Big Coat. Maybe that notion is born of my limited viewing preferences...)

As an aside, a stately home near to me hosts a well known annual music fest for slightly less mainstream bands. I remember being in Waitrose one Sunday morning to find the lady of the manor, who was a proper twin set and pearls lady, stocking up on extra rashers and bread. She looked immaculate but it was her slightly grubby festival wristband that caught my eyes. It was incongruous on her and in that setting

The Lockfest thing is pissing me off no end. I'm an organisational control freak and there's no way this can be pulled together in such a short space of time by Roy of Rotas. In fact I can't even get my head around Roy doing festivals, he is such a dullard.

Loxfest = the new Cathridge Hall?

Huge event. (Started too late.) Lots of running around and organising. (But no time.) Money thrown into pit. ("But surely it would take longer than this?") Mounting hysteria. ("Not looking good...") Last minute catastrophe. Called off to the sound of wailing and gnashing of teeth...

stilllearnin I was agreeing with you - and wondering if this will be a recurring new Editor "thing".

(Though I hope it won't be - not at LL anyway. The only tragedies it could absorb would be of the suede fringing and inappropriate bearding variety.)

i'm bored of loxfest already tbh (partly because listening to roy makes me want to punch things), though i would enjoy the jolene aspect of it

I suspect it might be a plot device to showcase Fallon's new organising and distressing ( furniture) skills so that she can be headhunted by Emily Eavis and finally leave the enclave.

I'm bored of all of it now. I want Brian to putting his tasseled loafers under someone's bed and cause all manner of chaos please.

The kitchen debacle (as it surely must become), together with the sciatica surely will drive Brian into the kitchen and then the bed (to prove he can) of some other woman. But who? Can't think of anyone of an appropriate age who isn't either a member of the clan or already notched on his bedpost.

Mmm... Fallon leaving the very tired Jaxx to become Fest Manager (for an annual event) at LlL would be a great idea - but upcycling furniture seems a rather roundabout way of getting there. (Perhaps hubby-to-be Plod could manage the security?)

I'm astonished that anyone thinks Brian can manage anything more than climbing out of his own bed these days....

Wouldn't a more likely driver for such behaviour be his ousting from BL? He'll have to prove he's still got it...
However, I don't think they'll go there.

I am enjoying the 'nothing ever happens on a Wednesday' theme though!

Roy of the Rotas

Brine’s ‘I bet they smoke rollies’ and Jolene’s brilliantly delivered line about Danny both made me unattractively snort with laughter. And I’m listening at work. I’m glad we only heard Shula wittering on about poor pillow-sobbing Dan 2nd hand! I hope Elizabeth makes a pass at a horrified Roy at this festival.

Oh, speaking of Roy (have been meaning to say this for ages), don’t you think he sounds just like Adam Henson the farmer bloke on Countryfile?

I’m songbird by the way (nc prompted by the current Frozen obsession in our house!), not another new poster.

I think that they are turning Brine into a cariacature of himself, with all his comments about "Neanderthals". This is a man who has managed or had close contact with manual labourers all his working life, on farms and construction projects like the new market and the mega dairy and I'd wager that the "real"Brine would actually respect their skills, akbeit he wouldn't want one to marry his daughter. It's lazy writing, in my opinion.

Totally agree Jessie. And JennyDarling calling him a snob - ha! Pot, kettle....

Sorry, only just catching up. Think I'm in a minority of one, Kirk - I always felt sorry for the whiney one whose name I dare not utter.

Unlike Moany Tony who I could cheerfully strangle...

When Alice announced that she wanted to leave St Margaret's, her fee-paying girls' school, and go to Borchester FE College to do her A levels, Brian was aghast. One of his objections was that few of her fellow students would have opposable thumbs. One of his best lines, I feel, and right in tune with his views on having strange workmen infesting his home.

iPod just shuffled to Cud "Rich and Strange" and I felt a wave of nostalgia for the Archers Quiz. Where did it go?

Omg love that song, haven't heard it in YEARS. What's the link with the Archers Quiz?

It's somewhat tenuous...

I think it must have been the "Can I please have 13 measly minutes..." thread (because that brought in lots of new posters) - someone clever suggested a quiz for newbies and started it off with some great questions. I limped along later with a question about possible bands to play at Loxfest; all the answers were "farming" related....

Must dash - "Cabin Pressure"!

Omg, "Now they're here I don't want them disappearing!" how prophetic is that!

That Charlie sounds like a right knob