Sexy sex on lovely legs, shearing sheep bare-chested. Tell us how you picture the good folk of Ambridge (and feel free to discuss anything else rural soap-related).

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For me, that describes Ed. Some strange people think that it describes Jazzer.
Does it matter what they look like? We know and love their voices (except you Pip)

I think pat and tiny would mention it between themselves but not to Helen

Radio carter would find this a treat of a topic

I guess Helen doesn't have any friends who would ask

As for Adam cheating on Ian. I kind of feel the SWs have a responsibility to lgbt people here. So many people of an older generation (a lot of whom probably listen to the archers) think gay men are promiscuous and marriage is a mockery because of it. I think it would be nice to portray a couple who do stay together - like a Jill/Phil length marriage

Having written all of that - I think they've made Charlie into a bit of a caricature villain and I think he's going to end up in a slurry pit with an eastenders style 2 year wait to find out who pushed him and then it will turn out to be pc plot (I'm always suspicious when new characters are introduced at the same time)

BYOS (may I call you "Sean"?) I'm starting to be scared of your posts...

Well SW if you're listening, it seems most people have been listening since nineteen ahem hem or since "shush, its mummy's programme"
So here are my very reasonable requests:
1: If you're dragging out old "favourites" like Carol, please don't have a constant revolving door like Eastenders with Bianca/Den/Roly etc Sometimes it was the writing made things/people popular
2: Please make storylines for the next 10 years not 10 days. In particular, please can Rotaboy & Lizard simmer on uncomfortably for years
3: Minimal youf storylines please. You tried with AmEx and it fell on its arse. No-one turns on R4 to be down wiv da kids
4: Errr I had a load more but have forgotten. No pip please.

Can't listen as I'm abroad with intermittent wifi, so just bookmarking to keep up to date .

1. Send HWMNBN a long, long way away.
2. Never, NEVER do anything like that Godawful Paul/Lil plotline again

However, Lillian and Paul helped create this thread. We are forever indebted, God rest his soul.

Perhaps the new thread title could contain a very heavy hint about The Divorce?

Charlie is going to propose a bit of embezzlement to Adam or do something else equally scummy. The fall will be fun to watch.

"Roll up for Loxfest! On the Main Stage MegaDairyMan covering "DIVORCE". In the VIP tent watch Lizzie make a bed then try to kick Roy out of it. LATE UPDATE: Festival cancelled due to lack of interest Albionola outbreak."

Do the SWs read this thread, do you think?

Ref. J'lene's singing; it was unplugged FGS; if you heard ANY recorded singer performing without echo boxes, countless tracks, electric instruments etc. they'd sound grim, considering that, she and pc perfect sounded good.

Anyone notice that I forecast the invitation debacle!! Also that I said that Susan will turn up like the bad fairy at Babette's feast and curse the kitchen causing implosion of the underfloor heating and the 'invited' guests to fall down the air vents!!?

Who's Sean? No idea what you're on about....

If home farm lost the contract what would that mean? Would it lead to a bevy of new characters? Is that why they are gettibg rid of old cast?

My money is on an industrial accident (methane cloud forms at mega fairy causing huge explosion)

but how did they come up with "you lack strength and depth?"!

I don't think that was a personal assessment of Adam. I think that it referred to the Home Farm team, in that if Adam was called away then someone else should be available to step up. Or, even better, someone should be dealing with the minor matters so Adam is not called away.

Charlie is annoying me no end.
Being charitable to the SW, he is serving a purpose. There is an often-repeated storyline of young turks challenging the staus quo. It is usually kept within the family - Phil v Dan ; David v Phil ; Tom v Tony - but in this case it is Charlie v Adam. It also fills the educational remit of advising farmers of current trends so they can realise that they are getting left behind. A bit like them telling Susan (and us) the other day about Twitter.
However, when it happens within the family there is a nice tension of "I love my dad but he's such a dinosaur" v "I love my son but he's such a hot-head in a hurry". This way it's just Charlie hectoring and threatening which is no fun to listen to. He is a one-dimensional sanctimonious robot, he is the one who has no depth of character.

Sean O' Connor BYOS - the new TA Editor.

(Because of your scarily accurate predictions....)

This stuff about Mike and Vickoi being on their knees has got to lead somewhere. The return of Brenda? If so, I do hope she brings the sugar daddy.

Even better - they both fall asleep leaving Bethany to hurt herself somehow. Social Services get called in, and who should it be but Jess ready to spill several loads of beans about Knob.

Is Charlie under an enormous amount of pressure to deliver results himself? That's the only way I can make sense of it, unless he really is just a one-dimensional bully

Yes I agree about Charlie R4. Why is Adam so wet with him? Is he frightened of him?

I know zero - just trying to keep my cover....

Missed most of yesterday so will have to listen to the movie!

I was worried that the grunting at the start of yesterday's episode was Adam having a Cider with Rosie moment under the combine with Charlie.

Such a relief.

Oh god don't ever mention Cider with Rosie, it was the fallback 'bugger it's my turn to do assembly and I don't have anything prepared' book at my secondary school. I must have heard the whole bloody thing droned out at least 3 times as a teenager...

Brookfield's harvest definitely isn't getting safely gathered in is it. There's not a chance Adam is going to get his combine over there...cue much repercussions over BL, Justin, Charlie etc.

I spent a self-flagellating half hour yesterday afternoon looking at vintage tea-parties and upcycling businesses - there's bloody hundreds of them around where I live, including one where you can hire random bits of 'vintage' stuff for weddings and parties - my particular favourite being some haybales with vintage tablecloths over them for your guests to sit on. There is not enough booze in the world that could be served at a wedding to persuade me that was acceptable hospitality!

We went to a party a few weeks ago which had straw bales to sit on. It was in a big London garden & looked really pretty. It wasn't a party as smart as a wedding but was catered. I think it was about the same level as Jennifer's party (my friend has 2 toddlers, no way she could make canapés for 80).

I've been to several weddings where there were straw bales to sit on - no problem with it at all. Though it wasn't the only thing to sit on, and not for dinner

Mind you, I can't imagine hiring straw bales + cloths, but then for the couples in question at least one of the party had farming family so straw was relatively easy to come by

If Brookfield didn't get done it would be a great publicity tool against the road - especially after the bonfire incident

"Big business kicks small family farmers over road protest"

Do we know how old Charlie is and what qualification he has for being in charge of the farming within Justin Eliot's organisation? He sounds much too young, and surely if he has relevant experience he should KNOW there wouldn't be a spare combine in the local area. He also doesn't seem to realise how precarious farming is, every farmer I know is one disaster away from bankrupt at all times. I know that this is standard farmer grousing, but they do seem to lurch from disaster to disaster! That's probably why TA doesn't seem so far-fetched...