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).

[PseudoBadger]

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 don't think we know anything much about Charlie except that he is a bit of a whiz kid. I'm sure we haven't been told about his qualifications.

Did Lizzie persuade Old Polypants not to flounce off, or did he come back and say he hadn't meant any of it when he resigned? I must have lost consciousness and missed that bit.

If you mean at the funeral reception he didn't resign - when he said "I'm off!" or whatever he only meant back to the office...

And now he'll have a deputy manager named Getaldine to contend with.

I would have loved it if that battleaxe who was working with Lillian and Matt had gone to work at LL with Roy and Lizzie. I'd like to hear more of her.

I liked her too! She was annoyingly efficient. She wouldn't have stood for this teenage squabbling.

Anthea? I'm still waiting for her romance with Maurice to get off the ground. (But I guess she'd have to be widowed or divorced first...)

Anthea! Thank you. Yes, we need Anthea to take over. More of Maurice too, completely agree!

Exactly my thoughts - Anthea would sort Bolloxfest out in a brace of shakes. Would love to hear more about her and Maurice too.

Would Ed really have let Emmur come and sit with him in the combine? It seems very bloody unlikely. As does David feebly groping at dog biscuits when trying to think of Pro Bono

Charlie is such a bloody wanker

Grand Theft Combine!

I was thinking of Anthea yesterday, that it was a waste of a good character/foil for fagash not to have kept her! (relurks)

Wouldn't have blamed Adam for punching Charlie!

....Charlie did have a point though. One we all saw coming letting Ed Grundy loose on a £££££ combine harvester

I listened to the first bit of the film this morning. Kerrr-inge to Alice's squeals of "it's so zeitgeisty!". I do love the idea of Fallon lassoing the Cat&Fiddle as it trundles past and transforming it into a mobile tearoom.

Oh yes please please to Anthea at LL! She'd size Lizzie up right away, like a particularly strict form mistress with a recalcitrant fifth-former.

Charlie clearly has short man syndrome. It's the only explanation.

Another fairly good week this week, I particularly enjoyed the lost party invitation being subtly dropped in here and there throughout. Nicely done.
7.5/10 this week I'd say.

Oh and I was wondeirng about PC Harrassment sharing his feeeeeeeeeeeeeelings about Fallon with Fallon's, erm, mum. Would you? Not sure it's believable, and feels a little stalk-y.

We are off out so I've started the new thread a few posts early

m.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/2149422-Come-and-play-Grand-Theft-Combine-through-the-quiet-Ambridge-streets-And-by-the-way-ROB-IS-STILL-MARRIED

I looked Adam up on the website. It says he was born in 1967 which makes him 47 years old. To my ear he sounds more like a 27 y.o., and an immature one at that.
The SW need to make him grow up!

pinkfizzy I think that Lilian DID keep Anthea- as far as I know she still works for Amside but is just mostly silent these days.

Sorry yes, I meant a shame that she was relegated to being a silent character. Hope she pops up (&Maurice!) sometime soon. Susan in a strop is not that much to laugh about ... I enjoyed the little Nic/Lillian/Jill moment against Linda last week. V gentle. I have always thought that Jill had a streak of independent thought & mischief about her that makes her more real.
I'm very intrigued by the long gone characters returning/being referred to as well. I've been listening since 1965! & my son was accidentally born to the sound of Eddie Grundy & dumdi dum instead of planned music

Glass of wine. A mini large magnum and listening to the archers on a lazy sunny summer Sunday.

Can life get more perfect

And DH has just washed my car

Damn! Invitation misunderstanding all sorted fairly easily.

Not happy that Rich has suddenly become John, though.

Mimsy I've just been talking to myself about the new JOHN on the new thread....

Thanks, Zero, had managed to forget there was a new thread! Off to mark my place now.