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)

They have put up a postcard from Jennifer to Home Farm on the archers FB page. I'm weirdly thrilled to see what the postcode is!

Sorry about your therapy bill, Mimsy. I'm just happy to now know how to spell crimplene. I think! Microsoft was no use - I don't think you get crimplene in the States

That might be a bit esoteric for the current S.W.'s though Zero .

Sadly I've a feeling that crimplene may have gone global Basketz

The SWs don't have a very good record of getting things right when it comes to education, though, Zero. I'm still seething over the fact that when Kate Aldridge came back from South Africa to do a course at the world-renowned department of Rich-Bored-Women-Running-An-Orphanage-For-Poor-Children Studies at top-of-the-league Felpersham University, nobody made any attempt at realism.

1. Kate had scarcely a GCSE to her name. She had no A levels and had never studied at undergraduate level. She was admitted to a postgraduate standard course on the basis of having written a handbook for volunteers, which for all they knew had been cannibalised from something else.

1. Fees: Kate lives in South Africa and has no claim whatever to be ordinarily resident in the UK. Nobody mentioned at any point that she would have been treated as an overseas student for fee purposes. There was no way round this unless the Aldridges colluded with her in some pretty outrageous lies. It would have made an enormous difference to the fees but nobody bothered to mention it. Was Lucas Kate paying the fees, and if so how? Or were the Aldridges stumping up for them? One might have expected some reference to that, if so, as it would have been a very generous gesture. The overseas fee for a one-year course would have been a rock bottom minimum of £10k, probably 3 times as much as the EU fee.

It's always worse when they get something wrong that I know something about. At that time through my job I was spending a lot of time advising people applying to a postgraduate course, so these omissions were absolutely glaring to me. I suppose most people would scarcely have noticed them.

Mimsy the precedent for this was the presumption ( back in the 70s) that Shula was going to train as a Vet on the back of Arts A Levels. In that case the listeners put the SWs right and off she went to be a trainee estate manager typist at Rodway and Watson.

AllMimsy Is kate a real expat though? I bet she's still a british subject, using JD's address for uni purposes. Does marrying a foreigner abroad make you foreign?

Dh is an eu citizen but because he was resident outside the eu he had to pay full overseas rate. It's a residence test not a passport test I believe

...world-renowned department of Rich-Bored-Women-Running-An-Orphanage-For-Poor-Children Studies at top-of-the-league Felpersham University..

Yup

(Although I do remember one Aldridge girl acknowledging Brian's generosity in paying Uni fees. Thinking about it - it must have been Kate because there'd have been no reason for any up front paying for Alice.)

Anyone listening to R4 Give us a Clue? TA was mentioned cleverly.

Yes I heard ISIHAC on Monday!

Yes of course it's SIHAC ! I thought it was dominated a bit too much by Jack Dee though.

Yes, ppeat, BYOS is right - it's a residence test. I think citizenship comes into it too but you have to live in the EU (and not just come over to attend school/university and go home in the holidays, properly be based here) for three years before the start of your degree programme to get the EU fee status.

Zero, I think Alice expressed gratitude to her parents for supporting her through her studies so she didn't have to take out huge loans and/or find a job. She'd had a period of refusing to accept anything from Brian when she first learned about Siobhan and Ruairidh and then thought better of it. Kate has never expressed gratitude for anything in her entire life. Entitlement, thy name is Kate Madikane.

Yes but Kate probably (LIED) on her residence form and as i said used her parents' address.

Yes, Kate is just the kind of hypocrite to lie about that kind of thing while simultaneously condemning others for not paying their taxes!

Kate is a chip off the old block of Brian. Poor Phoebe, having to cope with the knowledge of both her parents' infidelity.

Cheesyknob, or Knobcheese?

Listened to the film this morning and couldn't help wondering if the SWs had been on here listening to our description sons of crimplene-wearing Roy of the Rotas. Escaped horse scene seemed to me to be a rather Hardy-esque way of trying to portray Rota boy as a strapping Chris Carter-type (in case were in any doubt). Entirely contrived IMO since if there is one thing we are all agreed on it is that Rota boy is not a heart throb! Elizabeth is not attracted to him because he is in any way sexy, but for all reasons previously outlined ( he was there for her when Nigel died, helped her with business through death, working with him reminds her of Nigel). I think she will come to her senses, but not until she has wrecked his marriage. The cat is now out of the bag with Freddie who will no doubt confide in Jill or Shula who have already seen the glint in Lizzie's eye.

YY babyb - null points. Utterly cringeworthy

Well isn't pc burns quite the man of hidden talents (no I'm not buying it SWs)

And what were his colleagues thinking? Why the hell has he brought us to this dive in the middle of nowhere with no public transport so a taxi will cost a fortune

And as for the grand opening of Fallon's tat upcycling store at Bolloxfest...I've never pined for the opportunity to buy tat shabby chic tables or whatever at T in the Park. Fools!

Is fallon going to deliver or is she expecting people to turn up with vans?

Or is her upcycling more the 'forks into coat hooks' type

Well exactly! Maybe the camper wheelbarrow service Rotaboy liked at Sexfest will trundle the stuff home to Pennyhasset etc

Oh I forgot about rotaboy - he's a bit of a hunky man mountain isn't he? He can just jog people's buys home to wherever in the country they live

Sexfest

Personally I am wholly convinced by Roy's transformation into the Bri-nylon Byron - he really puts the 'man' into man-made fibres.

I'm hoping for a spin-off calendar this year with him posing in a series of cheap work suits and smiling coyly while holding staplers, wrestling wild horses etc. Maybe if enough of us asked they'd print one?