The Archers - It's Full Of Pants! Listeners are allegedly leaving in droves. Will Peggy also FOHMC?

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She's got a whole calendar to use!

It would be totally unrealistic for Tom to turn up with no one mentioning him and/or being surprised.

His dad is fighting for his life - why on earth would he not come back immediately. Unless the sw think the only way across the Atlantic is by boat

Ah - yes that could be the explanation. Rob secretly putting it into Johnny's mind that he is no longer wanted at Bridge Farm - while at the same time praising him to the family.

Oh yes, the evil Rob is probably poisoning poor Johnny whilst bigging him u back at the farmhouse. We haven't heard the last of that story line. what happened to the pregnant ex??
did anyone else pick up on the comment last night from Brian about parcelling up Bridge Farm with a bit of land and then selling it on? Ruth and David wouldn't be happy.
I don't care what the producers say on R4 I cannot get my head around R and D going. They - and Bridge Farm, are the heart of the programme around which the rest revolves.
This may be why I am depressed on this rainy November Monday

Is there a stable round the back of the Bull? I reckon Jess will be turning up on Christmas Eve looking for a manger with en-suite

I swear to god that Ambridge must have it's own dimension in time and space such that it is totally unreachable by normal means of travel. I actually looked back at the thread from when Chris got hurt and I'd googled how much it would cost to get the next available flight back from Canada and it was about £800. It's utterly inconceivable that given Lils and Jenny are at the hospital that there is no-one prepared to spring for the last minute flight across the Atlantic - a few hundred quid is not beyond Brine or Matt and both of them are actually jolly good 'do the right thing' type chaps in this kind of situation I suspect.

The longer running SATTC bit from this will be if it brings Tom back as I can't see him handling Johnny-come-lately being installed at the farm well; given the whole reason he sacked off the wedding and went to Canada was to get away from the pressure to replace John.

And yy - there is far too much major plot going on at the moment.

Ooh, I like the no room at the inn plot. What a Christmas cracker that would be and an unmasking of 'Lovely Rob' to spoil the fun.
Totes agree about Canada not being on Mars. Mind you I used to watch East Enders and if anyone went to Manchester they never came back.Ever.

Oh I love the idea of a Christmas Nativity scene with Jess .

I know there has to be some action and it can't all be about yoghurt and Mrs Snell's am dram but after a tough day at work I look forward to the calming effect of the Archers at 7pm with a glass of wine and the supper on. I'm all for some shennaniggins (sp?) such as Jess giving birth in the hay or festival frolics or Borsetshire Land up to no good but that is as far as I want it to go.
There is EastEnders creep in my view, where if we don't have some death and gore they think we will switch off.
We are not like that, there is plenty of blood and stuff on TV, the Archers is gentle, or it should be.

I'm Forry that the departure of the Tucker's means we will never have a long term storyline about Bethany. Way back when it was revealed she had DS loads of folk on the ML board voiced their scepticism about the SWs ability to do this send they were right. A missed opportunity to show how a child with DS and her family cope with everyday life.

Yes agree Katie. Sending her away is a bit of a cop out but I'm sure they will bring her back for a point and stare before sending her away again. Nothing like a sensitively handled storyline

Awwww, to little baby Jessus Nativity

And yes, TitchyKnob is isolating RichJohn

At the beginning of the year, elsewhere in the Webiverse, someone posted some long-term spoilers (apparently someone had overheard "an obnoxiously loud member of TA production team" in a Birmingham restaurant).

Much that was foretold has come to pass, including Jill moving to Brookfield, Tony's accident and Lynda's staging of Blythe Spirit

There may be more to come...

Oh bore - you are going to have to pm me with details now as I need to know whether I should just give up now and not waste my life!!

You have mail

Knowing that would really annoy me. I'd want to stab the annoying prod team member with a fork or summat.

Well, I've just been checking the festation (spooky! It did come up as that. largely bc my fingers are fat and f and g are beside each other on the keyboard) calculator on Jess's behalf, and if conception was around 13 th Feb. or earlier (it was the weekend before, wasn't it? 13th was when Knob was impregnating some Essex girl) baby Jessus is now overdue. He/She should have arrived in 1st week of November. Of course she could still be pregnant but no way is that baby staying in till its namesake's birthday!!

I like to think Jess has gone back to her mum's in Surry with the new-born, and because Knob was such a callous bastard when last she saw him, she has decided to keep quiet for now. After all it's not just in Ambridge that things are awfie busy. At some point in the future she will give him some kind of shock, like a lawyer's letter or similar. Helen won't ask as she believes Knob that he is not the father

I'm hoping Jess will turn up clutching the infant Jessus wrapped in a shawl at a conspicuously inopportune moment to cause thRob max embarrassment!

And of course the Knob face (you know how babies nearly always look like their dad) will be peeking out of the shawl. Everyone else will immediately realise it's Knob's child. But poor deluded Helen will continue to be, well, poor and deluded. And there will be talk .....

Hampshire rather than Surrey I think Basketz (nothing more useful to add.

I've been lurking in Peet's Bore and saw mention of that but couldn't find the original post about the spoilers. Please may I have mail too if you have time?

Thanks, chemi, I sit corrected! I used to not know the difference anyway ......

Lynda and Jim are so funny together.

I sometimes lurk in Sue's Gypsy, and saw it there.

PM sent!

Shall I start an Archers Spoilers thread and put it in there?

Dogging... Whatever next?

Yes, good idea !

Good idea - maybe a sw will see and stop/go depending on our feedback!!!