The Archers - It's not about the money, money, money, think about Jill's honey, honey, honey, Justin wants to farm by satnav, forget about the prize tag.

[PseudoBadger]

Will The Dopeys have buggered off by the end of this thread?
Will Tom finally reach home, after weeks of trekking through the tundra?

There's nowt wrong with "rumbling on forever" - that's what TA does best.

Hmmm welcome to Radio a Addicts Cate. Did you do a search for the phrase by any chance?

I'm warming to my idea of Kenton and J'lene buying the farmhouse. I think she would quite like to be lady of the manor and Fallon could live over the Bull , not sure where she lives right now, and sell her upcycled shabby shite from the pub.

I thought Kenton wanted the money to buy out the pub from whoever part-owns it now. (I've lost track - is it Lillian?)

I teared up at Peggy's regretful speech, I HOPE Tony could hear her

To change the subject; I like Carol (and I also use herbal remedies!!) but Fallon's an idiot ; there's no way I would drink anything that had unknown ingredients, even for a headache.

Why do you always talk about Brookfield farmhouse as some sort of great place to live? I always imagine it as slightly crumbling with not enough space and small rooms. Not lady of the manor territory.

Maybe they will just move with the dopeys and ambridge will implode. Then we get lots of hilarious stories about newcomers and settling in blah blah

True BYOS Like a cosy cottage style place dark and creaky.

do you think the moral of the Brookfield saga will be 'money can't buy happiness'?

Yes ppeat - an old style farmhouse with a completely impractical layout (for non farmers) and low ceilings

@ BYOS We've only just got used to the last newcomer from Sunningdale!

Peggy is ridiculous. One daughter had children by three different fathers (and is married to a serial adulterer) and the other is shacked up (unmarried) with a bankrupt felon. Yet she thinks that Tony, who has had a stable life with Pat for umpty years and runs his business on principles not ££££, is the failure. If she was so worried about Tony taking after his alcoholic father why wasn't she also worried about Lillian the Lush?

If they do sell Brookfield to JE, how will the broader Archers clan deal with it, so not only Lizzie etc,. but the Bridge farm posse.

I hate all this. I liked the Aldridges being at the top of the social heap.

Re Peggy - the thing is Jenny and Lillian married well. Peggy the social climber was probably so blinded by the rich husbands that she got into the habit of seeing Tony as the loser sib.

Anyone who missed out on the first Jack should seek out the backstory on Wikipedia. Everything about the personalities of Jenny, Lil and Tony and everything Peggy does and says goes back to the first Jack. Actually, more than that. Explains why Jill has always referred to her DSIL as "poor Peggy". How the fragrant Lil could end up loving an aggressive fraudster. Why Susan sniffs, even as she trys desperately to cling on to their coat tails.

Amazingly I hadn't thought concretely about the brotherly parallel of Archers on the farm and at The Bull. It's a beautiful thing.

As was the idea of a northerly Archers outpost. Still think it could work. But the "All done and dusted" last night has scuppered it.

I wonder what percentage Rodways will take and whether anyone has taken it into account.
Indeed, have they told Rodways they've accepted Justin's offer?

Have they actually accepted Justin's offer?

I presume that the offer / acceptance is 'subject to contract' (i.e. professional advice, on both sides) which bring us to surveys and - finally - the sinkhole ...

No Psuedo - have been lurking on thread for ages

Am a relative newby to Ambridge; started listening when Lillian was having her affair with Paul. The problem I have is telling some of the male characters apart - Adam and Kenton and even David sound similar to me

I've only ever known Tony as Moany so am upset about his accident as I was enjoying his happiness with Jonny (overinfested, I am]

I've noticed derogatory, ageist remarks about Peggy on TA threads before but decided to question yours today.

^as per Justine MNHQ's suggestion that MN engage with people making ageist comments.

Oh how I long for the sinkhole to be brought back into play!

I hope it will be discussed when the survey's done and not just forgotten about.

Ok thanks Cate. I'll make sure to call Peggy a poisonous sow from now on. But surely most of the accepted names for TA characters (mostly coined elsewhere by funnier people) are pretty derogatory, some even worse than ageist?

Very true R4 Peggy certainly hasn't anything to get snotty about when you put it like that, but money talks to people like her and it does't seem to matter where it has originated.

Regardless of what we think about what the SW have done with Peggy's character and the quality of her lines, that was some tremendous acting from a 94 year old. What a phenomenal woman June Spencer is. Very few people that age would even be able to hold and read a script.

I agree Jessie

She was involved in some real life protests recently too, near her home.

I want to be like her or that test pilot when I'm their age.

money talks to people like her and it does't seem to matter where it has originated.

You'd expect such a staunch church-goer to have different priorities. I feel the need to quote Matthew 7:1-5* at her.
But JMcJ is spot on - the gripe is with Peggy, not the actress who did a superb job of raising my blood pressure.

*Make that 7:1-6 so we get a pig reference in for Tom.

Agree she is a real trooper to be still acting at 94yrs. Can't say I warmed to her when I heard her interviewed a while back though (Desert Island Discs or something). I remembered it because she was really, really awful about her only grandchild who rarely comes to see her apparently. (Felt very sorry for the girl being criticised so openly on public airwaves.)

Do you mean Capt Eric 'Winkle' Brown? He was great, wasn't he.

Yes I meant Capt Eric Winkle Brown - he recently got a new Sports Car.

I read this admittedly from the Mail, and June doesn't sound too bad, just sad that she rarely gets to see her Grand- daughter, and disappointed not to see her for her 90th birthday. I bet Jill feels the same about Meriel, and at least she has more than one Grandchild. I know my husband's Aunt would be a bit wistful if she didn't see much of her only Grandchild.