Oh. Hello. I didn't know we'd invited another The Archers thread round darling. How nice to see you. Discuss Ambridge here.

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As tribute to the best SL at the moment...

Nice blog interview with Ed.

He says exactly what Mimsy has said about Emma!

still I never ever EVER look at actors' pictures. It always upsets me

mrsmootoo Thought you'd like to know that I signed the e petition a few days ago, but I've just popped over to sign my DH as well.
I'm off to post a not so random photo once I find my phone.
I really like Eddie - I think he's a brilliant supportive dad, poor Ed.

My old milk bottle

Tom Raider & Super Clarrie (oh.........Edward)
But I like Grand Theft Otto better!

Just popping in as you've fallen off my TIO list.

Rain again?
Sink hole!! Sink hole!!
When are they going to find it... Road can't go ahead! No move up north!!
Get on with it!!

Poor Joe.

Oh shut up pip! Spending money like there's no tomorrow!
It'll end in tears!!

Pip is so annoying!

"Something" is going to happen to Ed. Either 'the end' - suicide, or gets run over by a tractor, or (less likely) a windfall or lucky break of some sort - although the latter might be wishful thinking on my part.

I didn't like Joe's "nothing stays the same anymore" message.
Was he talking to Ed or to us?

I want Ed to find out after he's sold his cows that they have been bought by Oliver and are on their way back to Grange Farm.

Is it possible that finding out about the old dairy is going change David's whole approach to dairy farming? Was he just being nostalgic or does he really think there might be another way? I couldn't decide - I don't know enough about it (in spite of years of listening to TA ) Can someone with genuine farming knowledge please tell me - the utter joy of this thread is that I know before long someone will be along to do just that.
I also thought sink hole, sink hole again tonight. Why else would the weather in Ambridge be so at odds with the weather elsewhere? Someone is really trying to make the point that it has been pouring forever and there must be a reason for that.

My contribution to Ambridge: The Musical! is a version of Bali Hai from South Pacific. I need help with the second half though!

Most people live in a little village
Threatened with bisection by Route B.
One fam'ly longs for an escape route
To a dream life funded by Justin E.

Hadley Hough may call you
Any night, any day,
Ruth and Dave, you'll hear it call you:
"Come away...Come away."

Hadley Hough will whisper
In the lowing of the herd
"Here am I, just right for robots
Leave everyone else right in the merde."

I wondered if the open air dairy/direct selling might be a way forwards for Ed but his is pretty much open air already isn't with a bail? But he does buy feed. Would it be practical for the cows to be out all the time?

I know. I shall never be tempted onto the BBC site again - dd was ill and I was in bed 'looking after her'! So glad about the rain tonight as I told my mum only today that it was always raining in Ambridge and there would be a sink hole. How would open air farming help Ed? Is it that it would be so contrary to Berrow Farm that it could be a hit? Is that at all likely?

Hope Pip falls down that sinkhole. Her profligate spending is getting mightily annoying.

I assume though that she can't actually sign any cheques or online payments for the farm.

No I'd imagine not. She can however pester them senseless until they just give in to shut her up

The crafty minx will know the on-line banking passwords!

Rain? What rain? Here we still have snow frozen hard.

I think the rain might be an attempt to predict the weather patterns following the past few years where we have seen lots of counties, particularly Somerset, under water for weeks.

A big miss though.

When they were forward-planning the plot they seem to have forgotten that there's quite often a cold dry spell around now. The deluge must be necessary to their plot, they're not usually quite so at odds with reality otherwise.

Lets hope that whatever it is causes Dave to rethink, somehow involve Ed and aquire Mikes milk business etc etc. Pip will be disgusted by the downfall of her northern empire-building plans and defect to Berrow farm... probably a bit young to oust Rob from his position, unfortunately. (I don't like Pip but he's obviously worse and being replaced by a young woman would be so galling to him)

I missed tonight's episode. Sink hole? Seriously? Where?

We have deduced that there must be a sink-hole or simliar and presume that it will play a pivotal point in the plotting. There was an incident a while back where David and Jill were driving along a track somewhere and it partly fell into a hole that hadn't been there before (something like that). And a spring on Ed's land disappeared. Think there's been some other odd water-related events, and now Ambridge has its own localised deluge.