Our modest little The Archers thread has its very own radio celebrity! Join us for the hottest chilli in town, and await the impending doom as all plans go into reverse in Ambridge.

[PseudoBadger]

It's all getting rather delicious. I feel sorry for Kenton the fool

Can see your dads pov though. Helen seems quite happy with the situation! The last scene between the two of them she was totally on board with his suggestions.

You should ask him how he thinks your mum would react if he supported her like that!!

Just wandered over to the EastEnders thread to gawp at all the frothing over who killed Lucy.

That'll probably be us next year ...

I liked all the clarrie and susan stuff, though in my mind I could hear an epic AIBU thread about the ethics/etiquette of jumble sales - should the helpers get first dibs and be able to set stuff aside, or should it all be available when the doors open? (Not sure how Hilary noakes could have policed that)

Lovely to hear Phil... And quite cleverly done in that we never really know what a character is thinking.. They may mutter a bit into their beards, talk aloud etc, but hearing a radio character think is really difficult to convey. I wouldn't like it all the time and tbh in 30+years of listening it is the only aural flashback I can remember...lovely to hear Dayveed claiming back the farm

Am I alone in being somewhat aghast at that episode? The Archers is fly-on-the-wall, surely? We don't get to hear people's thoughts.

It has dented my suspension of disbelief even more than Matt going .

But I suspect it will repair itself.

No, that was one of the things I didn't like about AmEx, that they went into people's thoughts (at least in the second series, I think.) It's not right.

Oh, it would be good if Emma could take on AO and make a roaring success of it. Given how Rob seems to despise her that would just be lovely. Susan would be able to help too, loads of food retail experience (that reminds me, surely we're overdue a reappearance by Hazel set on closing the village shop?)

Helen is as daft as a brush. If Rob suggested jumping off a cliff, would she do that?

David - also as daft as a brush. Driving up and down Grange Spinney in search of his marbles wooden farm while sheep do their lambing unattended.

St Smugula - daft doesn't begin to cover it. Lying to the police? Completely out of character. If she has perjured herself/attempted to pervert the course of justice, that really would SATTC.

I do love the idea of Lillian and JE as a mega-rich power couple although I don't think it's very likely. Jennydarling wouldn't like it one little bit!

That crossed my mind re hazel the other day too errol. I suppose she could (figuratively) get into bed with Justin Elliot

Oh, Rob wouldn't suggest Helen jumped off a cliff. But he might steer the conversation around to the tedium of walking on elevated ground, and then when she all of her own accord came up with the bright idea of jumping he'd just say 'whatever you think best' or 'well, I didn't like to say...' or whatever weasel phrase best fitted.

Have just read some gems from this thread to dp, going all grubby at how witty everyone is. He says, you do realise the SWs write this thread (luckily I was sitting down at the time). Have tried to explain that actually we on this thread are writing the story lines now. He doesn't look convinced.

BYOS that is an interesting question for df. My mum would laugh a lot at it though!

I am utterly bemused by all this breaking the 4th wall shit.

I am supposed to be the upbeat voice of optimism but tonight I am a little shaken, shall we say

In fact I am disboopified. Utterly unboopificated.

I am sans BOOP

My BOOP has sotmc

Well, maybe it will turn out that Jill (who is clearly a genius of manipulation) had for some reason taped Phil's leaving-the-farm-to D&R speech, found it in the attic and implanted it in David's prize Hereford to bring him to his senses. Better?

Oh BOOPy! Say it isn't so! I am feeling much more BOOPsome recently, in fact I'm almost Betty BOOP.

So Jill is gaslighting David, and has been all along?

GENIUS, Errol!

Well of course she has! Isn't that what parents do to their children?

Thank you Errol. I'm not sure it's an entirely sound plot but in terms of dramatic theory I much prefer your story.

Like BitOut I've been more than a little shaken - and trying to avoid thinking about it. Lord knows what they're planning next ...

But BOOP the wedding dress being made tighter for the benefit of the bridegroom.

Papa Stilllearnin might have a point about Rob.

The world since he left boarding school must be a scary place for him. It's full of hunt saboteurs, gay men, uppity women, common people, interfering busy bodies, organic farmers et al.
Inside his own cottage he's the all-knowing house-master. He's happy to cook a supper and iron his own shirts once in a while so long as everything is sweetness and light, rules are obeyed, he's in control and can maintain his own self-image.

This SL is more Jekyll and Hyde than Shakespeare.

I have just realised that one of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt not bear false witness". Very clever SWs, very clever, especially around Lent.

I am sorry that our own dear BOOP has reacted so violently to the Phil-flashback. I am afraid that it was a BOOP for me
BOOP.

However let down a bit by David and Jill going to Grange Spinney to literally get the toy farm back from the incomer. Would have been much better for him to have arrived at the jumble sale to be told "Sorry, it's been sold"? for him to have declared in anguish "I should never have let this happen" and for the music to have kicked in. Intelligent listeners and all that..

I'm fully expecting God to make an appearance tomorrow and do some smiting at the Stables and Willow Farm. I thought the voice of Phil was utterly ridiculous and totally unArchers. It has stretched my credulity far far more than any of the ludicrous SLs recently

"he wedding dress being made tighter for the benefit of the bridegroom"

I know