Rejoice, for the Dopeys are staying in Ambridge to feast on Oedipal flapjacks. Or at least David is. Discuss The Archers here.

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Will Peggy make it to the end of this thread?

flippin; nora! When is this endless biblical flood finish!!!???

I'm hoping that Rob will show his true nasty colours... but i fear that they want to make him into a bit of a hero!!! arrrggghhhh!

Please please please tell me it's not going to be the same thing tomorrow...??

Blimey, TA is getting a bit busy innit.

Hold on, one minute you're complaining that too many characters were involved. In the next breath you're complaining that you didn't know how Nick, Kiera, Mia, Usher, Ed, Emma, Susan, Neil, Oliver, Joe, Roy etc etc etc are doing!!

I agree it's far too soapy for the Archers but really you can't have it both ways!

I thought the scene where Rob was trying to bully Christine and Shula put him straight was good. She's seen his true colours

And anyone who had been in a flash flood where a river bursts its banks will tell you that yes, it does happen very very quickly

Hello, long-time lurker here, driven out of hiding by tonight's episode. Actually started laughing at vision of Freda legging it out of the church with Jill, Carol and Alan in damp pursuit. Highlight of the night.

The episode was a lesson in how not to conduct an evacuation of the old/infirm

Very good point about how they are going to catch up with 'real time'. Maybe they won't and next Monday they will be on our Monday with us and this flood is actually happening the coming Sunday?

We heard from more than enough people and they mentioned more than enough people!!

Breadandginger

"Actually started laughing at vision of Freda legging it out of the church with Jill, Carol and Alan in damp pursuit. Highlight of the night"

Thanks for that - I'm only 'listening' via the thread this week & that was pure gold

Now is approx when the awful flooding happened last winter. They'll have recorded all this 6 (?) weeks ago? They must have been gambling on this being another very very wet winter

BUT LOST - hahaha - take that, SOC!

And when the waters recede, where once was a little sink hole is now a gaping chasm. And no road can safely be built anywhere in the vicinity.
Stupid brown shitstreak butterfly was all a red herring.

I don't mind at all that the Ambridge weather is different to everyone else's. Given their recording schedule the chances of getting it right are always going to be a bit ropey and it's almost an Ambridge joke that their micro-climate is at odds with the rest of the UK.

So... Peggy? Any mention of her? Is she going to be found dead in her chair clutching her pussy?

It's odd - Freda is always portrayed as completely ancient with such 19th century tastes and attitudes that even Bert struggles to satisfy her whims. I was finding it hard to believe that the Witch of Ambridge couldnt have wrestled her to the cold church flagstones. But she's ony 75? Probably younger than Carol!

I feel I've been misled for decades.

15 minutes of hammy melodramatic shouting. Just dire and too bloody exhausting to keep up with.

I don't care any more.

In our rural community this week, our neighbour let his cows out for the summer now the grass is growing and the land isn't too soggy to rot their feet (although I think he may have jumped the gun and will pay for it in the long run) and there's a road closure which is causing chaos with the school bus route because Western Power are upgrading some electric pylons because another farmer is installing a solar farm. The hunt let the dogs run through our garden and Mr Quiet had a few choice words for them (although he refrained from smacking anyone around the head - Rob take note). I'm concerned the bluebells are late this year - and it may be because we trimmed the lane later than usual.

I love the idea of the brow hairstreak being a red herring - could be anywhere now the Am's burst its banks (along with the previously mentioned damp squid).

I think I would rather listen to 'The Quiets' than this

I love the idea of Peggy clutching her pussy.

More seriously, I'm concerned about Linda. She sounded so bewildered.

You wouldn't expect bluebells in early March normally, would you,anything?

Yes, agree that Linda sounded like she'd lost it. The "must rescue the Coalport figures/coffee table" line was quite disturbing. Where was Robert? And what was Clarrie doing there?

Down here in the far, far south west there were daffodils in flower the week before Christmas in a few sheltered valleys this year. We are on a very exposed south-west facing hill and our lane bluebells are usually several weeks behind those in the sheltered valleys. I'm not expecting them to flower yet, but I've been looking out for the shoots, and so far there are very few, and the ones that are there look like someone has attacked them with a machete (or a hedge cutter on a tractor )

It took us years to get the cutting pattern right on the lane to help the bluebells and other flora to flourish, whist keeping the brambles and nettles down and I am mortified to think I may have cocked up this year by failing to get our lane cut in time.

(We have our own rare butterfly - the marsh fritillary)

Why wasn't Clarrie worried about JOE?
Eddie couldn't have been looking out for him?!?
WTAF was Rob doing in a boat?! Where have they found that from?!?!
But agree good that he was being an utter twat - where Alistair was there to witness it unlike the hunt debacle.
Wonder if Saint Shula fessed up to her fib to Alistair?!?
On my time hop app it was saying about all of Ambridge giving up gossip for Lent - think that was 3 years ago?

At least Shula can have her equine swimming pool now! badoom tish LOL

This is obviously the start of the storyline about the road being scrapped. I was wondering how they would handle this.

Please don't let Knob be dead. He needs to stick around so we can relish his downfall which must be imminent, surely . He is so unutterably odious it makes me shake my fist at the radio - a good thing as shows I CARE shame same can't be said about likes of NewPip & ghastly Tregorran woman etc .

I couldn't give a toss about Scruff.
I shall be very upset if he's the sacrifice to the microclimate flood gods. Someone asked where Robert was - he was rescuing the llamas, which as puggle correctly remembered live near the river.

Ambrocalypse now... and yesterday... and tomorrow...

Rob can't possibly be dead. Fortunately for him, Alistair is used to treating beasts of all species.