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

[PseudoBadger]

Will Peggy make it to the end of this thread?

The problem with Pip's voice is that she never had a rural accent before, it was quite RP and consistent. So there is simply no good reason for it to start wandering around all over the place, at her age it would normally be more or less set for life.

It's not just the voice. Old(screechy)Pip had body language. You could see her flailing (?) hands and rolling eyes, reaching for a door to slam, flouncing off. I've no idea what NewPip is doing/feeling, ever. So her reading of the script makes no actual emotional impression.

And it's true about RichJohnny - an absolute natural at radio. Will be such a shame if the actor is poached for TV or Hollywood.

Where are ed and Clarrie and joe living? Oh - the stage is set for hazel to do the dirty on them somehow, maybe do the place up and then demand exorbitant rent.

Wonder where the Grange Spinney people will be housed or don't they matter?

up and down like the lodger's nightshirt

I so want to work that into everyday conversation.......

Errol, I'm worried about the Grundys too. However, one way or another they will be All Right. Someone will magically find them a house that they can afford - surely?

There have been so many thread title suggestions. Perhaps over the next few hours posters could suggest their absolute favourite,to save me trawling through the thread and getting the sack ?

Surely it's SOC says ""Après moi, le déluge" and soaks Ambridge to the core.

The Grundys will be able to live in Kate's holiday cottage, because she'll shag some bloke at college and realise she needs to live closer to Felpersham for "studying", without Phoebe and Jennifer getting so boring and killjoy about it all.

Old Pip had a bizarre accent that had some kind of regional accent that nobody else in Ambridge had. It wasn't RP.

enochroit we often just say "lodgers" and we all know it means up and down in some form!

It was a bit weird that Eddievand Clarrie were talking about ruined furniture and the insurance claim on the house by Hazel woolley without mentionin. where they were staying- I think they are possibly all still at GG since Clarrie or someone mentioned not being able to keep the ferrets there. Perhaps Lilian can put them up at the Dower house (presume she hadn't got tenants yet); she and Eddie are great pals and I can't believe she is so on the breadline that she needs the income immediately. I wonder if any am Vale properties got flooded? She won't be able to cope with the insurance claims without Anthea to do all the paperwork.

oh, actually, come to think of it, would a landlord not have an obligation to find alternative accommodation for his/her tenants if a home became uninhabitable? Would Hazel's insurance not pay for them to be put up elsewhere?

The local holiday rental properties might not attract tourists at the moment but people ousted by the flooding could rent them instead. Has Brian got two houses spare if he's made two workers redundant as he was planning to do a couple of months ago?

The Archers listeners are still holding out for Scruff swimming up the Am, towing an armchair in which Piggoi is sitting bolt upright, clutching her pussy with one hand and her rewritten will with the other.

Too long?

Those are Bluestocking's words from last Friday but still relevant.

A big HA HA HA to silly old fool Adam trying to creep onto Charlie and being offered some ditch clearance work in return!

trevor That little episode irritated me. It seemed so artificial, as if the SW was busily mugging up a scriptwriting textbook as they were writing. Monday: A feels blue and B feels green. Tuesday A feels green and B feels blue ... I didn't believe Charlie would have such a sudden reversal of sentiment. And the "clearing ditches" business was just too heavy handed.

It irritated me too Zero for kind of the reverse of your reason.

I am happy to accept that Charlie has had a change of heart but don't buy Adam's sudden (apparent) realisation that he is in love with Charlie: I really thought we'd lost you bullshit etc etc. I think that kind of thing is just-about-credible if, say, Ruth now realises that her immediate family is most important and has an about-turn. But for Adam to suddenly become so attached to Charlie after a bit of flirting and a quick fumble in the tractor just stretches my imagination too far.

The thing is, is there really any question of actual affection between Adam and Charlie? They have some things in common but their conversation is always pretty stilted and often adversarial. I thought their deal was just pure sexual attraction. That's why I'm really confused at Adam going all soppy over Charlie now.

I can understand being upset at saving someone's life, all alone, it being traumatic etc. But I can't understand how that will turn you from "thanks but no thanks, I love my partner" to "OMG Charlie how can you cheer me up? eh? eh?"

Plus isn't it a bit weird to be like that with someone who's clearly ill, in bed?

It would have made more sense if it was Charlie who'd had to save Adam, really, to make that change of heart take place.

It's a psychology thing; if you save someone's life you fall in love with them. But it seems to have worked in reverse as well.

I thought Adam referring to the way that the land is ruined by all the spraying, no proper composting etc. and looking like a 'desert" was good; it's about time that the wheat barons like Brian and BL got it in the neck.

Home Farm did go a bit environmental when there were grants for it when Debbie did her beetle banks. Talking of whom ... where is she?

Yes true, but they still obviously spray a lot and use petroleum based fertilisers. Eff the world up in other words.

Yes good question R4 where's Debbie? Where's Robert, Peggy and where's Scruff? I thought that the stupid hot tub was scruff esp. when Brian mentioned the smell .

Where's Debbie? Busily cramming for her final year drama school exams I assume.

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C'mon peeps - help Pseudo out!

I like "Prawn" and "after the watershed" references + the upcycled SATTC. But someone usually sneaks in with a brilliant pun or song lyric inches from the finishing line ...