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?

I have a horrible feeling that BYOS is right. Or something that we're not anticipating is going to happen.

Kenton and Jolene's plane goes missing?

Kenton and Jolene's plane goes missing?

But Sid died in Oz (or was it NZ) so they can't repeat that.
Do you think that SOC is finally realising why you can't gallop on using up SL at the rate he does. Otherwise all the old hands say "we've seen this before".
How do you keep a soap going for 60+ years without repeating yourself?

I think the closest they get to an accident is that the storm is baad oop north and it's hairy driving and so R and Ben are scared - but they get home okay - Rooth realises why she likes Ambridge so much as the weather is generally more clement. It was very windy here (Scotland) last night so maybe in the Midlands too? Today is quite still again - though we are destined for snow again. Will R and Ben get snowed in at Prudhoe and Ben misses a few days of school.

Did Shula and Mark not have a (minor) row before his deading? That's the thing though - deaths in road crashes are fairly common - and TA has done it before - before Mark there was Sid's first wife too. In 30 years, not unrealistically often, I suppose. Though I still think it won't happen ....

Things do repeat in life, though. It's okay to repeat storylines, once in a while - you could have an interesting, "Oh, I can't believe this is happening all over again!" storyline (though they haven't actually pushed Tom under a tractor yet.) But it needs to be done sparingly, and realistically; we could probably take a cancer storyline, because actually there seems to be a pretty low incidence in Ambridge (Ruth is the only one I can think of.) They'd be really taking the piss if they had someone burn in a stable fire or fall off a roof, though.

Good point R4 .

And does that mean that, given the absence of any mention of John's anniversary, we are due another death by farm machinery?

What if it's David who dies? Just after he's declared that he can never, ever leave his farm.

What if it's David who dies? Just after he's declared that he can never, ever leave his farm.

Ooooh, that means we get a ghost. Now that would be a new SL!

A sort of archer and archer deceased in the line of Randall and Hopkirk? That'd be funny!

Ooh I loved Randall & Hopkirk (deceased).
I think Lil's credit cards were probably her own individual cards but Mat had the details and knew her PIN number(s). I strongly doubt if they were joint.

I loved Hopkirk. I had a teenage crush on him.

I like it. Can you imagine the planning meeting...

So, Tim. We're going to sell Brookfield and send you all away to be silent up north.

Nope, sorry mate, change of plan. Too many of the wrong kind of listeners are complaining . You're going to stay after all.

Just one thing old chap. You're going to die.

But all's not lost. You're going to become Brookfield's first second ghost. What? No of course you won't be talking. Look at the hooha when your dad had a crack at that.

Topaz mom is used throughout the whole of Birmingham.

So if ghostie-Dave isn't allowed to talk then what else can he do? Does he up-end the thermos in the middle of the night at lambing time or make mournful, longing noises every time Jill bakes flapjacks.

My dad was from Wolverhampton and I've never heard of this "mom" thing. Although we weren't brought up there we do use some of his expressions, my favourite being "suck" for chocolate or sweets

I for one will be mightily disappointed if there IS a crash after all that v. v. v. clunky signposting. Please prove to us you aren't that obvious and crude…. Rather like R4's predictions.

Think whole set up with MIL living on site is a horrific prospect challenging one. Ruth may be being overly spiky (although I am still sporting my metaphorical Team Rooooth T-shirt), but coming out of the shower to find one's DH and DMIL whispering about one would surely send the most placid of women into a seething pit of fury tailspin.

It's the first I've heard of Freda driving so I'm guessing her car is going to involved in an accident, especially if Carol indulges in her usual trick of spiking drinks with herbal additives.

Oops - just re-read my last post and realise it might have come across all wrong - as if I was implying that R4's predictions were obvious and crude!!! Au contraire….. What I meant was that I rather LIKE R4's predictions - as in suspect they may be spot on.

All we will hear of Ghostie Dave is muffled munching sounds as he not so silently eats and tries to talk.

enochroot I wondered about Freda driving. We could end up with dead Jill and dead Freda. Then Bert could have an attempt at courting Carol, in competition with Joe, oh the hilarity...like Valentine's night but even unfunnier. And Emmur could be the new cook at the pub. Assuming there will still be a pub.

Thank you for the clarification. I was feeling a bit crestfallen!

Thank goodness I read my poorly worded post again! I blame tonight's episode for cranking the drama up so high I became giddy.....

Is it really raining cats and dogs anywhere? This local deluge just isn't right - they shouldn't have plotlines which depend on weather which isn't actually happening.
Mind you we did have snow this afternoon.

Ruth is so having a crash isn't she.

We had a sudden torrential downpour at 7.15 pm ...

Gypsy thank you for one of the better scripts this year! I imagine GhostyDavid will be poltergeisting the flapjacks off the hot plate, out of the door and into the lambing shed.

How about accident involving Jill. (Non fatal). Ruth gets stuck somehow. Realises she is miles away from her family when she is in Prudhoe. And Jill is her family too.

HP extracts Ruth from being stuck, drives them all home, single handedly cures Jill whilst making the best marmalade also and they all realise she can look after herself just fine.

Well ok maybe not the last bit.

Or alternatively they have to rescue the herd and Ruth realises how much she loves her cows.

Ruth is going to realise something I am sure.

I'm from the Black Country and everyone I know from there says mom so afaik it's a West Midlands-wide Thing.

My kids, born and raised in the south east also call me mom