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?

minkGrundy I read HP as Harry Potter in your post and thought oh that'd be a novel twist to the tale!

Much as I'd like a deading I'm not convinced there will be one. I think, given that David was imploring Ruth to be safe etc as she flounced then he really is the one most at risk of harm,in the water filled milking parlour.

Ruth will realise whatever she needs to realise and then we'll be on track for the best Christmas ever once David is fixed by the Ambridge medicine fairy . In fact if they have a make up shag then we could even have a Bonfire Night baby.

In fact, warming to this theme, then we could have David, Ruth and baby Justine atop Lakey Hill with David declaring " who would have thought it eh Ruth. This time last year we were burning Justin Elliot and now look at us."

I need to listen again to last night's episode as I missed the last few minutes due to a friend phoning and I couldn't work out what day of the week/time of day it was.
I got the impression that it was late afternoon/early evening - if it was Saturday, why didn't Ruth go in the morning? She was saying that she wanted to have a good chat with Heather but she would arrive late at night. Somehow I had assumed it was Friday night as that would have given her two days away.
Also, if the weather was that bad I'm sure Heather would have been on the phone to say don't worry about coming.
We had a sudden downpour, including hail yesterday about 5 but not Friday or Saturday.

I'm finding the Ruth/MIL thing a bit forced. This is the sort of storyline which could have been built over months (even years) but instead Ruth and Jill have always got on rather well. It was Ruth who invited Jill to move I to Brookfield, Jill's never been overbearing until now. I think her reaction re David's turn around would have been relief he was staying, but less triumphant. She would have been concerned about how Ruth would react, would have advised a gentler approach and would have been more concerned about Heather-pet. I also think she would be keeping a low profile now rather than lurking in airing cupboards and whispering with Ruth's hearing. It's all a bit unnecessary in what is already a melodramatic storyline. Plot over character again.

I think there was a bit of tension between Jill and Ruth when they first got married - I seem to remember that Jill kept popping round unannounced.

I don't think there will be a car accident. I think Jill will have one of her funny turns which will be fatal or put her in the next room to tony.

If we do get a car crash then the sw need a lesson in subtlety. Actually they do anyway as it was a heavily over clunky hint at what is to happen, or a heavily over clunky red herring.

Sure, you can say its got us all talking and wondering - but not in a good way but a mocking way! Not as clever as you think you are soc

The weather is getting on my nerves as it is too fictional!!

Oh yes, BYOS, I'd forgotten about Jill's funny turns and that "indigestion" she kept maundering on about, and it seems that she has too. Is the Ambridge health fairy responsible? Or possibly La Tregorran and her herbal remedies?

I think all the clunky foreshadowings can point to one thing only. The liquid pouring up out of the parlour drain means that the Hellmouth has opened. Ambridge twinned with Sunnydale. Who do you fancy as The Slayer? I reckon Phoebe, with Jim as her Watcher.

I got annoyed all over again with Ruth saying "I'm putting MY mother first for once." Firstly, it was in response to David suggesting she should delay going because it was dangerous, so in effect she was saying she was putting her mother above her own and Ben's safety and her husband and children's wellbeing - nothing whatsoever to do with Jill. And secondly, she's been putting her mother first for months, otherwise why would a move to Prudhoe even have been contemplated?

I think Ruth is just lashing out at David and Jill with everything weapon she's got. And I don't blame her. I expect she does feel very alone right now and if I were her I'd be scuttling off to my mom as well. I don't think, as irritating as Ruth is, she would purposely put her and Ben in danger. She obviously thinks she'll be OK to drive.

If something happened to Jill Ruth would feel dreadful. It would also be pretty ironic considering everyone has been anxious about Heatherpet. I think something is bound to happen to keep Ruth and Ben stuck up North while disaster strikes at Brookfield. I thought Elizazbeth's words about finally realising the importance of family were an ominous portant as well as the dramatic weather.

If the SWs really are reading this then the sinkhole has to feature eventually.

Either that or they're about to do the story they should have done during the floods last winter.

There was a cringemaking episode when Jill walked into the bungalow (David and Ruth lived there at first) and found them in flagrante on the sofa. That cured her of her emergency casserole dashes.

didn't the same happen to Jenny with Alice/Chris?

Yes, I think that was in the forge. What a load of old toot we've had to put up with over the years! David and Ruth on a haystack, Ruth and Sam in a cowshed, Lizzie and Nigel by the lake, that awful business with Susan transcribing a tape from Julia's dictaphone and finding that it had been left on by mistake and picked up another smoochy scene with Lizzie and Nigel, Brian and Siobhan all over the place, John and Sharon being found in flagrante by Hayley, Lizzie and Roy and of course that shower scene. I'm mentally scarred.

Oh Bluestockng (again), in heaven I will listen to the Buffy/Ambridge mash-up every day.

Phoebe and Jim would be an awesome combination. But who would be Willow? Or Spike?

That shower at The Bull has a lot to answer for. (Fallon and Harrison most recently.)

Interesting that you remember every separate episode of "toot" with such fluency Mimsy!

Mimsy - in what context do we now use old toot?

Can I proposition dh with 'fancy a bit of old toot?'

at mimsy with the toot.
And double at being cured of emergency casserole.

Emergency antiflagrante casserole followed by oedipal flapjacks.

Tsk Mimsy, I'd managed to suppress at least some of those horrors.
But now the dictaphone one is flooding back...

Hello and thanks for the new thread!
Just marking place. It's definitely prudda though. And definitely "mam" not "mum".

Hello and thanks for the new thread!
Just marking place. It's definitely prudda though. And definitely "mam" not "mum".

I have an encylopaedic memory for Archers-related old toot, of all kinds, not just chilli-related. Now there's one I didn't list above...

Just don't ask me to remember sensible, important stuff from real life. Yesterday I started spooning soup onto a plate, not the bowl right beside it.

Was it Mark and Shula in a cornfield? (?was it a cornfield?)

Wasn't it Shula and a reporter (someone before Mark) on Lakey Hill or a cornfield?

it was Shula & somebody in a tent while Nigel & Neil (??? surely not) commiserated at the field gate