SOC has soaked Ambridge to the core across a never ending weekend. Discuss The Archers post-watershed here.

[PseudoBadger]

Deluged damp squid or not? And has Peggy been assisted off the mortal coil by Rob yet?
And when will JD and Brian remember Debbie?

Morning - just checking in before the film as I've been away and mislaid you all :)

No film playing here.
I wondered who would gain supremacy on Long Wave - TA or the World Cup.
The cricket won!

The cricket always won on LW - my mother could rant on about it at length, when she wanted to be gardening - LW reception was always far better than FM.

Ambridge Synthetics (ie The Archers scene by scene in lego) on Twitter. I assume anyone can see these, even if you're not registered on Twitter. I particularly like their view of Hazel.

Oh I absolutely love those. Particularly hazel and Sabrina Thwaite

Oh my! Hours of fun to be had there Gasp0de.

Hazel is good - but Rob is stupendous.

Or is it Playmobil? Good stuff anyway. Yes, I like Rob v much too!

They are brilliant

They are fab. Love Lynda and Rob.

Oh Ambridge Synthetics might be my new favourite thing on Twitter...! It's Playmobil not Lego.

Ohhhh, love the pig-scouring one

mobile.twitter.com/ThePlarchers/status/582115352986972160/photo/1

Also, the lovely Nancy Banks-Smith's take on The Floods

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/mar/24/a-month-in-ambridge-great-flood-freda-death

Some of the comments are hilarious - e.g. Bert's comedy accent making Pam Ayres sound like Sylvia Plath

Thanks for that link Bore - that was beautifully written. I loved Bert's thinking that he'd ask Freda what to do and then remembering she wasn't there. That was such a BOOP point for me.

Not so keen on Hazel and Kate being so clunky. No light and shade at all

Neil Nunes obviously thinks that Rob's the dad, judging by his comment at the end :o

Glorious as ever! Thanks, Bore.

Caught up at last. I enjoyed the many fish gags-when the chips are down & all that
The limerick was genius.
I listen only to TA omnibus & I really feel that I'm missing out on the continuity announcements in the daily broadcasts. If anyone feels there's a particularly good one, may I ask please for you to share on here? A BOOP point goes to whomever does it

Annette Badland! I knew her voice was familiar. Yes, Doctor Who will be where I first remember her. Although now someone points it out, I remember her being the poor stupid housemaid taken in by Peter Davidson in that Agatha Christie story. It was a Miss Marple, not Poirot, BTW.

Hazel seems like a dreadful person. I was rather surprised at how quickly she managed to get me to "please let something dreadful happen to her" I'll swear her conversation with Peggy was only about a minute!

Thanks Bore for the brilliant link to NBSmith's crit. GREAT !!

I know it was Miss Marple originally Kirk `I was surprised to see one of Poirot's with the same name.

Yes Annette Badland does villainess well in TA, she has no redeeming qualities. At least Kate has misguided mother love to make her a bit human.

As far as I can recall (back to the early 80s as a listener), there's never been any redeeming quality to Hazel. I posted some stuff about her childhood which could be used as mitigating circumstances if she were ever in court. However, she's older than me and has learned nothing about how to behave and the importance of being kind and considerate to other people. I fear she never will now. I don't give out much hope for the village shop remaining in its current site or for the Grundy tenancy on Keeper's Cottage.

AND she was fretting about mud on her car or something (I find her voice hard to follow), yet wants to go hunting. Hazel dahling, the hunt takes place in fields. Mud is there too. Sometimes wet mud too. And do drop the pantomime diction.

Well, Helen has told us how that will work out.

Helen's delusions do make me laugh. Rob is going to borrow her car and drive far, far away.

D'ya think? But that would bring everything to a conclusion a little too quickly. Although she did say after Easter.

A million threads ago someone said perhaps Jess, who loves Ambridge, will end up in the village with Rob nowhere. Maybe the SWs read that.

she wants to go shooting, not hunting. shooting somewhat less muddy? (& no nasty dirty smelly horses)

or at least she wants to be able to have guests on the shoot. it wasn't at all clear what her own intentions were, gunwise. maybe she'll accidentally shoot a Grundy beater. or Peggy

It's The Shoot that Hazel is interested in. But why? Is she in league with Justin Elliott?