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

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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?

I actually had halloumi for tea last night . I am also a yoga obsessive. I really hate Kate!

I was wondering if it was deliberate or a sw error.

Oh the talk about MAMIL reminded me of when we had a flat in Cannes it was above a club for such men, they were a scream with their man tans and huge Harleys!! Cannes is an alternative universe.

I said they were going to 'write out' Freda, she had a massive heart attack (probably all those hot pots) "sorry" . BOOP and PEAT point for the scene with Bert acting well IMO I really cried .

...huge Harleys..

((Your life sounds impossibly glamorous ppeat. I'm well jel. )

Well, not that glamorous Zero we had to use ear plugs to sleep (due to the club), annoyingly the other residents managed to get the volume reduced and then the club closed down AFTER we had to sell!

I had to google MAMIL. Oh God we've got loads of them around here. Some come from out of the village and congregate in our village tea room on Sundays. Others are competitive local Dads who cycle as part of the whole mid life crisis triathlon thing.

We also get bikers. They're either chromosexuals on their Harleys or PowerRangers with their matching leathers and bikes. The latter only come out on sunny days and their tyres have chicken strips visible 'cos they're too scared to lean their bikes and they travel everywhere in a slightly wobbly upright position. But their leathers look nice

Not sure what Environmental Health would say about selling food at The Bull again.

Yes Gypsy It's either 'Middle aged men in Leather' or in Lycra, very funny. I like the sound of 'chicken strips' .

Family of biker males here. All very dismissive of too much chrome, too much matchy-matchy and tyres that never get properly scrubbed in and start and end the summer looking as good as new with their chicken strips intact.

I love halloumi. I love to hate Kate

BOOP Someone upthread was saying she 's unrealistic; She's definitely is not!! I know quite a few women who should know better behaving in the same fashion as Kate, just being vegan is nothing compared, at least she eats fgs!! She was obviously making the wraps esp. for feebs so making a huge sacrifice of her vegan principles .

Ppeat - Are you the person who has a friend who eats prana style? Even my yoga teacher told someone to have a fag or a slice of cake on hearing that!

Kate is totally self centred. I cringe every time she opens her mouth. Poor Feebs...

What is Mamils please?

Middle aged men in leathers

Ah, thank you. Yup I lived with one of those until he sold his bike last year. I have also therefore been a Mawil

Another organic farming article. The Guardian.

If the Village shop moves to Bridge Farm not all the produce will be organic. Wonder if that would be the point when Tom insists BF ditches its organic status.

Sorry not reading thread properly

Is Susan going to be conflicted over the shop?
She's expecting Justin's fund to bail out the VS in its present location which is central and convenient.
She works at Bridge Farm and is, I think, postmistress. She might find it convenient to have all her work on one site.
But she might think Pat is taking over the VS.

Is Pat taking over the VS?

I was desperately willing Shula or Bert to say that Freda had gone peacefully .

Not sure I'd class pizza, cold pie and salad on hard chairs (I imgaine those hideous faded plastic orangey red ones) as a treat après un deluge!

I've finally worked out where Kate gets her bitchiness from, it's Peggy, the gene skipped a generation clearly.

I'm back from a lovely afternoon watching a play version of Cabin Pressure as recommended by Mr Finnemore earlier this week on Twitter...it was a combination of Gdansk and Xinxhou, it was very good indeed. DS particularly enjoyed his first grown up theatre trip and the otter on a shelf at the rear of the set!

Today's Guardian has a good article by Cerys Matthws on what music to listen to if you can no longer face the Archers omnibus.

Surely The Bull Upstairs had somewhere to sit already? And some sort of bar? Or have I got a wrong plan of the Bull in my head?

I think you are right, Silvery. They had parties and all in the bull upstairs. I assume they had chairs and a bar too. BTW I wan ted to abbreviate your name to Pussycat, but that would have confused everyone.

Maybe you can get vegan haloumi. If so, it'll taste like plastic probably.

And tables ....

Lilymaid is Cerys on at the same time as they omnibus?
I know where I'll be if that is the case. She's great. A week away and now I'm back, I've found myself AVOIDING listening to TA, for the first time in decades.