Culvert operations in Ambridge - discuss The Archers here. It's not his baby by the way.

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Is Ed's wedding very soon?

Ah. That is what those big piles with the tyres on are!

dfw, round here (Lancashire) there are often round bales in the fields encased in pale green plastic. Is that haylage?

btw, does anybody believe that someone as organised & anal as Lynda wouldn't have had Scruff chipped?

How ridiculous, of course Scruff would have been chipped. Just LAing so I don't know how it all turns out!

theonewith sorry, I didn't get round to mentioning bales! It can be silage or Haylage. Haylage is halfway between silage and hay, as the name suggests. Often fed to horses. Some farmers bale silage because they need to transport it from ground further away from home so can't clamp it, or because they have surplus forage to sell, or because they don't need a big quantity, or don't have a silage pit. Lots of reasons. Silage in a pit is chopped by a forage harvester so it's shorter fibre. Baled silage is not chopped so it's longer and intakes can be lower. It also generates a huge amount of waste plastic which is a pain in the bum!

Well, I seem to have managed 3 weeks away from the radio with just one text one evening (from a very helpful DS) saying 'Rob is not the father' .This did confuse me for a few minutes as TA was not on my radar just then. Now I've been back for 10 days, we've had THE wedding of the year at last, Will has buried the hatchet, Kenton has dug it up again, Auntie has had a shock, we've had a red herring over Scruff - which you could see a mile away. Not Scruff but the red herring. The biggest SL is obviously what will happen over the blocked culvert.

On this thread I've had to contemplate Helen and her cap (presumably more audible when being removed though? quelle horreur!!). Is that really all that ahs happened in a month in Ambridge? Talking of which, has the wonderful Nancy been in print in the last month? If so, can I have a linkie, please. This thread has filled most of the gaps in my listening. Thank you, everyone.

And what did happen with Tiger's actor? Was there a big falling out with the prod team?

So a clamp is not an actual clamp?

So leaving aside the fact that Kenton is a prize idiot when it comes to money

Surely the insurance payout will cover the tv?

Soc needs someone from the insurance industry to sit down with him and explain in little words how it works

Same goes with Christine's valuables. The insurance assessor would have advised re security. In fact the stuff left in an unoccupied house with plugged in humidifies probably wasn't insured and she would have been informed

Now that Jolene disagrees with his latest move Kenton may soon end up divorced as well as bankrupt.

Perhaps HWMNBN will have the pleasure of observing him being thrown out of some random Borchester pub.

I'm afraid that NBS was disappointing this month. For some reason, she wrote just before the wedding.

I too immediately thought of HWMNBN. I hope we're wrong.

Scruff would have been fitted with a top-of-the-range chip and tracking device, if available.
He's out there somewhere evading satellite surveillance.

Covert culvert capers look like continuing to another thread but far more interesting than Kenton's slide into bankruptcy.

Surely Jolene has to cut up the credit cards and get the bills redirected so Kenton can't find the numbers and order new ones? It would be terribly out of character for her to confine herself to having the occasional whinge as he drags them deeper and deeper into debt.

Topaz we hadn't heard from Tiger for quite a while then with no preamble, clues or even the slightest conversation leading up to it, he 'disappeared'.

Looking back, his last appearance was before SOC started.
I think that he objected to the new broom and was offered the door, and he took it.

I'm really tempted to seek the actor out and ask him, as his professional life comes quite close to mine. Although I wouldn't have the nerve

NBS on Tiger's disappearance

Not sure if that will have worked, my first attempt at a link on the app!

Nicely linked. I hadn't realised Tiger had been silent for so long before he disappeared.

I'm a bit confused by the competitiveness about Open Farm Sunday. It's not a money making exercise, either on the day or in the long term. Surely the point is to promote agriculture across the board, not engage in divisive intensive versus extensive competition. Doesn't seem very realistic to me, farmers usually stick together, regardless of system.

Also how is it three months since the flood?!!

Thanks for the explanation about silage etc. DFW What happened to it before plastic was used?

We live in rural Fr. and there are horrific concrete 'tower like' buildings around the place, used by the farms obviously, I was wondering what they're used for? Are they dryers for the wheat harvest?

Ref. competitiveness there must be some places where there is bad feeling between huge industrial units and more 'natural' farming. (Esp. if they block culverts )

I listen at bedtime and have missed whatever plan Saint David had cooked up re the telly
Can anyone fill me in?

3 months shocked me too, dfw

And also I did think that about the competitiveness (unless they've made money previously out of burgers etc?)

According to the website, the farms doing it local to me are quite widely scattered, so maybe having 2 so close together complicates things - what's it like where you are? (Anyway I suppose having dedicated a day to it you would be a bit depressed if nobody turned up!)

for anybody interested in visiting one www.farmsunday.org/ofs12b/visit/findfarm.eb

Yes it was cooked up by Lizzie and Shula actually and shules asked Dave to contribute. Of course ridiculous Kenton and on takes umbrage and blames Dave for trying to help. J'lene 'll get extremely pissed off with him soon.

It was even more ridiculous than that. The TV is a serious piece of equipment, a money-generator for a commercial business. They were going to present it to Kenton as a surprise, after teenage Josh had researched it on the internet.
Can you imagine them clubbing together to buy a new piece of kitchen equipment (or a tractor or a horse box) as a 'surprise'. You'd consult first, surely?

I'm loving the grammatically correct but weird "J'lene'll".

I've just looked up that Open Farm Sunday website - we have two local farms on it, they are only about a mile apart!

Are they offering all the same attractions, R4?

Interesting that some charge entrance, & for some activities; ok if it's for charity, as some are, but not really otherwise IMO - it's not in the spirit of the thing. There's a 'farm village' quite near me which normally charges admission (£5 pp) but is free on the 7th.

One is a mixed farm; he still does beef but he gave up dairy a few years back. His DD has a cupcakes/upcycling-type business in the old outbuildings.
The other is an Arla dairy farm.