Continuing culvert conspiracies in Ambridge - discuss The Archers here

[PseudoBadger]

Won't someone please give Kenton a kick in the FA Cup Finals, and a link to Money Saving Expert?

I reckon everyone should be free to choose their own lifestyle. Why should we all be stressed out to the max in high status jobs? Where's the fun in that?

Pip is finally growing up and realising that for ANY farming to be going on in the future (except underwater) there needs to be care now.

I am very much enjoying Kate at the moment.

However I do agree with the poster who said that she would have acquired and be regularly annoying everybody with some South African quirks, affectations and idioms.
Step up SWs.

I think yoga teaching would be a bit mild for Kate. It would definitely be an ayahuasca retreat shaman or something. Somebody was talking to my ds about spiritual enlightenment with ayahuasca - he remained polite but said to me afterwards, it's a drug just like all the others though isn't it? Living in hope that he stays that switched on

Ayahuasca is not recreational, anyway. It's really very unpleasant and is supposed to be

(I have taken in it, in South America. I wasn't seeking spiritual enlightenment!)

Oh, I've only had a few conversations about it. I thought it was for spiritual cleansing via the purging thing. Also I'd understood it is haluciagenic. Anyway ds was 12 at the time so I was glad of his scepticism

So why did you take ayahuasca, Hapshawl, if you weren't seeking spiritual enlightenment? I'm genuinely curious - I know a couple of thrill-seeking types who've taken it and it sounds genuinely terrifying.

i was interested and I was in a safe place. I was staying in a local community who were doing it as part of a ritual and was invited to join. I was young enough to say yes but old enough to weigh up the risks! I wouldn't do it now

I'm not a thrill-seeker and I'm not someone who's interested in recreational drugs other than alcohol

You're right stilllearnin - the purging is cleansing and it is hallucinogenic. I didn't vomit as I hadn't eaten much before. But this meant the hallucinations went on far longer than they would have done had I been sick. And they weren't fun in the least. I was totally aware of what was going on around me though, and took myself off to bed

I wouldn't advise anyone to take it - your ds is very sensible!

I was catching up with the omnibus and had to answer the phone in the last 10 minutes of it: did Kate set light to the cottage? What exactly happened?

No lalalonglegs The smoke from the smudge sticks set off the smoke alarm. As Brian (who was sent for by the police or whoever) said why didn't she turn it off? He turned up in his dressing gown not at all pleased and left with Pheebs who decided not to stay in her new bedroom with her loopy mum.

Thanks ppeat

Kate's manner & voice when Toby finally rang her was pure Bridget Jones. I will always see Renée Zellweger if I hear her now

BRENDA'S COMING!

(Bet she won't speak and we'll only hear about it third hand.)

I would hate, hate, hate a surprise party. However, I bet Harrison manages to hit on exactly the right thing for Fallon and she will love it.

I hate surprises!
Hey Jolene, let's do a surprise for Fallon's birthday.

How does that work?

She'd love a posh meal out. Wouldn't that make more sense?

I think surprises are vastly overrated. I would rather have a couple of weeks of pleasurable anticipation than a nano-second of surprise.

There are times when I seriously wonder why Jolene listens to Kenton's whinging. When he's sitting there moaning that he can't believe that no-one on the féte committee raised the issue of loss of trade, I would have wanted to point out to him that if he had bothered to turn up to the relevant meeting there would have been someone to raise the point.

Kenton made me shout at the radio. He is becoming seriously deluded. Someone needs to spell it out for him.

E-N-T-I-T-L-E-D

He and Kate are quite similar

Has he ever seen consequences to his actions or has he always been bailed out?

Well I was a bit about the fete committee giving up so easily, it's not like they're not surrounded by bleedin' fields is it?

I thought they should at least have had a meeting to discuss whether there were alternative locations for the fete, because there are probably loads round the village.

Actually, having said I don't give one of Kenton's figs about the fete, I'm quite interested in the mechanics and politics of responsibility for village events passing from the old guard to new people.

Will Fallon be engaged /planning her own wedding come Saturday morning?

(And please, please let Kate find herself with-Fairchild. It would be the most excruciating fun ever.)