The Archers Thread September 2015 - The One Where Helen Kicks Rob In The Balls?

[PseudoBadger]

Wishful thinking. I think she's in it for the long haul

But I think Hazel'S ominous reference to other bits of her portfolio means the Grundys are doomed.

I have just answered my own question- affair was in 1987 and the Cameron Fraser stuff was in 1992.

Huh? what was that all about? what is Hazel's plan?

Something positive in TA at last (shop). Have no interest in Grace who is just a name. Radio plays of real characters can be boring enough let alone fictional ones.
I'd rather have an archer plus (or whatever they called it) telling us what Matt is up to now spending all Lilian's money. That would be more entertaining. Is he a drugs baron? has he gone back to Russia, maybe to Italy to reinvigorate the mafia?

There's going to be a quid qui pro. The Grundy's house?

Can they live in wimpy auntie cardboard's house now she's moved in with Peggy? Can't remember what happened to her house when she joined the ranks of elderly "ladies" who are scared of the dark.

Christine's already let her house to Fallon and Plod. With no thought for needy Grundys.

I do think they ought to let us hear a fight between Hazel and Rob ...

How on earth can fallon and plod afford Christine's house?

I am a bit Grr. About Kate's new business idea. I have some experience of this business and don't know anyone who can actually make a living at it. People going on 'retreat' seem to want en suite now not earth toilets. Also has she any qualifications in yoga etc. No doubt Lynda will be offering Feng Shui and Reflexology.

Gruach oh yes please!

How on earth can fallon and plod afford Christine's house?

I thought Christine was renting it to them at a cheap rate, because they're local (though technically, Harrison is an outsider.)

I went on retreat a couple of years ago to somewhere with compost toilets, but someone else had to empty them. They laughed when they were asking what we all thought of it, and I said, "it's way posher than I expected! We don't have to empty the loos, and there's running water and electricity!" This may suggest more about the remote and cheap places I've travelled to, more than anything else...

I don't think Kate has any yoga qualifications. Don't you have to do 1000 hours or something before you can become a teacher? That sounds quite a bit more commitment than she's ever managed...

Plod is a fairly mature police officer, must be on a reasonable salary. He's been flat sharing so will have saved a bit of cash. We don't know how big Christine's place is but was only lived in by her and George so may not be massive and she'll have no mortgage and is a good old stick who loves the village so is maybe happier renting to locals than turning a big profit. (Did we ever hear her and Peggy discuss rent at the Lodge?)
Also, is the house not, appropriately, originally a police house?

Ah, no, just checked and seems that Christine and George did live in the old police house but it was knocked down after Clive Horribin petrol-bombed it. They then bought Woodbine Cottage ( a cottage, so probably quite small) and "Greenacres", which now houses Jim and Jazzer, was built on the site. Do we know who Jim bought it from?

Interestingly I noticed on "Ambridge Locations" on the website that the Hollowtree farmhouse was supposedly converted into flats. I thought it was an empty shell that had been used for pigs. How come we never hear anything about the inhabitants of the Hollowtree flats and their opinions abou have a couple of hundred geese as neighbours?

How are the Fairbrothers making a living, until the geese are sold?

Selling their bodies to buxom maidens? The Fairbrothers storyline is completely unbelievable and silly as are the "boys" themselves.

The Grundy's house will pay a terrible price indeed Never trust a Slitheen...

Hello thread! I used to post on predecessor threads but I was washed away in the flood. That was the point when for me the programme tipped over decisively from being character-driven to events-driven and lost much of its appeal. I decided to have a break, planning to listen again in the Autumn.

The other week I gave it a listen and to my ears I got wall-to-wall angst. Maybe it was always like that, I don't know, but it just doesn't work for me now.

It was a good run, 30+ years. For those of you who continue to listen, I hope you get as much pleasure from it as I did.

So did Phil sell off the Hollowtree building for flats but keep the land, or is he leasing them? You would think there would have been all sorts of covenants about use of the land as flat owners would presumably want some sort of protection against things like dung being spread all round them or, er, a flock of geese being kept there.

nauticant! Was hoping you were going to say you'd come back.

I won't plead.

Understand what you mean and, had I been listening alone I also might have given up by now. But the thread enhances my listening so much that even the most hopeless SLs, episodes, character changes are bearable.

Hope we'll see you around elsewhere. (Though mass name changing has made the place a little less cosy.)

David mentioned the roof needing fixing on the Hollow tree house, and I got the impression that it was derelict and belonged to Brookfield. Then I looked up the history and realised that is something the SW don't bother with.

Gruach I agree. Am possibly more addicted to this thread than the show itself at the moment.

David mentioned the roof needing fixing on the Hollow tree house

Eeek! Is Jill going to arrange for one of the Fairbretheren to go up there to help him? Don't do it Toby!

I shan't be listening to the play this afternoon which is a bit ironic. Folklore has it that Grace was killed off as a spoiler to stop the audience being lured away to the opening night of the nascent ITV. I shan't be listening because I will be too busy watching the rugby, the broadcasting rights to which the BBC carelessly lost to ITV. I think that SOC is debunking the myth but I shan't let that get in the way of a good compare and contrast.
We weren't too impressed with the rugby last night; think we might do ITV-pictures with Radio5-sound today.

I had forgotten Hazel was a Slitheen. It can't be long before she unzips...

I'm still fulminating over the Dead Girls nonsense but have you seen the credits for the show?

I'd forgotten we would inevitably hear Dan and Doris. Praying the (admittedly famous but untried in these parts) actors get them right.

And Simon Russell Beale.

And Paddy O 'Connell.

But I guess I'll be listening on my own ...?

Nah, it's Saturday and I'm home, which means R4 is on. Although after a bad night's sleep, I may not be awaje for all of it...