Knob throttlers form an orderly queue at Blossom Hill Cottage! Discuss the Archers on the Official Thread

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Do you know that I was 3 months pregnant when the first thread started - DD was 2 yesterday

That must also mean that Poppy Grundy's 2nd birthday has passed by unremarked upon...

RomComPhooey - just read back through some posts. Rob must be mentioned in nearly every other post on this thread, and in some parts, every post.

The general consensus is that she's not ready to accept that she is being abused. Other opinions are available.

Hated the cringey flirting between Pip and Toby-slug. Gak! Fire in your belly, indeed!

Also where does the five minute farmer get off with his " advice"?!

Two months RomCom?

This is the thread for you:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/2446072-Don-your-paisley-tabards-feel-the-static-crackle-and-join-our-Archers-thread-team-hug?msgid=56056892

Blow by blow dissection of unfolding events in unstinting and quite worryingly obsessive detail.

Thanks Joskar.

Ebearhug - There are 29 pages and I'm only interested in a passing way.

I don't listen regularly because the Archers really grinds my gears. I tend to listen to it when I can't get to the radio quickly enough to put it on 6Music instead, like when I'm in the bath and the radio is out of reach or my hands are covered in cake batter or dough and I don't want to make my radio sticky (as this weekend). It happens often enough that, likeva skipping pebble, I vaguely know the major plot points. But actually listening to it deliberately woukd mean I was becoming my grandmother/MIL.

Hamlet Act III Scene II ...

Just catching up choccy love your sleep inducing tactic

romcom you doth protest too much. Join us- you know you want to

Or alternatively, RomCom, get lost and stop asking us to repeat ourselves then insulting us.

Jessie - that's a bit grumpy.

romcom - you'll find people here are willing to answer questions on here if you ask something specifically - asking for a summary of the whole Rob story might be a bit much.

Choccy I have a similar sleep inducing tactic. I do an Archers a-z. I have to come up with a character and place for every letter.

Eg. Adam at the Am
Brian at the Bull

It's amazing how many characters start with J. Jolene, Jim, Jamie, jazzer, Jill, Justin, Jess. They tend to meet at Jax

Ah ha! I found you all!

Well well well Mister T, did he make all the cows sick with his dodgy feed? Is this what he was covering up?

Thank goodness Charlie told Brian about it.

I think I see a trial in the future and the downfall of Rob will be cow shaped.

I'm impressed BOOP. What are Q, X, Y & Z!? Or are you asleep by then.

I find listening to the podcast in bed sends me to sleep (ditto Simon Mayo's confessions podcasts). Sometimes I listen again when I'm dog walking & find I slept through a crucial point. Knob annoys me so much I'm now reading about the episodes before listening in case there's a nasty Hellrob scene. Have recently n'ced

Phil must have had a pig named Queenie. On a quest for titbits.

Xanthe is one of Lily's best friends. Drinking cocktails in Xanadu, a retro and forbidden dive on the outskirts of Borchester.

Yseult does a yoga class with Leonie.

Zak is Captain of swimming at The Cathedral School. The team will be competing in France over the holidays. In ze most prestigious pool.

Oh, is that the Zak that goes skiing in Zermatt?
I had a more prosaic X: Chris at the crossroads (when I say 'prosaic' do I actually mean 'cheaty'?)

Love it, BOOP! That's my new can't-sleep game. Much better than counting sheep!
RomCom, many years ago I used to dive across the room at the opening bars of Dumdedum, for the off switch. Now I'm here, via taping the omnibus and now the podcast, though I think I enjoy these threads as much as the actual programme. Just give in.

Sorry I disappeared, a meeting had the damn cheek to interupt my MN time

I never get that far R4 - I'm usually in the land of nod by Lynda, Leonie and Lillian at Lower Loxley

I do a lot of A-Z lists by the way. I have had raging insomnia for the past 3 years.

Quite worried about minimammoth's plot predictions now.

Although I do think getting the sack would be good for Charlie personally (I could see him having a road to Adam conversion in the herbal ley), it might mean he would leave Ambridge - woe!

Oooh I do a to z too. Never thought of an Archers one.
Although I listen to podcast in bed. Usually asleep before the end.

I hope Rob doesn't hit Helen because tgat reinforces the it's not DA till they hit you phallacy. I hope they play a sl where she realises it is ok to leave just because he's a twunt. And I also hope she yoyos like Jess did. The average number of attempts it takes to leave is 7.

Ref. botulism and a huge factory like Berrow, surely they would test the silage before feeding it to the cows? If it's soooo dangerous. And getting the locals to supply some in dribs and drabs, that's really asking for trouble isn't it? Or is it just me ?

I wondered that too, ppeat. Can botulism develop in silage after it's been tested? I know nothing about such things.

I daresay the locals are more careful about their feed.

But this mega dairy was introduced as part of a global, 21st century, untouchably flawless company - so where are their back up plans? Where are the hot shot teams of international trouble shooters helicoptering in to rescue everything? Why is it just poor exhausted Charlie covering both the hands-on and the PR aspects?

Or... having read up about it, as am still putting off getting back to work, do we know if Berrow made their own silage? If so, as I gather from the Farmers' Weekly, you need to clamp the silage for at least a month so the temperature is high enough to kill off anything lurking and overcome the problems caused by dead moles/poultry/farmworkers. Can entirely see Rob NOT clamping for this long because he thought he could get away with it. If they make their own silage, of course.

It's so nice to hear Ed and Willyum getting on. I cried at Ed's wedding. I really hope it isn't foreshadowing death at the hands of the poachers.

Yes, exactly, Gruach. I wondered why they hadn't got in a relief manager. A company that big ought to have all sorts of disaster recovery scenarios documented, and tested. I just don't believe they would all end up "Charlie will do everything".