Badly done Helen, badly done - you're as stuffed as a Grundy turkey. Discuss The Archers here.

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New thread in time for Friday's episode...

Oh my lord DDD I need to find other things to do. That's a lot of reading posts about TS.

BOOP I loke the word pizzled sounds like it means confused through alcohol consumption

Like even....sigh.

And I'd bet Scruff, dead or alive, knows more about dairy than the brethren.

Grauch I'm obviously a newbie as I've only been on 3 or 4 TA threads, of course you have full credit

To be fair to BOOP, Choccyp1g answered her question about 6 posts before she asked.

Oh I missed that. Sorry choccy. It still feels quite tenuous though doesn't it? I've never felt that Clarrie and Caroline are bosom (how the hell do you spell that?) buddies. They certainly aren't close now - I can hardly remember them ever talking. Though this would also explain why Caroline is putting the Grundys up at GG, presumably at enormous expense.

No problem BOOP, just feel sorry for D3 counting to 32,400 when he could have stopped at single figures. But he likes that sort of thing doesnt he??

I think he enjoys it

I'll take any credit translated into £££ redshoe.

It's very vague in my memory BOOP but Caroline must have seemed tremendously glamorous and aristocratic when she was Social Secretary at GG. (Was it during that period that Will was born?) I'm certain there was a (specific) time when she and Clarrie were in close enough contact - either through the Bull/Sid or GG/Jack - for Clarrie to be as impressed by her kindness as she was by her family connections.

(Certainly paid off during the Meadow Rise days.)

It's bugging me now though ... Did Caroline help with the naming of Will or ...? I'm sure I recall Clarrie suggesting her as a godparent to Eddie because she's been so ... and the rest is blank.

Grauch - there is a recession on, here It must be wine o'clock somewhere

I knew Caroline was Will's Godmother but v interested to hear this extra info about circs surrounding that. I would have been two when Will was born so alas that's too far back for me (although we were inculcated from an early age I don't think I was really paying attention much at that age).

R4 that is a very good point re Pip doing the cows. It seems like a total no-brainer when you set it out like that.

Has anyone else got a copy of "For the love of the Archers"? Perfect bathroom reading, just like last year's "For the love of Radio 4".

Hurrah for Oliver!

Happy new thread everyone

I have just finished (with tonight's TA) a mammoth catch up. As DC are on half-term.
Here are my thoughts which I can't share with anyone else as DH just gives me a blank look if I try
Fallon will talk to Kirsty about HellRob. She has noticed Hellin is not 'right'. Emmur is a naive romantic, so only sees smiles. K always knew he was a dick & although up cycling has had its day Fallon is cynical and is a good people reader

I love Brine, he is (as someone said up thread) totally 'what you see is what you get'
I just want to hug poor Charlie.
Jill will be winging her way back to BF very very soon as they just can't manage without her

I second Gruach. Oliver said exactly the right thing!

Now all we need is Adam to get his head out and propose some cattle scheme with Ed and let the goose-bothering Fairbrethren (I love that!) to return to the rock whence they crawled out from...

Jill will be winging her way back to BF very very soon as they just can't manage without her - indeed. I found her concern over the boys' diet at the harvest festival immensely annoying. How old are they now? Presumably they can cook themselves some cheese on toast or whip up a sandwich. They're not going to develop scurvy as a result of not being force fed Jill's super duper roasts and peanut butter cookies three times a day. Besides which, as has already been pointed out - online bloody shopping David and Ruth! It's not that hard!

Brian was good as the voice of reason today! Sadly not going to stop the march of the Fairbros…

Brian was good as the voice of reason today! Sadly not going to stop the march of the Fairbros...
Please be wrong PLEASE!
Their SL is by far one of the most unbelievable SLs running ATM

"Oh investors-no problem! I'll just go to THE CiTY and get some of my ex banker colleagues to hand over a gazillion pounds to invest in burgers. No probs.
I have such easy access to HUGE pots of cash --which is why I sleep in a caravan and annoy geese for a (non) living"
FFS

Weren't they closer round the time of the Meyruelle storylines, and Clarrie going up to GG to learn bits of French from Jean-Paul?

(There's a long history of crap storylines, actually...)

Deavid and Rooth really need to tell Pip that her business plan is a good one but she needs to face the fact that the goose-botherers can't conceivably deliver it and this is a good opportunity for her to make some money (preferably with Ed's help) to cover her wages. If that doesn't happen I shall be Officially Displeased.

SmallEggs, I thought you were continuing the 'Allo 'Allo theme with

BOOP I loke the word pizzled

And I'm not in the least pizzled.

I thought the Oliver Ed thing was quite funny (and also heartwarming!) in view of the fact he'd been so put out about the ease with which the Fairbrethren could tap up city investors. Ed has a pretty good benefactor himself - and hurrah for that.

The weird thing is that Ed spends so much time telling more "successful" farmers that he can't take any help and has to stand on his own feet - blindly ignoring the fact that every single one of his interlocutors has either inherited land or family cash to drive their business forward.

Would be annoying if he weren't so ... appealing.

Oooh, look! Some entertainment for Helen.

Would these city lads really invest in beef cattle? I would say any pal of Toby-slug would have spent (doubtlessly) ill gotten gains on something flashier. Fast cars or pigs' heads or whatever.

Go Brine! There is no way Adam will be taken in by a business plan versus the collective weight of David and Brian's opinion. Surely even smitten Pip would be saying no to this madness? Could Pip maybe be buying the beef cattle with her HP inheritance? Is that too quick? I've never inherited anything (aside from my child bearing hips...).

I have the Archers 2012 book. It lives by the kitchen table for me to consult the family tree when I'm pizzled. They need to update it though.

The whole 'city' thing pisses me off. Lazy sw

It's not just the 'city' thing. It's the Rugby thing, too. Rex is an ex-pro so you would think he'd be trying to make money out of that. I know he can't play because of the injury but he could be doing inspirational speaking, teaching at independent schools, working in summer camps or volunteering at the local club. He should be doing that now, while his name still has cachet. Instead he is herding a few geese twice a day.
And they hardly ever discuss the biggest thing that has happened in Rugby for years (World Cup, in case it had slipped your attention).

Yes that's true too r4. It's almost like they gave them a hastily put together back story...

So one brother is going to be feckless and a rogue. So let's make him a previous city trader (despite understanding nothing about The City). And he needs to have done something really bad. Um, how about in Brighton? Isn't that where hedonistic young people go these days?

The other is dependable and solid but emotionally wounded. I know, let's make him a professional sportsman who would have been great but for a terrible injury which has cruelly denied him his destiny.

They have made the characters so one dimensional!!