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...

oops sorry 32nd I knew I would offend someone!

No need for a siege on 1st January, Hazel still won't be able to get the Grundys out without a court order. I do hope that they don't do the normal soap thing of totally getting the law wrong.

I wonder if two or even three stories are coming together.

Ruth could renovate Marnies and rent it to the Grundies so that when the Fairbrethren decide there's no future in geese Eddie could take that enterprise off their hands and sew up the Christmas bird market nicely in time for next year.

It would be a good investment for Ruth and something she could call her own. She will obviously resent David and Pip deciding how the money will be used.

That's a possibility enoch ...

But my impression is that SOC is irredeemably sentimental keen on the archives. Poetry and romance demand that the brethren stay forever as part of Brookfield and that the Grundys, preferably before Joe shuffles, find themselves once again in their "ancestral" home. I feel bad every time Joe blames himself for the loss of Grange Farm ...

enoch I like that idea a lot!

I do wish the Grundies could have a bit of luck and right now Clarrie needs a nice home with some labour saving devices.
What I would hate is a sl which has the G's suddenly get some good fortune and Eddie and Joe do something stupid with it. I'm tired of that sort of stereotyping.
Maybe the FB's could be the comedy wastrels, if we must have them at all.

Ruth could also invest in The HeatherPet Memorial Herd of beef cattle which Ed could manage at Grange Farm.

But of course she'll underwrite Pip's herd instead.

What's Marnies? (I'm boycotting until they've done with the horrible EA story)

Marnies is an abandoned house on Brookfield land near where the geese are. Ripe for renovation.

Plarchers.

Thanks, enoch

So has it ever been mentioned before to anyone's recollection, or is it another of SOC's inventions? (to make up for Hollowtree?)

DoublePoints Fri 06-Nov-15 15:35:54
Thank you, so there's not an episode at around 11am? Wonder what I've been getting that confused with.

Last week the Woman's Hour drama had an actress who sounded exactly like Lynda Snell, maybe this confused you? I thought it was actually her until I googled it.

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I don't think Jill and Ruth have always got on well. I remember a massive and irritating "interfering/ not interfering mother in law" storyline after Ruth and David got married. I think there has always been a bit of tension between them, especially because of Jill's housewifeyness and Ruth's lack of interest/ ability in that department. (Not that is should be down to Ruth, but Jill is from another generation). It had mellowed more recently, but after Jill was involved in the staying in Brookfield thing, it's not a suprise that the tension came back.

Marnies is both on the map and I believe on the list of Ambridge places. It's definitely not a recent invention it is one of the farms that makes up B'field.

I vote the geese enterprise goes wrong and the Grundues turkeys save Christmas. Pethaps the geese get robbed.

Showing the downside of outdoor stock like Eds and the geese, unlike the Grundy turkeys, is they can get taken.

It seems to have an access road and shouldn't need planning permission if it was previously a dwelling. Services such as water and electricity should be easy to reinstate.

Yesterday I think that Jill once walked in on David & Ruth when they were either DTD or about to (before Pip was born?).

That was the most bizarre reference to Mustardland I could ever imagine ...

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Apologies for the above post. I requested to register after a break and wanted to check if I had my old user name back too.

The Archers thread has drawn me back in. I need somewhere to rant until the Helen/Rob storyline is done and dusted. Soon I hope.

The Grundys comedy wastrel SLs go back into the mists of time - festival on Grange Farm, anyone? and I have always always found them cringeworthy. Before them, wasn't Walter Gabriel the comedy wastrel? I found him cringeworthy too, and more irritating. Anyone remember Aunt Laura? - she was a kind of pre-Lynda Lynda - bossy and interfering - and cringeworthy.

And Mary Pound, who farmed adjacent to the Grundies I think. Quite liked her - very brusque.

In reminiscence mode...

It's only the Grundy SLs I find cringeworthy. The other two - it was their characters. I am a fan of Clarrie and Eddie :)

Welcome back fireside.

I remember Aunt Laura - a bit. Not at all sure I ever heard Mary Pound. Would she still be alive?

Gruach, I've just been scanning the Mustardland website out of sheer nosiness and it seems the interviewee specifically asked Mark Mardell to mention it to cheer up the chap who founded it to take over from the BBC Archers messageboard. I've no idea how the BBC found her post in the first place but it was an interesting piece. [For those who didn't hear it, nothing whatever to do with TA - it was a piece on The World This Weekend about a village in Germany coping with the arrival of large numbers of refugees from an African country - I forget which one. The starting point was a post from a British woman living in Germany on this other website, Mustardland.]

Weird huh?