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...

I know all that R4 (been listening since the mid-80s ) - it still seemed a bit of a stretch though, to blame Charlie personally for a completely separate issue ie the theft of Ed's cows

I suppose the SW just wanted to show us anti-Charlie feeling and the Grundys were as good a vehicle as any to do it. Just felt clunky and odd to me

Yowch. Things are getting bad if BOOP thinks they are "clunky and odd".

But like I said last night, Charlie was in the wrong place at the wrong time; it was the equivalent of 'kicking the cat'.

Yeah I guess. I actually feel sorry for Charlie though. He seems very lonely.

My aversion to seeing pictures of the characters now extends, I realise, to the animals. Scruff SO didn't look like that to me

I think Charlie is going to 'save' Ed in some way and so Joe and Eddie might have to eat their words.

Joe is psychic

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BOOP have you looked at the actor photo for Charlie? He definitely looks like he could do with some comforting

I always pictured Scruff as a Jack Russell.

Nooooo! Don't tempt me Squirrelled!

BOOP- I read your comment in the voice of the policeman in 'Allo, 'Allo. I too am pizzled by the Charlie hating. It made me uncomfortable and irritated to hear the Grundys like that. They've got better manners I'm sure.

Oh enoch I really hope you're right. Poor Ed.

Joskar

Damn you Squirrelled you made me look

I see he was in Wold Hall

Oh blimey! Maybe Joe's dire warnings about [[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/anthrax-first-case-of-disease-since-2006-found-in-wiltshire-cow-a6710391.html anthrax] aren't too wild after all!

Dammit! link fail

I sense that hands-on management during a crisis coupled with the kindness of neighbours in sending over silage is bringing about a change in Charlie's character. There was a grain of truth in what Joe and Eddie said, however spiteful, and I think it cut him deeply.

I'll stick my neck out and suggest that C is going to part from BL and go into the cattle business thus giving Ed an opportunity to care for cattle with someone who really does understand business practice.

I am out of listening range, on a boat and relying on you lot and this thread for my entertainment and information.

Oh and I am slightly pizzled

I like that idea enochroot - good for both Charlie and Ed. (Not necessarily for Ian, though.)

I posted a Wiltshire anthrax link earlier, BOOP

Nobody noticed mine either

I did! It was spookily interesting - but I was too busy to post.

oh how predictable - the bbc merchandising machine in full swing - who will buy a calendar?

Glad someone told Kirsty finally.

And I enjoyed Joe's nonsense.

fgs - are we going to have nigel coming back as a ghost because they've realised they fucked up by kicking him off the roof

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Enoch, I love your idea of Charlie and Ed working together.

Predictable episode in some ways though: I knew that Joe was going to ask for appreciation to be shown in the usual way the moment Lizzie asked Jill to go along.

But what happened?

Why are the Grundy brothers so favoured by Oliver and Christine? Have been listening for maybe 8 years and have no idea!

Lynda is casting around for cast for CG. Spoke to Susan (affronted by being offered an older role), Lizzie (offered the part of the widow) and Kirsty (broke the news that H is preggers, K didn't know).
Went to LL where Jill is being tedious about how difficult it is to live in a stately home my heart bleeds for her. Joe is doing a scary Hallowe'en ghost walk at LL and has been told to tone it down for the LO - Jill went to spy on him. Hence she knows that he is encouraging punters, who have already paid for a ticket, to pay tips. Naughty Joe.

Caroline, for reasons that I have never totally understood, is godmother to Willyum. Oliver has a soft spot for Ed, I think they bond over cattle.