In honour of how The Archers threads began: Why are the SWs allowing this to happen?

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The very first thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/a1740045-Why-is-Lillian-allowing-this-to-happen

40k posts later....

BYOS re Pips voice - it'll be all of the sex

Lizzie and Rob - I didn't get the same vibe as you lot did on the cheese delivery.
I thought Rob was doing the 'Oh you have taken on too much for a lady to cope with. If a man I was in charge here everything would be running smoothly.

I can't see any of the women having a relationship with him tbh.

Oh, I see!

How long is it since we last heard him? Perhaps there is no Alistair any more?

It's true Jim seems full of bounce. But as he finds his son dull he'll only leave him dull money when he eventually shuffles. As I've said before I worry about Jazzer's apparent lack of security and reliance on tough, outdoor work as he moves into middle age. (I know all the farmers and vets do the same, but they can go home and count their money in front of their own hearths.)

Ah, just seen the new thread. Very late to the party but looking forward to catching up on three weeks worth of Archers during drives this week.
Wanted to share the fact that the episode where Susan stuck the star stickers on the calendars cheered up a particularly challenging afternoon for me.

Iorek Rob was definitely fishing for a way in - to the Pargetter drawers. (The ones with the account books and the ones with the lady in them ...)

Gruach I wish I could LA ! At the time I just thought 'You patronising knob!' not 'he's trying it on with Lizzie'.

Trying to get a job perhaps if he couldn't wheedle his way into BF - but shag Lizzie? Nah

BYOS I got the impression they just snogged, that was vile enough. Oh wait I haven't heard tonights' yet. (I'll listen tomorrow). Scrub my first comment.

Lynda If your dgm had all her marbles too then she WAS lucky DM is just beginning to lose hers and it's not fun.

BOOP for Jim - I love it when he speaks Latin. He and Jazzer are a great double act. I'd forgotten about Jazzer's bagpipe playing prowess - funny we haven't heard him toot so much as a note since Burns Night last year, but no doubt he'll be up to his usual professional standard.

I'd forgotten about Jazzer's bagpipe playing prowess - funny we haven't heard him toot so much as a note since Burns Night last year

Be fair, they only have about 70 mins a week - which dialogue would you choose to waive?

Maybe Alistair has already flounced due to artistic differences and will have to be written out in his absence, ,like they did with Tiger.

Shula is 57, Lizzie 48, Richard Locke 52, Roy 37.
Phoebe was born in a teepee at Glastonbury, wasn't she?

Not sure about Rob and Elizabeth. She had the money and social status, but a bit too old that she could turn out a miniRob on demand. Still, he can dump Helen once she's done her duty there. Anyway, I think Lizzie has too much sense. She must have learnt from some of the gits she's had in the past. (I'm mostly thinking Cameron Fraser.)

I'd forgotten about Jazzer's bagpipe playing prowess - funny we haven't heard him toot so much as a note since Burns Night last year

For which I am grateful. Don't encourage them to put in any more bagpiping that we already have.

PlelSe tell me this thread is not taking the usual mumsnet line of anyone over the age of 35 is an old bat and can't possibly have any sensible thoughts or a sex life?

I thought here at least I wouldn't be the only aged party!

r4 he (phone) is called Bernard (due to an earlier tendency to insert the word Bernard into text at random) and was well known on other threads for eez 'allo 'allo like tendencies.
I may nc but Bernard stays the same i had to turn off predictive presumptious text after he started gaslighting making up the most random stuff. So now I am afraid all the crabtreeisms are my fat fingered typing I can spell. I cannot type.

BOOP from me for that episode. I like a bit if Jazzer and Jim banter.

PlelSe tell me this thread is not taking the usual mumsnet line of anyone over the age of 35 is an old bat and can't possibly have any sensible thoughts or a sex life?

Not at all, but I think Rob wants a breeding machine to build a Titchenor dynasty, ideally someone with money. I think Lizzie was told after the twins that having more babies wouldn't be good for her heart, and even without that, 48 is pushing it a bit for babies. I would quite like Lizzie to have a good relationship - it's 5 years since Nigel died. Roy isn't the one though, nor is Rob. She needs someone like Ifty.

Did I miss something. What has Barry done?

I don't seriously think we should have bagpipe interludes, I was just revisiting last year's discussion about the unlikelihood that Jazzer would be a bagpiper (or even in posession of a set of bagpipes) just because he is Scottish. He doesn't actually have to play on air at any other time, but we could at least have had a comedy reference - when he moved to Bridge Farm after the flood for instance - to keep up the pretence.

LOL @ the idea that, whilst Ambridge was being deluged, Jazzer's Number One thought was, "I must save my bagpipes!"

I think "what has Barry done?" falls into the same category as "what happened in Brighton?"

Who's Barry? :o

Random Jazzer fact- the actor who plays him is blind. I do wonder what it must feel like to act doing all sorts of things he probably can't do in real life, like driving a tractor.

Not sure who Barry is. I feel that we will find out on Sunday when we have a hilarious 'decorating the Village Hall' scene.

Hoots mon, Jazzer's back. NO ONE IN SCOTLAND TALKS LIKE THAT. NO ONE.

I think Barry is a silent. Wasn't he the one banging the crisp packets when The Bull was deserted?

Oh, was Barry one of Toby's friends whom he wants Rex to do village hall refurbished stuff and buy them a pint while Toby does whatever he does in Brighton? I expect my brain was trying to hide any of that from my consciousness.

Barry is a longstanding comical mate of eddies isn't he?

Bertrand - I guess it's no different than having to pretend you play the bagpipes when you've never touched them in your life!

Barry is a longstanding comical mate of eddies isn't he?

No, that's Baggy (and Snatch), isn't it?

Oh yes -baggy! Very confusing!

EbearHopefully it would take anyone over 35 (not sure if Hell is, but she's a special case ) to give Knob a very large kick up the bum if he tried any thing on with her.