The Archers. No need to share the thread with anyone else darling, we can have a lovely time just us together. It must be Henry's bedtime.

[PseudoBadger]

New thread for the Omnibus.

Oh excellent plan! Gaslight the gaslighter and have him sent down for the one thing he didn't do.

It would be like the ending of Malice Aforethought (ancient TV crime series).

I'm sure Knob was absolutely delighted to see the non-organic venison. It's a direct breach of the organic principle which will mean that it is near-impossible to stop him from ordering in whatever non-organic rubbish he fancies, and gave him the opportunity to have a dig at Tom in front of Pat. But having established that point he was a bit stupid to go immediately for reducing the sausage order at a time when Tom was most likely to have extra motivation to want to score over him. It may be his plan to go running to Patbot again about Tom not listening to him, and I really do hope that if he does she goes into tiger mother mode so it backfires.

Grauch. plus for you. We should send you to mastermind, in the black chair your specialist subject psychological analysis of archers characters.

Bertrand Please don't tell me it's Horrible Grandma (& it can't be Boudicea, the dog!)

What was the mistake with Knob and Dr Locke, please?

Apparently one of the scriptwriters, Keri Davies, said on Twitter that when they had that odd exchange recently between Richard Locke and Rob at the nativity play, it may have sounded clunky because it had to be altered at the last minute. As written, they were going to have Richard and Rob being introduced as they were meeting for the first time. However, in the studio the actors pointed out that they had met before (when Richard did the DNA test). So we ended up with a bit of dialogue where Richard very unprofessionally persisted saying to Rob 'I'm sure we've met before somewhere - it'll come to me' when Rob was saying icily 'No, I don't think so'. Not a conversation that an experienced GP would get himself into!

Just caught up, been bit behind for a while.

Pip and Matthew are like smug newly weds, I can't see him going anywhere, at least not for long. Pip is nowhere near as annoying as she used to be but the bar was set pretty high in the first place

Still think Kirsty will be Nobs downfall one day, she is the only one he can't have power over.

Yes of course he wants the shop to be a huge success but he wants it to all be down to him, he's all but removed Helen from the business so now it's Toms turn to be outed. Bye bye Tom Archer Sausages. I wouldn't make too much black pudding Tom

Was bad writing indeed Gasp0de, just not a scenario that was ever going to work on radio. On tv there would of been their expressions to show they recognised each other which would have worked. Might of worked if Richard had asked Nob how he was if they bumped into each other without others around.

Bertram is your friend the fox that ended up in the freezer?

I feel a touch of Sweeney Todd coming on. Who can we put in the black pudding?

at Sweeney-style Knob-puddings.

Virtually free shed v £20k shepherd's hut.

Boooooop!

Ha ha! Eddie is so going to make a right hash of it!!

I thought Robert was capable of building his own hut having done the caravan for HWMNBN and building stage sets for years.

No he won't!

There'll be some thrills and spills along the way but eventually Lynda will receive a perfect shed on wheels and the Grundys will have a brand new 21st century business.

She so won't - she has such high standards it won't be right and Robert will have to intervene (and buy the proper expensive wheels). But yes, this is the new 'hilarious' sl

To PP who askedwhete Ambridgians do their shopping - the supermarket in Felpershams used to get named because for a while they stocked Tom's ready meals -the ones Rob made him over produce
-and that poor Brenda spent months taste testing.

I think that Rob wanting shop to be a success but his success is spot on. He diesn't want Pat saying isn't the shop doing well selling all Tom's stuff and Helen's cheese. He wants to say, see aren't you lucky to have me. Only he's a fick and he diesn't have the skillzto match his ego (except in cricket sadly)

He cheats at cricket!!!!

They always used to go to 'the supermarket on the bypass' on the outskirts of Borchester. The only community in the country that doesn't refer to its nearest supermarket as Tesco/Sainsbury/Morrison's/Asda!

He does cheat nut he is also quite good at it. By fair means or foul.

"Bertram is your friend the fox that ended up in the freezer?"

No.

And it isn't Wilson, either!

Underwoods.

That's it!! Bit like Underworld only different.
I kept coming up with Rodways (the auctioneers) and Odd something.

I can sleep easy now CUP.

Underwoods is where Lillian used to go for truffles and champagne and Gentleman's Relish. It did stock Tom's sausages when organic was a luxury term. It wasn't where "normal" people did their weekly grocery shopping - rather somewhere members of a select strata of Ambridge society might bump into each other in the cafe queue. The non-select only ever went there if they needed an eyewateringly expensive birthday or Christmas gift to curry favour with a disgruntled spouse. Or, if they were Elizabeth, to buy a pink cardigan.

Perhaps it's mentioned less now because people have so many other places to shop. I'm sure the general run of Ambridgeites probably do get an Iceland or Ocado delivery.

Underwoods is the sort of place which would stock Adam's chocolate amaretti - it's the food hall of a department store.