The Archers - We Listen So You Don't Have To

[PseudoBadger]

Happy(?!) Sunday everyone

What will this week have in store for us I wonder?

Who stole the church money? DM says Alf but I'm certain (possibly based on a thread here) that it wasn't...

That's another plot line surely...

Gasp0!

Welcome back!

Just read the Heather Pet is Dead posts - I see she was as irritating dead as in life.

Fab title - the best. Pseuds rule.

And if any man ever addresses me as "darling" from now on ...

I know I keep banging on about the ex but...he always said darling. Partly because it stopped him accidentally muddling the names of his assorted conquests

And yet...I didn't fucking stab him.

Funnily enough the wird darling was banned in our house growing up because it is so PA.

I call both my children "sweetheart" but I'm allowed to have two.

not listening.

My mother called everyone darling, which I preferred to being called the one of the cats' names or my sister's name, which tended to be the other options. Very occasionally, you'd get your own name (like the cats always did. We knew our place in the pecking order.)

She advised us to call any boyfriends darling, as it would avoid confusion. She caused great confusion to my German boyfriend when she called him darling. I pointed out it was better than calling him "the foreigner", as she sometimes did.

She was the main person I would discuss TA with. I do wonder how she'd have reacted to this storyline. She had some very good advice (always make sure you have a running away fund, however good things are), but she was also Rob-like in a lot of ways, though like Rob, I don't know that she'd have recognised it.

I was thinking the same about Lady Macbeth enoch.

Also vango excellent idea about the yurts and a cult - huge comic potential in there I would have thought, esp from Brine.
Has anyone read A God in Ruins? Kate Atkinson? She has an hilarious and very well observed sequence in there about a very spoiled mc/aristo couple bringing up their children in a commune in the 80's.
Farmer and his wife are permanently rolling their eyes.

vango

Yes to God in Ruins. As I recall, the whole commune malarkey was run by a very dictatorial and unself-critically self-righteous woman - Kate would fit in well to that role!

I read God In Ruins but it made me sad. I wanted them all to be happy and none of them were really. The children suffered a lot from the dippy hippy crap parenting. At least Kate isn't actively parenting any of her children.

Yes, always have a running away fund. And don't be afraid to run away occasionally just to keep everyone on their toes! I like the way they are handling it, and finslly people are starting to talk to each other!

Dorothy, the woman who ran the commune.
I don't know much about Kate Atkinson's personal life but I love her writing. What do you mean about KA not actively parenting her children top? I agree the children suffered enormously but I think Viola was trying to do it (parent) with at least one hand tied behind her back.

If the scriptwriters are reading this they just can't let that one go, as an idea.

yurtsville would be full of Violas.

I'm reading that book now - no spoilers please (I have already passed the commune bit so that's ok)

Amnesiac I think Top meant Kate Aldridge, not Kate Atkinson?

I thought Japan meant Kate in TA?

Duh of course she did! What an eejit I am! Thanks kestrel.

I was disappointed/amazed at the thought that KA would leave her children. Mothers' love is one of her recurring themes.

I just love the Brine and Kate pantomime. Enormous potential there (I'm really flogging this yurt thing now, aren't I?)

And what day will today be ? another phrase I never thought I'd write

Trusting you all to listen on my behalf. Risk Rob has woken from his coma?

Well its Sunday - and I feel all alone

I love Clarrie!

"The stuff they're saying on social media" hahaha

I did laugh at "it's nothing compared with what's being said on social media," or whatever Tom said.

red - I'll keep you company. I'm not listening at the moment, but might catch up later. I wonder who is listening from this thread?