As the Archers threads age like a fine wine, or a cheese, come and join us - it's nearly time for the Ambridge Flower and Produce show

[PseudoBadger]

Hopefully we can go back to an ordinary tale of country folk?

Spoilers are frowned upon.... There's a thread for that.

Either he's deluded or he really does have money put away.

Missed the last five mins. Presume letter was notice from landlord. (Or landlady if you prefer)?

Was that Joe's final episode? Please, let them not drag it out too much longer!

No1, The Green will be free soon...

Unless of course The Grundys were moving in with Will and Nic.

Just checking in, thanks for the thread pseudo. I haven't caught up with you all or with tonight's episode yet but.......drum roll....... I am listening again! It's so great to hear everyone again, but it only highlights even more how ridiculous it's been not to hear normal chit chat and gossip for the past x months.

Don't you think that the longer they leave Cathy silent, the more peculiar it will sound when she does speak? What on earth will she say?
Unless they're going to do a "As I've been telling you all these months, Pat, in our regular chats..."

Could the Joe warning lights be any more blatant?!

I liked the sneaky reference to George's Post Office book. Mark my words, he'll be responsible for Alan's missing money! Clarrie also reminded us subtly of Alf last Sunday, telling Susan that Eddie had tried to invite him to Joe's party. It'll shake the Grundys to the core 😁.

Rob and Helen's finances are still going to be tied up together- she needs that divorce sharpish. And a non-mol order.

Rob could rent one of Kate's yurts.

Or perhaps he could bed down in the mega dairy.

Now Rob's working, Helen needs to contact the CSA.

I like the way Rob describes BHC as a "poky little house" when he's one man living in a three bedroom house, most of the time.

Why is Ursula still there, anyway? It's not as if Rob needs her to look after him. Surely Bruce would have insisted on her coming back to be his slave by now.

Maybe it's lost a couple of bedrooms since Henry moved out

Anyone heard about the prize-winning farmer? Apt with the flower and produce show coming up....

Or the joke about the magic tractor?

Greetings all. I am an Archers listener since the 60's, on and off, also a solicitor ( as I see several others are here) (commercial litigation not family or crime), and with a mother from Worcestershire and father from Warwickshire, spent my childhood in ' Borsetshire'. I found you all during the trial but resisted unlurking until now. Now I'm annoyed. Very. Let's get to the really important stuff. Scones. For Borsetshire folk (like Warwickshire and Worcestershire folk) scone rhymes with stone. Not with gone. So why were Peggy and Jill discussing (gone) scones yesterday?

Welcome, MCC, good to have another lurker join us - the more the merrier! And experts always welcome - I'm not talking about the law stuff, but your knowledge of Borsetshire pronunciation! That's the kind of detail we thrive on discussing here.

Many thanks for new thread, and hello to all new arrivals/delurkers.

MCC, interesting about the scone question. The only real person I ever knew who (in my mind!) mispronounced scone as rhyming with stone was from ... ta da ... Warwickshire. So that explains why she did it.

To answer why Peggy and Jill say it their way - well, Peggy is a Londoner. How do they say scone in London? I'd ask DH but he's been sensible and gone to bed. Jill, I think, came from Brum? Maybe she's been influenced by too much Radio 4 whilst cooking and cleaning and so on for all those decades. . I am Scottish and say scone like gone!!

P.S. You can't actually get too much R4, can you?

I've enjoyed this week's TA too. It's much better.

RockNRollNerd
Sorry to be dense, but please can I just ask what you meant by this: " And of course in Phineas & Ferb it's the area surrounding the town which was founded by Otto Tristate".

Topaz. Good point about the infiltrating Archer wives/widows. I've lived in London for 40 years and gone/scone seems usual. I hang onto remnants of my Coventry accent according to an expert friend. Which is nothing like the Brum accent btw.

Agree it's good to get back to variety in Ambridge. Heartbreak storing up for nice Rex though methinks- I rather like Pip and hope she is not going to get attached to Toby. He seems to be getting very soppy over her- yet another personality change. And what is his Brighton secret? An estranged wife with child??

Rob is setting himself up for disappointment isn't he? How will he react when jack ignores the scrunchie blanket, screams, possets and poos? cries to go back to Pat? Or just sleeps?

No discussion of what the social worker said about his parenting either, gherkin subjecting his stepson to psychological abuse...surely he would have been sent to parenting classes? Or he would be ranting to his mother about that?

Of the whole trial I found that the most interesting. I would love to know what that report picked up on.

Welcome, MMCMember! You are right, we need to get down to the really important stuff. The people of the West Midlands have seen the light and now pronounce scone correctly, it would seem, if the Archers is drawing from real life, as we all know it is. I'm Scottish and in spite of nearly 40 years in London I have never deviated from the way of righteousness in this matter. My husband (a lifelong Londoner) has fortunately always said sconn not scoan, or I would have had to reject his proposal.

Let's hope nobody mentions the Stone of Scone

Thank you for the new thread Pseudo. Reverting to the Actuarial exams, my brother is very good at maths & when he was taking them he only had to resit the paper in which you have to write letters to clients. Actuaries are reportedly people who find accountancy too exciting .

Well I grew up in London, from a family of Londoners (for a few generations), and... most of my family pronounced Scone/stone except one Aunt who said Scone/gone (but she had lived for a while in Essex! in her childhood, and proper rural Essex too). I have never been sure how to pronounce it, and as with lots of these "tricky" words, use both pronunciations at different times.
Of course DH is weird as he pronounces "put" and "putt" as if they were the same word.