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.

Just caught up. Surely after Scruff's recent peaceful demise basking on the Resurgam stone, we're not now going to have Joe likewise expire sunning himself on the chaise longue?

Drawing up in the Scone Wars. ( could it rival StarWars?) I am from the north,( now live on the edge of Borsetshire, and no it is not a 'Royal' show, there is only one now....The Royal Welsh, held near Builth Wells)
Ahem, sorry for the digression. Scone, as in phone.

It really is utterly absurd that there is no social worker involvement at this stage, isn't it? And as for the meting happening in the coffee shop- that's absurd too. No privacy, no toys, nowhere to put the baby down.......what on earth are they going do do for 3 hours?

Well, lots of cafes do have kids play areas. The Ambridge NCT may have been meeting there for months.

Fiiiiilm!

Twelve year old whisky for Joe's birthday? From the Sterlings? How unutterably mean.

I just picked up Joe's reference to "the Aldridge cravat" in the film, when he was choosing ties. Nice one.

Enlighten me ...

The Sterlings have effectively given Joe a house. If it were me, Joe would be lucky to get a bottle of supermarket blended grog!

I never imagined grange farm to have a large enough half landing to accommodate a chaise longue

And if you are planning to rent your house out would you leave your prized possessions or would you put them in storage?

I don't like the way Caroline was being portrayed as snooty for not wanting her furniture in the cider shed and themes were so dismissive of her feelings on the matter

Also, weren't ed and Emma the tenants at no1 the green - are they not going back because they need to help with the grange farm rent? Or is it just a plot device to get rob in the centre of the village

Who is this strange woman, and what have they done with Caroline?

thanks for the new thread Psuedo. Just had a big catch-up as I was away last week and had no internet I won't make that mistake again
Mancunian here, scone as in gone

On the sconn/ scoan debate - it has to be the former. Otherwise the ancient joke doesn't work:

What's the fastest cake in the world?
's gone!

I was surprised at Caroline. Haven't listed for ages but she always had a soft spot for the family, godmother to Will. Good Egg I thought.

Then flood, re-housed Grundys, C & O in Tuscany (doing what? Tuscany-ing) so Gs go back to Grange Farm temporarily. And now? Never leaving/lease?

I don't like the Grundys. There, I said it. Because like Caroline said, you give them an inch and they take the motorway. I know they are fundamentally decent folks (I LOVE Clarrie) and it's what matters, but...

glowfrog They are sometimes likeable and sometimes not (apart from Clarrie). The older men are not really fundamentally decent either IMO. They are good characters in a soap about country folk though .

There's a place near where DM lives that I always think looks like it's owned by the Grundys as I pass on the bus. it's a dump, (there are old wonky signs up selling a variety of farming products which are piled up in front ) and looks like it's uninhabited but obviously is.

I can exactly see why Caroline is pissed off with the Grundys. They've had a massive favour and have repaid it by making an almighty mess of the house and, in Joe's case, carrying on as if Caroline and Oliver have no right to be there. And how the hell have they managed to get themselves into a position where they can't pay even the reduced rent Oliver is asking after several months of living rent-free? How did they propose to pay the rent on wherever they moved to if they had to move out?

Mind you, when they talked about breaking into George's piggy-bank, I quite hoped they would do that and discover where the church collection got to. It's time that particular loose end got sorted out.

Anyone in doubt as to the correct pronunciation of 'scone' should refer themselves to the final line of How to Get On in Society. I wouldn't argue with Betjeman

The problem with that poem is: is he saying that is the correct way to pronounce the word or the way a social climber (Hycianth Bucket) would say it?

The latter.

Oh my god, just as Henry has remained 2 for years, Jack is still a newborn with a wobbly head!

"He's a real little man". Vom.

Love the fact Jack protested at his first encounter with "Daddy"!

Scone to rhyme with gone is right.

"How to get on in society" is a rather nasty and snobbish (but extremely funny) dig at "arrivistes"

Brilliant work enforcing the rules, Tony. It was a treat to hear Rob getting nowhere - and how ridiculous that he preferred to drag Ursula out than ask Tony to show him how to change the nappy.

That is the cry of a much younger baby. And henry sounds odd. And drugged. And would not have got away with calling his grandad stupid.

I felt sorry for knob tbh.