Male or female, young or old - Bad Stuff can happen to you in The Archers. Discuss the perils of Ambridge life here.

[PseudoBadger]

Not exactly upbeat at the moment is it

Several Wimsey adaptations on TV and radio. The one I remember is Edward Petherbridge and Harriet Walter, which to my horror Google tells me was from 1987. This does not seem possible.

My stats seem to be going well.

Slightly concerned that DDD will feel I am muscling in on his territory, though...

I thought it was all through email and personal messages?
And Eddie did steal some of Linda's guests. I think she is also trying to suss out whether he is criticising Ambridge Hall or just fairly competing.

It's actually even worse if most listeners won't get it either.......

The one I remember is Edward Petherbridge and Harriet Walter, which to my horror Google tells me was from 1987. This does not seem possible.

I remember Ian Carmichael, early seventies!

Available on Utube......

Harriet Vane meant nothing to me. Lynda is probably using a "burner phone" or SIM (Robert will know all about these) or messaging Eddie via Air Bnb.

I'm pretty sure that's why I 've hung onto DH for so long. Some ref comes up, I can't remember what it is, I ask him, he fills in the missing detail. I think Lord Peter Wimsey has been serialised on R4 too, though I wasn't paying attention.

I wonder at the attractiveness of Grange Farm as a B & B place. There's Clarrie Love doing all the work in the house, and her paid work, help only from Emma, whose got the children and working with Fallon. Joe hanging around for much of the day, with poor personal hygiene and the ferrets running around. And what about the structural problems at Grange Farm? All solved or just forgotten about?l just don't know why folk are so happy.

I'm pretty sure it has too AuldHeathen as I think that's when I came across it. Still didn't get the Harriet reference though.

This is one of the odd things about the story, Grange Farm is presented as being a rural bolt hole for stressed townies wanting an escape, but in reality these sorts of places are set up to provide a sanitised version, with lovely toiletries and waterproofs provided. I'm not sure Eddie and Clarrie are really providing that level of service.

I got the reference.

I still can't believe Clarrie went along with the B&B plan. How does she trust anything Eddie says?

I didn't get the reference to Harriet Vane. And I am v. well educated and consider myself to be well read!!

I don't think it's necessary to know who Harriet Vane is to follow the plot. This is just Dylan Nells all over again - Lynda likes a good pseudonym to expose those she thinks are undermining her. Not sure about Toby's sudden involvement in Brookfield - is this an attempt by the SWs to rehabilitate him and are we supposed to accept that all the Brighton nonsense has now been resolved? I was hoping the pair of them would be hit by a speeding car while driving the cows along the lane.

Gasp0de - there's always room for more in the statistics tent (a vango of course).

I've just heard Nick Robinson's slip of the tongue on R4, referring to Chancellor as...

Spreadshit Phil !!

Long term readers will know why I find this highly amusing.

Perhaps he's on this thread somewhere Who could he be - was going to say R4 but that's just being silly.

Hmm, wiki describes Nick Robinson as "confrontational and provocative" so I don't think that's me. I'm not confrontational but I am provocative in a Mata Hari sort of style -in my dreams.

I don't think that using the name Harriet Vane involves intellectual snobbery. Sayers is a good writer, but she's not up there with Austen and Dickens.

I did recognise the name Harriet Vane as a literary one, but wasn't bright enough to realise that it's Lynda winding Eddie up, which I should have of course

Is Pip testing Toby?

I think that Eddie is only charging £30 per night which is much less than Lynda would charge. Can't remember which episode.

Just caught up. I loved the scene with Peggy and Lillian, and I am not usually a Peggy fan, but it made me smile .

I didn't recognise the name - and I do remember Ian Carmichael- plus, as listening sporadically this week, did not realise it was a wind up/espionage on Lynda's part. Not sure why she would chose that name though, nothing on wiki seems to suggest an overly fussy b&b guest. I think it's fair enough, he is poaching her business, probably undercutting her by providing a poorer service and leaving all the work to Clarrie. If he can be nudged to the conclusion that it's all too much trouble, job done.
Thought Toby an annoying lazy arse last night- how much longer can Pip tolerate it?

Lynda has presumably chosen that name for the detective connotations.

I thought Toby was reasonably OK, for once. Farming isn't his job, he got out of bed extremely early to protect Pip from the consequences of her own incompetence, and didn't really grumble that much. Had it been me asking a massive favour of DH for something like that, I would have been really grovelling, but Pip more or less ordered him to get up and help her.

I'm pretty sure Harriet Vane didn't come into the Ian Carmichael programmes - he was really too old for the part, and left the romance elements strictly alone.

LOVED Peggy and her 2nd best set of china!

I thought Pip was really rather awful. And I'm assuming she didn't put the cows back in the same field before mending the fence. I really was the Dopeys to find out.

I also heard Nick Robinson saying 'spreadshit' this morning. Luckily I was stuck in roadworks so could laugh uproariously without crashing the car! It really did tickle me.

I recognized the name and like East was a big fan in my teens.
Can someone explain why Pip and Toby rounding up cattle.

Pip was supposed to have fixed a fence cheminotte. She hadn't done it and two lots of cows therefore escaped into different parts of the village. So as to avoid her parents finding out she got Toby out of bed v early (assume 5ish as she was about to do the milking) and rather rudely made him help her. She then even more rudely made him fix the fence while she took a phone call or something.

I thought it was reasonable of Pip to ask Toby for help given his current cock-lodging status (to use MN parlance ) - time he earned his keep.
I loathe Pip and Toby but have quite enjoyed their recent farming interactions.