Hard Times come to Ambridge; will Pip or the Ambridge Fairy save the day? Discuss The Archers here.

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Enjoy!

Please take this as a compliment Bertrand - you'd be prefect for it.!

Lasswi I too wondered about the e taking going wrong. I noticed that J and F were asking one another about their bottles of water.

I hope it doesn't go very wrong, after all people get ill die from drinking one bottle of vodka.

I'm worrying about the E SL too. I don't want to see either of them in intensive care/dead; perhaps a very bad come-down for them both will suffice, and they'll realise the drugs don't work. Talking of which, I wonder if this SL will be current enough at the new thread to work Pulp into the title? Sorted for E's and Whizz is a brilliant song for Freddy this weekend.

Everybody asks your name, they say we're all the same and now it's
"Nice one, " "geezer"
But that's as far as the conversation went
I lost my friends, I dance alone
It's six o'clock, I want to go home
But it's "no way, " "not today"
Makes you wonder what it meant
And this hollow feeling grows and grows and grows and grows
And you want to call your mother
And say "mother, I can never come home again
'Cause I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere
Somewhere in a field in Hampshire, all right"

In the middle of the night
It feels alright, but then tomorrow morning
Oh, oh, then you come down
Oh, oh, then you come down
Oh, what if you never come down?

Just hate the way taking drugs is portrayed as inevitable/compulsory/normalised. Hope no actual teenagers are listening.

Argy for that reason I think they're going to have to show the negative consequences. Which is sad because I don't want something bad happening to Johnny or Freddy.

Or should we now call them John-E and Fred-E?

Just listened to the omnibus. Enjoyed the opener to 'Fridays' episode, a nod to the election without even having to talk about it.

Today my DH and DD2 have gone to join The Archers as they have gone to an Open Farm Sunday for the first time.

Agreed, IAmNotAUserNumber, which makes it all the more irritating. The Archers doesn't really need to get itself involved in public health messaging for young people, in my humble opinion.

Or should we now call them John-E and Fred-E?

Very good!

But the Archers are involved in LIFE Argy surely it's part of it? I still get fed up with the attitude to booze and 'drugs' fgs. Alcohol is an effing drug and can be a very dangerous one.

Yes ppeat but almost no-one ever died from having one drink. Plenty have died from taking one E. I hear your argument a lot; I just don't agree.

What if you disapprove of both booze and drugs?

As I do - I'm no fun at all

MoominFlaps I disapprove of both too but I find the hypocrisy hard to take. Booze is also a drug.

I have no evidence to say whether that's true Argy But if a lightweight like me had one large vodka and got into her car, I wouldn't be properly aware of all the other traffic on the road. possibly making me responsible for a death. .

I went to an OFS today, prompted by TA. I was disappointed. This particular farm had basically let its land to a load of "family fun" type stalls and activities, the animals were corralled into barns and cages to gawp at. I thought I was going to get a glimpse of life on a real working farm, with talks and demonstrations but sadly that was lacking. I'll try a different one next year.

IamNot That farm sounds it was possibly hiding something. Here in Fr.we go to very good OFS's . They had male calves to bottle feed at the one we went to last weekend. It is a special organic farm with high standards. The calves will be 'pink veal' so not kept in the dark or anything. Visits to the fields and talks etc.

Fabulous local food to buy too.

Ppeat- I failed to do my homework I think. We just went to the first and nearest one on the list that came up when I did a search, looking again just now I found another one that would have been more up my street (or muddy track) and will def try to go along next year. Yours sound very good.

I suppose if you've got little ones with you it would be ok . There are quite a few that cater for children in England.

There were loads of children there, and a bouncy castle etc, so a nice day out with young children. . But definitely not a day for seeing an actual farm in operation. I did feel sorry for the animals. There were a few cages and incubators popped on a wobbly table for people to look at the chicks - didn't seem a very calm atmosphere for them. And there were loads of sheep and lamb in a barn waiting for the shearing demo. I imagine it was quite stressful for them having all those people so close when they'd usually have space to keep their distance in a field.

When my children were small we visited a few "farm attractions". At least at those the whole set up is geared to visitors on a daily and year round basis so the housing is more suitable for the animals and the visitors needs, and the animals will be used to strangers. This event today didn't feel like that.

Our OFS was a disappointment too. It was more like a petting zoo with refreshments. To be fair, the farmer is pretty much retired these days (just sheep and beef cattle) so there's not a lot of actual farming to see. I think that he was happy though - it must have been a nice little earner with all that tea&cake, burgers and ice cream going on. Most punters were happy too because they were mostly infant children, or parents thereof, and they like their farming to be of the fluffy variety.

Going back to drugs, I think they should be legalised. My reasoning: to quote Jello Biafra, "crime drops when the mob can't price it", there can be proper quality control, and it will earn loads in tax. Win win win imo.

Surely there can't be another 'don't do drugs' SL? We've had Jazzer with his ketamine brain damage, Ed growing weed and Freddie having a bad come-down at Loxfest (and Fallon's dad being done for dealing).

How about they just have a storyline where two teenagers go to a festival, experiment with drugs and casual sex, wake up feeling rough and say well that was fun but reckon we'll stick to the beer in future - no harm done, nobody dies, nobody gets beaten up by a dealer.bjust like what happens to the vast majority of teens who dabble with the odd E.