The Archers: Discussion #84. New Year and some of us are still listening even if we don't know why.

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New posters welcome - with your fresh views and burning questions.

Old posters welcome - with your jaded views and knowledgeable answers.

But new posters feel free to be jaded, and old posters feel free to ask questions!

How is the Pip storyline going to play out and do you care?

As usual, if you want to mention the advertised storylines for future episodes, there's a separate thread for that - no spoilers here, please.

Just imagine we're all sitting round a table at The Bull -->

Oh dear 3 of us remembered Gasp

I know a lot of Eastern European mums who have moved abroad and left their children with relatives back home. They tend to come for a few months and then have a few weeks back home where their children are looked after by relatives. I imagine Lexie is doing the same.

Just dropping in to say I'm actually doing an academic archers storyline on this very issue, but it is absolutely unrealistic that Helen's eating disorder would just clear up, even when Rob had left. The aftereffects of abuse are deep and long lasting, at least in my personal experience and the anecdotal experience of a friend who works in a shelter for DV victims, and eating disorders are incredibly difficult to recover from whether temporarily or permanently. Only 33% of sufferers apparently ever recover. Mind you, Helen magically recovered from her relapse during the pregnancy with Henry. It does actually annoy me quite a bit.

I'm still sad Mike and family plus Hayley were written out

My friend has non identical twins. Her father is a twin (she is a singleton) so it obviously can be passed down the male line.

Cecile, I get disproportionately annoyed when journalists are misrepresented as that was my line of work

I have non identical twins. My Grandmother had twin sisters, so it’s in there somewhere. I was told ‘old wives tale ish’ it always skipped a generation.

& I thought we were about to have a classic episode of Inspector Morse meets Ambridge. Another disappointment.

Well that was a disappointment! When I read the synopsis about Kirsty making a discovery I thought it was going to be something about the hit and run. “ The river - it’s full of dead fish!”is hardly a cliffhanger

I really perked up when Kirsty said about the fish - a real storyline!

My prediction is that it's something to do with Brian and he gets splattered all over Borsetshire as the 'business villain of the year'.

I like the dead fish storyline- proper Archers!

I have just had a thought reading about Elizabeth and her heart above- do you think she has an imminent demise coming up and Freddie inheriting young?! Would certainly be... interesting...

Pip told Jill she was 11 weeks so presumably she'll have her scan this week some time.

so, no firm theories about the fish yet?
I want it to be Justins fault somehow

I don't want Elizabeth to die. I think I am in the minority but I really like Elizabeth.

Maybe Tom flushed the kefir into the Am...

Or something to do with the new housing development?

My prediction is that it's something to do with Brian and he gets splattered all over Borsetshire as the 'business villain of the year'.

I agree.

I don't want Elizabeth to die either!

Another one slightly disappointed that the "horrific discovery" wasn't Matt Crawford tangled up in a shopping trolley (no real animus against Matt, just to jazz up the SW) though I agree that it will turn out to be something that wipes the grin off Brine's face.

Entirely unconvincing that Tom would have to ask what kimchi was, didn't he go to some fermented foods shindig last year? Came back preaching the virtues? A very clumsy way to update listeners.

As it happens, I make my own kimchi and can vouch that its smell will be one to divide customers far more radically than the kefir ever did, as it cannot be gussied up with other flavours; it is what it is, and delicious. There's a reason so many Koreans have a kimchi fridge, and it's not just because they eat tons of the stuff. My three jars are in the beer fridge in the garage. The house rule here that the kimchi jar cannot be opened late at night as the pong will wake you up. This development in Tom's food business will be most amusing.:o

Wont Pip have had a scan when she went for an abortion? I doubt it. they didn't use to anyway.

My friend has non identical twins. Her father is a twin (she is a singleton) so it obviously can be passed down the male line.

have non identical twins. My Grandmother had twin sisters, so it’s in there somewhere. I was told ‘old wives tale ish’ it always skipped a generation.

Whether you have twins or not even if genetically predisposed will depend on how many pregnancies you have, statistically speaking. My daughter has wins but I didn't. I only had one child, if I had had more maybe I would have had twins. Someone I know had two children and a surprise third pregnancy which was twins. If she'd stuck at two the predisposition would never emerge. My daughter was told at the hospital the gene is only passed mother to daughter and can't be inherited from your father. She asked because her mother in law is a twin, but that was apparently a coincidence.

maybe Tom flushed the kefir into the Am

I am hoping they dumped it into the poo lagoon. The thought of all that festering cow muck (and goat muck) mixed up with still fermenting kefir makes my heart sing. If I lived in Ambridge I would be digging my chemical hazard suit out of the shed and ordering industrial size bottles of bleach from Amazon.

Farm Swamped by Tsunami of Muck.

" "I heard a rumbling sound and smelt a sickening odour, and when I turned around I saw a forty foot wave of shuddering filth swamp the house, dairy ,cafe and shop. Carrie, Susan and I are so lucky my fiancée stopped us outside the church to talk about tyre pressures making us all late for work "reported eyewitness and cafe worker Fallon."There is no way they could have survived ," she added. "

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Why is Kirsty swimming in the Am on a murky January day when she runs the health club at GG? Bonkers. I suppose someone needed to discover the dead fish I would have thought there was a better way especially as it was Roy who spotted them from the bank so need for Kirsty to even enter the river.