The Archers No. 94: Freddie’s doing porridge, Tom gets his oats, but will Home Farm be toast? We’ll have to wheat and see ... Serial production is in full swing in Ambridge

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Thanks to LilG for the title, and DDD for starting the last thread and the tradition of the thread starter nominating the next thread starter

Lurkers are always welcome to unlurk and join in, including asking questions of the many very knowledgeable posters with a long Archers-listening history.

Don't post spoilers based on forthcoming plot synopses that you've read, there's another thread for that (and we'd love to see you over there). Once an episode has aired then it's fair game.

Ooh, ooh! I have a question.

< puts up hand... waits to be noticed... >

Why are David and Ruth nicknamed The Dopeys?

It doesn't seem to derive from anything that I know about them, so could someone tell me, please?

Been meaning to ask ever since I joined MN!

Also, did Lily take the twins' shared car to Manchester, or is it still at LL somewhere?

Ben sounds posh because he has been stuck in the cupboard with only Radio 4 for company for most of his life.
Have I mentioned that I can't stand Pip?

Didn't Lily load up a car to go to uni, I assumed it was hers/ freddies.

Many years ago, on the old BBC message boards it was noted that David was not the sharpest knife in the knife drawer (more of an old butter knife) and the nickname, originally Dopey Dave, stuck.

Yes, I agree that it’s absolutely not fair to fire Geraldine but, as noted above, Elizabeth has form for lashing out and blaming others when shit happens.
I’m glad Lexi is coming back. Really hope that all the talk of flaming torches at Brookfield is not foreshadowing a fire at the Canterbury Tales. Am I imagining it, or didn’t they have a fire once before? (In recent memory I mean, not the one that killed Grace!)

The toe-rags who battered Adam and left him in a coma also set fire to a Brookfield barn while Ed and Emma were living in the bungalow. Weren't they in some way connected with HWMNBN?* Dogfighting?? It was all rather melodramatic.

*All my soap vocab is culled from EastEnders circa 1998 ...

**Oooh! - witch - do new rules apply now?

Didn't Clive Horrabin set fire to Aunty CHristine's house.

Ah that’s right Quatermiss . I had totally forgotten Adam’s coma as well!

Is he out of it yet?

No, it's serious.

Quater wouldn’t you like to be in charge of the rules next thread?

I just had to google to remind myself who HWMNBN was, so you can crack on as far as I’m concerned!

No thanks!

Was enquiring on behalf of any new people who might ask about him. Though I'd be slightly afraid of lightning bolts even if the rule no longer applies ...

Whose rule was it originally?

Is he out of it yet?

No, it’s serious.

birdsdestiny

To avoid this becoming too cliquey. HWMNBN (he who must not be named) is Darryl, needy carpenter who became Shula's project, but doesn't seem likely to return even if we say his name, so stop sweating over it!

Also, as the young people like to say, birds' comment has won the thread.

Goodness me, I am learning a lot today.

Didn't know Adam had been in a coma - that must explain why he sounds as he does.

Was he very badly - ahem - damaged?

See! I was convinced HWMNBM was Rob.

I've just listened to the Omnibus. Has Geraldine ever been heard before? I thought she was a Silent Character a la Freda Fry.

No HWMNBM was not Rob. It was...

An old gas heater?

Oh dear.

A reluctant but well deserved Boop for David. Ruth on the other hand is sounding half-witted.

RUTH HAS NOTICED BEN.

This is not a drill!

He has got a place on the farm-the cereal cupboard!