Keep it to yourself. The Archers Spoilers Thread 4

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Oh, I forgot

aaand...

We're back in the room!

The speculation on ML was that it's Freddie's Offender Manager.

That does seem possible. S & A, I mean.

Ah, that makes sense!

Shula with Carol's daughter? Re LateLifeLesbianism, I mean.

And who's Jim harsh-wording this time?

Hard to guess since he disapproves of literally everyone.

Leonard's confession will be to Shula about the painting he's supposed to be doing. He really didn't sound like he wanted to do it, when (I forget who it was) said Shula wanted to see him on Wednesday about it.

I can totally see Shula having a lesbian relationship.

Yep, Jazzer's going to stop working for Tom. That's why we've had Tom and Natasha accusing him of stuff over the last couple of weeks, to rile him up and give him a reason to drop tools.

Ed will take that driving job, but feel really uncomfortable about it.

I find Shula self obsessed and pretty much my least favourite character. She will be insufferable questioning her sexuality/ faith etc - it’s making me grumpy

Nooooo, Ed!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Just spotted ‘an old mystery rears it head’. Resolution of the missing collection money?

Leonard can’t really paint. The old mystery - was there a petty crime spree which Tim will have been involved in?

or bunting?

From Academic Archers from what I understand of the talk it was much more about the language that Shula has been using and the conflict she has faced in ending her marriage was much closer to a "queer" narrative than for example the Adam and Ian narrative.
Adam and Ian could easily pass for a (boring) heterosexual couple. Shula's need to self discover and break away from "expectations" sounds more like a "coming out story".
But if the headline was taken alone (like the Daily Mail did with another paper), then it could be misconstrued as speaking about Shula's sexuality.

Oh and old mystery: could it be Tim is behind most of the rural crime wave of the last few years (tractors, cows etc).

Ed will find the stolen bunting in the back of Tim's van!!!

Ed tries to solve his cash-flow crisis by accepting an offer he can't refuse, but it may be the beginning of a dangerous game

I despair. Do we really have to listen our way through all the tedium of a Grundy yet again getting into deep shit through sheer bloody stupidity? I may have to go onto the podcast and fast forward those bits.

Molly, I know little and have no desire to know more about queer theory, but Shula?! Goodness me.

On Twitter and elsewhere on the web I quite often see references to people who self-describe as queer and what it seems to mean is 'There is nothing very unusual or distinctive about me and that's insupportable so I'm going to self-identify as queer because then everybody will realise how special I am!' Perhaps I'm being cynical. OTOH, that sounds quite a bit like Shula ...

Shula's need to self discover and break away from "expectations" sounds more like growing up to me.

Freddie went to the Tea Room which isn't licensed. And I don't think anyone has told him about his effect on the license at Lower Loxley - which I expected Kenton to spill the beans on yesterday.

Was that meant for the other thread, Molly?

Don't know how that happened (better here than Relationships)

So ... after his set-to with Freddie yesterday is Russ going to decide to move out of LL? Leaving Lily to explain his reasoning tomorrow?

Surely either moving or, at the very least, that he’s going to look for a job? The Prodigal’s return really does emphasise the Artist’s incubus status.

Not judging by tonight. Ross is getting his feet more firmly under the table. I can see Freddie moving out at this rate.

I wonder if his “my friend has a room” speech was purposely designed to finesse Elizabeth into protecting him from Freddie ...