Movin' on up (Ed and Emmur), Movin' on out (Brian and Jenny), Time to break free (Lily from Russ, we hope), Nothing can stop *The Archers* in 2019 - Thread 97 (Joe Grundy’s age!)

[Bittermints]

Many thanks to @LilianGish for the title and to @NotdeadyetBOING for being the last threadstarter. Further thanks due to @PseudoBadger for kicking of this long, long series of Archers threads and to @DadDadDad for being our resident statistician and keeping the ball rolling when Pseudo stepped back a bit.

All views on The Archers welcome here! New blood welcomed.

Spoilers: not on this thread, please. We don't wait for the omnibus to discuss the weeknight episodes, but we do try our best to avoid cross-contamination from www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/3439443-keep-it-to-yourself-the-archers-spoilers-thread-4, where spoilers are positively welcomed!

I wonder where Brian and Jennifer will end up. I was very taken with the idea on the last thread that the mysterious Gills won't last very long and the house will be sold back to the Aldridges at a knockdown price.

Excellent new thread. Thanks Bittermints.

Thanks, Bitter.

It does seem odd that the SW are being so mysterious about the Gills. We've not even overheard a conversation along the lines of "oh, I saw the new family moving into Home Farm, they said that... "

Thanks Bitter

Dad We did hear Adam and Brian (looking through bins) noticing the champagne and catering vans turning up at the house maybe that said it all......

Keri Davies described them on Twitter as Schrodinger's Gills, so I think they are toying with us.

As was mentioned in the last thread, Home Farm may be an AirBnB party house ooops.

Or the family wanted to wait to move in until after trashing the place or having party.

Did the Aldridges leave enough furniture for an Air B&B?

It couldn't be the oates bloke who has bought Home Farm? He seems to have been introduced very suddenly for no apparent reason.

Thanks for the thread Bittermints.

I love these threads because they put ideas into my head I would never think of alone. The Air BnB for example, I'd never have imagined that was what was going on, but it makes perfect sense.

I don't think they left any furniture, Brian was all for taking the door knobs and lightbulbs after the price drop, but as a party venue maybe it doesn't matter.

birds Wasn't M. Oatie introduced by Oliver as being a long term maintenance man on the GG site?

But where will the party guests sleep?

Ruaridh, Ben and Adam between them had watched all comings and goings and seen no removal van, only a small van full of champagne and party food.

Great new thread! Wonderful title and comprehensive intro. Thanks both.

Well! KD's comment is certainly interesting ... I'd say it's unusual for new residents who want to be part of the community not to make some effort before moving in (maybe popping into the shop?) and not to avoid annoying the populace with loud parties and litter. And now KD adding to the possibility that we may never see them ...

I want Jenny to get her house back.

Yes but why. What is his purpose. Maybe it's more likely that he will lead Ed astray as people have suggested rather than own home farm.

The eagerness of the elusive Gills to complete before NYE seems significant somehow. So they could throw their enormous bash in their new pad? Maybe they were charging ££££ to paying guests?

In the last couple of days I read a news story about a man in the US who let his swanky apartment through Airbnb to a nice quiet young man over NY and discovered later that the place was trashed by the 500 guests he'd invited back there.

Re Neil and his attractiveness. I have always quite fancied him I think it started witth his vulnerability way back when he was suffering unrequited pangs for Shula.

The Air B nB - is not air B n B as you might traditionally think. But there are houses that are bought just to be rented out for parties. They can rent in chairs etc. if needed, just like the caterers.

I didn't know this kind of thing happened (I don't live on a posh enough/remote enough road). Until someone died at one a couple of years ago. (I'm not sure if they were shot or drowned.) A swimming pool is a definite must for summer parties.
Admittedly the "Gills" seem a bit amateurish not to have had a better clean up crew. I think the aim is to not push things to the point of getting complaints - a lack of neighbours helps.

Gosh! There's a house not far from us which was recently refurbished to a very high standard. I'm not convinced anyone has ever moved in properly. I regularly see vanloads of furniture coming and going and people setting up lighting. I have wondered if whoever owns it is trying to make a bit of money by letting it as a filming location because house prices in London are going down. I suppose we should be grateful it's not turned into a party house.

Ed is such a dope. He's already had some cows stolen but goes around boasting about his £4k ram.

And wasn't it Eddie who said he knew Tim Oatey's name 'from somewhere'? That wouldn't bode well. (Though I may be misremembering.)

I agree with Hannah that Tom and Natasha are probably going a bit fast for matching tattoos, though hiraeth isn't as bad as it could have been. However, Hannah's motives are not really out of concern for Tom, but through jealousy.

As for Kate (a few pages back in the last thread) - I know a few people who run yoga retreats, and it's not unknown for them to shut down over winter, November to February. But if that's the case with Spiritual Home, it would be nice to have some mention of it. Plus I'm not sure it's financially secure enough to do that.

Ooh, yes, how's Kate going to feel about loud, inebriated party guests next door? Try to sell them a de-tox package? Cue much drunken stumbling into and fumbling in the yurts...

It couldn't be the oates bloke who has bought Home Farm?
A grounds maintenance man with a small suckler herd is surely nowhere near being in the league of buying HF house. But Tim OT's occupation doesn't strike me as an obvious fit for being some Machiavellian schemer either, though his manner with Ed was indeed a bit OT.

But I am willing to bet that Kate will either move SH away from Home Farm, or abandon it, probably then suggesting that land might as well be sold.

If Home Farm is giong to be a party venue, perhaps it will be a disaster due to sabotage from a lethal combination of Jenny and Ruari, leading to the knock-down price sale and coming back to the Aldridges.

wasn't itEddiewho said he knew Tim Oatey's name 'from somewhere'?

Probably one of Baggy & Snatch's less reputable mates.

Many thanks for the new thread, Bittermints.

I am still rather unsure of Lee and his intentions. I have a bad feeling about him, but can't put my finger on why.....