100 Archers threads! We are truly overinfested. Whether you need some help from a therapist in a tabard, or want to move your wife in with your FWB, there’s something in Ambridge for you!

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Well hasn’t it been a fun few years! Thank you all for supporting the threads and sharing in love and critique of The Archers.

However what I found most interesting about the last episode was that Russ and Elizabeth sat on their arses while Lily paid £12.50 for a taxi from Lower Loxley to Ambridge! Why on earth didn’t one of them drive her? (Taxi home, fair enough).

See I disagree with Rex, she may not want a career in call centres, but employers do prefer people who have had some experience in any workplace. I despair when I interview graduates who have only been travelling and studying.

Kate - just being dramatic. Agree Adam could have been tougher but he didn't have much choice with Ian being away. I hope he gets her to work somewhere.

Lily - I think working away from LL and Russ will be the making of her. Love Rex!

How does Ian being away make a difference? It doesn’t free up a bed. They have a spare room anyway, recently vacated by Lexi.

I agree with you Jazzer, but I don’t think CMR would see that as applying to him either - he already has a fairly comprehensive CV, albeit his resignation from his last job would take some explaining. Anyway now he’s an artiste! Slightly surprising that the LL gallery is never mentioned anymore - surely that would be an obvious place for him to be drawn to (looks for pun alert emoji).

How does Ian being away make a difference? Ian would never agree to Kate moving in even for a second.

Yes - Ian would say no but he's not there as Adam's excuse - like Lilian's 'family time'.

I don’t know, Ian has quite a soft heart really, but I suppose that this is Kate we’re talking about.

Lilian 100% agree re call centre work not being good job experience for Russ, totally not relevant. Lily a different kettle of fish

Did anyone else notice Kate admitting that her precious business, for whose sake Home Farmhouse had to be sold, doesn't bring in enough money for her to be able to rent a room and buy her own food?

I don't believe it was ever a paying proposition, I remember her having run out of Debbie's and Brian's money being the excuse for her moving in with her parents and letting the cottage they had furnished and decorated for her. And that was years ago.

She is a thief and a liar and spiteful with it. I don't like her.

I don’t know, Ian has quite a soft heart really, but I suppose that this is Kate we’re talking about.
If you said to Ian, "we have room (physical room or headspace) for Kate or a baby, but not both" which way do you think he'd jump?

I know a kate in real life (and a lynda and a susan...)
and many cf threads on here are about kate as well.
adam handled it well, but maybe he needs to change his locks to stop 'surprise' visits.

I thought Adam was just offering Kate somewhere to stay for a couple of nights.

I thought Adam was just offering Kate somewhere to stay for a couple of nights.

I think Adam thinks that too, but we all know Kate won't leave willingly. And if he's the last person who's willing to have her stay, he's going to find it difficult to turf her out on the streets (even though she has her yurts, which have a wood burning stove to keep them warm).

She'll still be there when Ian gets back, and that will cause tensions between him and Adam, as presumably, she's staying in what will be the nursery.

I know they always try to shy away from anything political (this being the Beeb'n'all), but does anyone else think it's faintly ridiculous that the current car crash in parliament hasn't even been mentioned in passing? By anyone???

Jenny mentioned 'living in a divided nation' a little while ago. She said she was determined not to allow the creation of a divided family as well.

Guess it's difficult without hasty last minute inserts.

I think they do occasionally mention it. Someone began to say a sentence beginning "Br... " and laughed when their listener said I thought you were going to say 'Brexit Ha ha....". I can't remember who they were though.

Oh, wasn't that Brian, at the dinner party? But he actually said he was surprised no-one had mentioned the B word, and when someone replied "Brexit?" he said "No, the Bull". I think he then went on to talk about Jolene doing a gig there.

Yes - you're right George - there was that passing reference. But it really does stretch the bounds of credibility to believe that there are no heated discussions going on arguably I'm over infested in all things Brexit-related as well as TA

Well, I dunno ... Ambridge residents aren't much invested in the cultural or political life of the country and generally only get involved through nimby-ism.

One would think that if Russ were still employed he'd be leading student protests about the potential effect of Brexit on the free movement of art and artists.

I wouldn't want to make assumptions about Phoebe - she may well be specialising in entirely different areas of politics.

Have Helen and Johnny had no relevant conversations about their elegantly supercilious cows??

One would think that if Russ were still employed he'd be leading student protests about the potential effect of Brexit on the free movement of art and artists.

No. He might stir some students up and he night go and stand at the head of a march or protest if it would show him in a favourable light, but he wouldn't actually do something as mundane as organise and lead it.

Did Rex just say £12.50? From LL to the Bull? They're clearly further apart than I'd understood.

(Did I mis-hear?)

They're clearly further apart than I'd understood.
Lower Loxley Hall is in Lower Loxley, not Ambridge. It's a few miles away - hence Lizzie's deteriorating state going (literally) unnoticed.

Yeah ... I know it's not in Ambridge - but sometimes one has the impression that it's closer than the next village. And sometimes the opposite! But £12.50 is quite far by mini-cab. (Though perhaps half of that is the grand approach to LL.)

(Didn't Roy once walk there, drunk, from Ambridge? I seem to remember we had a thread title that foretold this event - and then it happened.)

Actually, where I am £12.50 would be a half hour drive in Rex's cab! Though obvs much less time by black cab.

I pay £10 or £11 for a four mile taxi ride from my house to the train station. Last time a lorry unloading caused a traffic tailback and it cost £14.50.