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!

[PseudoBadger]

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.

Of course, Vegas. I had forgotten.

Haloa you three. Daveed, we’ve run out of loo roll, again. This never happened in Prudhoe.

I’m faintly sure that Kenton and Jolene got married at Lower Loxley. The reception was definitely there. I suppose they might have got married in the Registry office and had the reception at LL but we know LL is licensed for weddings so would have been a bit odd if they had.

Kate and Lucas got married in S. Africa.

I only found you guys a couple of weeks ago and have been lurking. But, in honour of the 100th thread, I've changed my name and here's my first post!

I feel bad saying this as I'm sure it's an age related problem, but I can't bear to listen to Justin's throaty voice. I can't stand Lilian either!

I'm here, without changing my name...

(George the Bleeder was the bloke who used to do tuberculin testing on the farm I grew up on. I can't remember exactly why I mentioned it on the last thread.)

Surely EmmurnEd would have seen a floor plan of the house they’re buying? And isn’t there a sales office?

[Tom] must have a hidden talent

Yes its those highly talented acres of farmland.

I don't get the Natasha hate. I don't think I'd be best buds with her but I her crimes seem to boil down to being hardworking, driven and successful whilst female. She overdoes the presents at Christmas and talks a lot but so do lots of people. By comparison Tom has endless ideas but regularly fails to turn them into more than modest successes.

Its too soon to be getting married though - wasn't Natasha also on the rebound?

Hannah on the other hand is a recurring nasty piece of work and I have no sympathy for her.

Aha! Thank you EBear - reference found. Thread 98, on farm diaries, in relation to the Home Farm troubles. He presents such a vivid image to my mind - and I daresay he had an exact equivalent in Ambridge (with an equally colourful name) at some undetermined time.

I wonder if Susan makes anything of the fact that, of all the extended Archer/Aldridge clan, only Alice and Christopher actually live at Home Farm right now. I'm sure she hasn't been able to resist some dynastic daydreaming ...

Hello, lurkers! Welcome, and please do stay around.

Catmint, I'm very jealous of getting to see that map!

Justin distracting Emma took me right back to my children's toddler years - tantrum threatening, 'Oh, I think I can hear a fire engine, can you see one?'

Will's going to turf Tom, Natasha, Hannah and Johnnie out of no. 1 The Green, isn't he? Then he can install Joe, Eddie and Clarrie there when they leave Grange Farm. I don't think he could afford to top up the rent so they can stay there, although the SWs may decide to continue the fairytale and have him do that.

I wondered if the point of the scene with Emma and Justin was to show how easily diverted Emma was from her Parish Council role, challenging Justin’s closure of the footpath, by self interest. Paving the way for more of the same at Timotei’s suggestion and giving weight to Hannah’s assertion that she’s only in it for herself.

Seconding Welcome!, map and No 1 The Green!

Yes, indeed. It should surely be obvious to Will that he has a house his parents and grandfather could live in. And, since the inheritance that bought it was left to him (unfairly ) by an aunt, Joe could still feel he's living in an ancestral home. (Was the aunt on Eddie or Clarrie's side?)

These shufflings of the pieces on the board are always fun. (If sometimes rather stretching credulity-wise.) Where will the current No 1 residents end up?

I don't get the Natasha hate either.

I wonder if, after living at Grange Farm, Ed is going to find his compact new build claustrophobic. He's such a moper, I can imagine him finding fault.

I’ll try and change my name later but I don’t want to lose you all. Thank you for the new thread

George Or are you still him? Unless there's strong chocolate and or raisins in the kale smoothie (which would be a tad revolting) I reckon it 'd do Ruby good.

Poor Emma Lilian she 's getting enthusiastic over a cupboard, she should be allowed a little though, after all it's going to be her cupboard! The others in the family will have to sit on the roof.

I'm relieved to hear that ppeat! (Mostly because I have a relative who occasionally sends me expletive filled texts and photos of the results of her cat eating weeds.)

Am enjoying being George so far. Not sure how it will play across the rest of MN though ...

I don't get the Natasha hate either.
I think that it's because she comes across as not-genuine. Tom might be a plonker but he is a committed, hands-on, organic plonker.
Natasha, on the other hand, used to market cosmetics but has now flitted over to marketing juice drinks. She doesn't have any affinity to core values or a specific industry; she just finds a product (any product, that someone else produces) and conjures up some sales-spiel.

Delighted about the new 100th thread, and thanks to Pseudo for a stunning achievement.

I'm more of a lurker really, but I felt moved to change my nn for the grand occasion (was 5000FingersofDrT). I'm sure Jill has baked far more than 5000 flapjacks in her time, though probably more than that in a week

she just finds a product (any product, that someone else produces) and conjures up some sales-spiel. I thought she had some fruit trees somewhere or did I just imagine this? Is she really just a marketing person? I find her very easy to dislike mainly because of the way she’s managed to turn Tom’s head and listening to him totally in thrall to everything she says, singing her praises and saying how marvellous she is just makes me dislike her more. I definitely think we are meant to dislike her and share Pat and Tony’s reservations. Does anyone actually believe it is going to be plain sailing after their hastily arranged wedding?

Just a thought - if the all the Grundys vacate Grange Farm, where will Ed's sheep and Eddies pigs/turkeys and landscaping bits be kept?

Also, if the current occupants of no. 1 the green are displaced, will anyone remember that Tom and Jonny moved out of Bridge farm because of Helen and her nippers moving in.

I'm sure Jill has baked far more than 5000 flapjacks in her time
Jill is heading towards 90 years of age, so we'll call that 70 years of flapjack-making. Assuming that she cooks a dozen at a time, she needs to have baked flapjacks only once every other month to reach the magical number. She must be well over 5,000 by now!

I agree Radio I felt suspicious by the glibness of the plans for the on line Bridge Farm farmshop franchise, Tom and his family have a solidity about them which Nat's get rich quick schemes lack. I think she saw Tom and Bridge Farm and the pound signs lit up in her eyes like in a Tom and Jerry cartoon

The Grundys would still have Grundy's Field for all their projects. Though I've no idea where Ed's prize sheep lives ...

Good lord - Eddie is about to be 68! (And here I've been, worrying about Jazzer sufferring in the wind and cold ...)

Is it really not possible for the poor man to retire from heavy lifting and junketing about in probably poorly suspended trucks? (Perhaps when they no longer have the enormous Grange Farm rent to pay?) The Grundys really need another windfall to supplement whatever tiny State pension he might get.