Thread #106: Jim’s in a jam, Peggy’s made a pickle and Lexi is blooming - sounds like the entries are lining up for this year’s flower and produce show, but who will be on the organising committee?

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Thanks to LillianGish for the title of this thread.

Holding episode tonight, I thought - not much progress on any current storyline. I was a touch surprised Natasha wasn't offended by the postnup idea but I suspect she's biding her time.

Taking Without Owner's Consent; it's police slang for joyriding,

Twocking was the longest word some of my Year 11, knew! 'I'm in court Miss, it's m'twocky'.

I think you're trying to smoke me out, so I trotter few more puns out, but I fear they are por-kwality. (these work better if you read them aloud )

I knew I just had to sow the idea in DDDs mind.
(That one needs reading not saying)

Not remotely yawning at this thread, but at TA sorry if that was not clear. Has alistair loined nothing? If he grills Jim any longer I'm a-fried Jim will go belly-up.

Some crackling puns here - I do love you lot.

Bucking - don't worry, I read it as yawning at TA not this thread - I mean, it would be pretty rude to do the latter, and it's not our sty-le on this thread. (Had to get one pig pun in there).

Ark at 'im.

at all the pig puns but saddlely ham struggling to thoink of any myself...

Am trying to remember what, if anything, was mentioned when Jazzer's brother came to Ambridge for Fallon and Harrisons wedding. Or did he come? I seem to remember a bit of argy-bargy went on.

Oh God no more Please

Though actually Jim's list of ingredients in bacon forgot the sulphites, sulphates and sugar. It's not the best stuff to eat that's for sure.

Though actually Jim's list of ingredients in bacon forgot the sulphites, sulphates and sugar. It's not the best stuff to eat that's for sure.

Nitrites and nitrates, not sulfites or sulfates.

I've only just registered, she knocked once, and before Alistair got to the door, she knocked again, so he had to call out something like "Yes, yes, I'm coming." How impatient is she? She's really pestering Alistair.

To be fair, this is a general TV/radio trope. When the cops go and knock on anyone's door in a TV detective programme, for instance, they start battering the door if it's not answered within around 5 seconds. They never seem to allow for the possibility that the house occupant is in the bath or on the loo or anything like that.

On another tack, surely Jim would never use the term "passed away" rather than "died"? It's the sort of woolly terminology he abhors.

You're right of course Errol i blame the heat here i'm not getting a full night's sleep. Also we don't eat it but we do drink the odd glass of sulphite\sulphate free wine so that's more at the top of my brain I suppose

On another tack, surely Jim would never use the term "passed away" rather than "died"? It's the sort of woolly terminology he abhors.

Yes - although nonreligious people do sometimes adopt the terminology that the deceased would have preferred.

Ref. knocking at doors, I have noticed that a number of people who knock at our door DO expect to be answered quickly, it's not just on the radio\TV , just the thoughtlessness of the callers. I always feel like hiding when that happens!

Who the hell wrote that??

Worst episode for a long time ☹

I quite like the thought of Eddie in a face mask. Yes it was crap.

All that rubbish with Lillian and Toby (?) at the party was a waste of time.

It was weird . They don't see Toby and Lillian as some new innovative comedy partnership do they

Well that was blah.

Of all people you'd think that Lillian would be the consummate practitioner of "No" as a full sentence.

Yes, except I think the point was supposed to be that Peggy artfully waited till Lillian was drunk enough not to say no instantly, but not drunk enough to make a scene about it.

I also like the idea of Eddie submitting to a face mask for the sake of his cunning plan. But I am disappointed that he's probably not going to be able to con Natasha into planting up the entire village with Borsetshire Beauties and other cider apples instead of ones suitable for juice, which was presumably his plan and hers respectively. OTOH he is quite possibly a perfectly reasonable person to help with the 'village orchard' idea.

Good pint, Errol.

I just can't see the sense in the fruit tree project. Doesn't Peggy want something that can make a substantial difference to the planet? The fruit tree thing just isn't something that will make a substantial difference to anything except, maybe, Natasha's profits, because of all the complexities around getting permission from landowners, establishing whose responsibility it is to look after the trees, rights to come onto the land to maintaining them, rights to fruit and so on and on and on.

WheresThatCatGoneNow

Who the hell wrote that??

Gillian Richmond.

Worst episode for a long time

She has produced some fairly awful tripe in the weeks she's done so far. I think she's reasonably well-regarded for other sorts of writing, but I don't think The Archers is her strong point.

I think Peggy is expecting something nobody has ever thought of before, that will turn the tide on climate change. She's said she wants this to change the world. A few hundred apple trees just isn't going to cut the mustard.

And yes, it was an awful episode. Who has a birthday party on a Monday night?