Discuss The Archers #108: Has Ed & Emma’s ship sailed? Will Alice stick her oar into Kate's love life? Can Shula walk on water? Come and discuss whatever floats your boat in The Archers.

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Thanks to @QuaterMiss for the title of this thread. For reasons of space had to cut out the bit speculating about Oliver and Tracy pairing off. Surely not!

Off now to give blood, something nobody in Ambridge ever does. See you all later.

There are so many lost stories at rhe moment. THe Gills. The Lexiebaby, Russ, Lower Loxley, Lizzie, Leonard. Tom and Natasha . Helen and Lee. Hannah and the pig unit. Tom and the App.

And Vicky was 46 when she had Bethany.

BertrandRussellPhillip’s neck, don’t forget Phillip’s neck!

Oh yes- philip’s neck and the revelation about his son. Bankruptcy?

When do we think Lexi's baby is due?

She seems to have been pregnant for ever.

Can she stay pregnant forever please.

The all the stalled storylines, it's as thought the SWs get paid for introducing new SLs rather than "finishing" (or indeed, progressing) them.

One can imagine the "600 quid for a story we introduce" bonus payment scheme!

I hope they'll shelve the whole lexibabeh s/l. Agree with the others that it was Woke Central when Iananadam announced it, I was enraged.

Of course, it's likely to be a Brexit Babeh - good luck getting a foreign born baby with a non-british mother into Ambridge once Boris throws us off the cliff.

What fresh hell is this?!

Is Brine winding moike up?
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God this is excruciating!

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That was hilarious wasn’t it.

Not.

Jenny the agony aunt - couldn't see that one coming (yawn).

It was Neeyull not Moike.

I thought that it was David's job to field Brian's awkward confessions. Have his services been dispensed with?

Gosh. The SWs are slipping up. They would normally have strung that out for at least six months of Hilarious Misunderstandings.

Although we can still look forward to Brine explaining to Neeyull that his virility is, after all, unimpaired.

Gosh. The SWs are slipping up. They would normally have strung that out for at least six months of Hilarious Misunderstandings

We can only be grateful for small mercies. That could have been a funny episode instead it was excruciating - Brian isn't usually as ham fisted as that so I'm chalking that up to bad scripting.

I see Neil is keeping Susan's chilli recipe to himself.

Has anyone been keeping tabs on Lexi's incubation period?

Whabylon makes a good point re Brexit baby.

Maybe it was supposed to be born shortly after March 31st ... and the SWs were thwarted by Theresa May. Perhaps it will be a No Deal Halloween babe instead.

I have a feeling the behbeh was due in October. Baby Boris will be overdue and will be a November baby.

Since when does Brine get drunkRidiculously out of character that he'd talk to Neil about such an intimate subject anyway, drunk or sober. Surely he'd worry that Neil would let it slip to Susan and then that's game over.

I note the brandy was very much in evidence. Do you think Brian and Jenny have special brandy glasses?

I definitely thought the brandy glass reference was a nod to Emma's aspirations.