The Archers #109: Pulp Fiction! Hammer Horror (Tracy), Carry On (Brian & Neil), Call the Midwife (Adam, Ian, Lexi) - but no political thrillers, Ambridge remains Brexit-free. Nitpick here!

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Thanks to Bucking Frolics and LillianGish for the title ideas, which I had to edit down a bit to get under the character limit.

I wonder if Lily will have gone back to Manchester by the time we've filled this thread.

Whilst I don't think it's parting the story line, there have been incidences of new estates with an affordable housing allocation having different terms for the residents. The children in the affordable homes not being allowed to play on the grassy areas and often having people using separate entrances.

Emma does help out with the fete amongst other things but babysitting for your friends, getting people to do karate because you want to go and need enough people for a class, and getting onto the parish council because you want a house, definitely aren't examples of it.

I really wish the intern who writes the plot summaries on IPlayer would get their worked checked. On Friday “ Will puts his foot down “ and then on Monday..guess what? Yep Ian puts his foot down...At least nobody if looking to the future....

And Joy can bugger off as well. Ridiculous accent and ridiculous, unnecessary character.Suppose she’s supposed to be hilarious

See I know she’s supposed to be a boring self centred chatterbox ...but haven’t the SWs understood that it’s as boring for the listeners as it is for the characters

Well, that was hilarious.

WTF Was That

hahaha Jennifer! she thinks she owns Lexi !!!

how is she not giving her a slap round the face??

Why on earth would she be “ worried” just because Lexi is staying somewhere else? If she thought it was a sign that Lexi is having second thoughts surely she’d go to Adam first?

Tonight’s episode was utter bilge.

Lynda and Kirsty were Ok.
Can we have Joy added to Pip's hit list please.

Where would we be without the Thick Geordie type, eh?

(also: if that actor is actually from Shieldfield then she hasn't lived there for a very long time)

I first got together with dh in a flat in shieldfield. So it made me smile

Can we please have a Bobby Ewing shower moment where Nigel says, "Actually, David, let's wait until the morning to take the banner down."

I just love this thread, you all do the heavy lifting, so I don’t have to listen. Flowers and Produce to you all. 💐🍏🌽
( I once won a jar of chutney at a YFC harvest supper and will forward it to the village hall so you all get fair shares)

God, Jennifer was appalling tonight! Good job Lexi has Lynda acting as a bouncer, because Lexi is being too nice to Jennifer. She needs someone like Lynda to say what needs to be said. Jennifer really is seeing Lexi as just a walking incubator for "her" grandchild, as if she has any rights of ownership of the grandchild. She'd be one of "those" MILs people post about on here.

I noticed Joy went round the back of Kirstie's house (the sound of the sliding patio doors that away) instead of knocking at the front door. I wonder if that's going to come up at some point. Perhaps with an "amusing" scene of Kirstie or Philip wandering around in their underwear when Joy taps on the glass?

Argh, GAVE that away. I even proofread it!

I have no words. That must be the worst episode ever.

Shall we complain?
Bring back the TA we know and love.
No Joy, No Vince...
Just The Archers, Aldridges, Grundys, Tuckers, Snells, Carters, Kirsty, Oliver, Harrison, The Vicar, and Jazzer.

and we can still have Leonard as long as Jill doesn't giggle.

I haven't been able to listen to an entire episode for weeks, it's so appalling.

And Joy can bugger off as well. Ridiculous accent and ridiculous, unnecessary character.Suppose she’s supposed to be hilarious*

She's awful.

I don't know much (anything really) about English local government but does a parish council have any power?

And presumably the use of common areas within a new development is controlled by the title conditions the developer puts on.

Wasn't there quite a bit of discussion about what parish councils can and can't do when Emma was getting elected? Possibly along the lines of, "don't the SWs ever do any research?" but I could be confusing it with nearly every other storyline there...

That must be the worst episode ever Indeed. And Joy must be the worst character ever to be given voice. It’s enough to make you long for the return of HWMNBN. At least he was a Brummie so his appearance in Ambridge made some sense. How long before Joy can call in at Trowell Services on the way back north and meet the same fate as Heatherpet? I’m counting the days.

I am praying for faulty workmanship in Joy’s new house to result in a fatal gas explosion. If Rochelle makes an appearance I think that will be it for me. Why introduce new characters when there are so many story lines already?