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Archers thread #116: Pandemic fears, markets crash but it's BOOM 💥 time for Ambridge. Discuss The Archers here.

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 10/03/2020 18:36

Archers Thank you, @PseudoBadger, for kicking off this long, long series of Archers threads.

Archers All views on The Archers welcome here! New blood welcomed. We don't all agree on all points and most of us are posting tongue in cheek a lot of the time, so don't worry about revealing that you'd like to employ Philip Moss & Son to fix your soil pipe, or other unusual views. Grin

Archers Spoilers: not on this thread, please. We don't wait for the omnibus to discuss the weeknight episodes, but we do try our best to avoid cross-contamination from www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/3439443-keep-it-to-yourself-the-archers-spoilers-thread-4, where spoilers are positively welcomed! (New thread likely to be replacing that one very soon, in the current circumstances.)

Archers For newer listeners, lurkers or those who just have no idea what we're talking about, @DadDadDad has created this useful thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/3557323-For-Archers-fans-a-guide-to-acronyms-on-the-long-running-discussion-threads-and-any-other-meta-thread-questions-you-may-have - BOOP point for him! (See thread for explanation.)

Thanks to @SurpriseSparDay for the thread title idea, which I tweaked, and @springydaff for the 💥 emoticon, which I hope is in the title! (Can't preview the title). Welcome, lurkers and lapsed listeners, drawn out of the shadows by the current crisis in Ambridge. In the OP of the last thread I said I didn't think we'd get to Easter on that thread. We certainly didn't!

I am very worried indeed about Lynda and concerned about Oliver too. Don't care about Gavin unless it means Kirsty is cheated out of yet another wedding. Freddie's redemption is now assured, though, surely? Roll on the return of the Lower Loxley crew.

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Taswama · 10/03/2020 18:39

signing in to shiny new thread!

MorticiaAddamsIsMyStyleGuru · 10/03/2020 18:48

Lurker here.

For the first time since I started listening to The Archers, I'm going to tune in live. I am dreading it, but I simply must know what has happened to Lynda. I don't think I can take it if she dies. I absolutely love her.

😩

BoreOfWhabylon · 10/03/2020 18:50

Oh, well done Gasp0de Flowers

Raera · 10/03/2020 18:55

Thanks! Just in time less than 10 minutes to go.
Glass of wine in hand and grasping my eau de nil scarf for comfort

DoctorTwo · 10/03/2020 19:00

Thanks for the shiny new thread @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g. Well, here we go.

Bimblepops · 10/03/2020 19:05

Poor Robert

EBearhug · 10/03/2020 19:06

Thanks, Gaspode.

Bimblepops · 10/03/2020 19:07

Sorry! And thank you Gaspode

EBearhug · 10/03/2020 19:10

Poor Robert. I am glad Jim is with him.

Etinox · 10/03/2020 19:10

Thank you Gaspode
Poor Robert!

cheezy · 10/03/2020 19:14

Oh no Sad

Bouncebacker · 10/03/2020 19:15

This is tough going! Poor people! And boop for Auntie Shula

EBearhug · 10/03/2020 19:16

Bloody hell. I have to go to my evening class now.

MorticiaAddamsIsMyStyleGuru · 10/03/2020 19:17

Oh no. Poor, poor Robert. Wasn't Jim wonderful. 😭

Janleverton · 10/03/2020 19:17

My 10 year old spoke just as they were talking about the workman. Who was the workman - is wasn’t Gavin was it?

MorticiaAddamsIsMyStyleGuru · 10/03/2020 19:17

The workman was called Blake. So Gav is fine.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 10/03/2020 19:17

Poor, poor Robert. Huge BOOP for Jim. Good sized one for Shula. Oh dear.

Blake? Where was Gav?

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R4 · 10/03/2020 19:18

Poor Lyndy (and Robert) and poor Freddie.
Nobody seems too bothered about Blake the bloke.Sad Is he alive or dead?

Janleverton · 10/03/2020 19:18

Poor Robert. I can’t believe that Lynda will be killed off - surely not?!

BoreOfWhabylon · 10/03/2020 19:18

Oh, Robert Sad

I was an A&E and ITU nurse for years, I always found the burns patients the most distressing. Poor Lynda has FTB to her face!

Janleverton · 10/03/2020 19:19

Oh - was kind of hoping would be Gavin, but then again, would have been hideous for Phillip.

FlamingoAndJohn · 10/03/2020 19:20

Just checking in.

BoreOfWhabylon · 10/03/2020 19:20

Elizabeth is going to drive Freddy mad.

UntamedWisteria · 10/03/2020 19:21

My prediction was correct.

Although, not quite a miraculous recovery for Lynda (yet), but she is still alive ...

cheezy · 10/03/2020 19:23

Does Freddy know who Gav is? Cos the way he said Gav?! made me wonder