👩‍🌾 The Archers spoilers thread #5: Can't wait for 7.02pm? Join us here!

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Spoiler thread for The Archers. Please keep all spoiler-related discussion in this thread and do not spill the beans on the main Archers Thread. Last thread here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/3439443-keep-it-to-yourself-the-archers-spoilers-thread-4

I think it was probably an autocorrect error, but an amusing one, as it changed something untrue into something that can be true.

I suppose the Chilterns merge into the south Cotswolds.

Nextdoor has had other recent funny story. Someone started a thread about the herring in the local brook and had attached a photo of it.

stories even. Apparently, there are kingfishers in the brook too.

Back to Kirsty being ingratiated into the Ambridge community...

@Weasely, are you Mike?

Someone might recognise the thread.

I suppose the Chilterns merge into the south Cotswolds.

Not really: they are a fair distance apart, with quite a lot of Oxfordshire in between. You can stand on the escarpment of the Chilterns at Princes Risborough or Stokenchurch, where the roads particularly the M40 all fall over the edge of that escarpment, and look across towards the Cotswolds, but you won't actually see them. The Cotswolds are in Gloucestershire and West Oxfordshire, (and parts of Wiltshire, Somerset, Worcestershire and Warwickshire); the Chilterns are in East Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and Bedfordshire.

Both ranges of hills slant roughly north-east to south-west on the map, so they are parallel rather than converging at any point.

You're right, they are at least about 25 miles away.
I sort of thought Henley is in the Chilterns and in Oxfordshire, Ridgeway blah blah blah

apart not away

There's all of the Downs to the south, down Goring-and-Streatley way and stretching east; and isn't the Ridgeway the Icknield way for a lot of its length? I only know it from Avebury to Streatley, more or less, and that's on the Downs. I'dve said that section was south of the Cotswolds, and the Chilterns too until it goes up onto the escarpment on its eastern end, and that's definitely Chilterns.

(Disclosure: I was brought up in the Down country south of the Thames, moved to the Cotswolds for a while and later the Mendips, and am now more or less in the Chilterns, so I have noticed which of them were where over the years. And the Yorkshire Dales and the Yorkshire Moors came in between, but they aren't really relevant to this.)

Ah, but you lived in Borsetshire for a while too, didn't you.

Very few hills round there, not what you'd call Hills... Also, I can't be doing with non-tidal rivers which nevertheless flow in both directions.

Do they? Is it all the rivers or just one?

If we could persuade the Ambridge property fairy to venture outside Borsetshire, we could fix the housing crisis.

I wonder if there were herrings in the Am before it was polluted. Maybe it had the feathery herrings of nextdoor fable.

The herring thread was great because the OP was thrilled with having seen it. Herons are so cool.

But Lakey Hill (in my imagination at least) thrusts up from the flat landscape like a Midlands Glastonbury Tor.

Inhabitants for miles around used to gawp up in wonder as the flames consumed the Wicker Man erected atop.

Guess what I just did. Tuned into R4. It's Friday.

The Am it is that flows both ways; or at least I can think of no other reason for something from Ambridge to be washed down to Hollerton, as Adam said it would have been.

Hollerton, after all, is on the far side of Ambridge from Borchester, which is where the Am debouches into the River Perch. So if the river were flowing normally, Hollerton is up-stream of Ambridge, and nothing would wash down to the place. Therefore the river must sometimes flow in the other direction.

I cannot away with rivers that flow in both directions unless, like the Thames below Teddington Lock or the Avon below Bristol, they are flowing with brine as the tide rises.

I imagine lakey hill to be a gently sloping hill, not very high.

Kenton was in difficulty climbing it to the top, but his mother and Jim Lloyd had no such problem.

Bad luck MUM. I almost planned my weekly Star Trek Discovery fix to end at 7pm, but, just in time, my brain gently swerved the embarrassment. So I didn't notice the striking of that hour, for once.

Of course, when they bring back the Friday episode we'll all keep missing it because we've become accustomed to doing without.

We get a Friday episode in the last week of the year, @PoulePouletteEternellement - did you see my post above? The quid pro quo appears to be that we don't get a Monday episode that week and that each episode goes out first at 2pm and then 7pm., thus causing huge confusion, I expect. No idea if this will continue into the New Year. I hope not. Tied into the 70th birthday of TA, I think.

I did, thanks!

I guarantee fluster and head-scratching somewhere near my house ...

Gli glis we've had them in the garden ,dead, (either dropped by a BOP) or poisoned by a hunter (we're in MW Fr.) they look sweet. Not sure if they're indigenous.
ATM the red squirrels are not threatened by the greys. There are none here.

By pure coincidence, I was looking for something else in a book by Jock Gallagher last night (how to spell Chriss Gittins) and there was information for this thread: he says Lakey Hill is 450ft high.

And I now have today's spoiler-synopsis from the Mail.

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Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update 7th - 10th November 2020
Kirsty has always been good at picking up rubbish in Ambridge - Tom and Philip spring to mind. This week, she encourages others to do the same thing by organising a litter pick, which leads to a surprise discovery for one Ambridger and second thoughts for Kirsty.
While Kirsty and her crew bag up face masks and other detritus currently despoiling the Borsetshire hedgerows, the Pargetter twins scour the country in search of birthday fun.
Helen, meanwhile, is shocked by a request from one resident, another Ambridger makes a terrible mistake, and matters come to a head for Gavin.
All this will be as nothing, however, compared to the dark drama unfolding behind the closed doors and pulled blinds of Chris and Alice’s troubled home …
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Gotta love them for that opening sentence. and interesting that the rubbish from Covid has been allowed a place in the programme.

(For 7th - 10th November 2020 please read 7th - 10th December 2020.)