🧚‍♀️ Archers thread #120: Magic time. Dialogue! Good Fairy Lilian made Lynda’s wish come true. Will Phil vanish in a puff of smoke? Join the Magic Circle in Alice’s shed, where time is never called!

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

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 think we should hear more about the Naughty Milkman, or other unusual views.

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/3853783--The-Archers-spoilers-thread-5-Cant-wait-for-7-02pm-Join-us-here, where spoilers are positively welcomed!

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 @Roysnewshirt for the excellent title suggestion, which I tweaked a bit.

I wonder how much dialogue we're going to get in the coming weeks. They're back to normal recording, I believe, albeit socially distanced. Also, when will we get our Friday and Sunday episodes back? I know I'm not the only regular to miss TA a lot more on Friday than on Sunday. The Sunday episode is still an incomer, of course, having only been introduced some 20 years ago, of course.

(My parents retired to a village and some features of Ambridge life are very familiar from their experience, the 'incomer' label being one.)

TMI

Just in case anyone missed Ramblings
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrimond_friction_hitch

After she came out of hospital I seem to remember she was having dinner with Chris and he asked her if she wanted "more" wine so I assume she js still drinking. She was aware she was pregnant at that point.

Gavin will accompany Alice to have a termination.

They will then leave Ambridge together.

The 🔮 foretold this on the last thread.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

What was that urgent delivery she put down the phone on the counsellor to get into the house straight away?

I thought she was phonng from the office and it was a farm delivery.

Talking to the counsellor, she started to say something to the effect that one of the hardest things was trying to get through it without ... and the implication seemed clear that the end of that sentence was "a drink". Which implied that she is at least trying to keep off it.

I think Alice will have the abortion, split up with Chris, move away and start a relationship with someone else (possibly but not necessarily Gavin as it will be v complicated what with the horses). She will then get pregnant and have a baby very quickly and be blissfully happy. This will leave Chris baffled but she will realise she was simply with the wrong guy.

He can then find someone more suitable - Kirsty should be available by then, for instance. Or may be he will go on the same dating site as Elizabeth and be surprised by her taste in portrait work.

Do we know how many weeks she is? Chris was taking about contacting the midwife which seems a bit premature? It’s a while since I was pregnant.

Or may be he will go on the same dating site as Elizabeth and be surprised by her taste in portrait work.

What a shame it's too early in the thread for reliably predictive title suggestions! Otherwise ...

The Archers, #121, Send nudes!

Haven't been here for a while, am sure you will have discussed this, but how on Earth is Kirsty going to cope when she finds out??

She really doesn't deserve the (love) life Ambridge has dealt her!!

Is a retreat to Tom the only way out, oh but that's tricky as he's apparently happily married to Natasha who I'm still waiting to understand.......

@Darker

Do we know how many weeks she is? Chris was taking about contacting the midwife which seems a bit premature? It’s a while since I was pregnant.

You booked in at around 8 weeks when I was pregnant in 2016. Gets you in the system for the 12 week scan. I don’t think we know how far along she is though. I’m surprised we haven’t heard Chris reference “that time we weren’t so careful” or speculate why their contraception failed (maybe due to her drinking so much she vomited?)

What is annoying me is that a while ago she got a horse and was talking about starting to compete again, which the scriptwriters seem to have forgotten about Maybe this is the moment they will remember the horse and Alice will go for a long ride and be thrown off. She an Chris are hopelessly mismatched, but she did really love him once and she still remembers that - there’s still a tiny bit of her that thinks she can get back to that (which is where all the Chris would be such a great father is coming from) Apart from anything I think she wants to prove Brian wrong, but she’s realising now that her whole break for independence thing was a sham - she’s more rooted in Ambridge than ever married to the local blacksmith. And despite their relationship’s devil-may-care beginnings with a spur of the moment wedding in Las Vegas she’s ended up with a partner who couldn’t be more conventional and one who is only only proud and supportive of his wife’s job if it can be done from Ambridge.

But Alice doesn’t seem ready to speak to a midwife so I wondered how they had got into the system. I can’t see the hospital doing anything.

Hello everyone. I'm going to try and join you if I may Was a dedicated listener throughout my teens (I used my very trendy clock radio with tape and timer function to record John Archer being killed by that tractor because I knew I would miss it) and whenever I could afterwards although it never really fitted with work time and I've drifted away.

Catch it occasionally these days and would love to find out much more about where everyone is and what I've missed. Last big story I was able to follow was Freddie being arrested so I'm not a million years out of date but so much to catch up on. I'm going to spend some time reading these threads and getting right back into it!

she’s more rooted in Ambridge than ever married to the local blacksmith
He's a farrier not a blacksmith, I think.

@Darker

But Alice doesn’t seem ready to speak to a midwife so I wondered how they had got into the system. I can’t see the hospital doing anything.

I don’t think they have, Chris just wanted to make a first appointment.

@MikeUniformMike

she’s more rooted in Ambridge than ever married to the local blacksmith He's a farrier not a blacksmith, I think.

He’s both isn’t he- makes hanging baskets and ugly bird feeders as well as shoeing horses and advising on equine foot heath.

Welcome, DappledThings! The more the merrier.

Yes, welcome, DappledThings, you're definitely not the only listened-as-a-teenager poster on this thread!

I find TA has a bit too much gear and tackle and trim these days. Not enough fold, fallow, and plough ...

she’s more rooted in Ambridge than ever married to the local blacksmith

I'm beginning to think it ought to be against the law for villagers to marry in-village ... But that's a powerful point, Lil'G - one can only imagine her horror at the exact moment she realised this.

Thanks both for the welcome! I've been on Sounds this morning listening to as much as is available there. I'll be right in the thick of it soon!

MoonJelly
I thought she was phoning from the office and it was a farm delivery.

That might make sense of it, but I thought Chris had decided she was too unwell to go in to work and was "dropping in" to check up on her at intervals, that day.

@CheetasOnFajitas, they aren't the same. A farrier shoes horses, but a blacksmith makes horseshoes but doesn't shoe horses. The birdfeeder-making is more blacksmithing.

[quote MikeUniformMike]@CheetasOnFajitas, they aren't the same. A farrier shoes horses, but a blacksmith makes horseshoes but doesn't shoe horses. The birdfeeder-making is more blacksmithing.[/quote]
I know. That is why I said he is BOTH.

A farrier is not allowed (by law, in England anyway) to shoe horses until he has taken and gained a professional qualification.

A blacksmith as far as I know needs no professional qualification to make things out of metal.

Thanks Asking.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

A farrier is not allowed (by law, in England anyway) to shoe horses until he has taken and gained a professional qualification.

A blacksmith as far as I know needs no professional qualification to make things out of metal.

Yes, that was my point. He is a qualified farrier who also does blacksmith work.