🧚‍♀️ 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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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.)

FFS, Alice is surely bright enough to know the reasons why you don't drink in pregnancy, and that Lilian is hardly a reliable expert on the topic.

Alice isn't going to make her mdwife appointment, is she?

And how long before ghastly Lillian lets slip the baby news?

I can see Alce having to have a termination for medical reasons at this rate.

I've been wondering if she'll make it to the end of the week ...

Thinking about all the talk of Jill's 90th - I suppose that means we will have several episodes of the Dopeys and GoldenPips whining on about each other.

Perhaps Lillian could share the

Ooh! Do you think they'll kill her off? We haven't had a good deading for years.

I meant Alice, not Jill nAlthough that would work too.

Its definitely a long time since we had a good deading. Alice as a suicide risk?

They generally only kill the older characters as they die IRL or elect to leave (like Betty).

I'm waiting for Kate to start giving advice on good parenting.

I was hoping something significant might be coming - but there are only 12 and a half minutes left of this week, so maybe not.

Don't actually want the poor woman dedded - running away with Gavin would be infinitely more entertaining. There's enough doom in the world right now. And I wouldn't like the TASWAMA implications ...

Are the script writers setting the scene for a storyline about foetal alcohol syndrome? Ambridge is unusually low on special needs children(the cancer rate is also vanishingly small.) If so it's not exactly subtle.

FFS, Alice is surely bright enough to know the reasons why you don't drink in pregnancy, and that Lilian is hardly a reliable expert on the topic.
Yes, but she doesn't particularly want a baby and she desperately wants a drink.

Looks as if the SWs have decided to go down the drinking in pregnancy route - having Alice turn for advice to the one person who likes a drink as much as she does.

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FFS, Alice is surely bright enough to know the reasons why you don't drink in pregnancy, and that Lilian is hardly a reliable expert on the topic. Yes, but she doesn't particularly want a baby and she desperately wants a drink.

That's exactly how I heard it, Mike. Oh dear.

Even though my friends had babies, I was sort of scared of babies, and for years thought I would not be a good mother. It was when I turned 30 that I became broody. And had 2 DC in the latter years of my 30s.

Does FAS affect foetuses when they are tiny?

The alcohol probably does.

I fear something dire will turn up on the first scan, so we'll have all the drama around whether to have a termination for medical reasons, Alice feeling guilty, pressure for her to get pregnant again, etc etc.

I don't think they've done one of those, have they.
They discussed it before when Vickoi was pregnant, and Elizabeth had a termination as did A Net.

What was Lilian hinting at?

"If only she knew?" Something about a milkman? The only milkman I can think of is Jazzer.

Oh God!, I love Lilian's dirty raunchy cackle! I've really missed that this last few months.

What's Jazzer been up to now?

I like to think of him keeping all the bored housewives of Ambridge happy and satisfied

With half of the UK in lockdown, and plenty struggling with their mental health, I don't think the SWs would risk a FAS baby.

Or an abortion. No deading either.

At the risk of muscling into Bore's territory I think the gift of the "bridle bag" is a sign that Alice is going to go riding, fall off her horse and miscarry (leaving just a few people in the village knowing what has happened).

I think that there will be a problem with the scan then there will be councilling (it is MN) and not with the parish councillor. A drunk Alish will go riding and fall off, and she will miscarry. They'll try to make her go to rehab but she'll say no no no.
Kristiffur will forge ahead with his windchime sideline and their marriage will fall apart.

Meanwhile, Curesdy consoles Kristiffur leaving Philip to shoo horses, and that one night stand results in baby Kursediffur.

Alice runs away with Gavin, dries up and gets a proper job at an aerospace factory in Wales.

dries out not dries up. I've been traumatised by the different ways I've heard Llanelli been said in the last week.

(It really isn't Clanethy/Claneli//Clanethly/Thlanethly...)

How is it pronounced?

Llanelli