🧚‍♀️ 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.)

MUM, I am taking the liberty of suggesting all of those for that list. Today's may take a while to go up; I think yesterday's already have, because they were liked. (Oh, Chrysalis is there as "anon"; it'll get sorted.)

Thank you Ask. You can put Cursedy up too, if you like.

Cursedy being Kirsty? She's in there as Cursety, but I don't see why both shouldn't be listed.

Kursedy even. Poor, poor Kirsy. She's excelled herself this time.

Kirsty even. I hope she ends up with someone nice, only with her luck...

She is there to be a Frightful Example to Young Women of how they are Deceived By Men, I feel. It's been her lot in TA from her first appearance onwards: Tom, then Sam, then Tom, then Pawel, then Tom, then Iftikar, then Tom, then Tom again, now Philip. The only decent one in the whole boiling was Patrick, and he wasn't particularly interested. Oh, and Gareth who came to the fête with her after the flood may have been a nice enough bloke, but I think he was only there as protective colouration and he was never mentioned again after that one day as far as I remember.

"Cheese and mocktails" - it would have to be hard cheese, without mould, too.

I have come to the conclusion that some of the SWs have very miserable lives.

Oh yes, Gareth. Didn't he fall by the wayside when the Kirsty&Tom baby was a possibility?

Gareth was mentioned in a single episode, as being with her at the fête, and then never again. He didn't speak. I think they must have not stayed together when (for no earthly reason I could see apart from Plot) she decided to come back to live in Ambridge and rent a room from Roy.

Patrick??

Yes; she made a pass, he ducked. Or as I said, "The only decent one in the whole boiling was Patrick, and he wasn't particularly interested."

IIRC, Patrick is the one from Borsetshire Ornithology Trust or some other environmental organisation. Doesn't he play the organ or piano or similar? Is he gay or did we just surmise that he might be because of his total lack of interest in Kirsty?

Who's Rotaboy?

Roy of the Rotas

Hmpfff!

It was moi who came up with Chilli con carnal on this very board and it has been MISATTRIBUTED!

Hmpfff!

It's a good un Bore. Yer did yerself proud there.

It was so good that two people came up with it at the same time: great minds thinking alike.

1Eggor2 was the continuity announcer who said it immediately after the episode in which it was Susan's carnal offering, though, so he may have got there first. Just.

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IIRC, Patrick is the one from Borsetshire Ornithology Trust or some other environmental organisation. Doesn't he play the organ or piano or similar? Is he gay or did we just surmise that he might be because of his total lack of interest in Kirsty?

He was mentioned as playing the organ at St Stephen's a few times. His excuse for not wanting to go out with Kirsty (which he made very gracefully while they were in a bird-hide, I think) was that he'd had a messy break-up not long before and didn't want to be with a girl for a bit. Then he vanished.

Belated thanks for the insights into the scriptwriters' meeting, Chemenger. Large, expensive takeaway coffee for the intern too

Speaking of interns, what happened to Alex Friend?

...

Remind us, MUM ...

He was the designer of the B @ Ambridge, wasn't he?

It was over a year ago, the previous intern, Alex, had left the new intern a note and had signed it A. Friend.

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I have forgotten the name of the consultant who came up with the B@Ampridge.

Ambridge even.