💰 Archers thread #121: Brookfield digs for treasure, Alice & Philip try to bury the truth. Dish the dirt here if you dig The Archers. PS Send nudes.

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

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 long to hear Pip again, or other unusual views.

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Thanks to @LillianGish and @PersephonePromotesEquanimity for the title suggestions.

Current events: as @Bailey0703 has astutely spotted, it's Anti-Slavery Day tomorrow - could this herald the beginning of the end of the horses storyline? I do hope so. Horrible stuff, but what a blow for Kirsty. They're laying on the dramatic irony with trowel at the moment.

What do we think will happen to Alice and Chris? I can't see this pregnancy going to term and ending well. I don't think the marriage will survive either, giving Brian a chance to revisit his classic line about having to treat this as Alice's starter marriage.

Will Elizabeth end up on a date with Vince Casey? That would put the cat among the pigeons at Lower Loxley.

Over to you ...

So what he is making is compound gin rather than gin, Chemenger? That can take as little as four days, I seem to remember. I wonder why his was undrinkably young (according to both him and Pip) after five days. Maybe he just used a horrible combination of botanicals on that first try.

Come the zombie apocalypse my barterable skill will be making gin

You'd get my vote

Will you be in charge of the  , by any chance, C8H10N4O2 ?

Always Errol, always.

The holy molecule.

Hi, long term lurker, rare poster here.
I, like others, tuned out during the monologue phase, and even stopped reading these threads.

Can someone please tell me what happened to Russ?

Lily must have ditched him or he would be all over muscling in on the Xmas show (although he seems to have taught her well...).

But what happened? Did he jump or was he pushed? Did she see the light?

Thanks!

He's still there as far as we know. He was mentioned the other day, I forget what to do with.

I think he's still around, Lily mentioned something or another arty he was doing at LL, and Lynda mentioned him in the context of not being someone to direct the Xmas show.

Oh dear, there was me getting my hopes up.
Oh well,
Thanks!

arghhhh
Brian Aldridge is narrating a documentary about beef cattle!!!!
Mind. Blown.

@StillWeRise

arghhhh Brian Aldridge is narrating a documentary about beef cattle!!!! Mind. Blown.

Is that the one on channel 5? I didn't realise it was him. My husband came back from the pub and said 'What on earth are you watching?'. I thought it was interesting.

BBC 4
it is interesting, you're right
interesting to see the family likenesses with the old films

Sorry, it was bbc4. Interesting to see how the breeds have changed and how some older ideas have come back into favour.

And we know it wasn't fly tippers or cattle rustlers because the cattle were there and junk wasn't. Yeah, I meant possibly cattle rustlers and fly tippers who would need to break the lock, not that it was them did break the lock.

I haven't yet come across a gate that isn't get-overable. Except for those that are made out of a single solid plate of steel so no footholds, and I doubt whether Ruth and David run to those.

There are gates with barbed wire, and ones which are too rickety to climb - I doubt if D&R would have ones like that either though.

For the SWs - who evidently produced an episode so dull that not a single person in the MN TA universe considered it worthy of comment!

I vaguely recall Johnny sounding a bit fed up with Lily. And Eddie and ... erm ... Will, and the mention of detectorists (but not Detectorists, sadly).

Maybe TA is just not standing up to real life at the moment?

and early for everyone ...

Annoying characters and lousy writing. We obviously have been spoilt the last few weeks with tales of Alice and the pickled chrysalis and speculating on the merits of VC in the bedroom. When TAs is bad, it’s dreadful and makes me remember why I didn’t used to listen full-time.

an episode so dull that not a single person in the MN TA universe considered it worthy of comment

They could have used that in the one line summaries in the schedule. Its spot on.

Lily asked Johnnie to suggest ideas for the Christmas show to Freddie but not let on that they were Lily's ideas. L told J that the trustees were scrutinising everything F does, but not to tell F. (Really?)

Freddie cottoned on immediately but didn't say so. He presented Lily's idea to his mother and (oddly) the Chair of the Trustees - maybe we're supposed to believe Elizabeth rang him immediately and he stopped everything else to talk through the LL Christmas show plans with her - and they were both delighted. L and J amazed when he revealed he had seen through their ruse.

Meanwhile, Eddie and Will were trying to find buried treasure on Brookfield land without permission. It emerges that Will has been making ends meet by delivering for BridgeFresh. (Did we know this before? If so, I'd forgotten.) Eddie spotted some other trespassers and warned them off. He then felt duty bound to tell Ruth but didn't of course say why he was there.

All very ho hum, really.

There are gates with barbed wire, and ones which are too rickety to climb - I doubt if D&R would have ones like that either though. Barbed wire can be easily sorted, DH carries a length of pipe insulation wrapped round his walking pole - perfect for putting over barbed wire. Hasten to add - he's not a detectorist, it's for safe getting over stiles where the anti-sheep barbed wire hasn't been removed for the length of the stile.

Thanks Gaspode. You know, I knew all that, but thought I had missed most of the episode. You know that feeling? - you end the episode unable to remember anything that happened, and just assume that it must have all happened in those minutes when your mind was elsewhere.

Oh yes, that's a very familiar feeling!

I was astounded that Elizabeth had told Lily.

It didn't seem all that dull, but was very cringe-making.

Yes, that was odd. I think we can take it as read that Russ knows too. At this rate everyone in Borsetshire will know before Freddie.

Lady in Red, what a great song that was. Coming up, Hello! from Lionel Richie - but first, I'd just like to take a moment to send warmest wishes to a young acquaintance of mine, who's not always made the best choices in life - but he's paid the price and he's done a lot of growing up in the last couple of years, I'm pleased to say. He was quite the hero in a very dangerous situation back in the spring! But now I hear certain people are querying whether he's up to, um, something I can't really go into here. Well, what I say is, Go Fr - ankie! You'll show those old stuffed shirt trustees a thing or two.

Gasp0de

Glen isn't the chair of the trustees, Gasp0de; he's the manager who was hired in to run LL when Elizabeth had her breakdown. So it's all good there and no need for frantic telephoning.

The chair of the absentees I mean the trustees (well, when the place was rapidly going down the pan and nobody was bothering to get their alcohol licence back the trustees were conspicuously absent) was called Bernard Lyons.

I think Freddie saw through the "ruse" because Lily had been hammering away at him for weeks with an identical scheme, right down to how she pronounces ambiance and so Johnny did too.

And I think William and Eddie delivering for Bridge Fresh was mentioned when someone or other was wanting a job a couple of months ago.