🎄Archers thread #122: Deck the Hall with Eddie, Freddie 🎵 'Tis the Season to be jolly (but orange juice for you, Alice)

[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 love Bert Fry’s poetry (as I do), 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 @C8H10N4O2 for requesting an annoyingly cheerful thread title which might take us up to Christmas and to @Prestissimo for the title suggestion. I was strongly tempted by @LillianGish’s suggestion: Eddie’s turkeys, Freddie’s show, village green with lights aglow, Stir Up Sunday, Deck the Hall, Merry Christmas one and all - with apologies to Bert Fry and @R4’s suggestion Wassail to the Ambridge Not-A-Panto where Freddie gets nine LESSONS in directing from CAROLe Lynda. Top work, all!

Three days to go until we can return to Ambridge.

My list for Father Christmas

In the next few weeks I’d like:

• Freddie’s show to be a huge success

• Philip and Gavin to be driven out of the village with pitchforks into the waiting arms of the police, and the three ‘horses’ rescued and taken in by kind people who will help them turn their lives around

• Pip to take a perpetual vow of silence and leave for a nunnery

• a terrific Grundy Christmas (although the travails of Alice and Chris will overshadow things)

• Alice to lose the baby, as this seems the least grim option for us listeners; she leaves Chris and makes a fresh start of some kind

What do you all want for Christmas from The Archers?

Well done Kirsty. If it was Jenny or Alice married to Philip, they’d be working out how to protect their own back first before calling the police. I’m so glad Kirsty isn’t pregnant and tied to that POS for life. Happy Christmas everyone.

I switched on the radio this morning just in time to realise it was 'With Great Pleasure' rather than Today, and heard Jazzer singing. Rather earlier than I'd like to get something in my eye and a lump in my throat, but there you go. A very touching moment.

Found it totally unbelievable that Kirsty shouted for the police so quickly. Up until an hour or so previously she was head over heels in love with Philip and had no clue anything was amiss. Yet she managed to work out he had a house of slaves, was actually responsible for the LL fire and then urged him to hand himself over to the police in the blink of an eye. Surely IRL she would have just been in complete shock, unable to comprehend what she was hearing and would probably have just left Beechwood to stay with Helen/Roy.

Possibly not very true to life but I'm glad it did happen that way and things can move on.

I think it might have been different if Roy hadn’t been banging at the door. She suddenly saw what he really was capable of, and feared what he might do to ensure her silence. Getting Roy to call the police was for safety as well as ensuring justice for the “horses”.

I’m so glad Kirsty isn’t pregnant and tied to that POS for life.

I wouldn't bet on it...

Oh yes when she jumped in with the LL fire conclusion I had no idea how she'd reached there!

Post #984.

WE NEED THREAD TITLE SUGGESTIONS!

@DecemberStar

Oh yes when she jumped in with the LL fire conclusion I had no idea how she'd reached there!

Philip had been under investigation about the fire.

Never fear, I found a little strength and have cobbled something together!

New thread here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/4115968--Archers-thread-122-Goodbye-good-riddance-to-2020-to-Philip-too-The-Archers-is-70-on-New-Year-s-Day-celebrate-or-vent-about-it-here?watched=1

It should be 123. Clearly not as easy as ...

Can you ask Mumsnet to change the header by reporting it? Or does that only happen if a word might be forbidden for some reason?

Revised thread link is
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/4115968--Archers-thread-123-Goodbye-good-riddance-to-2020-to-Philip-too-The-Archers-is-70-on-New-Year-s-Day-celebrate-or-vent-about-it-here
Thank you Gasp0de.