🍾 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!

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

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So! 2021 beckons. Big anniversary next Friday, 1.1.21 (and to mark that we have episodes Tuesday-Friday next week). What would we like to see happen? I may be in a minority of one, but I'd like a nice gentle character-driven episode. I don't think we'll get that, but I really, really hope they don't kill someone else off, just for the headlines.

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John Rowe (Jim) is 80 today. Actors actors are a tough breed!

Which of the younger generation do we think might be still in the cast if TA reaches its century? That would be quite something. With luck and a following wind, I might still be around for that. I think by that stage Tracy and Susan might be the matriarchs of the village.

Archers actors, even. Why do the typos leap out as I click post?!

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Archers actors, even. Why do the typos leap out as I click post?!

Because it is always in the Oh No second that you notice mistakes.

I thought Peggy was very restrained in not telling Chris to stop patronising her and lying to her!

I think Chris is lying to himself about how bad it really is, and how bad it's going to be - partly because he doesn't have the experience Peggy does. (He was also lieing about the fortnight in Bath and so on, but he knows that.)

I don't know if it's lieing or lying, nor if there's a difference between telling fibs or being on a bed. I don't care quite enough to look it up right now.

Not long now.
I keep thinking it's Sunday.

Predictions?

I'm going with Freddy takes the (leading) reins of LL- closure for Nigel's anniversary.

Too excited!

Kenton to cop it ...?

(Long time lurker & prolific poster in the Helen & Rob years here.) I don't want another life changing crisis tonight.

Lynda Snell MBE!

That's lovely.

I could say that they would have heard that on Radio Borsetshire yesterday....

Oh. Sweet.

(Not the 'E' but the sentiment.)

What for, anyway???

Services to amateur theatricals?

Is it NYD or NYE?

Oh come on. How utterly ridiculous.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

(Soz, but, y'know.)

Has Philip lied through his teeth about what's happened?

Is this the 'life-changing crisis?'

Yawn

Brought it on herself, unfortunately ...

And that is the definition of anti-climax...

I was really, really hoping for a sinkhole. I wouldn't class that as life-changing unless they go for a protracted period of imprisonment, a dramatic trial and a sensational acquittal. That has a familiar ring to it, somehow.

He must have : revenge? Trying to make them out to be a couple of do gooders?

Yeah, I was looking forward to the sinkhole.