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🐷 Archers thread #127: Discuss the boars and sows of Ambridge here - or should that be bores and soused? You decide.

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 29/04/2021 10:53

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

Archers 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’d love to live opposite Joy, or other unusual views. Grin

Archers 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/4197199--The-Archers-spoilers-thread-6-Cant-wait-for-7-02pm-Join-us-here, where spoilers are positively welcomed!

Archers 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.)

These threads normally last around a month. When I started the last one, we were bracing ourselves for the Mystery Play, but that storyline, which had never exactly set the airwaves on fire, fizzled out and has (I hope) gone away, never to return.

@LillianGish proposed a new thread title which I'll use instead as a scene-setter for this thread. What a carry on - Nurse (Ben), Sergeant (Harrison), Camping (Kate), Jack (either one of them), Regardless (all of us for continuing to tune tune in)

What a carry on, indeed! Other storylines sputtering away:

  • Alice, Chris, Martha - Have they split up, and if so where is Alice living? Will there be a christening and who will be godparents? When will the Aldridges and Carters find out about Alice's drinking? Too much to hope that Alice will get blind drunk at the christening party in full view of the entire village, I suppose. I'm still clinging to my hope that she lamps Alan after a suggestion that they pray together.
  • Will Rex find a new home for his pigs? If Elizabeth weakens, will the pigs escape and disrupt the Lower Loxley life drawing event on Monday? Might they stampede, knock Ross out and devour him?
  • Will Jazzer go to work for Neil? (This isn't exactly a cliffhanger. Of course he will.)
  • Will Justin bury Lilian under the patio? Not a jury in the land would convict him, I feel, if they were played a recording of that appalling cackle and her gloating about the daffodil photograph.
  • Will the life drawing event on Monday be a brilliantly amusing interlude, exemplifying how to write character-driven drama, with both comic and more serious moments? Answer: No, obviously. I may have to listen from behind a cushion.

There are more. I find myself struggling to care. Sad

Oh, and one final mention - I've proposed a webchat with the Archers editor. @MayIDestroyYou's idea. You'll find it here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/4231475-Webchat-idea-The-Editor-of-The-Archers-Or-another-Archers-production-team-representative

Over to you!

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theThreeofWeevils · 12/05/2021 13:48

For the moment I'll settle for her becoming good friends with Elizabeth
Seems like a fitting retribution for each of that ghastly pair.

it might just be that she knew that repudiating her baby was a way to hurt Jennifer more
Or it might just be that she doesn't want the damn' baby, never wanted it, and realises that it really would have been far better to quickly and quietly terminate the pregnancy when she had the chance.

the "stand up!" order would have been the precursor to marching me to Ambridge View to see my child
Which would have achieved what?

ILoveShula · 12/05/2021 13:57

Yeah. I know I'm one of the lucky ones. Doesn't stop me having been generally flat and unmotivated this winter ("languishing" rather than depressed) - but who hasn't felt like that?
You made your own luck @MereDintofPandiculation.

Alice probably doesn't give a monkey's about anything other than where's the net drink coming from. She is ill and needs help.

ILoveShula · 12/05/2021 13:57

Yeah. I know I'm one of the lucky ones. Doesn't stop me having been generally flat and unmotivated this winter ("languishing" rather than depressed) - but who hasn't felt like that?
You made your own luck @MereDintofPandiculation.

Alice probably doesn't give a monkey's about anything other than where's the next drink coming from. She is ill and needs help.

redcandlelight · 12/05/2021 14:02

It does look like a Grandparental custody battle brewing.

that was already done with henwee/rob/ursula wasn't it?

redcandlelight · 12/05/2021 14:07

It does look like a Grandparental custody battle brewing.

that was already done with henwee/rob/ursula wasn't it?

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 12/05/2021 14:08

Mumsnet is having a "double your post" day, apparently. I've seen more than one other thread where duplicates have happened.

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 12/05/2021 19:01

I've not listened, just catching up on here, but I thought we all knew Alice didn't want a baby now, and probably not ever?

JanFebAnyMonth · 12/05/2021 19:18

She admitted it to her mum though.

Brilliant description of the Aldridges by Emmur just now, what was it, think it included “emotionally stunted”?

cameocat · 12/05/2021 19:31

They are in real denial. Has Jenny not spoken to them?

FreezerBird · 12/05/2021 19:36

@JanFebAnyMonth

She admitted it to her mum though.

Brilliant description of the Aldridges by Emmur just now, what was it, think it included “emotionally stunted”?

I think it was "emotionally vacant".
Tulipomania · 12/05/2021 19:44

Gosh Emma is a nasty piece of work.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 12/05/2021 19:53

The responses on AIBU if someone wrote there asking whether they were justified in finding their son-in-law's sister out of line for behaving as Emma just has would be interesting. Would she get a lot of sympathy?

R4 · 12/05/2021 19:55

Funny how Kate was accusing Emma of behaving like an attack dog. Didn't she (Kate) admit to Jakob the other day that that is pretty much how she operates - she goes on the attack by default.
Emma could do with an anger management course, though.

MissBarbary · 12/05/2021 19:56

@Tulipomania

Gosh Emma is a nasty piece of work.
She didn't say anything that wasn't true

Boop for Vince- just for being a normal grown-up.

JanFebAnyMonth · 12/05/2021 19:57

Brine is beginning to doubt.

Presumably tomorrow (a Thurs!) we get to here how mother and daughter are faring...

DeusEx · 12/05/2021 19:59

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

The responses on AIBU if someone wrote there asking whether they were justified in finding their son-in-law's sister out of line for behaving as Emma just has would be interesting. Would she get a lot of sympathy?
Oooh please write it and link us!
ILoveShula · 12/05/2021 20:04

Please do.

MayIDestroyYou · 12/05/2021 20:12

Boop for Vince - just for being a normal grown-up.

Yes, he's rather an asset to LL. I like hearing him wandering around spreading benevolence and calm good sense. (Only he doesn't sound terribly much like the man who infuriated David, or the man who clumsily tried to get Lilian drunk at an expensive restaurant so she'd tell all Justin's secrets ...)

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 12/05/2021 20:14

@ILoveShula

Please do.
I fear it would be spotted immediately, and I might get in bad with MNHQ. It's tempting, though.
Taswama · 12/05/2021 20:17

I'm not sure MN HQ mind really. Given the amount of 'posting here for traffic' AIBUs there are.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 12/05/2021 20:18

MissBarbary
Tulipomania
"Gosh Emma is a nasty piece of work."
She didn't say anything that wasn't true

First, is it true, then is it kind, then is it necessary?

True, mostly (though the "stirring up trouble between me and Ed" wasn't really, because the only thing that upset Ed about it was Emma going off and having a rant about it at Chris).

Kind? Well, hardly.

Necessary? Not really, because it would have no particular effect except to harden Brian's dislike of Emma. It wouldn't change anything for Chris (except possibly make it worse) or Neil and Susan (except possibly make everything more difficult for them, since Neil works for Brian), and wouldn't help Martha in any way.

JanFebAnyMonth · 12/05/2021 20:21

Yes Vince keeps being surprisingly nice and sensible.

ILoveShula · 12/05/2021 20:21

Surely they would find it amusing, Asking

You could write it as Emma and call it 'Another SIL one' or as Kate. Grin

MereDintofPandiculation · 12/05/2021 20:35

@JanFebAnyMonth

Yes Vince keeps being surprisingly nice and sensible.
Don't you find it a bit boring, this thing they have of introducing baddies and then trying to re-write them as goodies? First Justin, single-minded ruthless businessman to teddybear; then Russ, predator of young girls to key member of LL; Joy, stereotypical emotionally tone deaf busybody to salt of the earth; and now Vince.
MayIDestroyYou · 12/05/2021 20:42

Maybe that's the only instruction in the producers' Big Book of How to Write The Archers?